Jacques de Molay. Grand Master of the Knights Templar. Jacques de Molay, also Jacob de Molay and Jacobus of Molay (1244-1250 -1314) was the twenty-third and last Grand Master of… Read More
Jacques de Molay. Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
Category: Middle Ages
Middle Ages costumes and fashion. Period between 700 to 15th century. Style of Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance.
Frankish warrior clothing in the 5th century
Frankish warrior clothing in the 5th century. Merovingian. Costume d’un guerrier franc du 5ème siècle.
John Wycliffe (1330-1384) and the Dawn of the Reformation.
John Wyclif, also Wicklyf, Wicliffe, Wiclef, Wycliff, Wycliffe, called Doctor evangelicus, was an English philosopher, theologian and church reformer.
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. English magnate, military and rebel.
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March was an English magnate, military and rebel. After the fall of King Edward II in 1326, he was the real regent of England until he himself was overthrown and executed in 1330.
Harold II. Last Anglo-Saxon king of England.
King Harold II (1020 -1066). Last Anglo-Saxon king of England. Killed at the Battle of Hastings.
Alfred the Great. King of the West Saxons. The first English king.
Alfred was not called “the Great” until the Reformation in the 16th century. He is the only king in English history to have received this byname.
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170.
Thomas Becket (* 21 December 1118 in Cheapside, London; † 29 December 1170 in Canterbury), also known as Thomas of Canterbury, was Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170.
Richard I the Lionheart. Cœur de Lion. Third son of King Henry II.
Richard I in French Cœur de Lion, actually Richard Plantagenet; was from 1189 to his death King of England. From 1172 to the year of his coronation was Richard Duke of Aquitaine. Then he held the title of Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou.
Knight in armor of the second crusade.
Knight in armor of the second crusade 1145–1149.
Kriemhild at Siegfried’s Bier. The Nibelungenlied. Medieval epic.
KRIEMHILD, daughter of Dancrat and sister of Gunther, King of Burgundy.
She first married Siegfried, King of the Netherlanders, who was murdered by Hagan.
