The funeral turned into a lengthy legal meeting, and the heckler was ultimately compensated. The delay had disastrous consequences: It caused the late king to inflate to enormous proportions in the heat. While trying to lower William into his final resting tomb, the king's corpse would not fit, and eventually, according to Orderic, his "swollen bowels burst, and an intolerable stench assailed the nostrils of the by-standers and the whole crowd.
After that indignity, William didn't exactly rest in peace: His grave was disturbed three times, once on the orders of Rome when he was reinterred , once at the hands of Calvinists, and then during the French Revolution.
His bones were scattered, with the exception of a thigh bone; today, the final resting place of that bone is marked with a slab of stone. According to Orderic Vitalis's Historia Ecclesiastica , the king eventually confessed that what he had done during his reign was terrible: "I treated the native inhabitants of the kingdom with unreasonable severity, cruelly oppressed high and low, unjustly disinherited many, and caused the death of thousands by starvation and war, especially in Yorkshire.
History Weird. Subscribe to our Newsletter! The cast of Prison Break were all scared of crime ghosts. Playing Patrick Bateman made people think Christian Bale was a robot. Sep 7, Karl Smallwood - Nov 10, 0. Lets not beat around the bush. He died in early September, so it was still relatively warm.
His body was beginning to rot, and from the inside out. As his insides decomposed they produced large amounts of gas, mostly methane. These gases had no way to escape, so continued to build up. Just like inflating a balloon, before long his abdomen had swollen to an enormous size, and the gases ruptured through his belly, releasing the putrid smell and rotting insides. You must be logged in to post a comment.
Spread the love. After spending a decade in pain from his many illnesses, and eating himself to obesity, he died. As luck would have it, some dogs were on hand to lick up the spilled remains of the once almighty powerful king of England.
This event has also been tied to a prophesy that a friar once preached to him twelve years earlier. Death is one of those things that we try and put off for as long as we can.
But once it has occurred, strange things can happen to the corpse. One of these strange things is bloating, which has nothing to do with how fat someone is. When a person dies the body starts to decompose, or break down into simpler organic material.
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