Weird Ways Rulers Have Died

This week, we explore some weird ways rulers have died throughout history.

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Marissa (00:00):
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Matthew (00:17):
On September 8 2022, Queen Elizabeth the Second died
at her Scottish summerresidents. She was 96 years old.
Elizabeth was born on April26 1926. To he who would later
become King George the sixth and919 52, Elizabeth would become

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Queen Elizabeth after her fatherKing George died from a corn
coronary thrombosis, Elizabethwould reign for 70 years, making
her one of the longest reigningmonarchs in history, second only
to King Louie the 14th of Francewho reigned for 72 years. Her
last few years held rumors offailing health, as it is to be

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expected when crossing over the90 year threshold. But 1:30pm
Eastern Standard Time, it wasannounced that Queen Elizabeth a
second died with members of herfamily in attendance. Her son
King Charles the third, nowsucceeds her. The queen is dead,

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long live the king. Join us aswe add another entry into this
our Macabrepedia.

Marissa (01:35):
Hello, and welcome to Macabrepedia a marriage of true
crime and the truly bizarre asalways, we are your hosts,
Marissa and Matthew. And we arerecording this shortly after
Queen Elizabeth has died. Andhope it doesn't sound too
terrible that did give us anidea. Or an episode.

Matthew (01:54):
Yeah. And we're not gonna go through the history of
Queen Elizabeth or her death oranything like that it is McCobb.
And, but it is something thatjust kind of, it's very topical.
But before we get rolling intoall of that, I would like to
note that we are releasing thisa bit later than we usually

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would. It was a rather busyweekend. And as longtime
listeners will know, we we tendto procrastinate quite a bit.
And I'd love to say like, oh,because the Queen died we
decided to shift gears andgetting in and No,

Marissa (02:31):
no, nothing like that.
It was definitely more. We had alot to do.

Matthew (02:34):
It was like Friday.
What are we going to what whatshould we write? Yeah. But then
on top of that, a friend ofmine, Brad Joyce, who has been
working towards completing 100mile ultra marathon, which is
like it says on the tin, it's100 mile foot race. He was
finally able to earn his 100mile belt buckle this last

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weekend.

Marissa (02:59):
Heck yeah. So in talking about it forever. He

Matthew (03:03):
had been talking about it trying to he's been trying to
do this for more than five yearsthat I've known him like I met
him at a marathon. We were kindof talking and talking about
ultra marathon racing, which forthose who don't know ultra
marathons or 50k, and above soin mileage it's like 32 miles
and above races are consideredultra marathons. Marathon being

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26.2. Also, that point two comesfrom an English monarch as well.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, who was itVictoria decided to move the

Marissa (03:37):
remember the monarch, but I do remember the story

Matthew (03:38):
marathon back a bit or so that the finish line would be
at in front of in front of thepalace, so she could see the
finishers two miles back. Andbecause of that, it, it made it
so that it was the 26.2 that weuse now. Anyways, Brad, he had
had a few attempts at trying torun this, run this distance. And

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that didn't quite pan out in thepast. But this year, he finally
did it amongst a lot of personalstresses that were in his life
at this time. So congrats to himfor that achievement. And also,
we will let him shoulder theblame for this podcast being
later than then it should

Marissa (04:19):
not be running 100 Miles is enough blame. Well,
we'll let the

Matthew (04:23):
listeners decide if that's if that's worth that's
worth missing their podcasting,regular scheduled podcasting
programs. But after about like24 hours on the course, which is
a two and a half mile loop thathe just had to run 41 times
fuck. And he was doing thisthrough. The start was just a

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torrential rain poor now andthen of course this is in South
Carolina. So there's like justappalling heat and humidity when
it isn't raining. Insects,insects, well, I wasn't too Too
bad there. I don't know what youwere experiencing. But it wasn't
too

Marissa (04:58):
too bad. No, well, well, maybe not. Right, number
three, I think that rainactually just yeah, the rain

