Daily Medieval

When Pope Honorius II wanted to resolve a dispute in England between the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, he sent Giovanni of Crema as h...

Bernard of Clairvaux was concerned (as just about everyone for several centuries) about the relationship between religious and secular autho...

After making a deal with Roger II of Sicily , Pope Honorius II turned his attention back to focusing on monasteries he felt were too powerf...

On July 1127, William II, Duke of Apulia, died without an heir, and Roger II of Sicily (pictured) raced to the peninsula to take control of ...

Pope Honorius II (pictured) was aggressive about doing what he felt was right for the Church, which sometimes meant taking to task religious...

After his atypical election  in December 1124, Pope Honorius II got to work clashing with Holy Roman Emperor Henry V over Henry's claim ...

Lamberto Scannabecchi was born on 9 February 1060 in a rural community. He entered the priesthood and became the archdeacon of Bologna. He g...

Arguably one of the longest names for a Holy Order, the name comes from The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, called so because the Orde...

He didn't want the titles he got, he didn't write the things people said he wrote, he wasn't the saint that some said he was, he...

Gregorio Papareschi was a Cluniac monk who was made a cardinal deacon in 1116 by Pope Paschal II . After Paschal, Pope Calixtus II sent him...

There are a number of families in the 21st century who have become wealthy through commerce and use that wealth to exert their influence on ...

When Pope Honorius II died in 1130, two popes were elected by rival factions, first Innocent II by a small contingent of cardinals, and then...

Like many well-known theologians/priests in the Middle Ages, Bernard of Clairvaux was born to a wealthy family. This was in Burgundy in 1090...

Sicily, an island of less than 10,000 square miles just off the coast of Italy, would not seem to merit its own king, and for a long time it...