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dailymedievaldeath, 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1339 Azzone Visconti, among other things imperial vicar of Milan, died. The relief of his tomb in the church of San Gottardo in Corte shows his investiture by Emperor Louis IV. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1496 Isabella of Portugal died. She was buried next to her husband John II of Castile in a tomb in the shape of an eight-pointed star in the Miraflores Charterhouse. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @historikerinnen Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1369 Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III of England, died. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @historikerinnen

Ms.: BNF Francaise 87 fol. 280r

dailymedievaldeath, 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1191 Archbishop Philip I died in Naples. He was buried in Cologne Cathedral, where he was reburied into this beautiful high tomb in the middle of the 14th century. #medievaldeath #Medieval #medievodons @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1484 Pope Sixtus IV died. His artful tomb, made by Antonio del Pollaiolo, is today in the Vatican grottoes. #medievaldeath #medieval #medievodons @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1487 Roberto Sanseverino d'Aragona died. The condottiero, for a time count of Colorno and from 1460 count of Caiazzo died in the Battle of Calliano. His tomb slab in Trento Cathedral was designed by Lux Maurus by order of Maximilian I. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

Three kings and one death. #Otd in 1157 Canute V was slain at a feast attended by Waldemar I and Sven III. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

Ms.: Sächsische Weltchronik, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Memb. I 90, f. 131v.

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1091 died bishop Altmann of Passau. This shrine in Göttweig Abbey contains his remains. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons
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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

Death of the Lion. #Otd 1195 Henry ‘the Lion’ died. In Brunswick Cathedral is the monument for him and his wife Mathilde, the coffins of the couple are in the crypt. #medieval #medievaldeath @medievodons @histodons Pics.: Wikipedia Commons.

Crypt with three stone coffins

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 642 died Oswald, King of Northumbria. He was soon venerated as a saint, making his remains relics. Parts of his skull are in this head reliquary (12th c) in Hildesheim. #medieval @medievodons #medievaldeath

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

"The head of the Earl of Leicester [...] was severed from his body, and his testicles cut off and hung on either side of his nose." (Arnold FitzThedmar). #Otd 1265 died Simon V de Montfort in the battle of Evesham. #medievaldeath #Medieval @histodons @medievodons BL Cotton MS Nero D II f. 177r

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 998 Bishop Hildebold of Worms died. He was buried in the now destroyed collegiate monastery of St. Cyriakus in Worms-Neuhausen. Johann F. Schannat (18th c.) was still able to view the grave and drew the grave slab. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

Who shot ya? William II - killed by an arrow during a hunting trip with his pals (#otd 1100). Les Grandes chroniques de France (1332-1350),
BL, MS Royal 16 G VI fol. 272r. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

Gaston III de Foix died #otd 1391 suddenly when he washed his hands in cold water after hunting on a hot day. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

Ms.: BL Harley 4379 (1470/72) fol. 126

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1358, Étienne Marcel was overpowered and killed with most of his followers. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Pic: BNF, ms. Français 2643, f. 230r.

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to histodons German

#otd 1303 died Tommaso Andrei, bishop of the diocese of Pistoia. He was buried in his birthplace and his tomb in the collegiate church of Santa Maria Assunta in Casole d'Elsa was created by the Sienese sculptor Gano di Fazio. #MedievalDeath #medieval @histodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to histodons German

Alleged blood transfusion, mysterious inscriptions that re-date voyages of discovery and a possibly empty tomb - #otd 1492 Pope Innocent VIII died. This installation in St Peter commemorates him. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to historikerinnen German

#otd 1373 Saint Bridget of Sweden died. The picture shows a piece of her bones, which was donated to the Turku Cathedral Museum in a reliquary. #medievaldeath #medieval @historikerinnen

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1100 died Godfrey of Bouillon. He was buried in the tomb of the Cretan kings in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Ms.: BNF Français 2824, fol. 57r.

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to historikerinnen German

#otd 1399 died Hedwig of Anjou, Queen of Poland. She was buried in the Royal Archcathedral Basilica of Saints Stanislaus and Wenceslaus on the Wawel Hill, today she lies in this high grave. #medievaldeath @historikerinnen

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to histodons German

"Therefore we go to Speyer to the other buried kings!"? Really? #otd 1291 King Rudolf I died in Speyer - chroniclers writing later report that he travelled to this place especially to die. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons @histodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1024 Emperor Henry II died. He was buried in Bamberg and has been resting in the marble high tomb created by Tilman Riemenschneider since the 15th century. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to historikerinnen German

#otd (or tomorrow) 783 died Bertrada of Laon, Frankish queen and wife of Pepin 'the short'. She was buried in the Basilica of St Denis, where this tomb commemorates her today. #medievaldeath #medieval @historikerinnen

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1174 died Amalric I, King of Jerusalem. Upper picture shows his death, depicted below is the coronation of Balduin IV. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Ms.: Lyon, BM, 0828 (0732), f 254

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#Otd 1045 Canute IV of Denmark died. He had taken refuge in St. Alban's Priory in Odense and is said to have been slain there in front of the altar. His bones lie in Saint Canute's Cathedral (Odense) in a glass case in front of the altar. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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