Daily Medieval

Margaret of Wessex (c.1045 - 16 November 1093) was born in Hungary while her family was exiled there. Her father was Edward the Exile, heir ...

Edgar Ætheling had been through many ups and downs . For the trouble he had caused for William II of Normandy as an "alternate choice&...

So the Duchy of Normandy was created when King Charles the Simple made a treaty in 911 with Rollo, a Viking who had established himself as C...

The Duchy of Normandy was created in 911 by the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, an agreement between King Charles III ("the Simple"...

Orderic Vitalis was given the job of writing a history of the Church. Like most medieval authors, however, he did not start with a blank pag...

At a time when Christian priests could marry, a French priest named Odelerius of Orléans came to England following his patron, who became th...

Taking sole credit for a written work was not always as important as it is to some authors today.  William of Jumièges (c.1000 – post-1070) ...

In 1876, in the nave of the chapel of Mont Saint-Michel, a grave was opened to reveal the remains of a former abbot. With the remains was a ...

King David I (pictured here) was one of many sons of Malcolm III of Scotland, several of whom had their chance on the throne after it had be...

In the years 1100 - 1350, a type of musical performer arose called a troubadour. They did not call themselves troubadours; that term was fir...

Becoming a monk was not always a choice. Sometimes it was the default choice for someone with no skills that he could turn into a career, or...

Want to own a speaker that plugs into your laptop and depicts the ordination of Guthlac? You can! Today is the feast day of an English...

Orderic Vitalis (1075-c.1142) has been mentioned here and here for his history writing. The 13 books of his Historia ecclesiastica [&qu...

William of Malmesbury tells us of a disastrous event on 25 November 1120: the sinking of the White Ship off the coast of Normandy: Here al...