#otd died 1295 Margaret of Provence, Queen of France and wife of Louis IX. Her tomb in Saint Denis Basilica was destroyed in 1793, but this drawing was made a few years earlier. #MedievalDeath#medieval@medievodons Ms: Bodleian Library, MS. Gough drawings-Gaignières 2, f. 24r
#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
I'm going to have TWO full-time one-year #postdocs available from 1 April: one for a historian with knowledge of #medieval Latin #palaeography, one for a computer scientist/#programmer (or someone else with a proven ability to code software). The job descriptions will be out in January, but please re-post this and forward it on to people you think may be interested/qualified. I'm happy to answer questions. @medievodons@histodons
#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
596 years ago today, Hanseatic cities of Northern Germany retained the services of the privateer captain Bartholomeus Voet, his nine ships and 300 men. With dire consequences for my hometown, Bergen - but also to great annoyance for themselves.
A thread:
The Hansa and the Nordic countries were the best of frenemies at this time. The Hansa traded extensively with the Nordics and often waged war as well, typically allying with one Nordic country against another...
"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.
"The authors present new archaeological discoveries from western and northern Mongolia, dating to the fourth and fifth centuries AD, including a wooden frame saddle with horse hide components from Urd Ulaan Uneet and an iron stirrup from Khukh Nuur. Together, these finds suggest that Mongolian groups were early adopters of stirrups and saddles, facilitating the expansion of nomadic hegemony across Eurasia and shaping the conduct of medieval mounted warfare."
#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
"Medieval hospitals were founded to provide charity, but poverty and infirmity were broad and socially determined categories and little is known about the residents of these institutions and the pathways that led them there. Combining skeletal, isotopic and genetic data, the authors weave a collective biography of individuals buried at the Hospital of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge."