A large dagger with a crystaline hilt and a set of by-knives, Burgundian or German, made ca. 1490, rehilted ca. 1550, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmusuem, Vienna.
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Burgundian fashion aesthetics study.
Small studies to get the feel of particular style for future drawings. It`s not super accurate depiction, just an artistic expression.
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Burgundian, Virgin and Child, c. 1390-1400 x
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Day 30: Canon Divergence AU
If the day ever comes when Gendry would rather wield a sword than forge one, send him to me. He has the look of a warrior.
Lord Eddard is able to escape the city with his daughters and any of Robert's bastards he can find. Gendry becomes one of Winterfell's guards and Arya's sworn shield. He remains a rather poor horsemen though.
Part 2
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Some nations and their birth/death date
- Britannia : born around 800BCE (beginning of British Iron Age); died around 500CE, but she had been getting weaker ever since Rome's forces left.
- Rome : born in 753BCE (Rome's fonding); died in 476CE, for obvious reasons
- Gaul (celtic) : born around 700BCE (between the Halstatt and La Tène cultures); died not long after the Gallic wars in 52BCE
- Germania : born around 750BCE (Nordic Iron Age) died not long after Rome's fall
- Frankish Kingdom/Empire: died in 843 (Treaty of Verdun), son of Germania
- Burgundian Kingdom/State: died in 1482 (end of the Burgundian War of Succession), daughter of Germania
- Frisian Kingdom: died 1523 (end or Frisian Freedom after a failed Frisian rebellion), son of Germania (and is either the biological or the adopted father of the Low Countries (or at least the Netherlands))
- France: born shortly before the Gallic Wars, son of Gaul
- England: born around 500 CE (first Anglo-Saxon kingdoms), he would fully become his "own" in 927 with the Kingdom of England, son of Britannia
- Spain: born somewhere during the Roman era, son of Rome
- Portugal: same as Spain, but earlier, son of Rome
- Netherlands: born shortly before the Roman conquest of Gaul (Belgae), son of idk who yet
- HRE: born in 486CE, when the Franks beat the Soissons Domain; died 1806 for obvious reasons, son of the Frankish Kingdom
- Middle Francia/Lotharingia: born in 843CE (Treaty of Verdun); died either 958CE (division of the Kingdom of Lotharingia) or 1190CE (Lower Lotharingia lost its territorial authority), daughter of the Frankish Kingdom
- Austrasia & Neustria: born in 511CE, died in 751CE, those boys were literally twins and they started the tradition of ✨️fratricide✨️ in the family (later carried on by France killing HRE), sons of the Frankish Kingdom
- Prussia: born 1226CE (creation of the State of the Teutonic Order)/born 1th century CE if we consider him an Old Prussian (Baltic tribe), son of how do I know
- Germany: born...1806(Confederation of the Rhine), 1815(German Confederation), 1866 (North German Confederation) or 1871 (Proclamation of the Reich)
Or he's HRE according to some... I don't know he's complicated...
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I’ve found the stuff you’ve talked about as regards fashion in Thedas super interesting! On that note, if there any thoughts you have about things characters would wear or you think would be interesting for them to wear whether of your ocs or of canon characters, I’d be very interested.
put those frenchwomen in hennins (the funky headdresses) right now. i also think they should dress more like this in general tbh like stop doing whatever you’re doing and put a burgundian dress on
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A lovely Pollaxe with a pierced blade,
OaL: 81.9 in/208 cm
Blade Length: 12.5 in/31.8 cm
Width: 8.25 in/21 cm
Weight: 5.4 lbs/2466.4 g
Burgundy, ca. 1450, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Nice thing about being both a fantasy writer and a horrible little HEMA gremlin is that even if you don’t know how to use the specific weapon you’re writing about, you know where to find a manual that’ll tell you.
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Sorry if it's obvious, but I admit I'm a bit confused on there being both Dukes of Burgundy and also Counts of Burgundy and what's the difference?
Because the medieval border region between France and the HRE can't ever be straightforward and rational, there was both a Duchy and a County of Burgundy. And to make matters more confusing, they were right next to each other:
The most significant political difference between them is that the Duchy of Burgundy was part of the Kingdom of France (although they didn't always agree on that) and the County of Burgundy (better known as the Free County or the Franche-Comté) was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
However, and this is an example of how complicated medieval politics could get, both Burgundies were in personal union under the House of Valois-Burgundy, and thus were part of the Burgundian State that Charles the Bold very much wanted to make the core of his revived, independent, and coequal Kingdom of Burgundy. It didn't work out thanks to the Swiss pikemen and the treacherous Hapsburgs, but it came very close to becoming a thing.
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