Daily Medieval

During the Battle of Neville's Cross , when King David II of Scotland heeded France's request to attack England as part of their Aul...

The idea that quoits—a game in which players toss rings at a stake, hoping to encircle it—originated with the " Greek or Roman discus &...

The Statutes of Kilkenny, established in 1366 by Prince Lionel of Antwerp, were designed to keep Irish and English peoples and cultures so d...

  When King Edward III sent his son Lionel as viceroy of Ireland, there were issues on the agenda regarding the presence of the English in I...

Lionel of Antwerp, like many royal children, was obligated to be a political tool as well as a person. Born 29 November, 1338 in Antwerp (hi...

Large empires such as the Roman Empire needed ways to communicate quickly and efficiently with their far-flung domains. For the Romans, it w...

On the 28th of May in 1378, a small expedition of 16 men set out from the City of London. In the financial records that manage their pay, on...

A page at work Lionel, the son of King Edward III of England and Queen Philippa, was born in Antwerp in Flanders in 1338 during the s...

Funerary monument to Hawkwood This is the story of how an English soldier of no particular background rose to such prominence that a mo...

Did the greatest English poet of the 14th century and the greatest French poet of the 14th century meet, thanks to the Hundred Years War? ...

With us there was a doctor of physic; In all this world was none like him to pick For talk of medicine and surgery; For he was gro...