#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