Edward II

Another meeting, years after the first one ! This one was written partly by me and partly by Mich èle Schindler, author of a great biograph...

Elizabeth de Burgh, duchess of Clarence and countess of Ulster, a daughter-in-law of Edward III and Queen Philippa, was born on 6 July 1332...

I'm delighted and honoured to have been invited to take part in the second season of 'Pride: The LGBTQ+ History Series', a docu...

My new book is out now in the UK! It's a detailed account of the year 1326, with a chapter devoted to each calendar month. I chose 1326...

In my last post , I looked at the three daughters of Sir Edmund Arundel (d. 1381/2), son of the earl of Arundel, and Sybil Montacute, daugh...

I've written before about Sir Edmund Arundel, grandson of Hugh Despenser the Younger, only child of Richard, earl of Arundel ( c . 131...

Hugh Mortimer and William la Zouche were brothers, and were  only rather distantly related to the much more famous Mortimers of Wigmore, wh...

Between September 1319 and c . September/October 1322, Hugh Despenser the Younger sent a number of long, detailed letters to Sir John Inge,...

A post about a little-known family of the fourteenth century, the Orbys or Orebys or Orrebys, who owned lands and manors in  Lincolnshire, ...