Ela Fitzpayne was a powerful aristocrat who offended the Archbishop of Canterbury and was ordered to do a "walk of shame." ...

It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon ...

On the third of May the United Nations celebrated World Press Freedom Day. That same week Malta witnessed gruesome testimony in court describing how Daphne Caruana Galizia was barbarically ...

At the time, Forde was a parish priest in Okeford Fitzpaine, the family estate in Dorset, and FitzPayne was married to a baron named Robert. In 1332, the trio were accused of stealing dozens of oxen, ...

Robert dies in 1354 still married to Ela, who then inherited all his property. Added Eisner: “A woman in 14th century England who raided priories, openly defied the Archbishop of Canterbury, and ...

A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who had his throat cut on a busy London street almost ...

Simon Thompson looks at the story behind ten great unmade films… “What if…?” scenarios are something which truly gnaw at the human psyche, in almost every context. Socially, romantically, and ...

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The pair had raided a Benedictine priory the previous year, along with the knight Sir Robert Fitzpayne – Ela's husband and lord of Stogursey, the nearby castle. The crew smashed priory gates and ...

A woman who masterminded the killing of her husband at their Los Angeles home eight years ago has been sentenced to life in ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr. attends the funeral of his father at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, June 8, 1968. Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images “A great deal has taken place in Baku since ...