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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to historikerinnen 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 historikerinnen 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 historikerinnen 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

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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 histodons 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.

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1091 died bishop Altmann of Passau. This shrine in Göttweig Abbey contains his remains. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons
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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to histodons German

Death of the Lion. #Otd 1195 Henry ‘the Lion’ died. In Brunswick Cathedral is the monument for him and his wife Mathilde, the coffins of the couple are in the crypt. #medieval #medievaldeath @medievodons @histodons Pics.: Wikipedia Commons.

Crypt with three stone coffins

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 642 died Oswald, King of Northumbria. He was soon venerated as a saint, making his remains relics. Parts of his skull are in this head reliquary (12th c) in Hildesheim. #medieval @medievodons #medievaldeath

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to histodons German

"The head of the Earl of Leicester [...] was severed from his body, and his testicles cut off and hung on either side of his nose." (Arnold FitzThedmar). #Otd 1265 died Simon V de Montfort in the battle of Evesham. #medievaldeath #Medieval @histodons @medievodons BL Cotton MS Nero D II f. 177r

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 998 Bishop Hildebold of Worms died. He was buried in the now destroyed collegiate monastery of St. Cyriakus in Worms-Neuhausen. Johann F. Schannat (18th c.) was still able to view the grave and drew the grave slab. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to histodons German

Who shot ya? William II - killed by an arrow during a hunting trip with his pals (#otd 1100). Les Grandes chroniques de France (1332-1350),
BL, MS Royal 16 G VI fol. 272r. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to histodons German

Gaston III de Foix died #otd 1391 suddenly when he washed his hands in cold water after hunting on a hot day. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

Ms.: BL Harley 4379 (1470/72) fol. 126

dailymedievaldeath, 10 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1358, Étienne Marcel was overpowered and killed with most of his followers. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Pic: BNF, ms. Français 2643, f. 230r.

dailymedievaldeath, 11 months ago to histodons German

#otd 1303 died Tommaso Andrei, bishop of the diocese of Pistoia. He was buried in his birthplace and his tomb in the collegiate church of Santa Maria Assunta in Casole d'Elsa was created by the Sienese sculptor Gano di Fazio. #MedievalDeath #medieval @histodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons

dailymedievaldeath, 11 months ago to histodons German

Alleged blood transfusion, mysterious inscriptions that re-date voyages of discovery and a possibly empty tomb - #otd 1492 Pope Innocent VIII died. This installation in St Peter commemorates him. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 11 months ago to medievodons German

#otd 1100 died Godfrey of Bouillon. He was buried in the tomb of the Cretan kings in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons

Ms.: BNF Français 2824, fol. 57r.

dailymedievaldeath, 11 months ago to medievodons German

"Therefore we go to Speyer to the other buried kings!"? Really? #otd 1291 King Rudolf I died in Speyer - chroniclers writing later report that he travelled to this place especially to die. #medievaldeath #Medieval @medievodons @histodons

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dailymedievaldeath, 11 months ago to histodons German

#otd 1024 Emperor Henry II died. He was buried in Bamberg and has been resting in the marble high tomb created by Tilman Riemenschneider since the 15th century. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons @histodons

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