By Princess Charlotte (Medieval Warfare Specialist) There's something I need to clear up. The Hundred Years' War did not last one hundred years. It lasted an impressive 116 years and ran between 1337 to 1453. And whilst I hugely appreciate that 'The One Hundred and Sixteen Years' War' doesn't have the same ring to it, accuracy matters. Now that is out of the system...why did it start? Like many medieval arguments, it started with land, power and a disagreement over who was en

By Princess Charlotte (Medieval Warfare Expert) If medieval warfare had a moment when everyone realised the old rules no longer applied, it happened on a hillside in northern France on the 26th August, 1346. When we mention the Battle of Crécy we really should be talking about a French victory that looked pretty inevitable when the two armies met. The English army, led by King Edward III had other ideas. King Edward III's English army was tired, outnumbered and deep inside en

Knights Templar, Hospitallers and the other powerful Knight Orders of the Medieval World.

Because medieval London, the London of knights and sieges and plague and enormous political drama, is not gone. It is not buried under glass offices and coffee shops, lost entirely to the Great Fire of 1666 and the Blitz and two thousand years of continuous rebuilding. It is hiding in plain sight. In churches, in ruins, in underground rooms, in a meadow beside the Thames, in two giant wooden statues paraded through the City every November.

By Princess Charlotte (Medieval Warfare Expert) Here is a family dispute that makes every argument about who gets to play with a certain toy first, or who gets to sit in the front seat. For thirty years, on and off, with occasional ceasefire, two branches of the same royal family fought each other for the throne of England. Nine major battles. Thousand upon thousand dead. Nobles executed on both sides. A king imprisoned. Princes murdered. Enough betrayal and unexpected revers