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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to histodons German

#otd (more precisely: between today and 9 October) 584 Chilperic I, king of Neustria died. The king was murdered during the hunt. #MedievalDeath #medieval @histodons

Pic: BNF, Français 1630, fol. 182v

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd (more precisely: between today and 9 October) 584 Chilperic I, king of Neustria died. The king was murdered during the hunt. #MedievalDeath #medieval @medievodons

Pic: BNF, Français 1630, fol. 182v

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1417 Cardinal Francesco Zabarella died. He was buried in the Cathedral of Padua. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons
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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1465 Isabelle de Bourbon, Duchess of Burgundy and wife of Charles the Bold, died. Her tomb in the Abbey of St. Michael in Antwerp was destroyed, but parts remain (today Amsterdam, Photo: 2021 during the exhibition “Remember Me”). #medievaldeath #medeival @medievodons @historikerinnen

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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1143 Pope Innocent II died. He lies today in this coffin in Santa Maria in Trastevere - after an eventful journey through several locations and coffins. #medieval #medievaldeath @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 880 died Carloman of Bavaria, Frankish king. He is buried in the collegiate church of Altötting, where this plate commemorates him. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

'Mysterious' death: #otd 1327 Edward II died in captivity. He was rumoured to have been murdered in a variety of ways - one of which is shown here. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

Ms.: ÖNB Vienna, cod. 2534, fol. 374v

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to histodons German

#otd 1161 Engelbert of Attel and Reichenhall died. The picture shows his high grave (1509) in the former monastery church in Attel. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to historikerinnen German

#otd 961 Helena Lekapene, wife of Emperor Constantine VII, died #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen

Pic: Madrid, BNE, Codex Vitr. 26-2, 141v. Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd in 1380 Charles V of France died in the castle of Beauté-sur-Marne near Paris. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Ms.: BL Royal MS 14 Ev fol. 64r

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#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

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 775 Emperor Constantine V died. His illness was interpreted as divine punishment for the disreputable ruler - here pictorially staged. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Ms.: Morgan MS M.769 fol. 335r

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1248 Kunigunde of Swabia, Queen of Bohemia died. She was buried in the Agnes Monastery in Prague. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

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

Ms.: BNF MS FR 68, fol. 392r

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1419: John the Fearless is slain during negotiations on a bridge in Montereau. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Ms.: Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Chronique, Universitätsbibliothek Leiden F 2, fol 184v (c. 1495).

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#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

Ms.: BL Royal MS 14 C VII f. 13v.

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd in 780, Byzantine Emperor Leo IV died. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Ms.: Morgan MS M.751 fol. 82r

dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 962 Gauzelin, Bishop of Toul, died. This cross marks his grave today in the monastery in Bouxières-aux-Dames. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1475, Adolph II of Nassau, Archbishop of Mainz, died in Eltville. He wass buried in Eberbrach Abbey. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath , 9 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1402 died Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the first duke of Milan. This impressive tomb in the Certosa di Pavia commemorates him. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1159 died Nicholas Breakspear, as Adrian IV the only Englishman on the Holy See. His coffin in the Vatican Grottoes looked like this in 1914. For more current images, visit: http://www.vaticanhistory.de/pm/html/hadrian_iv_.html #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

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

Ms.: BNF Français 5054, f. 27v.

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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. #medievaltwitter #medieval @medievodons @historikerinnen

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#Otd 1270 died Louis IX of France ('the Saint') in Tunis on crusade. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

Ms.: BL, Royal 20 C VII, f. 1v.

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

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.

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1350 Philip VI of France died. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Ms.: BL Royal 14 D III f. 1v.

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

Ms: Lyon, BM, 0828 (0732), f. 147v

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1493 emperor Frederick III died. In 1513 this tomb in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna was completed. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons

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[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].

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1369 Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III of England, died. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @historikerinnen

Ms.: BNF Francaise 87 fol. 280r

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

Pic.: Wikipedia Commons.

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1484 Pope Sixtus IV died. His artful tomb, made by Antonio del Pollaiolo, is today in the Vatican grottoes. #medievaldeath #medieval #medievodons @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

#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

P.: WC

dailymedievaldeath , 10 months ago to medievodons German

Three kings and one death. #Otd in 1157 Canute V was slain at a feast attended by Waldemar I and Sven III. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

Ms.: Sächsische Weltchronik, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Memb. I 90, f. 131v.