Monthly Archives: December 2023

A great historian once likened trying to identify people of the Conquest era to peering into a thick fog, where indistinguishable figures came in and out of view. The Norman chroniclers do not always offer reliable insights. William de Jumièges, … Continue reading →

I have often commented on the extremely interconnected ancestries of a “middling” section of English that orbited their superior lords as their tenants, always plotting, as some game of marital chess, a strategy to marry into their lord’s family, so … Continue reading →