Daily Medieval

Estrid Svensdatter, daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard and sister of Cnut , was born c.990 and lived at least until 1057. We do not know about her...

It may well have been news of the wholesale slaughter of Danes  in 1002 that was ordered by King Æthelred that motivated Sweyn Forkbeard t...

One site of the  St. Brice's Day Massacre  in 1002 seems to have been Oxford. Æthelred called it in a 1004 charter "a most just ext...

European history classrooms in America often talk about the Danish King Cnut (Canute) and his conquest of England. The modern world also he...

It must have been a shock when Thorkell the Tall , a leader and warrior of the early 12th-century Danish invasion of England, changed his st...

Edmund, son of Æthelred the Unready  and his first wife Ælfgifu of York, was likely born between 990 and 993, one of several siblings. He wa...

Richard II, Duke of Normandy, was the eldest surviving son of Richard I and Gunnor . We don't know his birth date, but when his father d...

Æthelred the Unready had several children by two wives. His seventh son (and first by his second wife, Emma of Normandy ), was named Edward...

Emma of Normandy (c.984 - 6 March 1052) was queen of England, Denmark, and Normandy. As the daughter of Richard the Fearless of Normandy, sh...