Matthew (05:02):
helps with stuff like that. But it amplifies the
humidity tenfold. So anyways, hewas falling behind on pace. And
in order to make the cut off,and I got a message from Chris
who was his, I want to say crewlead, but really he was his sole
crew member who was taking careof all of his nutrition and
clothes and everything heneeded. And he said he was

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unlikely he was going to makecut off because he was slowly
deteriorating in pace, which is,you know, the guy's been up for
30 hours or so. While 27 ish atthe time that this was first
said. So Marissa and I, wedecided to drive out and help
drag his bloated carcass aroundaround the loops for another six

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hours, and he ended up getting abit of a personal victory and
ended up you know, pretty,pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty
tired. But he was able toaccomplish this goal that he had
set out for himself years ago.
On any year that was prettyrough for him. The last two
couple years have been like Isaid, very trying for him. But

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anyways, because of this whenthe drive back and forth being
two hours, one by two hours,yeah, other than six hours of
helping him with that and ourprocrastination and poor
planning. We felt that weweren't going to be able to
bring the the magic and energythat we normally bring to eat

Marissa (06:25):
a lot. I was quite tired. It was I'd run a 5k the
day before and then yesterday, Ionly did three loops. You did
quite a bit more. But I stilldid seven and a half miles
around and up and down.
Elevation and elation on thecourse.

Matthew (06:39):
Yeah, it wasn't we weren't running through
mountains. But it stacks uppretty pretty quick. Yeah. But
anyways, big shout out to Bradfor getting it done. So anyways,
yeah. The Queen of England died,which is also noteworthy news.
For sure. Brad ran 100 miles theQueen of England of the last 70
years also die. These one ofthese things is not like the

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other but anyways. It's when itcomes to the Queen. I mean,
we're in the United States, forthe Queen of England for my
entire life and for the entirelife of both our parents, right?
They both sets of our parents.
Sounds weird. But the they are.

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Also, we only have now I guessit really is we only have one
remaining parents. Anyway, sothis is Okay, time to say that
because it's it's Macabrepediatime, but that she Queen
Elizabeth has been a staple foras long as we can remember and
as long as our parents canremember. Yeah. Oh, yeah. She
was also the last remainingperson who had served in World

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War Two within British like,hierarchy kind of thing. But,
you know, obviously, we arespeaking as outsiders to this,
but I am not a particularlypolitical person. Unless it's
being broadcast constantlysomewhere or on Saturday Night
Live. I probably don't reallypay much attention to politics.

Marissa (08:10):
Yeah, but she's she's just always been there. You
know, so it's still it's stillsomewhat affects us. Yeah, seems

Matthew (08:15):
weird to me. It's not there

Marissa (08:17):
anymore. Now we have a king of England,

Matthew (08:19):
King of England, Charles heck. But he's been
there too, the whole time thatI've ever know. So he doesn't
really feel that different.
Because, you know, I've always Iremember being in like, second
grade wondering when there waswhen he was going to take the
take the throne. Game of Thronesbitch anyways. But we're not
we're not going to be goingthrough the life and times of

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queen e two. I'm close enough toher. I can say, Oh, really? Call
it e two. So Queenie two, we'renot gonna go through the details
of that. If you want moredetails on her life and times,
you can watch the crown onNetflix for that.

Marissa (08:58):
Which is on pause for respect. Is

Matthew (09:01):
it? Yeah. Oh, you mean like they're not filming another
season? Okay. I thought theylike took it

Marissa (09:07):
off. No. They paused filming. Yeah. So

Matthew (09:11):
today, we will be talking about some unusual ways
that former British Englishmonarchs have died, or gruesome
things that have happenedshortly after their death. We
are keeping these occurrences tothe British Isles for the most
part, I believe all are postNorman Conquest, being 1066 or

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later, obviously weren't goingto go to cover the entire span
of monarchs and their deathsback to the early Celts and
Romans.

