#otd 1209 died Otto VIII of Wittelsbach - the murderer of King Philip II ('of Swabia'). He is said to have been judged by Henry of Kalden. Apparently there is a memorial stone in Oberndorf (see article). #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1274 Thomas Aquinas died. Since 1974 his bones rest again in the Couvent des Jacobins in Toulouse (under the altar slab). #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons
#otd 1371 died Joan of Évreux, Queen of France. She was buried in Saint-Denis (bones), the Église des Cordeliers (heart) and in the Abbey of Maubuisson (entrails). The picture shows a detail of the tomb from Maubuisson. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons
Die physische Beseitigung des Ostjudentums entziehe dem Judentum die biologischen Reserven (...) Der Jude hat sich mit diesem Krieg sein eigenes Grab gegraben.
#otd 1356 Johann Klingenberg died. The brass plate that adorned his grave in St. Peter's Church in Lübeck was destroyed in 1942. A drawing from 1853 shows what was lost. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons
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#otd 1316 died Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert ,the Bruce' and mother of Robert II of Scotland. She was buried in Paisley Abbey. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons
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English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer E. F. Benson died #OTD in 1940. Benson was a precocious and prolific writer. His first book was Sketches from Marlborough, published while he was a student. He started his novel-writing career with the fashionably controversial Dodo. The Mapp and Lucia series, written relatively late in his career, consists of six novels and two short stories. via @wikipedia
#otd 1496 died Eberhard 'im Bart' (the Bearded), first duke of Württemberg and Teck. He was buried in the collegiate church in Tübingen. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1216 Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex, died in a torunament. In his Historia Anglorum, Matthew Paris highlighted the death with an inverted coat of arms - and a broken lance. #medieval#medievaldeath@medievodons
#otd 1371 died Gottfried IV, count of Cuyk-Arnsberg. The first picture shows his tomb in Cologne Cathedral. The second picture shows a copy in the St.-Johannes-Kirche Arnsberg-Neheim but offers a better view. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
The Wheel of Fortuna: #otd 1194 Tancred, King of Sicily, died. He was defeated by Emperor Henry VI in the battle for Sicily. This depiction therefore shows Tancred below and Henry on top of the wheel. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1389 died Margarete of Ravensberg-Berg. She was buried next to her husband Gerhard I of Jülich-Berg in Altenberg Cathedral. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1455 the Italian painter Fra Angelico died. He was beatified in 1982. His tomb is found in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1491 Pietro of Aragon, a son of Alfonso II of Naples and Ippolita Maria Sforza, died in Naples. He was buried in S. Maria la Nova in Naples. The picture is probably meant to show him at his burial. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1390 died Rupert I 'the Red' of the Palatinate. He was buried with his wife Beatrix of Berg in the Neustadt Collegiate Church. The photos show the grave in the state until 1906, when it was opened, and in the present installation. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd 1450 died John II of Ziegenhain, the last count of Ziegenhein and Nidda. He is commemorated by this tombstone in the monastery church of Haina. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
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James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born #OTD, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from #HistoricalFiction to #ScienceFiction – he is one of the most important #Scottish writers of the #20thcentury
#otd 1468 Juana Enríquez, Queen of Aragon, Sardinia and Navarre, died. She was buried next to her husband John II in the Monestir de Santa Maria de Poblet, where today these monuments commemorate them. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
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#otd 1242 Henry (VII), son of Frederick II and former king of the romans, is said to have committed suicide. However, the story comes as an accusation against his father from the papal camp. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
Ms.: Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 190/2, fol. 170v.