# lombards (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lombards. Page: Feed: --- ## [Burgundian Wars](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/burgundian-wars.html) _2026-08-29 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ The sons of Clovis saw Burgundy as a target. Sigismund of Burgundy (c.475 - 524) became king in 516. His father, Gundobad, had slain Chilperic II of Burgundy in 493. Chilperic's daughter was Clotilde , who married Clovis I , King of the Franks, and had four sons. Those sons inherited parts of the Frankish kingdom, and now Clotilde wanted revenge on Sigismund for his father's murder of her father.… ## [Burgundian Wars](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/burgundian-wars.html) _2026-08-29 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ The sons of Clovis saw Burgundy as a target. Sigismund of Burgundy (c.475 - 524) became king in 516. His father, Gundobad, had slain Chilperic II of Burgundy in 493. Chilperic's daughter was Clotilde , who married Clovis I , King of the Franks, and had four sons. Those sons inherited parts of the Frankish kingdom, and now Clotilde wanted revenge on Sigismund for his father's murder of her father.… ## [St. Cloud](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/st-cloud.html) _2026-08-28 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ Clodoald (522 - c.560CE) was (along with Theodebald and Gunthar) one of the three sons of King Chlodomer of Orléans. When Chlodomer was killed during an expedition against the Burgundians, his sons were taken in by their grandmother, Clotilde . They were all very young, but as heirs to Orléans, they were an obstacle to anyone who wanted to take over Orléans. One of the people who wanted to rule… ## [St. Cloud](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/st-cloud.html) _2026-08-28 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Clodoald (522 - c.560CE) was (along with Theodebald and Gunthar) one of the three sons of King Chlodomer of Orléans. When Chlodomer was killed during an expedition against the Burgundians, his sons were taken in by their grandmother, Clotilde . They were all very young, but as heirs to Orléans, they were an obstacle to anyone who wanted to take over Orléans. One of the people who wanted to rule… ## [Clothar's Conquests](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/clothars-conquests.html) _2026-08-27 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ When King Hermanfrid of Thuringia offered part of Thuringia to Theuderic if Theuderic would help him defeat Hermanfrid's brother and co-ruler Baderic, Theuderic agreed. During the conflict that followed, Hermanfrid reneged on the deal, and Theuderic (having been wounded in fighting), asked his brother, Clothar I , to carry on. This was in 531. As it happened, Hermanfrid was also wounded in the… ## [Radegund](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/radegund.html) _2026-08-26 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ Radegund (c.520 – 13 August 587) was another wife of Clothar I . She was a princess, daughter of Bertachar, a king of Thuringia who co-ruled with his two brothers, Hermanfrid and Baderic (Baderic was the father of two of Clothar's wives). The co-rule was not always peaceful. Hermanfrid killed Bertachar and took Radegund into his household. Hermanfrid made an alliance with King Theuderic of the… ## [Radegund](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/radegund.html) _2026-08-26 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Radegund (c.520 – 13 August 587) was another wife of Clothar I . She was a princess, daughter of Bertachar, a king of Thuringia who co-ruled with his two brothers, Hermanfrid and Baderic (Baderic was the father of two of Clothar's wives). The co-rule was not always peaceful. Hermanfrid killed Bertachar and took Radegund into his household. Hermanfrid made an alliance with King Theuderic of the… ## [Clothar I](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/clothar-i.html) _2026-08-25 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ The father of the four sons who were mentioned fighting each other's divided Frankish kingdoms yesterday was Clothar I (one of the four sons of Clovis I, the king who first united all the Frankish kingdoms), who also spent his adult life trying to conquer others. The name Clothar (also Chlothar or Clotaire) means "glory." When Clovis died in 511, Clothar and his three brothers ( Childebert ,… ## [Clothar I](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/clothar-i.html) _2026-08-25 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ The father of the four sons who were mentioned fighting each other's divided Frankish kingdoms yesterday was Clothar I (one of the four sons of Clovis I, the king who first united all the Frankish kingdoms), who also spent his adult life trying to conquer others. The name Clothar (also Chlothar or Clotaire) means "glory." When Clovis died in 511, Clothar and his three brothers ( Childebert ,… ## [Saint Guntram](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/saint-guntram.html) _2026-08-24 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ Yesterday's post mentioned that the Franks fell into civil war and became less of a threat to Lombardy . The Frankish Kingdom had a long history with lots of shifts in power. We should take a serious look at the history of the Franks, especially prior to Charlemagne, and right now let's talk about Guntram. Also called Gontrand, Gontran, Gontram, Gunthram, Gunthchramn, and Guntramnus, the man we'll… ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yZhqJJREm7c3) _2026-08-24 