Marissa (09:42):
No, you know what Wikipedia actually has a list of
all the British monarchs andtheir causes of death. They have
it broken down anyway. Yeah, you

Matthew (09:49):
know, and that was exactly the pitch that I made
for this episode. And you werekind of giving me a little bit
of pushback on that. Like nobodywants to just have

Marissa (09:58):
a Wikipedia article. So

Matthew (09:59):
well, there So we're competing Eric overclocking
everything. And I'm saying theremust be a reason. Yeah. Because
people want to know, let us knowin the future if you want an
episode where we go through anentire list recording, and
record the the monarchs andtheir deaths. Also another thing
we're trying in this episode, ifyou hear what I'm about to say
right now, I mean, it wasprobably successful. And you can

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let us know how that works outwhere I'm trying to do this with
zero editing. Going forward fromthis point. Yeah, we'll see. So
you get you get to see exactlyhow the, how the sausage is
made. The vegan sausage is madebehind behind here. So anyway,
so this is going to be a list ofmonarchs and their deaths. More

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notable ones, I suppose, or onesthat at least I can, you know,
take take the piss out of noparticular order. I was gonna
put it chronologically, but noneed. I'm a bit lazy. King
James, the second of Scotland.
King James had a pretty solidrun as a ruler. And yet well as
things go, you know, he had, hehad his good stuff and his bad

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things. He founded theUniversity of Glasgow. So that's
a good thing, right? He alsoinvited a very rich and powerful
Duke and William, the eighthDuke of Douglas, over to his
house for some pre lentcocktails and discussions of
hey, hey, man, you should notyou know, make powerful

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alliances against me becausethat makes me a little bit
worried. So you shouldn't dothat.

Marissa (11:37):
Sounds alright. Yeah.

Matthew (11:40):
And William was like, What? No, fuck off. I'm gonna
make alliances against you.
You're kind of a shit. So andDouglas had had, like, promised
to come here. They were a bit ofenemies. But Douglas, I say
enemies. King James had gone anddestroyed burnt his castle to
the ground and taken his landsand all of this stuff prior to

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this, this invite to come comeover for dinner. Okay, but he
had given him a letter of like,safe passage. And like, Don't
worry, man, we just want I justwanted to have a little chat.
Which at the time, apparentlywas good enough, right?

Marissa (12:16):
So Red Wedding vibes?

Matthew (12:18):
Very much so except there was just the Duke. So,
King, the dude comes over. Hesaid, King James says, Hey, man,
this is this is an actual quote.
Hey, man. Okay, you should likeyou know, exactly, why don't you
be cool? And knock it off withthis whole like, making friends
with other people that I shouldbe friends with in a more like,

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they should be my friends kindof way. And then William was
like, No, like you. I'm gonnamake an alliance with these
guys. And we might come for yourshit at some point. So James
pulls out a dagger and stabs 27times in the neck, and then has
one of his guards come over andbossed out is his brains with a

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with a

Marissa (13:04):
halberd 27 times wasn't good enough.

Matthew (13:08):
I feel like there was a passion involved with that.
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure thatprobably handled it but you
know, just in case let's justmake sure anyways, that that
isn't that isn't actually thathad nothing to do with the death
of the King of King James lead.
This isn't like a revenge storyor what have James You looked at
me like he got how many timesstabbed? James was the stabber?
William was the stabby. Thatstory's over. Now we go back to

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King James. He's kind of there'slike this whole War of the Roses
thing happening during thistime. And King James is like,
I'm gonna make an opera. This isan opportunity for me. I'm gonna
roll up on England dropped thebow. Oh, King, everything. So in
his preparations, he's testingout these cannons. And he gets

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killed by a cannon not fired byanybody other than himself. He
gives a command to fire thiscannon and it explodes. blows
his legs out from underneaththem. And that'll do it. Yeah,
kill them. You know? You don'treally survive having your legs

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blown off very easily on that.
During that time period. Yeah,

Marissa (14:16):
not not super easy for to survive that.

