#otd 1410 died Rupert ('of the Palatinate'), Holy Roman King. He was buried in the Heiliggeistkirche in Heidelberg. The tomb shows him next to his wife Elisabeth of Hohenzollern, who died a year after him. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
A comprehensive analysis of 49 silver coins spanning the 7th and 8th centuries CE, revealed the cross-channel connections that shaped early medieval Europe’s economy...
#otd 1307 died Conrad II of Pfeffenhausen, bishop of Eichstätt. He was buried in the Eichstätt Cathedral. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons
Forgot to upload any phone photo from our #cruise on the day we were anchored near South Queensferry, #Scotland. We ditched our original plan to head to Edinburgh with the masses and instead booked a local boat trip out under the three bridges (Forth Road and Rail, and Queensferry Crossing) and then to Inchcolm Island where we explored the 13th century abbey and engaged in a battle of wills with the population of angry gulls around.
Kamp, Hermann (ed.), Herrschaft über fremde Völker und Reiche. Formen, Ziele und Probleme der Eroberungspolitik im Mittelalter (Vorträge und Forschungen 93), Ostfildern 2022.
#otd 1395 died Beatrix of Berg, Electress of the Palatinate. She was buried in the collegiate church of St. Ägidius in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. The picture shows her grave slab, which was embedded in the floor.. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
Trove of silver coins dating back to the 1100s discovered on Visingsö, Sweden
Archaeologists from the Jönköping County Museum have uncovered a remarkable treasure trove of 170 silver coins in a grave at Brahe Church on Visingsö, a Swedish island steeped in rich historical significance...
Oschema, Klaus • Schneidmüller, Bernd (ed.), Zukunft im Mittelalter: Zeitkonzepte und Planungsstrategien (Vorträge und Forschungen 90), Ostfildern 2021.
John the Orphanotropho was chief court eunuch in Byzantium (11th c.). He was involved in various intrigues, the picture shows Empress Zoë trying unsuccessfully to have him poisoned. He died #otd 1034. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic: Madrid, BNE, Codex Vitr. 26-2, f. 212r.
#otd 1141 (or 1142) Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale and progenitor of the Brus family, died. He was buried in Guisborough Priory, which he founded and which is now a ruin. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons
Courtesy of the #Museum of the Revolution of the Peoples of #Yugoslavia, inventory numbers: 6331, 6339, 6343, 6359 and 6360. The #photos were bought from Vojin Đorđević from #Belgrade on 26.01.1965.
After the capture of Yugoslavia in April of 1941, the #medieval#Smederevo#Fortress was designated as the storehouse for the captured equipment, ammunition, weapons and petrol of the Royal Yugoslav Army, which was to be used in the attack on the USSR. 🔽
Maleczek, Werner (ed.), Die römische Kurie und das Geld: von der Mitte des 12. Jahrhunderts bis zum frühen 14. Jahrhundert (Vorträge und Forschungen 85), Ostfildern 2018.
#otd 1480 died Philip I (the elder) of Hanau-Lichtenberg. He was buried in the town church of St. Nicholas in Babenhausen, where his epitaphs made of red sandstone is preserved. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons