Kings & Emperors ⚜️

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[Perseus @PerseusLeGrand]

Nous devons tous travailler ensemble pour défendre le Beau.

L'enjeu de ce combat est si important.

[The Curious Voyager @CuriousVoyagerX]

Inside Vienna’s Baroque masterpiece — Where marble, gilded altars, and frescoes weave a luminous interior.

📍 St. Charles Church 🇦🇹

[The Medieval Scholar @MedievalScholar]

Miniature of the Battle of Nicopolis by Jean Colombe in 1475

[The Chivalry Guild @ChivalryGuild]

New statue of Scanderbeg was erected in Sicily in 2024. Sculptor: Gëzim Muriqi.

After the Turks suffered defeat after defeat to the great hero, they sued for peace. Scanderbeg declined. In a letter to the Turkish emissary he wrote:

“Let Mahomet as long as he will seek for peace; as for us, we will purchase our quietness by the sword, and having one gotten and attained it, we will by the sword likewise seek to maintain it … For my part I am your enemy, even by birth and by nativity, and the enmity which I bear you is hereditary. My desire is not so much to get me honor and reputation upon you, as to seek the just deserved revenge of the blood of my friends which you have shed, and of the bondage both of myself and my people the Albanians; and I am fully resolved never to make an end of these my travels, till such time as I have either restored my citizens to their ancient estate, or rendered this my life onto you, to whom it is so hateful.”

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

When were Southamerica's capitals founded?

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) with his English water dog Jakob Seisenegger, 1532 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

Infanta Margarita Teresa (1651-1673), Empress, in theatrical costume Jan Thomas, 1667 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

Ribeauvillé, France 🇫🇷

[Medieval Diesel @TimothyEveland]

You're going on a quest tonight.

Which helmet are you taking?

[Ozymandias𓆏 @0zmnds]

Karl Ruß
Emperor Maximilian I

[Roman History @romanhistory1]

🏛️Today 476AD Romulus Augustulus, last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Traditional end of the Western Roman Empire

[Kings & Emperors ⚜️ @kingemp990]

Jean II Le Maingre, known as Boucicaut (c.1366–1421), Marshal of France, embodied medieval chivalry: knighted at 16, crusader at Nicopolis, defender of Constantinople, governor of Genoa, founder of the Order of the White Lady, and captive at Agincourt.

[MaléficaReturns🏛️ @AliciaMimundo]

#Efemérides

Tal día como hoy, 1 de septiembre de 1715, fallece tras una larga agonía que durará 23 días y a los 76 años Luis XIV, el Rey Sol, en su residencia de Versalles (Francia).
La causa, una gangrena de Fournier, en el pie izquierdo. El 10 de agosto de ese año había salido a cazar y de regreso sintió un dolor intenso en su pierna. Su médico le diagnóstico una ciática, pero cuando aparecieron las temidas manchas negras se vio la gravedad. Aunque el rey continuó, pese a sus terribles dolores, con las labores propias de su condición, el 25 de agosto se vio obligado a guardar cama de la que ya no se levantaría.

Cuentan las crónicas que su pierna necrosada tenía tal pestilencia que hedía como si llevara seis meses muerto.

Su cadáver fue expuso durante ocho días en el Salón de Mercurio, donde su pueblo rindió homenaje y respeto al Rey Sol.

[Medieval Archives @MedievalArchive]

1308 - Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy

#medieval #theknightstemplar

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Henri Gissey, Louis XIV as Apollo, 1653. Pen, wash and gouache on paper, 167 × 260 mm. Collection: Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Paris.

The sheet records a teenage Louis XIV costumed as the sun god—an icon that would soon shape his public image. The drawing belongs to the political world of the Ballet Royal de la Nuit, first performed at the Salle du Petit‑Bourbon on 23 February 1653. Structured as four “watches” of the night that ran until sunrise, the production lasted around thirteen hours and comprised some forty‑five entrées; Louis appeared at daybreak as Apollo.

Why Apollo? In early 1653 France was emerging from the Fronde, and the young king needed a public language of order. What better role than the bringer of light who ends the terrors of the night? Contemporary and later commentators made the connection explicit: Louis’s appearance as the Rising Sun in the 1653 ballet became a cornerstone of his “Roi‑Soleil” persona and served as a preview of the cultural politics that would define his long reign.

The baller‑king’s passion for dance had lasting institutional effects. Louis performed leading roles until around age thirty and, once he began ruling personally, established a royal academy of dance, laying groundwork for the Paris Opéra. The Apollo guise did not remain confined to the stage: it migrated into the sculptural and garden programs at Versailles, where the monarch’s solar identity governed the arts of state.

[Kings & Emperors ⚜️ @kingemp990]

Hermann von Salza (1170–1239) 4th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order ⚔️, transformed a small German hospitaller brotherhood into a powerful military order, serving as mediator 🤝 between Emperor Frederick II 🦅 and the Pope ✝️, and laying the foundations of the Teutonic State 🏰.

[John Hanifin @JohnHanifi21831]

Clovis, the first unified King of the Franks

[Memory Medieval @MemoryMedieval]

Immaculate drip

[Memory Medieval @MemoryMedieval]

Malbork Castle, home of the Teutonic Knights.

Poland