Matthew (14:20):
Queen that we're going over the deaths not like every
detail of their rains and stufflike that. I mean, obviously
these people had 20 years ormore while in some cases of
rulership with some interestingshit that happens. We're not
going to touch on all of that.
Queen Caroline. Caroline onsbuck. Well, she's Queen

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Caroline. You know, there are afew Queens Queen Mary, Queen
Elizabeth. Queen, Elizabeth,Queen Victoria. They they're
famous because they were thesole monarch. But oh, she was
Queen because she Yeah, Queen bymarriage. Yeah. So Oh, it's
Yeah, I mean, you know, peopletend to put put them in the back

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burner. But um, Queen Caroline,this is kind of a twofer in a
way. She, she died fromcomplications from an umbilical
hernia. So she had a series ofmiscarriages. And she was that
kind of weakened her abdominalwalls and stuff like that. So

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and the umbilical hernia isbasically when your belly button
suddenly looks like it foldsoutwards. Not like an outie
belly button. But like when thewalls of your abdomen have like
ruptured, and then your parts ofyour bowels are like pushing
through your intestines orpushing through. Yeah, so super
painful. And so she has allthese miscarriages, and she's

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going through some stuff withthat. And of course, this is the
this is this is in the time of,of corsets and all this stuff.
And she was kind of a girthylady. This is the so she tried
to keep it hidden for possibly awhile because she never let
anybody ever see her on dresses.
She may have been suffering withthis for a while, which is that
like this dinner party and sheshe was very trusted by her

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husband to like they had areally good relationship. So
whenever he was off doingsomething, she became queen
region, which was very unusual,like normally you'd like you're,
you're still the Queen, butlike, everybody else is gonna
take care of stuff and you justkind of you're there to, quote
unquote, represent. But now shewas like she she was competent.
She knew what she was doing andall this stuff. But anyway, so

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she was always trying topresumably kind of show this
like level of strength andcompetency to all these people.
So she has these guests over atsome point. She ends up having
to leave early from from theirlittle get together, because
he's having these like reallybad pains. So the doctors come
in, they check her out. And shehas this umbilical hernia. So

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she has like, her intestines arepushing through her stomach. So
the doctors of the 1700s They'relike, you know, we got to do we
got to cut that out.

Marissa (17:03):
Oh, no. So they

Matthew (17:05):
open her up. And then they find this is no anesthesia,
no cheese, they so they open herup. They've got this lump of
rotting or like constricted,like the restricted blood flow
that would happen. So it's likekind of not healthy tissue, as
it's pressing through. She mayhave been keeping, like I said,
may have been hiding it for awhile. That's not certainly

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clear. Course it did, too. Yeah.
So I'm saying so she, she, she,she she may have been doing it
on her own is to try to keepthis. So it might have been
something where there was like alack of blood flow in there for
a while. So anyway, so there'sthe doctors come in, they cut it
open, there's a book that comesout of her. And then they're
like, Well, that looks like it'sunhealthy. Let's cut it out. So
they cut her intestines out. Andthen they put the remaining

(17:47):
parts back in and then kind ofput some stuff in there to try
to hold it there. And we'll seehow it does tomorrow. But a band
aid over it. Yeah, so they shoveher with band aids, or bandages.
And then the next day, they takethe bandages out and they look
inside of her again. Oh man,that still looks bad. Let's cut
a little more out. So theyrepeatedly go through cutting

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out more and more so she isawake. And the only anesthesia
would normally be brandy orsomething along those lines. The
problem is is they have cut herdigestive tract out so she can't
eat she can't drink she can't doanything. Apparently she had a
really good sense of humor aboutthe whole thing though because
like one of the surgeons likecaught on fire while leaning

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over her and his weight caughton fire and and on a candle and
she stopped the surgery so thatshe could hold her guts in to
laugh at him. But anyway, so shesounds lovely. Yeah, she sounds
like a badass. But I was onlyreally focused on her death for
this I don't know if she hadsome other cool stuff in there.
But so they she is in thissituation from the time that she

