Himmler informiert Sipo und SD über den Korherr-Bericht:
"Ich halte diesen Bericht als allenfallsiges Material für spätere Zeiten, und zwar zu Tarnungszwecken für recht gut. Im Augenblick darf er weder veröffentlicht noch weitergegeben werden." https://www.ns-archiv.de/verfolgung/korherr/himmler-sipo.php
#otd 1364 John II of France, called ,the Good’, died in London. His body was transferred to France and buried in St Denis. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Ms.: The Hague, KB, 72 A 25, fol. 247r
#otd 1498 Charles VIII of France died. His impressive tomb in St Denis was destroyed in the 18th century, but an image survived in the collection of François Roger de Gaignières. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
"Reinigung des gesamten Beamtentums von all den unliebsamen Erscheinungen, die in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik den deutschen Beamtenkörper zu durchsetzen begonnen hatten."
#otd 1199 Richard I of England ,the Lionheart' was hit by a crossbow and died. In the manuscript of his Historia Anglorum, Matthew Paris highlighted the death with an inverted coat of arms - and a crossbow. #mediavalt@medievodons#medievaldeath Ms.: BL Royal MS 14 C VII f. 85v.
"Here lies the worst of kings and the most wretched of men". According to Walter Bower, Robert III of Scotland wished this inscription on his tomb. He died #otd 1406. This tomb in Paisley Abbey was donated by Queen Victoria in 1888. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wiki. C.
#otd 1287 Pope Honorius IV died. At first he was buried in Old St. Peter's. In the course of a reorganization he was transferred to S. Maria in Aracoeli, where he had buried his mother. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008) – author, historian, journalist, screenwriter – was born #OTD, 2 April, 1925
“His dedication to strongly researched stories, built firmly on a bedrock of historical fact, but always with an eye to the humour of a situation, was the core of what appealed to me”
Historical novelist Michael Jecks discusses George MacDonald Fraser’s writing for the Royal Literary Fund:
#otd 1118 died Baldwin of Boulogne, Count of Verdun, for a time Count of Edessa, and King of Jerusalem. Shown below his deathbed is the coronation of his cousin and successor Balduin of Bourcq. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Ms.: Lyon, BM, 0828 (0732), f. 122v.
#otd 1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine, first Queen of France, then Queen of England, died. She was buried in the abbey church of Fontevraud. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
“The life & career of the gifted Glaswegian writer Catherine Carswell was marked by such alarming & recurrent notoriety that her present obscurity is baffling”
—Emma Garman looks at the life & work of Catherine Carswell (1879–1946) – born #OTD, 27 March
#otd 1219 Rudolf I, Count Palatine of Tübingen, died. He was buried in the family burial ground he founded in the Premonstratensian monastery of Bebenhausen, where this gravestone commemorates him. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
#otd 1272 died Enzo, King of Sardinia and one of the illegitimate sons of Emperor Frederick II. King Enzo was buried in the Basilica di San Domenico in Bologna , as noted on this epitaph (1731). #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
“Had a fit of the scunners: heart withered up.”
—Willa Muir (1890–1970) was born #OTD, 13 March. Her translations of #Kafka solidified his reputation in English, & then internationally
In this article, Prof Michelle Woods looks at Willa Muir—a #Shetland translator in #Prague
#otd 1492 Philipp II of Nassau-Weilburg died. He was buried in Eberbrach Monastery, where his tomb still commemorates him today. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1249 died Siegfried III of Eppstein, Archbishop of Mainz. His epitaph is the oldest funerary monument in Mainz Cathedral and shows him as coronator of Henry Raspe a. King William - Henry was never crowned and William not by Siegfried. #medieval#medievaldeath@medievodons