Congratulations to Julie.,
winner of our 2023 Hug a Medievalist Day giveaway!
Julie wanted to hug Sir Lancelot
Here are some other medievalists (historical, mythical, fictional, friends & family members) who got a hug this year:
Eleanor of Aquitaine
King Arthur
Merlin
Sir Baldwin de Solee from Courting Cassandry
Alfred the Great.
Joan of Arc
Richard III
Othello
My nephew Tyson
Edward V - one of the Princes in the Tower
John Thomas
Guinivere
Edward IV
Thomas More
Robin Hood
the Scarlet Pimpernel
Christine de Pizan – French writer (1364 – c.1430) and Gutenberg.
Sir Lancelot
Sir Galahad
Queen Matilda
King Richard the Lionheart
I would hug You Joyce DiPastena! (Teresa Scates) [Joyce:Thank you!]
Flavia, family friend and storyteller at a medieval fair
Queen Caroline
Lord Edmond of hawksford from castles and crown
Hildegard of Bingen
I like too many to choose just one!
John Aberth
Katherine Parr
Maid Marian
Cadfael, in the Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters
Anne Bolyne
Conradin the Younger King of Sicily
Sir William DeRenzy
Lady Annyn Bretanne (character from The Unveiling by Tamara Leigh)
William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson)
Rasheed
Charlemagne
Kathryn Le Veque
Glynnis Campbell
Catherine de Medici
King Edward the third of England
Katharina Luther
Maimonides
Queen Elizabeth the First
Peter Abelard – French scholar (1079-1142) and Héloïse d’Argenteuil
EB Wheeler
Luca Forelli (River of Time series by Lisa T Bergren)
Cynthia Wright
Aragorn, haha!
FitzRoger of Cleeve in Dark champion by Jo Beverley
Sir Brodrick Dougray
Lady Phillipa
Joan of Arc and a fictional one- Lady Catrin Buckley❤️
Christine de Pizan
Sian Ann Bessey
Any person who would like a hug.
Archibald Campbell
Rhiannon in Sian Bessey's Call of the Sea
Halt from Ranger’s Apprentice series
The Crimson Knight from "A Crimson Frost"
Merrick from Timeline
Steven Coombs
Margaret Grey
Tinney Sue Heath
Pat Hardy
Henry V
My daughter and my grandbabies who have dresses and tunics to wear to the Renaissance Fair
Theodora, empress of Byzantium
William DeWolfe from Kathryn Le Veque book The Wolfe
Friar Tuck
Helen of Troy
Sir Thomas Grey of Covington Cross (defunct TV show I loved) [Joyce: Oh my gosh, I remember that show!]
Chavesz Whitlock
Ashlynn
Thank you to everyone who entered our giveaway! Can't wait to do it again in 2024!