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has the party issue to the timeof her death is a span of 11
days. Wow. I've heard you knowhaving more and more of her
stuff cut out while she's justyou know dealing with infections
and stuff at this point fromGavin this gauze and shit
stabbed pushed on her. She wouldspend the last moments of her
life saying goodbye to herchildren and her husband. She

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encouraged him to remarry. Buthe said no, you are my only love
shall never remarry. I will onlytake mistresses which I mean
it's France. I mean it's a it'snot France. They spoke French
and German but they I supposeit's sweet in some way. Yeah,

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he's like only Horace for me.
Good high class live in thecastle horse though. So in her
last moments, she said of hereldest son Frederick. One
comfort I take in closing myeyes is to know that I will
never look upon this monsteragain. It's her eldest son who

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damn mom. Wow. Like damn Yeah,she are both both. his parents
hated him. And he was not aking. So he didn't actually make
the list. But I'm kind ofwanting to throw him a little
bit of a note because he died ina shitty way too, or an unusual
way. Please tell us he's not aking. But he was someone who
should have been a king becausehis dad was a king and his
brother was you can use theeldest somebody died before his

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dad said he never got the shot.
So Frederick, the Prince ofWales, he died from getting
blasted by a cricket ball thatcaused a lung abscess or a
pulmonary embolism.

Marissa (20:31):
Damn, how fast was that cricket ball go.

Matthew (20:32):
I mean, they're hard balls. I'm pretty sure they're
like, no, no, they're verydense. They're pretty. They're
pretty. They make a girl clack.
When they get there. I thinkthey're called something they
might be called Real tennisballs. But um, yeah, so he he's
a huge cricket fan. Apparently,he's a total shithead too,
because his parents hate them.
But the ball cracks into him,slams them in such a way that it

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causes some kind of internalissues that if I don't know,
there's conflicting stuff, hesays, a lung abscess. And then
there's another thing that saysthat it was a pulmonary
embolism. Either way, he getsslammed with this the sporting
ball, and eventually diesbecause of it. And his mom hated
him, which is interesting tonote. Let's talk about because

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he has to make an appearance inevery episode. Henry the Eighth
of course, let's talk about him.
The king who has probably beenmentioned on this podcast more
than any other person, exceptfor the hosts

Marissa (21:32):
and yet we haven't actually done an episode on him.
Maybe we don't need to

Matthew (21:35):
we we go through little snips of just of like his of his
day to day shittiness he justalways he all he always makes an
appearance. So what is knownabout him and you know, and
killed his his wives and rightwhatever, you can do the little
what's the little

Marissa (21:51):
thing divorced, beheaded, died, divorced,
beheaded, survived.

Matthew (21:54):
Yeah, that thing. We might do a full episode on him.
Why not? It's using you love himso much. But anyways, he was a
he was a he was a big dude. Whenhe died. He was he was possibly
over 400 pounds and needed awinch in order to get him onto a
horse. Later in life. His skinat the time of death was covered

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in weeping bedsores. He had goutand a host of other
uncomfortable ailments. Itwasn't his death itself that was
so noteworthy. I mean, obviouslyI want to King dies is pretty
important. But what happenedduring his funeral,

Marissa (22:30):
he will have heard about this. Well, I know

Matthew (22:33):
you're an expert, but not everybody else has. He was
placed in a specially made leadline coffin where his body was
to rest during the services. Nowif you're again a longtime
listener, you may have heard ourstages of death episode. The
fifth stage of death ispurification. This is where the

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body begins to break down andliquefy organs. The body then
begins to bloat with liquids andgases. And during the service
King Henry's massive bodyexploded filling the area with
rancid bodily gases. Luckily forthe crowd the coffin was made
better than King James's cannonso no one was injured by any

(23:18):
shrapnel. But it did make for afoul and disgusting smell. Are
you fact checking me during thatepisode here?

Marissa (23:26):
I seem to recall something of sort of I seem to
recall something about that'snot necessarily a true story but
it also a lot of a lot ofsources say that it is so I
don't know.

