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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1274 Engelbert of Heinsberg-Valkenburg died, as Engelbert II, Archbishop of Cologne. He was buried in Bonn Cathedral, where this tombstone commemorates him. #medieval #medievaldeath @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1396 died Conrad II of Weinsberg, Archbishop of Mainz. He was buried in the church there. His epitaph shows him standing rather than lying with a pillow under his head, which is a novelty. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1035 Sancho III, King of Navarre, died. He was first buried in San Salvador de Oña, but later moved to the Basilica of San Isidoro, where this tomb slab is located. #medieval #medievaldeath @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1388 died John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville. He was buried at his own request in Durham Cathedral next to his first wife. He is still remembered today by this vandalised but partially restored tomb. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1126 died Bertrand of Comminges, bishop of Comminges. Quickly began his veneration as a saint. In the 15th c., this mausuleum was built, which is also the high altar of the church of Notre-Dame de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

Chancellor, Archbishop of Cologne, Duke of Lotharingia, Saint - #otd 965 Bruno of Saxony died. He was buried in the monastery of St Pantaleon, which he founded. This coffin in the crypt commemorates him today. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

The only completely preserved papal tomb north of the Alps: #otd 1047 Bishop Suitger of Bamberg died as Pope Clement II. In accordance with his wishes, he was buried in Bamberg, where he has lain in this tomb since the 13th century. #medieval @medievodons #medievaldeath Pic: WC

dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1184 died Agnes of Staufen, daughter of Emperor Barbarossa. She was the only child to be buried in the 'Emperor's Crypt' in Speyer. Today she lies in the penultimate coffin together with her mother Beatrix of Burgundy. #medieval #medievaldeath @medievodons @historikerinnen

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

"Here lies the king don Sancho who was killed over Zamora" #otd 1072, Sancho II of Castile and León was killed during the siege of the city of Zamora. His wooden coffin in the Monastery of San Salvador de Oña still bears witness to this. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 877 died Charles II ('the Bald') on his way over the Alps. Allegedly, the entourage couldn't stand the stench of his corpse, so he was buried in Nantua. In this depiction, however, he is buried in St Denis as planned. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons Ms: Châteauroux BM 05 (B 244) f 154

dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

A coffin for heart and entrails: #otd 1056 Emperor Henry III died. His body was buried in Speyer, the internal organs in Goslar, where they rest today in this stone coffin (13th c.). #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1369 Walter II of Hochschlitz, Bishop of Augsburg, died. His tomb slab has been preserved in Augsburg Cathedral. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1226 Francis of Assisi died in the chapel of Portiuncula outside Assisi. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Ms.: New York, Columbia University, Barnard College Library, MS 1 f. 211.

dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 829 emperor Michael II died. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Pic: Madrid, BNE, Codex Vitr. 26-2, f. 42r. Pic: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 8 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1310 died Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon. She was buried in the Couvent des Cordeliers de Champaigue near Souvigny, where this tomb commemorates her. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @historikerinnen

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dailymedievaldeath, 9 months ago to medievodons German

A Wittelsbach woman in Paris: #onthisday 1435 Isabeau de Bavière, wife of Charles VI of France, died. #medievaldeath #medieval @historikerinnen @medievodons

Ms.: BL Royal 20 C IX f. 96r

dailymedievaldeath, 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 855 Emperor Lothar I died. He was buried in Prüm Abbey. In 1874, this tomb was created with the financial support of emperor Wilhelm I. #medieval @medievodons #medievaldeath Pic: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1197 Emperor Henry VI died. He was initially buried in Messina, but was later interred in this porphyry coffin in Palermo Cathedral. #medieval # medievaldeath @medievodons @histodons

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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 medievodons 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 medievodons 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, 9 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1324 died Sancho of Majorca, called 'the Peaceful'. He was buried in the Cathedral of Perpignan, where his monument is today. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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The picture shows a tomb with a richly decorated reclining figure

dailymedievaldeath, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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 526 died Theodoric the Great, ruler of the combined Gothic realms. He was buried in the mausoleum (1) he built in Ravenna in a porphyry coffin (2). #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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A porphyry coffin

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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