Battle of Hastings

The battle of Hastings was a very important battle in English history. It resulted in a new king and drastic changes to the country as a whole.

Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry, in spite of its name, is not really a tapestry. The scenes on the tapestry were embroidered with coloured thread to create the scenes

Domesday Book

The Domesday Book was a survey designed to record everything that people owned in England. It was ordered by William the Conqueror

Great Schism of 1054

The Great Schism of 1054 was the breakup of the Christian church into two sections—the Western and the Eastern sections

Hundred Years War

The Hundred Years’ War was not actually fought for a hundred years. It actually lasted 116 years

Norman Conquest 1066

The Norman conquest of 1066 ended Anglo-Saxon rule of England and installed a new king. The stage was set for the invasion

Peasants Revolt

The Peasants’ Revolt (also known as the Great Rising or Wat Tyler’s Rebellion) occurred in 1381

Reconquista of Spain

Spain had been conquered by the Moors in 711. After seven and a half centuries, Christians were finally able to take back the territory conquered by the Moors

The Black Death

In late 1347, the Black Death killed approximately 30 to 45 percent of the European population (although some people put this rate even higher at around 60 percent).

The Crusade

As you have learned, religion played a very important role in shaping the Middle Ages. It influenced education, customs, morals, and routines of nearly everyone in Europe, and from time to time, the rule of a king and the laws

War of the Roses

The War of the Roses was a war for the English throne. At the end of the war, one dynasty had been destroyed and another had been crowned.

Adelard Of Bath

Adelard of Bath was a prominent 12th century natural philosopher and translator. He is remembered as much for translating Greek and Arabic scientific works in Latin as he is for his original work.

Alaric The Visigoth

Alaric I was the king of Visigoths. Visigoths were the western tribes of Goths, the Germanic people who lived across Europe. Alaric is best known for the sack of Rome in 410

Alexius Comnenos

Alexius I or more commonly Alexius Comnenos was a Byzantine Emperor. He belonged to the Comnenos dynasty of Byzantine rulers.

Alfred The Great

Alfred the Great was the King of Wessex, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in southwestern England. He is one of the only two English kings who were given the appellation ‘Great’

Arnold Von Winkelried

Arnold Von Winkelried is a legendary hero of Swiss history. The authenticity of the legend is widely debated. According to the legend, Winkelried was a Swiss soldier

Attila The Hun

Attila was the ruler of Hunnic Empire during the early 5th century. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential military leaders of the history.

Canute The Great

Canute the Great was the king of Denmark, Norway and England. His empire was more commonly known as Anglo-Scandinavian Empire or the North Sea Empire

Charlemagne

Charlemagne was the King of the Franks and the Holy Roman Emperor. He was born on April 2, 742. Nobody knows where he was born

Charles Martel

Pepin or Pepin of Herstal was a Frankish statesman who ruled Kingdom of the Franks or Francia as the Duke. His reign lasted from 680 till his death in 714 AD

Christine De Pizan

Clovis I

Dante Alighieri

Edward The Black Prince

Edward of Woodstock or Edward the Black Prince was an English prince and son of King Edward III and his wife Philippa Hainault

Edward The Confessor

Edward the Confessor was an Anglo-Saxon King of England. He was the last king from the House of Wessex.

Fredrick Barbarossa

Fredrick I or Fredrick Barbarossa was the most influential and well known emperor of Holy Roman Empire from the middle ages

Genseric The Vandal

Genseric or Gaiseric was the King of Vandals. He reigned during the fifth century and was a major tormentor of Western and Eastern Roman Empire.

Geoffrey Chauser

Geoffrey Chauser Geoffrey Chauser was an English poet from middle ages. He is widely celebrated as the Father of English Literature

Harun Al-Rashid

Harun al-Rashid was the fifth ruler (caliph) of Abbasid dynasty. His reign is considered to be the golden age of Islam

Henry II

Henry II or Henry Curtmantle was King of England during middle to late 12th Century. He was also Count of Anjou, Count of Maine

Henry The Fowler

Henry the Fowler or Henry of Saxony was Duke of Saxony and King of Germany during the 10th century.

Henry V

Henry V was King of England during the early 15th century. He belonged to the House of Lancaster and was the second English monarch from the family.

