6 Medieval Kings Who Had The Filthiest And Most Terrifying Deaths - Try Not To Gag Watching This

Added: 2026-05-03

[00:00:00]Top six medieval kings who rotted to death in prison, still a mystery.

[00:00:07]Sitting on a throne at the pinnacle of glory, yet taking your final breath right above a [music] cesspit of waste and rotting garbage, flesh ulcerating and teeth falling out one by one until death.

[00:00:20]That was no accident.

[00:00:22]That was the most perfect assassination machine of the Middle Ages.

[00:00:28]The new ruling class craved the throne, but feared carrying the stigma of king slayer.

[00:00:34]Their solution?

[00:00:35]Thrusting monarchs into the foulest dungeons in Europe, chaining them in darkness for decades, leaving the stench, starvation, and lice to finish the dirty work.

[00:00:48]But did they truly waste away from natural diseases, or behind those moss-covered stone walls lay brutal tactics that left no outward wounds?

[00:01:01]In the next few minutes, you will unseal the top secret death files of six of the most powerful kings. Delve deep into each death-reeking cell, and witness first-hand the exact answers to the mysterious deaths that history books have deliberately covered up for centuries.

[00:01:20]Part one, King Edward II, the assassination by stench.

[00:01:27]Have you ever wondered how far the boundary between a jewel-encrusted throne and a death-reeking cesspit actually is?

[00:01:36]For the fallen monarchs of medieval England, that distance was merely wrapped up in a single decree of deposition.

[00:01:43]When the crown fell, what awaited them was not a public execution block with an executioner's sword, but a silent, ruthless, and utterly filthy killing machine.

[00:01:58]Let us open the first file, which is also one of the most haunting deaths in European history.

[00:02:05]King Edward II of the Plantagenet dynasty.

[00:02:10]To understand the cruelty of the death of Edward II, we must look at how he lived.

[00:02:16]Before being cast into hell, Edward II was the epitome of absolute luxury.

[00:02:22]Early 14th century English history records him as a monarch obsessed with frivolous pleasures.

[00:02:29]He was always surrounded by favorites draped in fine silk, indulging in all-night banquets, tasting wine imported from Gascony, France. He loved art, theater, and showered so much favor on his close courtiers that he completely neglected state affairs.

[00:02:49]It was this very neglect, coupled with his disastrous defeat against the Scots at the Battle of Bannockburn, that stripped him of the respect of the nobility.

[00:03:01]And the one who delivered the fatal blow to his reign was none other than his own wife, Queen Isabella, dubbed the She-Wolf of France, along with her lover, Lord Roger Mortimer.

[00:03:14]The downfall of Edward II began when the heavy oak doors of Berkeley Castle slammed shut behind him in 1327.

[00:03:23]His captors faced a deeply agonizing political problem.

[00:03:27]They needed the death of the former king to clear the path for the young King Edward III to ascend, but they absolutely could not bear the title of regicide.

[00:03:38]Any knife wound, slash, or ligature mark on the corpse could incite a rebellion from remaining loyalists.

[00:03:46]The solution of Isabella and Mortimer was to forge a death sentence without ever laying a finger on the victim, an assassination by stench.

[00:03:58]Berkeley Castle was already But the cell reserved for the fallen king was a wretched dungeon situated in the most venomous location.

[00:04:08]Directly beneath the cracked stone floor of his cell was a deep pit filled with human excrement and the severely decomposing carcasses of dead animals.

[00:04:20]In the Middle Ages, medicine knew nothing of bacteria.

[00:04:24]People believed in a theory called miasma, the theory of bad air.

[00:04:29]This theory held that all diseases and plagues were born and transmitted through [music] toxic vapors rising from putrefaction.

[00:04:38]They weaponized the own filthy sanitation system of the castle, hoping the stench and pathogens from that foul quagmire would seep into his flesh, flood his lungs, and personally kill the king in the most natural way possible.

[00:04:56]The physical punishment began.

[00:05:00]A monarch who once only breathed in incense and perfume now had to struggle in a darkness thick with the smell of rotting meat and overpowering ammonia.

[00:05:10]Having his food rations slashed to the worst possible level, suffering severe nutritional deficiency in the dark, Edward contracted scurvy.

[00:05:21]The teeth that once sank into lavish roasts now loosened and fell out one by one.

[00:05:28]His gums swelled endlessly.

