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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Martin Luther, 1483–1546. Lucas Cranach the elder who d. #otd 16 Oct 1553 (Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives) Cranach, a close friend of the ex-Augustinian Luther, painted this in 1525, the year of Martin's marriage to the former Cistercian nun Katharina von Bora.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Final reminder about Lyndal Roper's talk on Thursday at the @ihrscb.bsky.social on 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. Register here for in-person or online attendance: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Professor Lyndal Roper will speak on ‘Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6’. She holds the Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford. Her most recent publications include Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War (2025), Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy (2021) and Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (2012).

Lyndal Roper’s talk will be preceded by a brief session marking Michael Hunter’s retirement from active involvement with the seminar. This will commemorate Michael’s inauguration of the seminar in 1979 in conjunction with the late Bob Scribner and its continuous existence since its revival in 1987, when one of its co-founders was Lyndal Roper.

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Couldn't make the lecture so really enjoyed this by Lyndal Roper: about the Peasants' War, but also about popular history writing and why it needs to be more creative and less constrained by chronological narrative www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWPM...

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Regius Valedictory Lecture: Telling Stories: History, Narrative, and the German Peasants’ War, 1525

YouTube video by Faculty of History | University of Oxford

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists. Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website: germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk #skystorians

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Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants' War

The the first-ever attempt to quantify and map the full destruction of religious houses during the German Peasants' War (1525-26).

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

It's launch day! We're at the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference in Bristol to share our work on Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants War. Ours is the first-ever attempt to quantify and map the full destruction of monastic houses during the war. #skystorians

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Our team is all set to launch our Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants’ War project at the Society for Renaissance Studies conference tomorrow. We can’t wait to share with you what we’ve been working on for the last year-and-a-bit! Come see us in panel 2.4

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Friday, 23 June 1525: Battle of Pfeddersheim Elector Ludwig’s troops deploy near Pfeddersheim, opening fire on the town’s defenses, though the exchange with the rebels is indecisive. #histsky #skystorians #Reformation #earlymodern

Pfeddersheim in 1655, from Matthäus Merian's Topographia Hassiae via Wikimedia Commons

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Charlotte Gauthier @faraiunvers.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Very much looking forward to talking about our @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social project at the SRS conference next week. See you in Bristol, if you’ll be there!

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Monday, 5 June 1525 (Pfingstmontag) Peasants threaten the Töß convent outside Winterthur. The clever diplomacy of the city council and the Töß nuns manages to steer the angry crowd into getting drunk instead. The peasants return home the next morning. #histsky

The peasants storm Töß, from a copy of Heinrich Bullinger's Reformation Chronicle

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Tuesday, 30 May 1525 Martin Luther defends himself against the accusation many in Magdeburg are making that Luther is a flatterer of the princes. Luther has published a pamphlet entitled 'Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants'. #histsky #skystorians

Title page of Luther's pamphlet, Wider die Mordischen vnd Räubischen Rotten der Bawren, Nürnberg 1525

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Tuesday, 30 May 1525 The prelates of the collegiate churches of Our Lady and St. Severus in Erfurt write to Cardinal Albrecht asking for support in ensuring that the clergy of the city may petition the council for the restoration of their church and property.

The Marienaltar (1510) from St Severus, Erfurt. Photo by Erwin Meier via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Saturday, 27 May 1525 Thomas Müntzer is beheaded outside the gates of the city of Mühlhausen, his body impaled, and his head placed on a spike. #histsky #skystorians #Reformation

19th century depiction of Thomas Müntzer being led to his execution.

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Sat, 27 May 1525 Peasants attack Adersleben Convent near Wegeleben, where they allegedly beat & torture the nuns until they hand over the keys and church property. Peasants take the monstrance, chalices, church furnishings, and supplies, and drive away livestock.