Matthew (23:36):
Most sources say that one is there is another one that
we will touch on that says thatit might just be because how
like there's like coffin burpsand it was like an excuse for
for something like that. We'llget to that. Keep going. Another
Henry Henry the first son ofWilliam the Conqueror, December

(23:58):
1 1135. King Henry the first sonour seventh and seventh Henry's
back 111 generation from Williamthe Conqueror William conqueror
being the 1066 guy that westarted this whole thing on.
Henry died after dining on alarge amount of lamp praise
while in France. He was 67 yearsold and he has a pretty wild

(24:26):
ride from the throne to thegrave but nothing that's like
super noteworthy. No like likefun highlights really to hit so
unless you want to dig dig in onHenry the first your main
takeaway is that William theConqueror son died eating a bowl
of blood sucking water snakestry to work that into something
and the conversations around thewater cooler tomorrow.

Marissa (24:47):
Yeah, his doctors tried to tell him not to because he'd
gotten sick off of a few times.
And then he he didn't listen tothem. Yeah, man ultimately died.

Matthew (24:55):
He does man. What they're lamprey afraid He's so
good. That's so gross andlampreys are so nasty. They're
huge. Ocean leeches. It's sogross. Anyways, speaking of
Willie the conqueror, anotherguy real close to Willie. Oh,

(25:18):
well, yeah, so Willie theconqueror. He died when his
organs ruptured from his saddlehorn. The pommel of the saddle,
yeah rammed into his stomachwhen the when the horse that he
was writing got spooked orsuddenly like halted. William
was heaved forward and thetrauma would cause internal
damage from that what she wouldlater die from. Allegedly,

(25:41):
that's happened. At least hewasn't thrown from the horse or
anything. So he got to keep abit of dignity, at least in some
level during this this incidentthat would later lead to his
death. The dignity was keptuntil they tried to actually get
him into his coffin. Part of thereason that the pommel caused so
much damage to William wasbecause William had had grown a

(26:05):
bit portly in his late 50s andearly 60s, the pommel had jammed
up under his belly, thatbasically he'd like had a bit of
his girth over the over thesaddle horn. So when that when
that kind of kicked up thatthat's that's part of what it
was slammed in through there.
And that ruptured some of hisguts. Again, we're dealing with
the internal organs there, andthen the the intestines, which

(26:27):
are full of bacteria, and havingbacteria flow from your bowels
into your as abdomen, goodcauses kind of a quick and
future vacation. And by the timethat the king had died, and they
got him into the coffin, he hadexpanded to the point where he
wouldn't fit anymore. So like anoverstuffed suitcase, the

(26:48):
attendants kept applyingpressure. And until they could
try to get like it secured shut,which only happened once the
king's belly burst in a similarfashion at Henry the eighth.
This is the one that's like, itmay or may not have been. Yeah,
that one. I mean, again, this isthis is in like a 1100. And some
change. So this is not might bejust before that anyway, it's a

(27:14):
long time ago. They don't have awhole ton of records on this. So
this one is one of those things,it's a little bit off but at his
funeral, the aroma of his birthremains waft through the air.
Again, this may be a bit of anexaggeration, it could be could
be folklore that's just beenmade up. Sometimes this podcast
just devolves into two truthsand a lie. I don't know. We'll
even get back

Marissa (27:37):
that far.

Matthew (27:38):
Yeah, that's That's it.
Let's talk about another Tommytroubled King. Because it seems
a lots of stuff in the in thegody. What's King John King,
John, the king who signed theMagna Carta in 1215. The Magna
Carta, basically is a documentthat the nobles force the king

(28:01):
to sign that essentially says,Hey, you can't just do anything
you want. Not, at least notwithout running it by a few
people. First, he surely signedthe Magna Carta because he
thought that they would kill himif he didn't. But that wasn't
what killed him. He actuallydied from dysentery shitting

(28:24):
himself to death afteroverindulging on some dirty
peaches, dirty peaches, literalpeaches. Yeah, not dirty peaches
like the brothel, which has toexist if there's not a website
right now called Dirtybeaches.com. I need to get that
and just take pictures of oflike slightly slightly moldy

(28:46):
peaches. Anyways, he ate a bunchof actual peaches and he got
sick and then ended up shittinghimself to death on the throne
last scene. He was also knownlike this guy is seems just like
the most inept king ever. He wasalso known for misplacing like

(29:09):
an entire fortune of wealth,including the crown jewels. You
just lost him in a swampsomewhere.