[00:05:31]The skin that used to be bathed in warm water and essential oils began to ulcerate and fester as bacteria and flies from the waste below constantly rose and clung to his open sores.

[00:05:45]However, the irony of history begins here. Edward II possessed an innately robust constitution.

[00:05:53]Despite being tortured in a horrifically polluted environment, his rotting body stubbornly clung to life for agonizing months.

[00:06:03]His lingering existence became a massive political threat.

[00:06:08]Finally, on the night of September 21st, 1327, locals around Berkeley recounted hearing a bloodcurdling, horrifying scream tear through the night.

[00:06:21]The next morning, it was officially announced that the former King Edward II had died a natural death.

[00:06:29]But what truly happened that night?

[00:06:32]This mystery birthed two persistent debates.

[00:06:36]The first theory suggests the torment succeeded. The internal organs of Edward II finally failed completely, and he succumbed to the pathogens. But the second theory, the bloodiest and most haunting conspiracy in royal history, tells a different tale.

[00:06:53]Rumors say that losing their patience, the assassins snuck into the cell that night.

[00:07:00]They pinned the king down and executed him by thrusting a red-hot [music] iron poker deep into his bowels through a customized horn, burning all his internal organs to ash from the inside.

[00:07:13]This barbaric method killed the victim instantly, but left absolutely no open wounds on the flesh during an autopsy.

[00:07:22]To this day, the line between a natural disease rising from a cesspit and the brutality of a red-hot iron remains an unanswered question.

[00:07:33]Part two, King Richard II, an end in cold and starvation.

[00:07:41]The tragedy of the English throne did not stop at Berkeley Castle.

[00:07:46]Over 70 years after the haunting death of Edward II, another king stepped into this cruel, disastrous path carrying an even more deeply ironic paradox.

[00:07:56]That was King Richard II.

[00:07:59]If Edward II was a victim of foul stench, Richard II was a victim of an end in biting cold and starvation. The background of Richard II was the exact opposite of his ancestor.

[00:08:13]Ascending the throne as a boy, Richard II gradually grew into a monarch of extreme absolutist ideology.

[00:08:22]He believed the power of the king was absolute and divine.

[00:08:26]But what truly set Richard apart was his lifestyle at court.

[00:08:31]He was incredibly elegant, passionate about art, loved dressing extravagantly, and was particularly obsessed with cleanliness.

[00:08:41]Official history records Richard II as the inventor of the handkerchief.

[00:08:47]While courtiers and nobles of the time often used their sleeves or even bare hands to wipe their noses and mouths at banquets, Richard demanded his tailors craft square, fragrant pieces of cloth to maintain personal hygiene.

[00:09:03]He would never accept a single speck of dust on his pearl-encrusted and gold-threaded garments. His court was a symbol of pure glamour, where culinary arts and courtly etiquette were elevated to a whole new level.

[00:09:19]But absolute power always breeds resentment. When he was overthrown by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke in 1399, who took the throne as Henry IV, all his privileges of cleanliness were ruthlessly stripped away.

[00:09:37]Richard II was exiled to the remote Pontefract Castle in northern England, right in the dead of the harshest winter.

[00:09:46]Henry IV did not need a subterranean waste pit like the previous century.

[00:09:52]Brutal nature and utter neglect were sharp enough weapons.

[00:09:58]The dungeon of Richard at Pontefract was a freezing stone cell.

[00:10:04]Its walls perpetually weeping with moisture.

[00:10:08]With absolutely no fireplace, no fleece blankets, no floor rugs, the cleanest king of England was locked in a cramped space, forbidden to bathe, forbidden to change clothes.

[00:10:21]The silk on his body grew increasingly filthy, reeking, and became a breeding ground for lice.

[00:10:29]Even more horrific, he had to live alongside his own excrement in a corner of the cell.

[00:10:36]The drinking water brought in frequently froze solid due to sub-zero temperatures, leaving him without even water to soothe his throat, let alone wash his filthy body.

[00:10:49]His deterioration was not just physical, but an ultimate psychological devastation.

[00:10:56]A man who could not stand a minor stain now had to watch his own hands turn black with grime and smell the stench radiating from his own body.

[00:11:07]As the winter dragged on, his body shriveled away to skin and bones.

[00:11:13]In early 1400, Richard breathed his last. His death was unquestionably due to starvation and exhaustion.