Part of the former nunnery at Adersleben, now abandoned. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Thursday, 25 May 1525 (Christi Himmelfahrt/Ascension Day) Miners and peasants in the Gastein Valley rise up and march to Salzburg, where they plunder the archbishop’s residence and force him to retreat to his castle Hohensalzburg. #skystorians #histsky

Woodcut of Salzburg c. 1460 showing the Prince-Archbishop's residence by Johann Wolgemut, via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Thursday, 25 May 1525 (Christi Himmelfahrt/Ascension Day) Reports say that 300 peasants gather at the Augustinian monastery of St. Zeno in Reichenhall. #histsky #skystorians #Reformation

A 16th century drawing of St Zeno's monastery Reichenhall by Philipp Apian, from the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München, via Wikimedia Commons

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André Krischer @andrekrischer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

For details please cf. verlag-regionalkultur.de/presse/3D/3D...

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Tues, 23 May 1525 The Count Palatine breaks into Bruchrain with 1,800 cavalry and 4,500 foot soldiers. He attacks Malsch, the main base of the uprising, and burns it down. All the villages are plundered and their herds taken. #histsky #skystorians

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Tuesday, 23 May 1525 Hans Müller and his 12,000 peasants take possession of Freiburg, forcing the city to capitulate and enter into a so-called “Christian Union to establish common public peace and eradicate the unfair grievances of the common poor man". #histsky

A view of Freiburg from the 1555 French edition of the Cosmographia, woodcut by Sebastian Münster (1488-1552).

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Sunday, 21 May 1525 The Duke of Lorraine’s army crushes the peasant uprising between Saverne and Sélestat.

Painting of Antoine 'the Good', duke of Lorraine, by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1543. Via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Sunday, 21 May 1525 - Execution of Jäcklein Rohrbach Jäcklein Rohrbach is bound to a stake with iron chains, with a large fire built around him, on the orders of Georg Truchsess von Waldburg. #skystorians #histsky #Reformation

The execution of Jäcklein Rohrbach from Peter Harrer's 1551 Beschreibung des Bauernkriegs. Image via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Saturday, 20 May 1525 The abbess and convent of Marienhausen (Aulhausen) are forced to issue a declaration stating that from now on, no new members will be accepted, and the convent is to die out, with its property in the Rheingau passing to the general community.

Marienhausen in 2014. Photo by Marion Halft via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Thursday, 18 May 1525 The Poor Clares of Alspach near Kaysersberg demand large sums from the town of Ribeauvillé and from all the villages in the lordship whose residents had participated in the siege of Kaysersberg. (See 13 May) #histsky #skystorians #Reformation

The remains of Alspach convent in 2008. Photo by Paul Eigner via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Wed 17 May 1525 Bartel Foster, imprisoned on suspicion of involvement in the War, writes to the Zwickau Council stating his commitment to the Twelve Articles and that according to God’s word, the powerful will always oppose the truth, but the poor will stand firm.

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Tuesday, 16 May 1525 The peasants of the Breisgau region rise in support of the rebellion, except the towns of Breisach, Freiburg, and Waldkirch. The peasants march towards Freiburg to seize it by force. #histsky #skystorians

Freiburg im Breisgau 1644, engraving by Matthäus Merian, via Wikimedia Commons

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Duwamish @poilu.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

@germanpeasantswar.bsky.social Not to steal your thunder, but #OTD in 16 May 1525 a deal was struck for occupying peasant bands to surrender #Saverne (Zabern). Apparently one of the peasants lipped off about Luther. It did not go well. And estimated 18K were killed.

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Martin Conway introducing Lyndal Roper's valedictory lecture "Telling Stories" on the Peasants War. #Earlymodern 🗃️

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Monday, 15 May 1525: The Battle of Frankenhausen On May 15, the Hessian-Braunschweig army joins forces with the Albertine army, outnumbering the 8,000 unmounted peasants armed with tools and some limited weaponry... #histsky #skystorians #Reformation #earlymodern

The Battle of Frankenhausen from the panoramic painting 'Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany' (German: Frühbürgerliche Revolution in Deutschland) by East German painter Werner Tübke, executed from 1976 to 1987 and housed in a purpose-built structure in Frankenhausen.

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Sunday, 14 May 1525 In Würzburg, residents complain they are poorly protected and fear sudden attacks near St. Burkhard’s estates. The council discusses and decides to wall up a gate recently built by the Wiesenfelders and the choir of St. Burkhard for safety.

St Burkhard's Abbey c. 1490 with the fortress of Marienberg in the background, via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Saturday, 13 May 1525 Fearing that the Cistercian monastery of Kirschgarten near Worms could become a stronghold for rebels, Worms citizens occupy it, looting and destroying everything they can. #histsky #earlymodern #skystorians #Reformation

Worms, coloured woodcut of 1576 after Georg Braun; Frans Hogenberg: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Band 1, 1572 (Ausgabe Beschreibung vnd Contrafactur der vornembster Stät der Welt, Köln 1582; [VD16-B7188) Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/braun1582bd1

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants War Friday, 12 May 1525: The Battle of Boblingen The peasants of Böblingen gather to discuss their next steps, after their moderate leader Matern Feuerbacher is replaced by the more aggressive knight Schenk von Winterstetten.

The Peasants' War in Böblingen by artist Lutz Ackermann, via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Friday 12 May 1525 Thomas Müntzer arrives in Frankenhausen with ±300 men from Mühlhausen. He writes a torrent of brilliant abuse to Count Ernst of Mansfeld and Count Albrecht of Mansfeld, the Lutheran count who had tried to avoid taking sides against the peasants.

Statue to Müntzer in Mühlhausen, image taken in 2007 by Michael Sander. Via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War: Thursday, 11 May 1525 A group of ±200 from the Helle Haufen attempt to attack Rothenburg, demanding grain from its institutions. They withdraw only after Hans Metzler of Brethain, the army’s commander, climbs the town wall and orders them to stop. #histsky

The town walls of Rothenburg in 2011. Via Wikimedia Commons.

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Weds, 10 May 1525 Elector Ludwig of the Palatinate meets in the forest near Neustadt with the leaders of a peasant group determined to “root out” the clergy and nobility. He promises to summon a diet to address their complaints, while advising them to disperse.

Elector Ludwig, from a 1540 image via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

OTD in the German Peasants' War Tuesday, 9 May 1525 South of the Brenner, the Peasants’ War begins with the violent rescue of Peter Pässler, who was to be executed for repeatedly violating a fishing ban. In Brixen, homes of the clergy and nobility are looted, as is Neustift Monastery. #histsky

A 2007 photo of Neustift Brixen, via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Monday, 8 May 1525 Peasants begin to withdraw from Dinkelsbühl and join forces with the Kies peasants, who previously overpowered Oettingen and captured the local counts. Tomorrow they will attack and plunder the wealthy Benedictine monastery at Auhausen. #histsky

An 1818 drawing of the Benedictine abbey of Auhausen, scanned from MS HV Eichstätt 1969-70, vor S. 49

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Sunday, 7 May 1525 Peasants plan to march to the monastery at Heidenheim. Margrave Casimir and Count Ludwig the Elder confront them with a strong force – around 400 cavalry and 500 foot soldiers. They scatter the peasants, killing many, driving others into flight.

Heisenheim Monastery in 2003. Photo by Peter Liesenfeld via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants War Fri 5 May 1525 Peasants raid Reinsdorf monastery. A local official later says ±300 peasants desecrated the Holy Sacrament, seized monstrances, chalices, vestments, liturgical books, household items & supplies, dividing up the loot and distributing it in the villages

The former monastery church of Reinsdorf in 2010. Photo by Michael Sander via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Friday, 5 May 1525 The council of Merseburg hopes to avoid conceding to the peasants and believes a modest reply might satisfy them. Things don’t go as planned. Pressure mounts, and in the end, they have no choice but to give in. #histsky #skystorians #Reformation