Marissa (29:16):
Okay. I guess those are out there somewhere still out
there somewhere. Someone willfind them eventually.

Matthew (29:23):
They must have been recovered, right? I don't know.
They have to have been. I'mgonna look it up real quick. So
let me Crown Jewels prior to the13th century really, relatively
hazy. Henry the third was crownand 1220 and he uses St.

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Edward's crown, which was partof the crown jewels that would
have been lost by King John soat least that much was found
crown jewels that are thecurrent Crown Jewels are date
back to the restoration in 1661.
So, you know, we

Marissa (30:09):
found some families,

Matthew (30:11):
or there wasn't necessarily all of them are
lost, but at least le le some ofthem at least he's whatever. Two
Truths and a Lie. But that'llmostly do it for some of the
more entertaining deaths for therulership of the British Isles.

Marissa (30:33):
Well, not quite yet.
Oh, my God minute,

Matthew (30:38):
some very related actually McCobb minute for a
death in the British Isles. Soit's really just part of the
Okay, our McCobb minute for thisweek is a continuation of
exactly the same subject matterin which we were just
discussing.

Marissa (30:52):
This is correct, but it's very interesting. King
Alfred the Great he was tryingto, you know, unite everybody at
the time. Britain was kind ofscattered it was a lot of little
spots here and there, and someof them were like the Viking
areas. So

Matthew (31:08):
So pre 1066. Yes.

Marissa (31:10):
So one of these places was ruled by Sigurd and sacred
had a falling out with aneighboring lord named male who
was known for his teeth, whichwere very large and buck teeth.
Basically, it's very notablethat this guy had very large
teeth. So they had a falling outand they ended up meeting for

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battle. They both agreed thatthey would bring 40 men, but
Sigurd cheated and brought 80And as you can guess, he won
because he cheated twice asmany. Yes. So he won and he and
his men slaughtered male and allof his men. on horseback Sigurd
himself carried along thesevered head of male. While

(31:53):
riding the horse home, theselarge buck teeth of male scraped
against an open wound that wason Sigurd leg, and it said, it
looked as if he was gettingvisions by biting cigarettes led
like the bacteria on the severedhead got into the wound, which
began to fester, creating a foulstench and making Sigurd feel
ill. And before dawn, he died ofthe infection. And after the

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funeral, they said that Sigurdservants actually noted that the
head of male had a big bucktoothed grin. Yep. making him
one of the most interestingdeaths as he was quite literally
killed by corpse.

Matthew (32:33):
No, man. Yeah, that's a good one to end with.

Marissa (32:39):
Okay, much more McCobb than that. Really? Yeah. Oh,

Matthew (32:44):
that seems a little a little unusual. I don't know.
There. See? That one seems alittle far fetched bacteria.

Marissa (32:52):
I'll do it every time.
How

Matthew (32:54):
would you get a hair cut from somebody's teeth?

Marissa (32:57):
That if you were listening, I no teeth had the
bacteria on the Magon to thewound that was already opened.
And

Matthew (33:04):
what I'm saying though is like what was he doing right
with no pants on you. His teethwere so big that they cut
through your pants.

Unknown (33:11):
You didn't notice the specifics on the day I assume

Matthew (33:15):
if he's going to battle he's wearing some something will
chain mail will sell some notjust rubbing his deck on some
some dudes buck teeth. Oh, youdon't know Maybe he was. This is
the origin of the tea bag aswell.

Marissa (33:29):
But that is Sigurd.

Matthew (33:31):
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