#otd 1219 William Marshal, "the best knight that ever lived" (Stephen Langton), died. In his Historia Anglorum, Matthew Paris highlighted the death with an inverted coat of arms - and a crossbow. #mediaval@medievodons#medievaldeath Ms.: BL Royal MS 14 C VII f. 104v.
#otd died 1135 Henry I of England, known as Henry Beauclerc. In the manuscript of his Historia Anglorum, the chronicler Matthew Paris highlighted the death with an inverted coat of arms. #mediaval@medievodons#medievaldeath Ms.: BL Royal MS 14 C VII f. 46r.
#otd 1154 died Stephen I of England (,Stephen of Blois'). In the manuscript of his Historia Anglorum, the chronicler Matthew Paris highlighted the death with an inverted coat of arms. #mediaval#medievaldeath@medievodons
#otd 1087 William I, known as William the Conqueror, died. In the manuscript of his Historia Anglorum, the chronicler Matthew Paris highlighted the death with an inverted coat of arms. #mediaval@medievodons@histodons#medievaldeath
#otd 1183 died Henry II of England. In the manuscript of his Historia Anglorum, Matthew Paris highlighted the death with an inverted coat of arms (as well as the coronation of Richard I. with an upright one) #mediaval@medievodons#medievaldeath Ms.: BL Royal MS 14 C VII f. 77r.