Shortly after his birth, John was passed from Eleanor into the care of a wet nurse, a traditional practice for medieval noble families.

In fact, we know that medieval families were larger than that.

Her own descendants included most of the medieval noble families of England.

In the 19th century German and French medievalists worried about the origins of the great medieval families.

With his children, he had problems fairly typical of medieval royal families.

Kane was the name of a Norwegian medieval noble family.

It is, then, hardly surprising that many important medieval families had estates here.

That is the sort of tangle in which this one distinguished medieval family found itself.

The towers, which once numbered 72, were symbols of the power and wealth of the city's medieval families.

It is among the few of Norway's medieval noble families still living.