LSP Medieval 2D Art The Historic Lords Project (Volume 2 Released)

[matmohair1]

Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha

finally, my all time medieval hero is alive & kicking!
btw, I like your choice of equipment & props.

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Gilles De Rais

Bluebeard!

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Tamerlane

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http://****-k.narod.ru/Historical_Arts/Army_of_Timur/Army_of_Timur_01.jpg
http://****-k.narod.ru/Historical_Arts/Army_of_Timur/Army_of_Timur_03.jpg
http://****-k.narod.ru/Historical_Arts/Army_of_Timur/Army_of_Timur_05.jpg

Note : "In "The Age of Tamerlane", David Nicolle recalls that
Tamerlane used a bull head mace on the battlefield and that it was his weapon of choice."

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[thick1988]

Gilles De Rais

The prolific serial killer of children... 

 

[matmohair1]

either he's innocent, or they probably fell for that harmless looking swan!

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[thick1988]

We will never know 

 

[FinnishKnight]

Yep what did you think of the suggestions of Krum the Horibble And Torsten Stålhandske, thick1988?

 

[thick1988]

Krum the Horrible looks like a good one.

Do you have any more pictures of Torsten Stålhandske? Or at least armor similar to what he was wearing in his prime?

 

[Thane_of_Dhirim]

Hey there, I decided to put some suggestion of Croatian nobles ,
Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic

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[FinnishKnight]

Krum the Horrible looks like a good one.

Do you have any more pictures of Torsten Stålhandske? Or at least armor similar to what he was wearing in his prime?

Yup

  I think hes in the middle

He did not wear any specific armor but he was a badass he did not lose a single battle in 14 years

 

[thick1988]

Cool thanks, I'll put him in armor that is something similar to this:

Hey there, I decided to put some suggestion of Croatian nobles ,
Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic

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I really like his armor style and this is a great resource picture. Thanks!

 

[FinnishKnight]

Cool thanks, I'll put him in armor that is something similar to this:

Hey there, I decided to put some suggestion of Croatian nobles ,
Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic

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I really like his armor style and this is a great resource picture. Thanks!

Yup hope you get his badass facial hair to him

 

[Thane_of_Dhirim]

Hey there, I decided to put some suggestion of Croatian nobles ,
Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic

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I really like his armor style and this is a great resource picture. Thanks!

Haha I am really glad I will try to find more of them ( but it would be difficult, there are not many pictures of them).

 

[matmohair1]

Tommaso Morosini - Venetian admiral

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Sultan Murad IV (1612 – 1640)  - http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2010/arts-of-the-islamic-world-l10223/lot.65.html

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Note: Sultan Mustafa II ( 1664 – 1703) is sometimes depicted in a similar manner
- Mustafa's other armor set is included for reference & comparison

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[Antonio97]

wow, Alfonso VIII loooks great!

 

[Al_Mansur]

@ Thick, indeed, and your version of Edward I is better than the one I posted. Btw, can you post the source you used for him ?

@ Matmo, awesome sources as always

 

[thick1988]

Thanks, also thanks for new sorces everyone, tgere is no shortage of historical figures, thats for sure.

In regards to image of Edward I that I used, Im currently on my iPhone near Mexico without computer access, i cant figure how to copy image urls lol. But the inspiration was mostly from the seal of Edward I. I then added the coat of arms to the surcoat based of art by Graham Turners Battle of Evesham.

 

[thick1988]

Count Floris V of Holland and Zeeland (24 June 1254 – 27 June 1296), "der Keerlen God" (God of the Peasants), is one of the most important figures of the first, native dynasty of Holland (833–1299). His life was documented in detail in the Rijmkroniek by Melis Stoke, his chronicler. He is credited with a mostly peaceful reign, modernizing administration, policies beneficial to trade, generally acting in the interests of his peasants at the expense of nobility, and reclaiming land from the sea. His dramatic murder engineered by King Edward I of England and Guy de Dampierre, count of Flanders, made him a hero in Holland.

He was the son of Count William II (1227–1256), who was elected King of the Romans of the Holy Roman Empire in 1248, and was slain in 1256 by Frisians when Floris was just two years old. First his uncle (Floris de Voogd from 1256 to 125, then his aunt (Adelaide of Holland from 1258 to 1263) fought over custody of Holland. At the battle of Reimerswaal on 22 January 1263, Count Otto II, Count of Guelders defeated Aleidis and was chosen regent by the nobles who opposed Aleidis.

