Covering history's most marvelous millennium
Covering history's most marvelous millennium
This page contains all our reports regarding the Late Middle Ages.
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William of Guelders was a five-time crusader, the first continental Knight of the Garter, and pilgrim to the Holy Land. He befriended the Teutonic Grand Master and the Holy Roman Emperor.
The famous poet Poeun was forced to choose between aggressive revolutionaries and loyalty to the old regime. A bridge now in North Korea still commemorates his fate.
At Smyrna, the Knights Hospitaller were confronted with an attack by Timur. They had beaten the Turks back for decades, but this enemy was something else.
Breton noblewoman Jeanne de Clisson turned against her sovereign, the king of France. She reinvented herself as a macabre and terrifying pirate.
The city of Ghent was extremely rich. Therefore, its Burgundian overlords wanted to milk it. Ghent, however, had ideas of their own about where to put their money.
