Catholic crusader Simon de Montfort getting brained by a stone from a siege engine at the Siege of Toulouse against Cathar heretics NSFW

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PugJesus@piefed.social · 14 pts · 305d

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

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 304d (4 replies)

In case anyone is worried, I looked it up and you can sleep soundly: Mr. de Montfort survived the Siege of Toulouse, despite the concerning-looking injury. He lived quite the full and happy life, it seems, until the admittedly unfortunate "lance to the neck" incident put a bit of a damper on things.

PugJesus@piefed.social · 14 pts · 304d (3 replies)
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 304d (2 replies)

Update: scratch what I said. He died, y'all. Injury was just as bad as it looks, it turns out.

massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 9 pts · 304d (1 reply)

So it wasn't a flesh wound after all...

flueterflam@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 304d

It was... he just lost the head-butting ability afterward!

Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 5 pts · 304d

Take that, papist!

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 5 pts · 304d

It was a trebuchet! Oh my god, finally! What a lucky guy that was! Smashed by the finest of all siege engines! 💖

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangonel

Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 304d

Based siege engineer!

JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 4 pts · 304d

This guy is gonna need PTSD treatment

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d (1 reply)

medieval live leak

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d

Of a Medieval life leak.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d

These poor things: