Daily Medieval

Holy Roman Emperor Otto I was looking for a suitable bride for his son, Otto, and thought the daughter of a Byzantine Emperor was a good ch...

When Liudprand of Cremona went to Constantinople a second time, it was specifically to arrange a marriage between the son of Holy Roman Emp...

We are grateful that some people in the past chose to record what they saw and heard, or what they were told by others. Surviving histories ...

The daughter of Theophylact I and Theodora , Marozia, was wedded to Alberic I of Spoleto in 909. Alberic's link to the counts of Tusculu...

In  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794) wrote of two "sister prostitutues" whose...

The House of Theophylact (the counts of Tusculum) ruled Rome for four generations. A grandson of the founding Theophylact I was Alberic II o...

In the 10th century, Genoa was becoming an important port on the Ligurian Coast in far northwest Italy. Their ships were trading with much o...

Emperor Leo VI (866 - 912) had a rocky relationship with his father, or did he? It all depends on whom you think his father was. In the reco...

After the story of Gregorius  by Hartmann von Aue , I became curious if there ever was a pope who was the product of incest. The only pope I...