[00:11:22]But this death file still leaves a massive question mark that divides scholars.

[00:11:29]What was the true nature of this starvation?

[00:11:33]The first theory posits that the new king, Henry IV, callously ordered the cessation of food and water.

[00:11:40]This is a classic silent execution tactic.

[00:11:44]Starving someone to death leaves no signs of violence, allowing Henry to easily claim the former king died of a severe illness.

[00:11:54]But the second theory leans toward a much more tragic and desperate reality.

[00:12:00]It suggests that Richard himself, witnessing his noble body being degraded, eaten by lice, and unable to endure this filthy humiliation any longer, fell into extreme depression.

[00:12:15]He refused every rare attempt by the guards to feed him, going on a hunger strike to end his mental torment, a suicidal death by sheer patience.

[00:12:26]Whether it was a starvation order from an enemy or a hunger strike from the victim, the departure of Richard remains a cold mockery of history for the king of snow-white handkerchiefs.

[00:12:40]Part three, King Charles III, waiting for death with a necrotic wound.

[00:12:48]Leaving foggy England, we head to southern Europe, where dungeons did not rely on the stench of cesspits or freezing cold to kill.

[00:12:57]Here, the human body was pushed to the absolute limits of medical endurance, facing direct necrosis brought on by political violence.

[00:13:07]The third figure on this death roster is King Charles III, often known as Charles the Short.

[00:13:15]He was an ambitious monarch who used every political and military tactic to seize the kingdom of Naples in Italy and later raised an army to claim the crown of Saint Stephen of the kingdom of Hungary.

[00:13:28]Accustomed to slaughter on the battlefield and conducting bloody purges, Charles never expected his end would lie in a dark underground dungeon, rotting away while still drawing breath.

[00:13:42]The event began with a brutal assassination attempt orchestrated by powerful women. While Charles was in Hungary in February 1386, Queen Dowager Elizabeth of Bosnia, whose daughter was usurped by Charles, laid a trap for him.

[00:13:59]During a meeting at the palace, an assassin suddenly lunged. He wielded a halberd, a terrifying polearm with an axe blade and a spike, delivering a lethal straight blow to the head of Charles.

[00:14:16]The strike was so forceful, it cracked his skull wide open, piercing the bone and touching the meninges, sending blood pouring down to soak the velvet carpets.

[00:14:27]But with the stubborn vitality of a man used to the battlefield, Charles did not die instantly on the scene.

[00:14:36]He merely collapsed and fell into a deep coma.

[00:14:41]Instead of finishing him off right there to guarantee his death, the conspirators dragged the bloodied body of the king and threw it straight into the dungeons of Visegrád Castle.

[00:14:53]This was the beginning of the most gruesome ordeal.

[00:14:57]Not a single doctor or priest was called. Not a single clean bandage or basin of warm water was brought down to cleanse the wound. His cell was pitch black, the air thick with the smell of subterranean mold, serving as a haven for rats and bedbugs.

[00:15:19]The open wound plunging deep into his brain was completely abandoned. In a severely unhygienic environment, infection set in at a terrifying speed.

[00:15:29]The slash festered, swelling angry red, and the flesh and nerve tissue began to necrotize.

[00:15:36]With every passing day, black blood and yellow pus oozed continuously, streaming down his forehead and matting into his beard and hair.

[00:15:48]The stench of his own rotting scalp rose, attracting dungeon insects to swarm the wound.

[00:15:54]Charles woke up in delirious high fevers, groaning from brain-splitting agony.

[00:16:01]From a conquering king with ambitions to unite kingdoms, he turned into a lingering zombie in the dark, waiting for bacteria to slowly eat his brain.

[00:16:12]The bizarre mystery of this event lies in the extraordinary endurance of Charles.

[00:16:19]With medieval medical knowledge, a necrotic skull fracture in a filthy dungeon should have taken his life in a mere day or two via septic shock.

[00:16:29]Yet, Charles survived for several weeks.

[00:16:32]The fact that he lay gasping in the dark with an infected skull was a staggering dark miracle.

[00:16:39]When death finally knocked in late February 1386, chroniclers once again offered conflicting accounts. What was the final cut that took his life?

[00:16:50]Some scholars believe he died from a natural brain infection as the pathogens from the dungeon environment ate deep into his central nervous system, causing him to expire in utter delirium.

