Daily Medieval

When Pope John VIII was threatened by Guy II Duke of Spoleto, who invaded the Papal States  in 880, he looked for help from the King of Ita...

Long before a unified France, there were minor nobles always looking to expand into their neighbors' territories.  In 9th century Wester...

King Louis II of Italy was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire. He did not have a son to succeed him, but only a single surviving daughter...

Charlemagne's son and successor as emperor, Louis the Pious , had several children. Several of them were with his first wife, Ermengarde...

John VIII was a Roman who, as a young man, witnessed the 846 CE raid against Rome by Muslims. According to the Liber Pontificalis  ("Bo...

Jean de Mailly was a Dominican chronicler working in Metz in northeast France in the middle of the 13th century. He wrote a history of the D...