King Martin I of Aragon (1356-1410) was suffering from a bad tummy ache. From his sickbed, he ordered that the court jester be summoned to cheer him up. When the jester arrived, his excuse for being late was: “I was in the next vineyard, your majesty, where I saw a young deer hanging by his tail from a tree, as if somebody had punished him for stealing figs”. The monarch found this joke so hilarious that he laughed for three hours, then fell out of his bed, stone dead.
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