History : In 1184, 60 nobles fell into a cesspool and drowned in liquid shit

In 1184, 60 nobles fell into a cesspool and drowned in liquid shit

In July 1184 Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held court at a Hoftag in Erfurt. On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the assembly building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement.

Nobles across the Holy Roman Empire were invited to the meeting, and many arrived on 25 July to attend. Just as the assembly began, the wooden floor of the provost of St. Mary, on which the nobles were sitting, broke under the stress, and people fell down through the first floor into the latrine in the cellar. About 60 people died, including Count Gozmar III of Ziegenhain [de], Count Friedrich I of Abenberg [de], Burgrave Friedrich I of Kirchberg [de], Count Heinrich I of Schwarzburg [de], Burgrave Burchard of Wartburg and Beringer of Meldingen. King Henry was said to have survived only because he sat in an alcove with a stone floor.

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Well that’s shitty.

Cheerio.

Re: In 1184, 60 nobles fell into a cesspool and drowned in liquid shit

Shit happens

Re: In 1184, 60 nobles fell into a cesspool and drowned in liquid shit

Now we know what is at the bottom of that hole in Sparta.

Re: In 1184, 60 nobles fell into a cesspool and drowned in liquid shit

How did Andy Dufresne crawl through 6 football fields of human shit

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