#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
#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
"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.
#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
#otd 1117 died Gertrud 'the Younger' of Brunswick, Margravine of Meissen. She was great-granddaughter of Empress Gisela and great-grandmother of Henry the Lion. Her remains lie today in the rear tomb in the crypt of Brunswick Cathedral. #medieval@medievodons#medievaldeath Pics.: WC
#otd 1292 died John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury. The Franciscan had studied in Paris under Bonaventure. Later he taught there himself. Twice he debated with Thomas Aquinas. He was buried in Canterbury Cathedral. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons
#otd 1254 Sinibaldo de Fieschi died as Pope Innocent IV in Naples. In 1318, Tomaso Malvito created this tomb for the deceased in the cathedral there. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
#otd in 1352 Pope Clement VI died and was buried in La Chaise-Dieu Abbey - with an impressive tomb. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons