Daily Medieval

There was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Lombardy when they had no king. Two kings in a row had been murdered—the first by his wi...

The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according to medieval texts. Th...

The History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon drew heavily on other works, especially about prior times. One of these was a 7th-century w...

Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to create his Historia Lan...

Paul the Deacon (c.720s – 13 April c.796-799) has many writings attributed to him (some probably erroneously, like a life of Gregory the Gr...

Winfrid was born about 720 in the Duchy of Friuli, the northern part of the Italian Peninsula that was the kingdom of the Lombards. His pare...

Saint Gregory the Great (c.540 - 12 March 604) started as Pope Gregory I in 590. Earlier than that he started as a prefect of Rome, though ...

The idea of actual Papal States  giving the pope serious temporal power really took off in 756 when Pepin the Short , king of the Franks, ga...

Although the early popes had no temporal power or property, as the Roman Catholic Church grew in popularity and influence, they accrued terr...

Desiderius, from a 15th century miniature I mentioned here how Charlemagne fought and defeated Desiderius, King of the Lombards, and s...