#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
#otd 999 died Adelaide of Burgundy, Holy Roman Empress. On Magdeburg Cathedral Square, this plate commemorates her. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
#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
#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
"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.
#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
#otd 1117 died Gertrud 'the Younger' of Brunswick, Margravine of Meissen. She was great-granddaughter of Empress Gisela and great-grandmother of Henry the Lion. Her remains lie today in the rear tomb in the crypt of Brunswick Cathedral. #medieval@medievodons#medievaldeath Pics.: WC
#otd 1292 died John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury. The Franciscan had studied in Paris under Bonaventure. Later he taught there himself. Twice he debated with Thomas Aquinas. He was buried in Canterbury Cathedral. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons
#otd 1254 Sinibaldo de Fieschi died as Pope Innocent IV in Naples. In 1318, Tomaso Malvito created this tomb for the deceased in the cathedral there. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd in 1352 Pope Clement VI died and was buried in La Chaise-Dieu Abbey - with an impressive tomb. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
Merciful in the face of death: #otd 1075 Anno II of Cologne died. Shortly before his death, he lifted the ban on the rebels in his city. His bones can be found today in the Anno shrine in the Michaelsberg Abbey Church. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
#otd 794 died Solus, a missionary who was later venerated as a saint. Today, the church of St. Sola (Solnhofen) houses this reliquary with some of his remains. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons
#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.
Bishop, monk, saint - #otd 1022 Bernward of Hildesheim died. This coffin stands in the Michaeliskirche built by him - but it is empty. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1316 John I of France, called the Posthumous, died. Today this tomb in St. Denis commemorates the king who lived only a few days. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1154 died Adelheid of Savoy, Queen of France. She was buried St-Pierre de Montmartre - with a very early figurative representation on the tomb slab. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1184 Beatrice of Burgundy, Queen of the Romans and Empress died. Shown here is the tomb slab of her tomb in Speyer today, which is shared with her daughter Agnes. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
Executed with his own sword? #otd 1336 Arnold III of Uissigheim died. His gravestone in the church of St. Laurentius in Uissigheim shows that he was beheaded; an inscription, now lost, is said to have stated that this was done with his own sword. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons@histodons