#otd 1179 Hildegard of Bingen died. Her remains remained in the Rupertsberg monastery near Bingen until the Thirty Years' War, when they were moved to the church of the Eibingen monastery. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 921 died Ludmilla of Bohemia. According to the legend she was strangled with her veil. Wiki Commons has this image of the murder from the Latin translation (14th century) of the Dalimil Chronicle 'discovered' in 2005, but no reference. #medieval#medievaldeath@medievodons
#otd 775 Emperor Constantine V died. His illness was interpreted as divine punishment for the disreputable ruler - here pictorially staged. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos died #otd 1185. An angry mob is said to have maltreated him for days. Among other things, his hand was cut off, his teeth were knocked out and his eyes were gouged out. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1375 died Frederick II of Bülow, Bishop of Schwerin. This double brass tomb slab in the cathedral there shows him to the right of his great-uncle, who as Gottfried I was also Bishop of Schwerin. #medievaldeath#medieval@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
#otd 1235 Henry I, Duke of Brabant (called 'the Courageous'), died in Cologne. He was buried in St. Peter's Church at Leuven. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1402 died Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the first duke of Milan. This impressive tomb in the Certosa di Pavia commemorates him. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1295 died Christian of Mühlhausen, bishop of Samland and auxiliary bishop of Mainz. This epitaph in the Divi Blasii Church in Mulhouse commemorates him. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
Whether diarrhoea or heart attack: #otd 1442 Henry V of England died on campaign in France. His remains were brought back to England and buried in Westminster Abbey. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1483 Louis XI of France died. He was buried in Notre-Dame de Cléry in Cléry-Saint-André, where you can apparently admire his skull today (left), next to that of his wife Charlotte of Savoy (right). #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1442 John V, Duke of Brittany died. He was buried in Tréguier Cathedral, but his tomb was destroyed. Today, this one commemorates him. #medieval#medievaldeath@medievodons
#otd 1231 Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark, died. She was buried in Ringsted Church. The picture shows hair and a piece of silk, both found during a grave opening. #medieval#medievaldeath@medievodons@historikerinnen
#otd 1208: Shortly after the murder of her husband Philip II, Irene Angelina, Queen of the romans, died. She was buried in the monastery of Lorsch, where her bones were relocated to this tumba in 1475. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons@historikerinnen
#Otd 1346 John (‘the blind’) of Bohemia died. He was first buried in Altmünster Abbey in Luxembourg, but his remains made an adventurous journey over the centuries. Since 1945 they lie in the crypt of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons@histodons Pic.: WC
Poisoned during Holy Communion?! #otd 1313 Emperor Henry VII died and one of the most influential poison murder rumors of the Middle Ages entered the world. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons@histodons
Ms.: Codex Balduini, Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, Best. 1 C Nr. 1 fol. 35r.
#otd 1311 died Count Eberhard I of Katzenelnbogen. He was laid to rest in the church of Eberbach Monastery, where this tomb still commemorates him today. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons