Daily Medieval

When William the Conqueror died, he had already made his wishes clear about the division of his lands. His older son, Robert Curthose , bec...

After the Trial  in 1076 that re-apportioned some of the property (and therefore income) of Odo of Bayeux , he was quiet for a few years. As...

When William of Normandy decided to conquer England, he planned carefully. This was going to be a big undertaking, and he needed help and a...

In the 1170s, a canon of the Church of Saint-Evroult in Mortain (in northwestern France) wrote about a man who had died 50 years prior but w...