Heraclius Augustus

Heraclius or Flavius Heraclius Augustus was a Byzantine Emperor. He ruled the Eastern Roman Empire during the first half of the seventh century.

Ivan the Terrible

Ivan Vasilyevich or Ivan IV was the first Tsar of All the Russias and Grand Prince of Moscow. He is popularly known as Ivan the Terrible

Joan of Arc

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Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Guttenberg was a German goldsmith, printer and publisher. He is best known for developing a Movable Type for printing.

Justinian

King Arthur

The story of King Arthur has grown and changed over the years. One of the first books to mention Arthur was written in the year 830

Louis The Ninth

Louis IX or Saint Louis was King of France from 1226 till his death in 1270. He belonged to the Capetian line of French monarchs

Maimonides

Maimonides is one of the most famous Jewish philosophers from the Middle Ages. He is well known for writing the Commentary on the Mishnah

Marco Polo

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Muhammad

Muhammad was the Prophet of Islam and a central figure of the religion. Muslims across the world consider him as the last of the prophets of God.

Pepin The Short

Pepin III or Pepin the Short was the King of Franks from 751 till his death in 768.

Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard was a medieval French philosopher, logician, theologian and poet. He is known as the finest academic brain of 12th century

Peter the Hermit

Peter the Hermit was a French monastic founder and preacher from the middle ages. He is widely considered one of the most vocal advocate

Petrarch

Petrarch or Francesco Petrarca was an Italian scholar, poet and humanist who lived in the Renaissance Italy.

Richard the Lionheart

Richard I or Richard the Lionheart was King of England and the central figure during the Third Crusade

Robert Bruce

Robert the Bruce or Robert I was the King of Scotts during the early 14th century. He was a great military leader and perhaps

Rollo the Viking

Rollo was a Viking leader who became the first ruler of Normandy in the early 10th century

St Augustine

St Augustine or Augustine of Hippo was an early Christian theologian and philosopher. He is widely considered the most prominent Christian

Leather Armor

During the middle ages, leather armor, particularly in the early Middle Ages, was one of the most popular types of armor to be used. In the later stages of the Middle Ages, leather became less popular.

Medieval Armor

The medieval soldier had a number of different options when it came to armor. Each type of armor offered different levels of protection and different problems.

Medieval Arrows

A bow was only as good as the arrows a person had to use. A person from the medieval age would use different arrows depending on what he was doing and on what type of bow the person was using.

Medieval Crossbow

When the crossbow first began to be used, it was hated by a number of people. In fact, the Pope declared that if a person used a crossbow, that person could be excommunicated and demanded that the weapon be banned.

Medieval Lance

Lances and pikes are similar and both developed from the spear but they were used for different purposes. Lances were used by mounted soldiers, particularly knights, while pikes were used by foot soldiers and other infantry

Medieval Longbow

One of the most important inventions in warfare was the development of the longbow. It allowed archers to deliver arrows from a greater distance and with greater force than the short bow.

Medieval Swords

Swords were one of the most common weapons used by knights in the Middle Ages. Swords were not typically used by common soldiers who were more likely to use pikes or other weapons.

Medieval War Horses

Horses in the Middle Ages were not grouped by breed. Instead they were grouped according to what the horse was used for. There were horses for battle, for travel, for speed and for working on the farm.

Medieval Weapons

There are a number of different weapons a medieval soldier could use in battle. While there are a large number of weapons, they can be broken down into a few broad categories.

Kievan Rus

Kievan Rus was the first organized state on Russian territory. At its height, Kievan Rus stretched from the Carpathian Mountains

The Anglo Saxons

During the 400s, Germanic tribes (Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Friesians) came from continental Europe and settled in the British Isles after the fall of the Roman Empire

The Byzantine Empire

By the 300s, the Roman Empire could no longer control its long borders and far-flung outposts. After Constantine I took over, he divided the Roman Empire

The Franks

The Franks were Germanic tribes who lived along the middle and lower Rhine River. As the Roman Empire lost control of Gaul, the Franks rose to power

The Vikings

Around 800 CE, various peoples from Scandinavian regions sailed away from their homelands and began raiding other areas of Europe.