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [Saint Guntram](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/saint-guntram.html) _2026-08-24 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Yesterday's post mentioned that the Franks fell into civil war and became less of a threat to Lombardy . The Frankish Kingdom had a long history with lots of shifts in power. We should take a serious look at the history of the Franks, especially prior to Charlemagne, and right now let's talk about Guntram. Also called Gontrand, Gontran, Gontram, Gunthram, Gunthchramn, and Guntramnus, the man we'll… ## [The Lombards Convert](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-lombards-convert.html) _2026-08-23 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ There was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Lombardy when they had no king. Two kings in a row had been murdered—the first by his wife, the second by a young slave he had mistreated—and a decade followed of rule by the dukes. This was in the 570s. Paul the Deacon had nothing good to say about this era: After his death the Langobards had no king for ten years but were under dukes, and each… ## [The Lombards Convert](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-lombards-convert.html) _2026-08-23 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ There was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Lombardy when they had no king. Two kings in a row had been murdered—the first by his wife, the second by a young slave he had mistreated—and a decade followed of rule by the dukes. This was in the 570s. Paul the Deacon had nothing good to say about this era: After his death the Langobards had no king for ten years but were under dukes, and each… ## [The Lombards](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-lombards.html) _2026-08-22 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according to medieval texts. This blog has mostly dealt with them previously because of their occupation of the northern Italian peninsula. That's not where they started, however. They are mentioned by 1st-century Roman historians as a group occupying the Lower Elbe (the river that connects… ## [The Lombards](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-lombards.html) _2026-08-22 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according to medieval texts. This blog has mostly dealt with them previously because of their occupation of the northern Italian peninsula. That's not where they started, however. They are mentioned by 1st-century Roman historians as a group occupying the Lower Elbe (the river that connects… ## [The Origin of the Langobard People](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-origin-of-langobard-people.html) _2026-08-21 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ The History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon drew heavily on other works, especially about prior times. One of these was a 7th-century work called Origio Gentis Langobardorum ("The Origin of the Langobard People"). From this work Paul got the mythical origin of the Lombards and the origin of their Langobard name. It starts with a group called the Winnilles on the island of Scandanan, a "great… ## [The Origin of the Langobard People](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-origin-of-langobard-people.html) _2026-08-21 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ The History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon drew heavily on other works, especially about prior times. One of these was a 7th-century work called Origio Gentis Langobardorum ("The Origin of the Langobard People"). From this work Paul got the mythical origin of the Lombards and the origin of their Langobard name. It starts with a group called the Winnilles on the island of Scandanan, a "great… ## [History of the Lombards](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/history-of-lombards.html) _2026-08-20 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to assemble his Historia Langobardorum . Written between 787 and 796CE, he recounts the mythical origins of the Lombards. In his recording, he offers us such gems as this, from chapter 4: In the farthest boundaries of Germany toward the west-northwest, on the shore of the ocean itself,… ## [History of the Lombards](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/history-of-lombards.html) _2026-08-20 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to assemble his Historia Langobardorum . Written between 787 and 796CE, he recounts the mythical origins of the Lombards. In his recording, he offers us such gems as this, from chapter 4: In the farthest boundaries of Germany toward the west-northwest, on the shore of the ocean itself,… ## [Paul the Deacon's Writings](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/paul-deacons-writings.html) _2026-08-19 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ Paul the Deacon (c.720s – 13 April c.796-799) has many writing attributed to him (some probably erroneously, like a life of Gregory the Great , that was written much earlier than Paul). He was in the household of Adelperga, a daughter of King Desiderius of the Lombards. Adalperga, upon reading a history by a 4th century Roman named Eutropius that covered the founding of Rome to Eutropius'… ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NEKeV9sl2kZS) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [Paul the Deacon](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/paul-deacon.html) _2026-08-18 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ Winfrid was born about 720 