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dailymedievaldeath, 1 day ago to medievodons German

#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.

dailymedievaldeath, 2 days ago to medievodons German

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.

dailymedievaldeath, 4 days ago to medievodons German

#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

dailymedievaldeath, 5 days ago to medievodons German

#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

dailymedievaldeath, 6 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1329 died John Droxford, bishop of Bath and Wells. He was buried in Wells cathedral, where his effigy is still on display today. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 7 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1482 Ludwig of Rothenstein died. He was buried in the collegiate church in Bad Grönenbach, where his sandstone epitaph, probably created by Niklas Türing the Elder, is still intact today. #medieval @medievodons #medievaldeath

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 973 died Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. His tomb in Magdeburg Cathedral is presented like this today. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 9 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1471, shortly after the Battle of Tewkesbury Edmund Beaufort was executed. He had previously sought shelter in Tewkesbury cathedral. #medievaldeath #medievaltwitter @medievodons

MS: Besançon, BM, 1168, f 6v

dailymedievaldeath, 10 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1198 died Sophia of Minsk. As the wife of her first husband Valdemar I she was Queen of Denmark, as the wife of her second husband Louis III she was Landgravine of Thuringia. She was buried in St. Bendt's Church in Ringsted. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pics: WC

dailymedievaldeath, 11 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1472 the troops of the House of Lancaster were crushed in the Battle of Twekesbury. Many prominent Lancastrian nobles were killed during the battle or executed shortly afterwards. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Ms: Besançon, BM, 1168, f 4v

dailymedievaldeath, 12 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1481 Mehmet II ,the Conqueror' died. He was buried in the Fatih Mosque complex he built. His tomb is presented like this today. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 13 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1250 died Al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Turan Shah, the seventh sultan of the Ayyubids in Egypt. The circumstances vary, here: He is simply stabbed to death. On the right, the captured Louis IX. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons MS: BNF, Français 5716, f. 127v.

dailymedievaldeath, 14 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1308 King Albert I was murdered by a group around his nephew John. Almost 200 years later, the act was depicted in this drawing. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons MS: Chronicle of the 95 dominions of Austria, Burgerbibliothek Bern, Cod. A45, f. 97r

dailymedievaldeath, 15 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1315 Enguerrand de Marigny, chamberlain to Philip IV of France, was hanged at Montfaucon. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Hs.: BNF Français 2606 f. 361v

dailymedievaldeath, 16 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1495 died Rudolf II of Scherenberg, bishop of Würzburg. His successor Lorenz von Bibra commissioned Tilman Riemenschneider to design the monument, which stands in St. Kilians Cathedral in Würzburg. #medieval @medievodons #medievaldeath Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 17 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1400 #otd died the jurist Baldus de Ubaldis. He was buried in Pavia in the church of San Francesco. His tomb slab can be found today on the Old Campus of the University of Pavia. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 18 days ago to medievodons German

#otd in 1404 Philip the Bold died. His tomb in the Palais des Ducs de Bourgogne was built between 1384 and 1410, damaged in the 18th century and restored in the 19th century. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 19 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1393 Dietrich von der Schulenburg, Bishop of Brandenburg, died. He was buried in Brandenburg Cathedral, where this tomb slab has survived. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic..: Wikipedia Common

dailymedievaldeath, 20 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1421 died Weiprecht II of Helmstatt. He was buried in the parish church of St. Johann in Neckarbischofsheim. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 21 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1483 Marguerite de Bourbon died. Together with her son Philibert and his wife Margaret of Austria, she is buried in a magnificent tomb in the former Brou monastery in Bourg-en-Bresse. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 22 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1407 Olivier V de Clisson died. He was buried with his wife Marguerite de Rohan, who had died a year earlier, in this impressive tomb in the Basilique Notre-Dame-du-Roncier de Josselin. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 23 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1355 died Eleanor of Woodstock, Duchess consort of Guelders by marriage, later regent. She was buried in Deventer Abbey, where this plain tombstone commemorates her (photo perhaps taken during construction works?) #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 25 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1314 Pope Clement V died. He rests in the collegiate church of Notre Dame de`Uzeste, his second burial place, in his fourth tomb altogether. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 26 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1054 Pope Leo IX. died. In the St. Leo Chapel in his alleged birthplace Eguisheim, this reliquary with a skull relic is displayed today. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 27 days ago to medievodons German

#otd 1335 died Luther of Brunswick, the 18th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. He was buried in Königsberg Cathedral, his grave is now decorated by this wooden figure. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons