Morten St George Theory

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PHILIP II AUGUSTUS, 1165-1223, watches heretics burn during the Crusade against the Albigensians in 1209, manuscript illumination from the Grandes Chroniques de St Denis, c. 1400

It was pretty specific about not being your bonfire. So it would make no difference to discuss whether or not this spire or that matches the vms unless you want to move your massacre down to this one, but even then, they are likely imagined, since it is 200 years later.

I suppose it is from one of the many versions of the Grande Chronique and derived manuscripts. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

There may be a conflation of two separate episodes because the text below the illustration identifies the king "Philippe Dieudonné" a.k.a. Philippe II Auguste and the heretics: "amauriciens" (Almaricians), the disciples of Amaury de Bène. However the scenery does not look much like Paris (where 10 heretics were burned in 1210), with the generic rock or mountain in the background... The description matches the illustration from the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, Ms P.A. 30 (another version of the Grande Chronique de France) : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and the illustrations posted by JKP.

(1st link) The first version (offered to king Philippe III in 1274) stops at year 1223.
(2nd link) This later version of the Chronicle stops at year 1380.