#otd 1422 died Gerhard II of Goch, bishop of Naumburg. He was buried in Naumburg Cathedral, where this epitaph commemorates him. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons
Oschema, Klaus • Schneidmüller, Bernd (ed.), Zukunft im Mittelalter: Zeitkonzepte und Planungsstrategien (Vorträge und Forschungen 90), Ostfildern 2021.
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.
Andermann, Kurt • Bünz, Enno (ed.), Kirchenvogtei und adlige Herrschaftsbildung im europäischen Mittelalter (Vorträge und Forschungen 86), Ostfildern 2019.
#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
Courtesy of the #Museum of the Revolution of the Peoples of #Yugoslavia, inventory numbers: 6331, 6339, 6343, 6359 and 6360. The #photos were bought from Vojin Đorđević from #Belgrade on 26.01.1965.
After the capture of Yugoslavia in April of 1941, the #medieval#Smederevo#Fortress was designated as the storehouse for the captured equipment, ammunition, weapons and petrol of the Royal Yugoslav Army, which was to be used in the attack on the USSR. 🔽
Maleczek, Werner (ed.), Die römische Kurie und das Geld: von der Mitte des 12. Jahrhunderts bis zum frühen 14. Jahrhundert (Vorträge und Forschungen 85), Ostfildern 2018.
#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
#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
Is anyone putting together a #Medieval academy panel on saints or Books of Hours? I've got a paper to propose, but it's always easier with a group #MAA2025 @medievodons#Medievodons
#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