Otto II served as Floris V's guardian until he was twelve years old (1266) and considered capable of administering Holland himself. Floris’s mother (Elisabeth) continued to reside in Holland after her husband’s death in 1256. She died May 27, 1266 and is buried in Middelburg abbey church. She died in the same year that Count Floris V was declared old enough to rule without guardianship, on July 10, 1266.

Floris was supported by the count of Hainaut of the house of Avesnes who was an archenemy of the count of Flanders of the house of Dampierre. Floris married Beatrix of Dampierre, the daughter of Guy of Dampierre, count of Flanders, in 1269.

In 1272 he unsuccessfully attacked the Frisians in a first attempt to retrieve the body of his father. In 1274 he faced an uprising by nobles led by the powerful lords Gijsbrecht IV of Amstel, Zweder of Abcoude, Arnoud of Amstel, and Herman VI van Woerden, who held lands on the border with the adjacent bishopric of Utrecht (the area of Amsterdam, Abcoude, IJsselstein, and Woerden) at the expense of the bishop. Gijsbrecht and Herman were supported by the craftsmen of Utrecht, the peasants of Kennemerland (Alkmaar, Haarlem, and surroundings), Waterland (north of Amsterdam) and Amstelland (Amsterdam and surroundings) and the West Frisians. He assisted the weak bishop, John I of Nassau, by making a treaty with the craftsmen. The bishop would become dependent on Hollands support, and eventually added the lands of the rebellious lords to Holland in 1279. He gave concessions to the peasants of Kennemerland. Kennemerland was a duneland, where the farmers had far fewer rights than the farmers in the polders. Floris got rid of the Avesnes influence and switched allegiance to the Dampierres.

In 1282 he again attacked the troublesome Frisians in the north, defeating them at the battle of Vronen, and succeeded in retrieving the body of his father. After a campaign in 1287–1288 he finally defeated the Frisians. In the meantime he had received Zeeland-bewester-Schelde (the area that controls access to the Scheldt river) as a loan from the Holy Roman King in 1287, but the local nobility sided with the count of Flanders who invaded in 1290. Floris arranged a meeting with count Guy of Flanders, but he was taken prisoner in Biervliet and was forced to abandon his claims and then set free.

Floris immediately wanted to resume war, but King Edward I of England, who had an interest in access to the great rivers for wool and other English goods, convinced Floris to stop hostilities with Flanders. When in 1292 Floris claimed the throne of Scotland in the Great Cause, (his great-grandmother Ada being the sister of King William I of Scotland) he did not receive the expected support from Edward, but England did support his claims in a new, this time more successful, war on Flanders.

After Edward I moved his trade in wool from Dordrecht in Holland to Mechelen in Brabant, to gain Flanders's support against France, Floris switched sides to France in 1296. Edward I now prohibited all English trade with Holland and conspired with Guy of Flanders to have Floris kidnapped and taken to France. The humiliated lords Gijsbrecht IV of Amstel and Herman of Woerden enter the scene again as part of the conspiracy. Together with Gerard van Velsen they captured Floris during a hunting party and brought him to Muiderslot castle. The news of the capture spread quickly; afraid of the people, four days later the lords together with their captive left the castle to get to a safer place. They were stopped by an angry mob of local peasants. In panic Gerard of Velzen killed the count, and the lords fled. Gerard of Velzen was captured later and killed in Leiden. The other conspirators fled to Brabant, Flanders and perhaps to Prussia, to which many colonists and crusaders from Holland migrated.

The life and death of Floris V inspired songs, plays, and books in the Netherlands. Best known is the play "Gijsbrecht van Aemstel" by 17th century playwright and poet Joost van den Vondel, which is about the sacking of Amsterdam in the days after the death of Floris V.

The nickname "God of the Peasants" was introduced after his death in the nobility, and was originally intended to be an insult. He earned the name because he behaved "as if he were the Good Lord himself with his peasants". He apparently knighted 40 peasants as members of the Order of St. James without permission of the church, provoking the anger of the church and of the 12 existing noble members of that knightly order. This story has no historical basis, just like another story that claims that Gerard of Velzen participated in the conspiracy because Floris supposedly raped his wife. What is certain is that Floris was remembered as a saint by the peasants of Holland, and that the "God of the Peasants" became a symbolic hero in the struggle for independence from Spain in the Eighty Years' War (1568–164.

 

[Al_Mansur]

Great !

 

[Thane_of_Dhirim]

Nice

 

[FrisianDude]

huh. I'd have thought 'der keerlen God' would mean 'the man of god' rather than 'god of the men(/peasants)'. Wiki sez otherwise, though.

 

[FinnishKnight]

The guy from floris expanded?