[00:17:04]However, another school of thought, closer to the ruthless nature of contemporary politics, suggests that Queen Dowager Elizabeth lost her patience, seeing this king stubbornly refuse to die.

[00:17:18]She secretly dispatched assassins to the cell at night to strangle the gasping king with a cord or pry his mouth [music] open to force poison down his throat to completely extinguish the lingering threat. A death caught between necrotic bacteria and human hands remains forever a blood-soaked dark corner of Hungarian royalty.

[00:17:41]Part four, King Garcia II, the unbelievable limits of human survival.

[00:17:49]But if we are talking about torment that tests the absolute biological limits of survival, the weeks-long necrosis of Charles III must step aside for the chilling case of King Garcia II, the ruler of the kingdom of Galicia, now part of northern Spain and Portugal.

[00:18:08]The death of Garcia did not come from an open wound or a suffocating cesspit.

[00:18:15]It came from the cruel erosion of time and rusting metal.

[00:18:21]The story begins in the 11th century, a time fraught with fratricidal schemes on the Iberian Peninsula.

[00:18:28]After the death of their father, the kingdom was fractured among the brothers. Garcia II, though a legitimate king, became easy prey for the ambitions of his own brother, King Alfonso VI.

[00:18:42]In 1073, Garcia was lured by Alfonso to a peace meeting, only to be disarmed, captured, and thrown straight into Luna Castle. No death sentence was ever issued.

[00:18:55]King Alfonso VI was a calculating man.

[00:18:58]He did not want to incur the wrath of the church or bear the title of fratricide, but he wanted Garcia to vanish from the human world forever.

[00:19:09]Unlike regular dungeons where prisoners could at least take a few steps, the sentence of Garcia was brutal on an entirely different level.

[00:19:19]He was pinned to space, chained tightly to a cold stone wall.

[00:19:24]Rough, heavy iron rings locked his wrists, his ankles, and wrapped around his waist.

[00:19:31]The length of the chain was calculated with sheer malice. It was only just long enough for him to slump down onto the damp floor, lie curled up in a corner, or stand leaning against the slimy wall.

[00:19:44]And he maintained that state of chained captivity not for 1 year, not for 5 years, but for 17 grueling years.

[00:19:55]Let us peel back a slice of those 17 years to see the gradual [music] decay of a human being.

[00:20:02]Locked in one spot, Garcia was forced to perform every bodily function within a tight radius of barely 2 square meters.

[00:20:11]The place where he chewed on moldy bread scraps was the exact same place he had to excrete.

[00:20:19]His surroundings became a quagmire of waste, food remnants, [music] and dungeon moisture.

[00:20:25]Prolonged filth caused his skin to develop severe scabies.

[00:20:29]His initially royal garments tore and rotted away, blending into sweat and flesh.

[00:20:37]The most terrifying aspect was the interaction between the human body and medieval metal.

[00:20:43]Over the years, moisture from the walls and ammonia levels from his waste caused the shackles to rust heavily.

[00:20:52]The constant friction every time he shifted caused the skin of Garcia to scrape and bleed, forming deep gaping ulcers.

[00:21:01]His body reacted by forming dense scar tissue to protect the wounds.

[00:21:06]These crisscrossing scars gradually grew over, swallowing and twisting tightly into the rusted chain links themselves.

[00:21:16]He and the chains that tormented him merged into a single entity, monstrous and [music] in agonizing pain.

[00:21:26]In 1090, Garcia II took his final breath. His mind had likely collapsed into madness long before his body gave out.

[00:21:35]Tormented to the point of forming a desperate bond with his very shackles, his final wish before dying was to be buried with those heavy iron rings.

[00:21:46]The king who once yearned for freedom now carried his chains down into the deep grave.

[00:21:53]The death of Garcia leaves a massive mystery that baffles medical and historical experts alike. In the zero medical conditions of the 11th century, how did a human body not succumb to tetanus bacteria from rusty metal piercing deep into flesh?

[00:22:13]How did he not die of cholera or gastrointestinal diseases while eating and sleeping amidst his own feces for 17 straight years?

[00:22:22]How did the process of deterioration actually unfold? And how hard did his human immune system have to fight to keep him stubbornly, lingeringly alive before total exhaustion finally claimed his life?

[00:22:36]The file of King Garcia II forever remains a chilling dark corner, proving the insane endurance of mankind.

[00:22:46]Part five, King Henry VI, the melancholy pool of blood beneath the Tower of London.

