On this date, March 5th, in medieval history:
1133 - Birth of King Henry II of England
1324 - Birth of David II, King of Scotland
1326- Birth of Louis I (The Great), King of Hungary
*image is of Henry II, King of England
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On this date, February 17th, in medieval history:
1461 - The Second Battle of St. Albans: One of the battles fought during the Wars of the Roses. On this particular day, the Lancastrian army led by the Queen Margaret of Anjou defeated the Yorkist faction led by the Earl of Warwick. The Lancastrians freed King Henry IV […]
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On this date, February 10th, in medieval history:
1258 - The Mongols, led by Hülegü (the grandson of Genghis Khan), invade and capture Baghdad
1306 - Robert Bruce murders his political opponent, John Comyn
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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
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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)
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