#otd 1497 Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, died. She was buried in Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan). Her husband Ludovico Sforza had a double tomb sculpture made, but he died in captivity, the sculpture was placed in the Certosa di Pavia. #medievaldeath#medievaltwitter@medievodons P: WC
A treatment gone wrong: #otd 1387 Charles II, called 'the Bad', of Navarre died. He is said to have had himself stitched in wine-soaked cloths every evening to cure an illness. However, these caught fire... #medievaldeath#medievaltwitter@medievodons
"John, once Pope, the XXIII, he died in Florence in the year of our Lord 1419, on the eleventh day before the Kalends of January". #otd 1419 Baldassare Cossa, the former antipope John XXIII, died and was buried in Florence Cathedral. #medievaldeath#medievaltwitter@medievodons Pic..: WC
Pietro Lorenzetti, Last supper, Lower Church of St Francis of Assisi (14th c.). Wikipedia Commons (see note on the picture) #medievalcat#medievaltwitter
#otd (or tomorrow) 867 Michael III, Byzantine emperor, was murdered. His bones were transferred to the Church of the Apostles. #medievaldeath#medievaltwitter
Pic: Madrid, BNE, Codex Vitr. 26-2, f. 106v. Wikipedia Commons
Bock, Nils, Die Herolde im römisch-deutschen Reich: Studie zur adligen Kommunikation im späten Mittelalter (Mittelalter-Forschungen 49), Ostfildern 2015.