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#otd 1066 Edward ,the Confessor' died. The Bayeux Tapestry depicts his funeral. #medieval #medievaldeath @medievodons

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#otd 1271 Walter de la Wyle, Bishop of Salisbury, died. He was buried in St Edmund's Chapel, Salisbury Cathedral. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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#otd 1322 Philip V of France died. His bones were buried in Saint Denis Basilica, his viscera in the church of the now-demolished Couvent des Jacobins in Paris. In Staint Denis, he is commemorated today the most left effigy. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons
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#otd 1497 Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, died. She was buried in Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan). Her husband Ludovico Sforza had a double tomb sculpture made, but he died in captivity, the sculpture was placed in the Certosa di Pavia. #medievaldeath #medievaltwitter @medievodons P: WC

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A treatment gone wrong: #otd 1387 Charles II, called 'the Bad', of Navarre died. He is said to have had himself stitched in wine-soaked cloths every evening to cure an illness. However, these caught fire... #medievaldeath #medievaltwitter @medievodons

Ms.: BL, Royal 14 D V f. 305r.

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#otd 1369 died John Chandos. He had been wounded in a night skirmish because he slipped. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic: The Hague, KB, 72 A 25, f. 320v

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#otd 1460 Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York died in the Battle of Wakefield. His opponents are said to have displayed his impaled head - with a crown made of paper, to mock him. Today, this monument commemorates him. #medieval #medievaldeath @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

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#otd 1170 Thomas Becket was murdered. His martyrdom is a very often depicted #medievaldeath #medieval. @medievodons Some examples: BL Additional 54782 f. 55v, BL Harley 2982 f. 13v, BL Harley 5102 f. 32r, BL Royal 2 B VII f. 298r.

The image shows Thomas Becket being slain by armed men while praying at the altar.
The image shows Thomas Becket being slain by armed men while praying at the altar.
The image shows Thomas Becket being slain by armed men while praying at the altar.

dailymedievaldeath, 5 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1446 died Gil Sánchez Muñoz y Carbón, one of the antipopes of the Avignon Papacy. Unitl 26 July 1429, he was reigning as Clement VIII. He was buried in Palma Cathedral. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons Pics.: Wikipedia Commons

The picture shows the chapter house cathedral of Palma. In the center is placed the tomb.

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#otd 1087 died Bertha of Savoy, Queen of the Romans and Holy Roman Empress. She was buried in Speyer Cathedral. #medievaltwitter #medievaldeath @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

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#otd 1417 died Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Cyprus. She is buried in this tomb in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia in Barcelona. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

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"Here lies the very feared and justice-maker king Henry, of sweet memory, may God give [him] the Holy Paradise [...]." #otd 1406 Henry III of Castile died. He was burried in the Chapel of the New Monarchs of the Cathedral of Toledo. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: WC

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Death and burial: #otd died 1143 Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford. 1. image shows the remains of Llanthony Secunda Priory, his burial place. 2. image shows Flaxley Abbey, founded by Miles' son presumably at the site of his death. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pics: WC

The picture shows one intact building with several building parts. In the foreground you can see cows in a meadow.

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#otd 1230 Berengaria of Navarre died, Queen of England and wife of Richard the Lionheart. She was buried in L'Épau Abbey in Le Mans, where this effigy commemorates her. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

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"John, once Pope, the XXIII, he died in Florence in the year of our Lord 1419, on the eleventh day before the Kalends of January". #otd 1419 Baldassare Cossa, the former antipope John XXIII, died and was buried in Florence Cathedral. #medievaldeath #medievaltwitter @medievodons Pic..: WC

The picture shows the entire tomb, it is framed on the left and right by a large column each. Below are three half-plastic statues of the virtues. This is followed by the coffin hanging on the wall. On it stands the figure from the first picture. Above the figure is a canopy.

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#otd 1352 died Frederick I of Hohenlohe, Prince-Bishop of the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg. He was buried in Bamberg Cathedral, where this tomb commemorates him. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

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#otd died 1295 Margaret of Provence, Queen of France and wife of Louis IX. Her tomb in Saint Denis Basilica was destroyed in 1793, but this drawing was made a few years earlier. #MedievalDeath #medieval @medievodons Ms: Bodleian Library, MS. Gough drawings-Gaignières 2, f. 24r

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#otd 1370 Pope Urban V died in Avignon. His last resting place was in Marseille, but his tomb was destroyed in the Revolution. There is still a marble figure of his first tomb in Avignon. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

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#otd 942, William I, called "Longsword", Count of Rouen and Jarl of the Normans, was killed. #medievaldeath #medievaltwitter @medievodons Ms.: BNF Français 2813, f 169r.

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#otd 999 died Adelaide of Burgundy, Holy Roman Empress. On Magdeburg Cathedral Square, this plate commemorates her. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons

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#otd (?) 1317 (?) died Mary of Bytom, Queen of Hungary, Croatia and Dalmatia. Besides the time of death, the burial place is also disputed. However, there is this depiction of the burial from the Chronicon Pictum, unfortunately without references. #medieval #medievaldeath @medievodons

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#otd 1311 died Margaret of Brabant, wife of Henry VII and Queen of the Romans. Unfortunately, only fragments of her tomb in Genoa remain. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons

The fragment from the first picture in the middle. On the right and on the left a likewise damaged figure 8 (among other things, the heads are missing). It is clear that the two figures have carried the female figure up the berm.

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"About this time died Frederick, the greatest of the princes of the earth, the wonder and the marvellous transformer of the world [...]". #otd 1250 died Frederick II #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Quote: Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora Pic.: Ub Heidelberg, cpg 149, f. 213r.

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#otd 1154 Vicelinus, Bishop of Oldenburg, died. He is venerated as a saint. His bones were transferred to the church of Bordesholm Monastery, where this plate commemorates him today. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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#otd 1139 Roger le Poer, Bishop of Salisbury died. This tomb in Salisbury Cathedral is traditionally attributed to him. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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