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Catholic crusader Simon de Montfort getting brained by a stone from a siege engine at the Siege of Toulouse against Cathar heretics (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations

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For bonus points, the siege engine in question was supposedly operated by the women of the town. REKT

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[–] PugJesus 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This illustration is of the previous Simon de Montfort - that one's father. Bad luck would seem to run in the family.

[–] egrets 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Damn! I was actually gonna ask about that because the wikipedia said he died by getting stabbed in the neck. Bad luck is right.