Edward II

To celebrate the publication this week of my book Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family: The Despensers , which tells the dramatic story of the...

As I pointed out recently, Alice de Lacy, countess of Lincoln, and her husband Thomas of Lancaster, earl of Lancaster and Leicester, were ex...

The surviving correspondence of Hugh Despenser the Younger in the 1320s, when he was at the height of his power, makes clear that he had spi...

Alice de Lacy was born on or around Christmas Day 1281, and was the heir of her parents, Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln ( c . 1250-1311), an...

Walter Stapledon or Stapeldon was, according to his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , born in Devon on 1 February in an...

This meeting of the Official Victimhood Rejectees was written jointly by  Michèle Schindler   and me, and follows on from this post about I...