PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoCatholic crusader Simon de Montfort getting brained by a stone from a siege engine at the Siege of Toulouse against Cathar hereticsNSFWlemmy.worldimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up173arrow-down1imageCatholic crusader Simon de Montfort getting brained by a stone from a siege engine at the Siege of Toulouse against Cathar hereticsNSFWlemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
For bonus points, the siege engine in question was supposedly operated by the women of the town. REKT
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-22 days agoThis illustration is of the previous Simon de Montfort - that one’s father. Bad luck would seem to run in the family.
minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 days agoThe 6th Earl of Leicester was responsible for ethnic cleansing of English Jews, and his father depicted here had a key role in slaughtering the Cathars in Languedoc as you’ve mentioned in the title, so maybe what goes around comes around?
minus-squaregreenshirtdenimjeanslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoDamn! I was actually gonna ask about that because the wikipedia said he died by getting stabbed in the neck. Bad luck is right.
This illustration is of the previous Simon de Montfort - that one’s father. Bad luck would seem to run in the family.
The 6th Earl of Leicester was responsible for ethnic cleansing of English Jews, and his father depicted here had a key role in slaughtering the Cathars in Languedoc as you’ve mentioned in the title, so maybe what goes around comes around?
Damn! I was actually gonna ask about that because the wikipedia said he died by getting stabbed in the neck. Bad luck is right.