Woodcut of Merseburg in 1650 by Matthäus Merian the elder. Via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Thursday, 4 May 1525 The council of Themar writes to Georg Delhut saying they have occupied the monasteries of Veßra and Trostadt and found 20 bushels (Malter) of grain there, which they will send to the peasant camp together with the monastery dishware. #histsky

Trostadt monastery in 2008, via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Thurs, 4 May 1525 Peasants seize Schillingsfürst Castle by tricking the gatekeeper, allowing them to enter & overpower the defenders. They plunder it, hold a local fair, and later burn it, orchestrating the whole thing from the Frankenhain village tavern. #histsky

The castle as rebuilt after the Peasants' War, from the 17th-century Topographia Franconiae of Matthäus Merian

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Wednesday, 3 May 1525 Landgrave Philipp of Hesse leads a small force to attack the peasant army at Frauenberg, near Fulda. The peasants, outnumbered and unprepared, are overwhelmed; ca. 1,500 are captured. Many perish in the castle ditch. #histsky #skystorians

The 1534 panel painting by Hans Krell depicts a half-length portrait of the hessen Landgrave Philipp the Magnanimous (1504-1567) as a young man. The courtly attire consists of a black overcloak, a decorated, yellow doublet and dark head-attire. [...] A large hessen coat-of-arms is positioned at the top right. [Exhib. Cat. Eisenach 1996, No. 239]

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War: Wednesday, 3 May 1525 Martin Luther visits Weimar. Duke Johann, the Elector’s brother, asks for his opinion on the situation. Luther insists the peasants must be suppressed and rejects any negotiation or acceptance of the 12 Articles. #histsky #skystorians

Martin Luther in 1528 by Lucas Cranach. Via Wikimedia Commons.

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War: Tuesday, 2 May 1525 The Markgräfler plunder the Hospitaller commandery at Heitersheim. The Breisgau peasants, led by Gregorius Müller, join them, and together they lay siege to Neuenburg on the Rhine, forcing the town to join the alliance. #skystorians #histsky

A (probably 18th century) engraving of Schloss Heitersheim. Via Wikimedia Commons.

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War: Tuesday, 2 May 1525 - a day of widespread violence The peasants of Krailsheim march from Gerbertshausen to Kirchberg, breaking into Anhausen, Sulz, Lobenhausen, and Hornberg monasteries. They force the nobleman Kaspar of Krailsheim to march with them. 1/ #histsky

The ruins of Anhausen monastery - a small section of wall with some statues in niches sitting in the middle of a field - in 2011. Via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Monday, 1 May 1525 (St Walpurga's Day) The Cistercian monastery of Walkenried falls to the peasants. The abbot writes to Georg of Saxony that that he and his brothers have had to flee. #skystorians #histsky #earlymodern #Reformation

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Monday, 1 May 1525 (St Walpurga's Day) The 'Helle Haufen', subjects of the Teutonic Knights of Beuggen, storm and plunder the Teutonic commandery. The Servite monastery of Schöntal near Langenbruck in the Basel area is plundered. #skystorians #earlymodern

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War: Saturday, 29 April 1525 When Count Palatine Friedrich II approaches Plankstetten Abbey (which had been stormed by the peasants on 23 April), the Mässinger Haufen set fire to the monastery. #skystorians #earlymodern #Reformation

Plankstetten Abbey in 2011, photograph by Klaus Graf via Wikimedia Commons

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Tuesday, 25 April 1525 The clerics of Erfurt complain the Council has taken all the chalices, their silver and gold jewellery, clasps, choir caps and other regalia, together with all the cash, letters, seals, invoices, registers and other items from the monastery.

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

#OTD in the German Peasants' War Monday, 24 April 1525 At around 9pm, the nunnery at Haydau is plundered by peasants from Spangenberg, Morschen, and elsewhere. Thiel Wolff zu Gudenberg, an administrator in Kassel, writes to Landgrave Philipp asking what he should do. #earlymodern #skystorians

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