Edward II

I recently did a podcast for History Hack about London and Londoners in the first half of the fourteenth century. It's now online; give ...

The latest edition of Mortimer Matters , the journal of the Mortimer History Society, featuring an article by me called 'The Joys of Med...

Hugh Despenser the Younger took possession of the lordship of Glamorgan in South Wales, part of his wife Eleanor de Clare's inheritance ...

I recently wrote a post about Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345), who commissioned the Luttrell Psalter around 1325/30, and his involvement...

Blanche of Lancaster was born sometime in the early 1300s as the eldest child of Edward I's nephew Henry of Lancaster (b. c . 1280/81),...

When a tenant in chief, the people who held land directly from the king, died with his/her heir underage - under 21 if male, 14 if female an...

The Luttrell Psalter , now held in the British Library, is a gorgeous, lavishly illustrated manuscript dating to sometime between about 132...

My new book Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England is out now! It's part of a series  on sex and sexuality from Pen&Sword that inclu...

The poet Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London around 1342/44 as the son of John Chaucer and Agnes Copton, and the Chaucers were a family of v...

Edward III and Philippa of Hainault's third, but second eldest surviving, son Lionel of Antwerp married the heiress Elizabeth de Burgh i...