in the Duchy of Friuli, the northern part of the Italian Peninsula that was the kingdom of the Lombards. His parents, Warnefrid and Theodolinda, were well-to-do, and Winfrid grew up well-educated, knowing some Greek along with Latin. Winfrid decided that rather than inherit from his father, he would join the clergy, taking the title Paulus Diaconus, Paul the Deacon. He… ## [Paul the Deacon](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/paul-deacon.html) _2026-08-18 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Winfrid, son of Warnefrid, was born about 720 in the Duchy of Friuli, the northern part of the Italian Peninsula that was the kingdom of the Lombards. His parents, Warnefrid and Theodolinda, were well-to-do, and Winfrid grew up well-educated, knowing some Greek along with Latin. Winfrid decided that rather than inherit from his father, he would join the clergy, taking the title Paulus Diaconus,… ## [Pepin's Rebellion](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/pepins-rebellion.html) _2026-08-17 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ There was a rebellion against Charlemagne in 792 by a handful of Frankish nobles headed by Charlemagne's eldest son, Pepin the Hunchback . An anonymous Saxon poet known only as Poeta Saxo, writing in Annales de gestis Caroli magni imperatoris libri quinque ("Annals of the Deeds of Emperor Charlemagne in Five Books"; see the illustration), summed up the plot: \[W\]icked men conceived a great crime… ## [Pepin the Hunchback's Treatment](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/pepin-hunchbacks-treatment.html) _2026-08-16 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ Charlemagne's first son was named Pepin. Shortly after his birth he developed a spinal deformity that has caused historians to refer to him as " Pepin the Hunchback ." His mother was the concubine Himiltrude, a "noble girl" according to Paulus Diaconus (Paul the Deacon). At one point Charlemagne dismissed Himiltrude from his court, but Pepin remained living there as a royal prince. She was… ## [Hunchbacks](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/hunchbacks.html) _2026-08-15 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ In William Shakespeare's Richard III , someone refers to Richard as “that foule hunch-backt toade.” It's the first recorded instance of that term for someone who had a less-than-straight spine, and—putting aside the question of whether Richard was "hunch-backed"—the term gets used in the literature of the next couple centuries to indicate a bad person. We know what a "back" is, but what is a… ## [Hunchbacks](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/hunchbacks.html) _2026-08-15 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ In William Shakespeare's Richard III , someone refers to Richard as “that foule hunch-backt toade.” It's the first recorded instance of that term for someone who had a less-than-straight spine, and—putting aside the question of whether Richard was "hunch-backed"—the term gets used in the literature of the next couple centuries to indicate a bad person. We know what a "back" is, but what is a… ## [Richard of Conisburgh](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/richard-of-conisburgh.html) _2026-08-14 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, was one of the chief conspirators of the Southampton Plot to eliminate Henry V and replace him with Edmund Mortimer . He had an impressive lineage. His father was Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (and son of King Edward III). His mother was Isabella of Castile, daughter of the sometime King of Castile called Pedro the Cruel . Isabella had tried to… ## [Richard of Conisburgh](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/richard-of-conisburgh.html) _2026-08-14 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, was one of the chief conspirators of the Southampton Plot to eliminate Henry V and replace him with Edmund Mortimer . He had an impressive lineage. His father was Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (and son of King Edward III). His mother was Isabella of Castile, daughter of the sometime King of Castile called Pedro the Cruel . Isabella had tried to… ## [Isabel's Planned Marriage](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/isabels-planned-marriage.html) _2026-08-13 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ I mentioned yesterday the links between the three men who hatched the Southampton Plot to assassinate Henry V and put Edmund Mortimer on the throne. Two of the men made a close tie with each other through the arranged marriage of their children. Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, had a daughter, Isabel. Isabel of Cambridge (1409 - 1484) was arranged to be married to Sir Thomas Grey. Her… ## [The Southampton Plot](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-southampton-plot.html) _2026-08-12 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ People in England during the reign of Henry V were still trying to use Edmund Mortimer as a focal point for a rebellion. Edmund's sister, Anne Mortimer, had married the 3rd Earl of Cambridge, Richard of Conisburgh. Richard was also a descendant of Edward III. Richard's daughter, Isabel, was betrothed to Thomas, the son of Sir Thomas Grey (Isabel was three years old, Thomas was eight, and there's… ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3n6Rl6diwecu) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [The Southampton Plot](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-southampton-plot.html) _2026-08-12 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ People in England during the reign of Henry V were still trying to use Edmund Mortimer as a focal point for a rebellion. Edmund's sister, Anne Mortimer, had married the 3rd Earl of Cambridge, Richard of Conisburgh. Richard was also a descendant of Edward III. Richard's daughter, Isabel, was betrothed to Thomas, the son of Sir Thomas Grey (Isabel was three years old, Thomas was eight, and there's… ## [Edmund Mortimer's Later Life](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/edmund-mortimers-later-life.html) _2026-08-11 · Daily Medieval · Daily Medieval_ Although he was a thorn in the side of King Henry IV —because he had a greater claim to the throne and was used as a focal point for rebellion — Edmund Mortimer (1391 - 1425) was nevertheless kept alive and safe. Near the end of Henry IV's reign, Edmund and his brother Roger were kept in the Tower of London. In 1409 they were given into the custody of the Prince of Wales, Henry, who was five years… ## [The Mortimer Kidnapping](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-mortimer-kidnapping.html) _2026-08-10 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Young Edmund Mortimer , who was the heir-presumptive of Richard II with the strongest claim to the throne of England, was being raised by the usurper Henry Bolingbroke , now King Henry IV. Edmund's uncle, Sir Edmund Mortimer, in 1402 declared that young Edmund was the rightful heir to the throne, putting him publicly opposed to Henry's reign. Sir Edmund's sister Elizabeth was married to Henry… ## [The Mortimer Rebellion](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-mortimer-rebellion.html) _2026-08-09 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Although Edmund Mortimer was only seven years old when Henry Bolingbroke usurped the throne from Richard II, he was a potential political threat. He was Richard's heir-presumptive, and his lineage gave him a greater right to the throne of England through the laws of primogeniture than Henry had. Henry treated the boy well, putting him (and his brother, Roger) in the care of a trusted retainer and… ## [Edmund Mortimer](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/edmund-mortimer.html) _2026-08-08 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ When Henry Bolingbroke decided in 1399 to return from exile in France and force his cousin, King Richard II, to return to him the properties and titles of Henry's deceased father, John of Gaunt, he gained so much popular support that his ambitions expanded to take the Crown from Richard as well. In doing this, Richard's chosen heir-presumptive was knocked out of the running. That man was Edmund… ## [Henry in Exile](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/henry-in-exile.html) _2026-08-07 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ After the Trial by Combat affair in 1398 between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray (which was supposed to be to the death), King Richard II exiled Mowbray for life and Henry for 10 years. They were each allowed a few weeks to put their affairs in order, and they were granted annuities to live on. Henry went to France. In 1399, Henry's father, John of Gaunt, died. Word came to Henry that Richard… ## [Henry and Richard](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/henry-and-richard.html) _2026-08-06 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Henry Bolingbroke and his cousin, Richard, were childhood friends, but when they were older Henry became one of the Lords Appellant in 1387 who took it upon themselves to curtail what they saw as excesses and corruption in the administration of Richard when he became king. Not only had they been friends, but Henry's father and Richard's uncle, the powerful (and sometimes feared) John of Gaunt, was… ## [Thomas of Woodstock](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/thomas-of-woodstock.html) _2026-08-05 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ I mentioned yesterday that Henry Bolingbroke , son of John of Gaunt, married Mary de Bohun, through whom he inherited the title Earl of Hereford, but that it almost didn't happen. That uncertainty was due to the machinations of Henry's uncle, Thomas of Woodstock. The last time we saw Thomas of Woodstock in this blog he was one of the Lords Appellant , working to curtail the administration of his… ## [Henry Bolingbroke](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/henry-bolingbroke.html) _2026-08-04 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ I wrote not too long ago about Bolingbroke and his adversarial relationship with his cousin, Richard II. It might be useful to see him as an individual, starting with his youth. Henry was born c.April 1367 at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire to John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster. John was Duke of Lancaster, having inherited that title (as well as estates and great wealth) from his… ## [The Downfall of the Lords Appellant](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-downfall-of-lords-appellant.html) _2026-08-03 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ The Lords Appellant must have felt they had done good service to the kingdom of England after the Merciless Parliament of 1388 eliminated everyone who was considered a corrupting influence on King Richard II. In fact, they rewarded themselves with £20,000 for their service and the expenses of hunting down malefactors. That money may have been the catalyst for a turn of fortune. In September 1388,… ## [The Merciless Parliament, Part 