Daily Medieval

After Otto III's coronation , he and Pope Gregory V (his cousin Bruno) summoned all the Roman nobility who had created such difficulties...

The latest scion of the Crescentius family was lording it over Rome and dominating the pope, John XV, who had been forced to flee Rome. Otto...

After the death of his mother, Holy Roman Empress Theophanu , the responsibility for the regency of Otto III (still only 11 years old) passe...

  We are continuing from here , after a detour through the Great Gandersheim Conflict . Otto was only a few years old in 983 when he became ...

The Archbishop of Mainz and the Bishop of Hildesheim each wanted jurisdiction over the wealthy Gandersheim Abbey . This conflict reached a p...

A significant controversy during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Otto III while he was still under the regency of his mother, Theophanu , wa...

Otto III (980 - 23 January 1002) became King of Germany at the age of three on the death of his father, Otto II. He was in line to be Holy R...

Odilo of Cluny (c.962 - 1049) wrote a life of Holy Roman Empress Adelaide of Italy (to whom he was supposedly related). It is from Odilo th...

The earliest-founded monastic group that is currently part of the Benedictine Confederation is the Camaldolese Hermits of Mount Corona. It w...

The Donatio Constantini (Latin: "Donation of Constantine") was a document in which the converted Emperor Constantine, whose Edict...

In researching the previous post, I came across a reference to Pope Sylvester II (formerly Gerbert d'Aurillac, c.946 - 1003) inventing t...

The Ottonians, the Ottonian dynasty, the Ottonian Period in Germany—all these refer to the same topic: a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (t...

Given all the fuss about the Mayan calendar, I thought it would be fun to look at other times when people thought the world might end. The E...