[00:22:55]Continuing our journey through blood-soaked pages of history, we return to England, stepping through the gates of one of the most notorious fortresses in Europe.

[00:23:05]The Tower of London.

[00:23:08]Here, the torment did not lie in ordinary damp cells, but in the ruthless mental gnawing upon a king who was already incredibly fragile, King Henry VI.

[00:23:20]Henry VI was no warrior or tyrant.

[00:23:23]History describes him as a deeply pious, gentle king who favored building schools and chapels over swinging swords on bloody battlefields.

[00:23:33]But in the fiery era of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war for the crown between the houses of Lancaster and York, the gentleness of a monarch was exactly a death [music] sentence.

[00:23:46]Furthermore, Henry VI supposedly inherited a mental illness from his maternal grandfather, King Charles VI of France.

[00:23:54]He frequently fell into catatonic stupors, oblivious to his surroundings, unable to feed himself or speak for months on end.

[00:24:07]When the Yorkist faction led by Edward IV won a crushing victory, they threw the former King Henry VI into the Tower of London.

[00:24:16]Unlike underground dungeons, the confinement space at the Tower was above ground, but its invisible psychological pressure was heavy.

[00:24:26]From a king surrounded by priests and courtiers, Henry was completely isolated from the outside world.

[00:24:34]No servants, no religious rituals he desperately clung to for his sanity.

[00:24:39]Locked in a cold stone space, deprived of natural sunlight, combined with failing personal hygiene, the already frail body of the former king plummeted disastrously.

[00:24:53]He lingered like a ghost in his own fortress, hair disheveled, clothes soiled, often mumbling prayers alone in a dark corner.

[00:25:06]The climax of the tragedy struck in May 1471.

[00:25:11]The Battle of Tewkesbury ended in a devastating defeat for the army loyal to Henry.

[00:25:16]Even more ironically and cruelly, his only son, Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, was slashed to death right on the battlefield.

[00:25:26]When this news pierced through the stone walls of the Tower of London, it was like a giant hammer smashing into the already shattered mind of Henry.

[00:25:37]On the night of May 21st, 1471, King Henry VI passed [music] away in his cell.

[00:25:45]The very next morning, the new regime of King Edward IV swiftly issued a nationwide statement that sounded incredibly humane, a perfect theatrical play, that the former King Henry VI, already exhausted from captivity, upon hearing the news of his beloved son falling in battle, fell into a state of great displeasure and melancholy, causing his heart to naturally stop beating.

[00:26:14]In that era, dying of a broken heart was a fully accepted medical diagnosis.

[00:26:21]The public had no reason to doubt that a king with a history of mental illness could not simply collapse from such a massive psychological shock.

[00:26:32]However, royal lies cannot bury the truth forever.

[00:26:37]Centuries later, in 1910, with the permission of the British monarchy, the remains of Henry VI at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, were exhumed for modern scientists to examine. [music] When the coffin lid was opened, the veil of deception of the York dynasty was officially torn apart by blood-soaked evidence.

[00:27:01]Examining the skull of the gentle king, scientists did not find the peace of a man who died of sorrow.

[00:27:10]Instead, they discovered the skull was severely fractured by blunt force trauma, and the withered locks of hair clinging to the skull were still matted with thick, dark blood.

[00:27:22]The mystery instantly exploded, turning the death of Henry VI into one of the most brutal assassinations.

[00:27:30]Where did that crack on the skull come from?

[00:27:35]The most haunting truth was repainted.

[00:27:38]Could it be that on that night, as the old king knelt before a small crucifix in his cell, weeping for his recently fallen son, the new King Edward IV secretly dispatched an assassin?

[00:27:52]An assassin walked up from behind, swung a blunt weapon, perhaps an iron mace or a sword hilt, and smashed it straight into the head of the completely defenseless king.

[00:28:06]Henry VI collapsed, his life ending right in a pool of blood before his prayer altar.

[00:28:13]The death notice about melancholy was clearly just a perfect, cheap cover story to hide the barbaric nature of political purges in the dungeons.

[00:28:25]Part six, King Charles III, the dragon blood fades in the darkness of Peronne.

[00:28:33]It was not just royal power in England or Spain that chose dungeons as the site to slaughter noble bloodlines. On the European mainland, even the descendants of the greatest and most sacred dynasties were crushed beneath the wheels of treachery.

