Castles In England

A Peripatetic Kingship: A Look at King John of England’s Castle Movements in 1215

Jan E. Landwehr, February 22 2024

Historians agree that King John of England was the most peripatetic of all English monarchs. When traveling with his army, King John’s baggage train of wagons and horse-drawn carts stretched over 2 miles in length, moving at an average pace of 20 miles a day. Distances traveled not only depended upon the state of the roads and weather but the...

Castles in England

My Ancestral Connections to 18 Medieval Cathedrals in England

Jan E. Landwehr, December 29 2023

Three days ago, I started my holiday season by researching online medieval gift offerings through some of England’s greatest cathedrals and their online gift shops. Unbeknownst to me, I discovered that many of my ancestors are buried within these cathedrals. For example, Bristol Cathedral is where I uncovered my Anglo-Saxon ‘Berkeley’ family...