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WHAT HAPPENED to William the Conqueror’s corpse after his death in Rouen in 1087? He may have won the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and gone down as one of the most important Kings in English history, but William, Duke of Normandy was shown very little respect in death and the fate of his remains is one of the more disgusting stories from the annals of Norman history.
In this English history documentary from History Calling, we travel back first to 1087 and to the rather horrible death of William the Conqueror after a horse-riding incident caused the overweight king to apparently burst his bowels. We’ll then look at the shocking neglect of his body within minutes of his passing which resulted in him being left naked on the floor while his servants plundered his residence for all they could steal. Moving from bad to worse, we’ll come to his disastrous funeral, which included a fire and an appalling incident resulting from his rotting corpse being forced into a coffin which was too small for it (spoiler alert - if you’ve ever wondered why do corpses explode, this is the video for you). As if all of this wasn’t bad enough, William has also been disinterred multiple times, first by the Papacy, then during the French Wars of Religion and the French Revolution. As a result, his remains have been terribly abused so that very little of him remains today in his grave in the Abbey of Saint-Étienne in France. In short, the death of William I of England (to give him yet another of his titles) was just the start of a gruesome dead body story spanning six centuries.
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