Daily Medieval

Moses of Oxford was one of the most prominent scholars and legal minds in Anglo-Jewry of the 13th century. Born in Oxford to a four-generati...

The citizens of London may have welcomed their new queen when she and Henry III rode to Westminster for the coronation after the wedding (12...

After Simon de Montfort failed to gain the hand of the Countess of Flanders, he was offered a different marriage partner: the sister of Kin...

Richard of Cornwall, who occasionally rebelled against his brother, King Henry III of England, aided him against a rebellion not long after ...

Richard of Cornwall was only two years younger than his brother Henry, who became King of England. He rebelled against Henry a few times, u...

When King John of England died in 1216, his eldest child, Henry, was barely nine years old. He would become Henry III. There were several ot...

Pope Urban IV's first move to try to curtail Manfred of Sicily's imperial ambitions was to excommunicate him. This was Manfred...

There was more than one period of time called an Interregnum ("between reigns") when a ruler for a specific area was lacking. The ...