The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval people living in what is now eastern and northern Scotland.There is an association with the distribution of brochs, place names beginning ‘Pit-’, for instance Pitlochry, and Pictish stones. They are recorded from before the Roman conquest of Britain until the 10th century, when […]
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Dreng
- Term for a lord of a small *manor, who was free except for someduties of military service; it was used primarily in Northumbria.
*Source: A Dictionary of Medieval Terms & Phrases by Christopher Coredon with Ann Williams
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Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman
Hardcover: 608 pages
Publisher: A Marian Wood Book/Putnam; First Edition edition (October 4, 2011)
ISBN-10: 0399157859
Book Description:
From the New York Times-bestselling novelist, a stunning story of a great medieval warrior-king, the accomplished and controversial son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Richard, Coeur de Lion.
They were called “The Devil’s Brood,” though never to […]
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From the BBC News:
The land surrounding a mysterious ancient monument in Sherwood Forest is to be researched after a local history group received a £50,000 lottery grant.
A Thynghowe or Thing, an open-air meeting place where Vikings gathered to discuss the law, was discovered in Sherwood Forest seven years ago.
Experts surveyed the site this year and […]
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Pevensey Castle:
Pevensey Castle is a medieval castle and former Roman fort at Pevensey in the English county of East Sussex…
The fort of Anderitum was built during the 3rd century to protect the southern coastline of Roman Britain from Saxon raiders…
Evidence for some form of permanent occupancy next appears in 1042, when the Anglo-Saxon Earl of […]
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King Harold II Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (c 1022 - 14 October 1066)
Harold was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England and was killed by William, Duke of Normandy at the Battle of Hastings.
Harold was born in the early 1020s, the son of Godwine, Earl of Wessex. He succeeded to his father’s titles in 1053, […]
Filed under: Norman Conquest, Anglo-Saxons, People, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on December 27th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
From Fox News:
A British man rewrote medieval history on his lunch break when he unearthed evidence of a previously-unknown Viking king.
Darren Webster, a metal detector enthusiast, stopped by a field near Canforth, northern England, to practice his hobby and uncovered a hoard of silver Viking treasure buried three feet (0.9 meters) below the earth, The (London) […]
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Chancellor
The officer of the royal household who serves as the monarch’s secretary or notary. The chancellor is responsible for the Chancery, the arms of the royal government dealing with domestic and foreign affairs. Usually the person filling this office is a bishop chosen for his knowledge of the law. (MEDIEV-L. Medieval Terms)
King John of England […]
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Article from the BBC:
King of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex and one of the outstanding figures of English history, as much for his social and educational reforms as for his military successes against the Danes. He is the only English monarch known as ‘the Great’.
Alfred was born at Wantage in Oxfordshire in 849, fourth […]
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Escheat
[es-cheet]
1) The right of a feudal lord to the return of lands held by his vassal, or the holding of a serf, should either die with out lawful heirs or suffer outlawry.
(MEDIEV-L. Medieval Terms)
2) Reversion of property to feudal lord or Crown upon default of heir or upon conviction of treason or felony.
(Sayles, George O. […]
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