#otd 1131 died Balduin II, king of Jerusalem. Depicted here as a double miniature, above the death of Bladuin, below the coronation of his successor Fulk. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1025 died Burchard, Bishop of Worms, a leading canon lawyer of his time. This slab in the west choir of Worms Cathedral indicates the place where he was first buried. #medieval#medievaldeath@medievodons
[In 2013, for the first time, it was possible to obtain images from the interior. These became public in 2019. More in this German thread on the birdsite: https://tinyurl.com/59rbtav4].
#otd 1227 Genghis Khan died. Many causes are reported - diseases, a fall from a horse, the dagger of a princess. Marco Polo reports - almost boringly - an arrow wound got infected. Ms.: BNF Francaise 2810, f. 27v. #medievaldeath#medieval#medievodons@medievodons@histodons
#otd 1461 died Jacques de Milly, 37th Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller. He was buried in Rhodes. The tomb slab of his sarcophagus has been preserved and is now in the Musée de Cluny in Paris. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#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
#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
#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
#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
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.
#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
"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
#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
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
#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