Heater Shield
Semi-cylindrical shield with a flat top edge. The shield was about 95 cm. long in the first half of the fourteenth century but was shortened later in the century. (Wise, Terence. Medieval Warfare, 249)
*term definitions retrieved from Netserf’s Medieval Glossary (http://www.netserf.org/Glossary)
**image retrieved from wikipedia.org
Since it’s my birthday today, I definitely wanted to post about what happened on this day in medieval history.
1282 - Death of Llywelyn the Last (Llywelyn ap Gruffydd), the last prince of Wales before it was conquered by Edward I
1475 - Birth of Pope Leo X (Giovanni de’ Medici); Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther
*Sculpture […]
On this date, December 1, in medieval history:
1135 - King Henry I of England, the fourth son of William the Conqueror, dies. He was buried at Reading Abbey.
1170 - Thomas Becket reconciles with King Henry II and returns to his See at Canterbury after a six-year-long exile.
*image source: Miniature of King Henry I, from illuminated […]
On this date, November 20th, in medieval history:
1272 - Edward I (”Longshanks”) begins his reign as King of England
1316 - John I King of France dies; he was born only five days earlier on November 15
1376 - Richard of Bordeaux (Richard II), son of the Black Prince, is named Prince of Wales
On this date, November 12th, in medieval history:
607 - Death of Boniface III
1035 - Death of Canute the Great (or Cnut or Knut), norse king of England and Norway and Denmark (and parts of Sweden); he ruled England from 1016 - 1035
*Note: image is of a silver penny engraved with a portrait of Canute; image […]
On this date, November 6th, in medieval history:
1282 - The Battle of Moel-y-Don (or The Battle of Menai Strait): Llewelyn II defeats the English army
1429 - Henry VI crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, a month before his eighth birthday
On this date, October 31st, in medieval history:
1147 -Robert, the Earl of Gloucester, dies
1517 - Martin Luther presents his “95 theses” to the Catholic Church, which he may or may not have posted on the door of the castle church at Wittenburg (scholars and historians debate this point)
On this date, October 21st, in medieval history:
1096 - Turks attack and slaughter the army of the People’s Crusade near Civetot
1422 - Death of Charles VI (the “Well-loved” and the “Mad”), King of France
Today is officially Leif Erikson Day. Commemorated as a national holiday by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, the holiday is an observance of Leif Erikson and his companions as the first known Europeans to set foot in North America. The holiday gives the nation a chance to honor the contributions of Americans of Nordic […]
On this date, October 6th, in medieval history:
877 - Death of Charles “the Bald,” king of the West Frankish Kingdom
891 - Formosus elected as Pope
1101 - Death of St. Bruno, confessor, ecclesiastical writer, and founder of the Carthusian Order