[00:28:50]The sixth case, closing our roster of death, takes us back to the 10th century with King Charles III of the Kingdom of West Francia, whom history often refers to with the mocking moniker Charles the Simple.

[00:29:06]Don't let the name fool you, he was no nobody.

[00:29:10]Charles carried the mighty dragon blood of the Carolingian dynasty. He was a direct descendant of the great Emperor Charlemagne, the man who once united nearly all of Western Europe.

[00:29:22]The crown on the head of Charles bore the weight of centuries of conquest, glory, and divine power.

[00:29:31]However, noble blood has never been a sturdy shield against betrayal.

[00:29:36]In the early 10th century, the power of the king was severely weakened by Viking invasions and the rise of local lords.

[00:29:44]In a desperate attempt to salvage his throne following a massive rebellion, Charles was lured to a peace negotiation.

[00:29:52]There, he was ambushed, stripped of his crown, and taken prisoner.

[00:29:58]The mastermind behind this plot was Herbert II, count of Vermandois, a powerful vassal who had once kneeled and sworn loyalty to him.

[00:30:10]Herbert II was a schemer.

[00:30:13]He did not kill Charles immediately because he wanted to keep this king alive as an invaluable political bargaining chip to manipulate other factions and extort neighboring kings.

[00:30:25]And so, Charles was thrown into the wretched dungeon of the Château de Péronne.

[00:30:31]From a king reigning upon the throne of the illustrious Carolingian dynasty, Charles was banished to the very bottom of destitution and decay.

[00:30:42]The dungeon of Péronne was a cramped space, built of gray stones that perpetually wept biting cold water.

[00:30:50]Lacking natural light, the air down in the cellar was thick with the musty smell of packed earth.

[00:30:56]Charles had to endure not a few months, but six agonizing years in this dark cave.

[00:31:04]All dignity was stripped away, and the old king suffered a lack of the most basic necessities.

[00:31:11]Rotted clothes were never replaced, and the sparse, meager, and stale meals were barely enough to keep his breath lingering.

[00:31:21]The endless hunger and the flesh-cutting cold of the French winters slowly drained the life force from the body that once wore a noble ermine cloak.

[00:31:33]In 929, King Charles the Simple breathed his last in ultimate solitude.

[00:31:39]The history books recorded by the victors of the time put it briefly, coldly, and seemingly logically, "King Charles passed away from natural exhaustion due to old age and harsh captive conditions."

[00:31:55]But just like the kings before him, this nature was shrouded in a murky fog of cold-blooded political calculations.

[00:32:04]The massive historical mystery posed is, did this king truly die of pathogens and old age born from a filthy, moss-covered prison environment over 6 years?

[00:32:16]Or behind that lay a meticulously calculated execution order?

[00:32:22]By that time, Herbert II began to realize Charles brought no further political benefit.

[00:32:29]His very existence was even a risk if someone wanted to rescue him.

[00:32:34]Did Herbert order the jailers to completely cut off the water supply and the last of the stale food, callously forcing Charles to starve to death in despair in the dark?

[00:32:45]Or was a bowl of soup spiked with colorless, odorless poison brought down to end the life of the king gently, permanently wiping the presence of the bloodline of Charlemagne off the political stage?

[00:33:02]Whatever the truth may be, the decay of Charles was not just the death of an individual, but it marked the free-falling collapse and fading of the entire great Carolingian dynasty, a crown that once dominated all of Europe, ultimately rusted and sank into the nameless darkness of the Péronne dungeon.

[00:33:24]And so, we have walked through six top-secret death files, six death sentences that required no executioner's blade.

[00:33:33]History has proven a grim reality.

[00:33:36]The medieval dungeon was not just a place to strip away freedom.

[00:33:41]It was a machine that crushed human dignity, forcing the human body to self-destruct in filth, starvation, and disease.

[00:33:51]The deaths surrounded by mystery of the six kings we just recounted were not because the ancients lacked paper and ink to document them, but rather, they were the most perfect cover-ups for the crimes of the ruling elite.

[00:34:06]The victors write history, and they always chose to blame natural disease and melancholy to hide away the red-hot iron pokers, the cracks in skulls, or the most ruthless orders of starvation.

[00:34:22]Among the six rotting deaths we just covered, from the cesspit of Edward the rusty chains of Garcia II, to the pool of blood of Henry VI, which death do you find the most haunting and terrifying?

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