Death is rarely the kind of things that inspires miracle or pleasure. Usually it is an event that causes grief and introspection. But every so often a death takes place that is simply confusing and weird. And when it comes to royalties, they seem to be more subject to these unusual and unfavorable deaths than the general population.
10. Charles VIII hit his head on the door frame
If there was ever the proof that Royals are just like us, it is in the story of King Charles VIII and his most unfortunate downfall. Charles VIII was the king of France in the late years 1400. At the age of 28 he was still young and powerful and he probably seemed to rule for years.
On April 7, 1498, Charles and his wife were on their way to watch a tennis match. On the road through the castle where they stayed, Charles stumbled on a rotten floor. According to the Court Chronicler, they hurried by what was described as an “annoying” corner of the house where everyone apparently peeThat is what made the wood rotten. The king stumbled and hit his head on the Ribbon.
The king was good for a while and even looked at his tennis match, but later collapsed and died about nine hours after the first injury.
9. King Alexander van Greece was bitten by a monkey
In the meantime everyone should know that having a monkey with pets is a single way Ticket to pain. They are simply not intended as pets. But in 1920 there was no one to tell that to King Alexander van Greece. He had to find out.
Alexander was for the king of Greece three years old. The First World War was only recently finished and there was a serious unrest in the world in general, so it is no surprise that the king sometimes likes to take walks with his dogs. That’s what he did on October 2.
Someone in the royal staff had a monkey with pets, in particular a Barbary Makaak. They are known to be sometimes aggressiveEspecially when they are used to people who feed them. The monkey attacked the king’s dog, so the king did what a dog owner would do if his dog was in danger. He tried to make it.
A second monkey attacked when the king became involved, biting the man several times. Two of the bites were seriously infected. Doctors even considered amputating his leg, but the word is that the doctors were afraid to do everything that would make it worse. So they did nothing effectively. Twenty -three days after the attack, the king died of the massive infection that had spread throughout his body.
8. King Henry ate too much eel
Outside of Japan, Eel has never really received a popular food. Not that nobody eats it, it’s just not nearly as popular as salmon, for example. That said, it has enjoyed a long culinary history that goes back hundreds of years. King Henry I of England, for example, was a big fan of eel. So much so that he was Warned by doctors He had to scales his love for them.
For whatever reason, Henry’s love for eels was more a hatred. He loved them, but they made him sick. Yet he kept eating. It was said that eating the eel, Lamprey to be specific, produced a “deadly cold” in his body and produced a “sudden and extreme convulsion.”
The last time the disease caught him, he sorrow And soon died. To this day, Lamprey, who have no bones and apparently a bit like beef when they are cooked, can be deadly. They have a bad habit of absorbing mercury in their bodies.
7. King Bela van Hungary’s throne collapsed
If someone in the modern language had to say that the throne of a certain monarch would fall or collapsed, you would be forgiven that you think it was a metaphor. It sounds like what someone could say if a monarchy fails. But as Freud once said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes a fallen throne is really a fallen throne.
King Bela I of Hungary ruled the nation of 1060 to 1063. The man’s reign had been tumultuous and he had even fought against a win against the Holy Roman emperor against a victory. He was preparing a new war against those who supported the claim of another on the throne when the completely inexplicable took place.
Bela sat on his throne, as in the literal chair made of wood, When it collapsed. He was so seriously injured when the chair crumbled around him; He died as a result.
6. Prince Sado was locked up in a box for 8 days
Prince Sado of Korea was born in 1735. He was the heir to the throne of King Yeongjo, but the king was a violent and angry man. The education of the prince was one of fear and intimidation and also illness. He suffered some unnamed ailments during childhood and as he got older, his behavior became unusual. After a fight with measles in his teenage years, it is said he started Suffering hallucinations.
Sado became obsessed with the weather and even believed that his clothing influenced it. His father became more and more furious to him and his behavior. He would in turn express his frustrations on the servants by beating or killing them. Multiple bodies were removed from the palace every day. When he turned on his younger sister, the king had had enough.
Sado was forced into a rice cupboard, a heavy wooden breast. It was at the beginning of July, and he was left in the box for eight days, where he died. Some have speculated that the Prince had syphilis, which led to dementia, but we will probably never know for sure.