2](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-merciless-parliament-part-2.html) _2026-08-02 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ After the Merciless Parliament in 1388 had eliminated the five specific advisors to Richard II that they considered the most corrupt, the Lords Appellant decided to sweep through the rest of the administration. First came the judges that had approved all of Richard's actions. There were seven of them, and they were allowed to have trials before the House of Lords, in which they pleaded for… ## [The Merciless Parliament, Part 1](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-merciless-parliament-part-1.html) _2026-08-01 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ A few years back I offered a brief look at the Lords Appellant , the group put in charge of England because of the excesses in the administration of the young king, Richard II. Richard tried to overthrow the Lords Appellant, but they forced Richard to call a parliament session that became known as the Merciless Parliament. Assembled from 3 February to 4 June in 1388, the goal was to deal with… ## [Thomas Usk, Civil Servant & Poet](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/07/thomas-usk-civil-servant-poet.html) _2026-07-31 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ We know little of Thomas Usk's early life except that he was born in London. The name Usk appears in several records, but we cannot link the various folk with that surname together. He became a civil servant and left us some writings. He produced a poem called "The Testament of Love" (the illustration here is from one manuscript). He also wrote a certain amount of biographical detail, from which… ## [Criminal Northampton](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/07/criminal-northanmpton.html) _2026-07-30 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ After the populist mayor of London John Northampton was defeated in the election of 1383 by Nicholas Brembre , Brembre worked to overturn all of Northampton's efforts to help the common people . When Northampton led a large group to protest the return to the status quo, he was arrested and imprisoned in Brembre's house. The charge was sedition, for speaking against the established order.… ## [Nicholas Brembre](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/07/nicholas-brembre.html) _2026-07-29 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Proving that "what goes around comes around"—although we should probably just allude to the medieval concept of the Wheel of Fortune —one-time Nicholas Brembre, who had persecuted former mayor John Northampton , would himself be persecuted by the Merciless Parliament, mentioned here . Brembre started as a member of the Grocers' Company, one of the Great Twelve Liveries in London, and made a lot of… ## [Mayor Northampton](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/07/mayor-northampton.html) _2026-07-28 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Despite his past as a troublemaker being involved in public brawls, even being imprisoned in the Tower for a time because of one in 1371, John Northampton became an Alderman for the Cordwainer Ward in 1375 to 1377, and was a member of Common in 1376 during the Good Parliament , helping to impeach Richard Lyons. In 1376 he also became one of the two annually elected sheriffs of London. Then he… ## [The Good Parliament](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-good-parliament.html) _2026-07-27 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ 1376 was a time of unrest in England under King Edward III. The court was considered corrupt, the wealth gap was increasing, the common people felt oppressed, taxation to support Edward's wars with France were leading to defeats, the king's mistress, Alice Perrers, was seen to have a corrupting influence on him and the court, etc. Parliament had not been called for two and a half years, and it was… ## [John Northampton](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/07/john-northampton.html) _2026-07-26 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ John Northampton was a citizen of London his whole life, from a decent-sized family (two brothers and two sisters). He became a cloth merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, founded in 1361 and one of the Great Twelve Livery Companies (among the 114 that operated in London). At its founding he was named one of the "upholders," so he was probably well-known and respected at the… ## [Criminal Cases, Part 3](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/07/criminal-cases-part-3.html) _2026-07-25 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ When the Mayor of London says you have to dress for dinner, you dress for dinner . On the Feast of Pentecost in 1382, the Mayor of London and the Aldermen were to meet at the Church of St. Peter in Cornhill. From there they would make a procession through the City to the Church of St. Paul in Walbrook. The Mayor and Aldermen had agreed beforehand that everyone in the procession should be dressed… ## [Criminal Cases, Part 2](https://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2026/07/criminal-cases-part-2.html) _2026-07-24 · noreply@blogger.com (Daily Medieval) · Daily Medieval_ Sometimes the "punishment" was more of a restriction. Take the case of Thomas Welford, who sold salted herring. He had a ship docked at Queenshithe filled with salted herring. He was a wholesaler, and sold to retailers called "hucksters"; in this case he sold them 5 herrings for a penny. The hucksters would then sell 4 herrings for a penny, but this did not give them very much profit. They…