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Edmund II died in 1016. His Occupation was King Of England. He died on the toilet when he was pooping, a Viking hid in the hole he was pooping in and stabbed him in the posterior. Death remarked that it must have been a real "pain in the rear" as Edmund left for the afterlife.
Henry VIII's reign (1509-47) is usually remembered for the King's six wives and his legendary appetite. Infamously, he sent two of his wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, to their deaths on the executioner's block at the Tower of London.
Henry VIII is undoubtedly one of the most infamous kings in English history, widely known for his ruthless ways and six wives, two of which were beheaded. When the Pope in Rome refused to annul his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry split from the Roman Catholic church.
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death.
Of his six wives, Henry VIII had two killed: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. He accused Anne of adultery, and she was convicted and beheaded on May 19, 1536; that she had not given birth to a male heir was, however, Henry's primary motive for having her executed.
Alexander was killed in 1286 when his horse fell over a cliff. Because his children were all dead, his infant grandchild Margaret “the Maid of Norway” (d. 1290) succeeded to the throne.
Louis IV of France (920–54), king of France, died after falling from his horse while hunting a wolf. Louis V of France, king of France, died 987 after falling from a horse during a hunt. Pope Urban VI (d. 1389), from injuries sustained after falling from a mule.
1. Attila The Hun. Ruling the Hunnic Empire from A.D. 434-453, Attila the Hun was known as “The Scourge of God.” After seizing power for himself by killing his older brother, Bleda — Attila went on to expand his empire into areas of Germany, the Balkans and Russia.
The granddaddy of all mad kings is King Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian ruler whose first-person account of a seven-year descent into animal-like insanity is one of the most fascinating sections of the Old Testament book of Daniel.
Some medical historians have said that George III's mental instability was caused by a hereditary physical disorder called porphyria.
William the Conqueror's Exploding Corpse.
The largest practice of fratricide was committed by Mehmed III when he had 19 of his brothers and half-brothers murdered and buried alongside their father.
Without suffering a single defeat, Alexander led his men to victories across the Persian territories of Asia Minor, Egypt and Syria. In 331 BC, his outnumbered army faced off against the Persian King Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela.
Narasimhavarman I is claimed to be one of the Indian kings who never lost on the battlefield to their enemies.
King John I may forever be known as a Bad King following that seminal history textbook 1066 and All That, but according to history authors, it is Henry VIII who should bear the title of the worst monarch in history.
But when all the votes are in, one figures in the minds of scholars and historians as the greatest. He is Cyrus the Great of Persia, who in the mid-6th century BC ruled the greatest empire the world had ever known.
Alexander the Great
Inspiring bravery and loyalty in his troops, he adopted many foreign customs and traditions in order to rule his millions of subjects. Alexander was aged only 32 when he died of a fever in Babylon in June 323 BC.
King Krishnadevaraya loved horses and had the best collection of horse breeds in the Kingdom.
The Queen owned in excess of 100 horses at her death in 2022, and was believed to have earned around £8.7m from prize money down the years. In 2016 alone her horses earned a combined £560,000 in prize money, a figure that was beaten in 2021 with a £584,000 reward.