5. Duke Jing van Jin drowned in the toilet
John Donne once wrote “Death, Be Not Proud” and he referred to the promise of something that goes beyond death. The poem argues that death should not be proud of its performance, because when we wake up forever, death itself will die. That is of course a nice feeling, but if you believe that death is able to be proud of his work, then you have to believe it has been proud of the glorious death of Duke Jing van Jin. The man accidentally drowned in a toilet.
The Duke, also known as a Marquis, would have had a terrible dream. He called for a witch to interpret the dream and she said he would die earlier Wheat of the new year.
When the new wheat came, the Duke called on the witch and let her kill because she was wrong. So the story goes, he was about to eat it when his stomach started to give him problems, so he went on his way to what was essentially an outbuilding. His servants were waiting for him for a long time to come back, but he didn’t. When they finally started finding him, they discovered that he had done that cases in the cesspool And died.
4. King John of Bohemia died inexplicably in battle
If a king dies on the field of the fight, does that qualify as unusual? In almost every circumstance you should probably say no. Leading soldiers for the fight seems to be a whole royal thing to do. And it was the kind of things that King John van Bohemen also wanted to do.
Crowned King in 1311over the years he fought in many wars. This included fighting against Russian, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania and Austria. He also fought with the French against England. It was in the Battle of Crécy when King John died, felled by a volley of English arrows. A suitable end for a king in most stories, but there was one detail that distinguishes the fate of King John.
The Battle of Crécy took place in 1346. King John lost his view in 1336. The king was blind when he started fighting. His horse had to be tied to two other horses because the man had no idea where he was going. He and the two knights who led him were all killed to charge the English.
3. The Prince of Wu was killed by a chessboard
Gaming is a serious thing for many people. This should not be a surprise, because it has been the case for thousands of years. In fact, somewhere around 175 BC, a chess game lives and death for a Chinese crown prince and a future emperor.
The son of the king of Wu and the son of Emperor Wen spent some time together in the capital of Han. They were both young men and, word it has, drinking was one of the recent times in which they were concerned when they were together.
As drinking buddies, the two young men were known to have fun together and play a variety of games. However, the two men recorded a chess game Some sources dispute the exact nature of the game. Regardless of what it was, the men did not agree on the rules and got into a fight. The argument was heated and the future emperor took things too far. He grabbed the game board and Bashed the Crown Prince overlooking.
The heavy wooden board must have been formidable while the attack crushed the skull of the crown prince with sufficient power to end his life.
2. The count of Orkney was killed by a tooth
Ironic deaths are sometimes hard to find, but few have reached the level of dramatic irony that Sigurd Eysteinsson, known as Sigurd the Mighty, the first count of Orkney. As part of his reign, Sigurd had conquered different parts of Scotland when he got into moray problems somewhere Year 1200.
A man who is known as Maelbrigte -Tusk, because of his unusually large teeth, turned out to be problems for Sigurd. To arrange their differences, the men agreed to eliminate it with violence. Every man would take 40 men and who lived was the winner. Sigurd appeared with 80 men.
As expected, Sigurd won. He took the head of Maelbrigte as a prize and drove away with it. For some time during the trip, the gnarled tooth of Maelbrigte pierced sigurd’s meat. The resulting infection eventually cost him his life.
1. King Charles of Navarre died a branded fiery death
Most people seem to die in bed at home if they had a choice. Not that most of us do that. But the idea is logical. If they get the option, few people would ever choose a painful death. And it is likely that nobody would ever choose what happened to King Charles of Navarre.
During his reign in the mid -1800s, Charles was a treacherous and Cruel king. It was known that he made ambiguous deals and DoubleCross -Bondachten when it suited him. He was also not slaughtered above farming to suppress rev supply and retain his control.
In 1387 Charles fell ill with a mysterious ailment. Medicine was what it was at the time, doctors had no very practical solution to his problems. So she prescribed that he was wrapped in cognac-through-weak sheets from head to toe. Moreover, he was sewn into the canvas so that he could absorb all curative properties of the brandy.
After he was completely sewn, there was a length of excess thread that hung on the fabric. The girl who sewed him could not find scissors, so she decided to use a candle to burn the wire. It set the sheets soaked by alcohol on fire, where the king is linked in the inside of the inside.
Some say it was a wandering coal of the fire that caused the sheet and not the girl. A bishop who attended the king even said his death Just a peaceful one. But the burning story has been the story that remained through history.
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