So....he's another one who died in a "hunting accident"

[Agrippa43]

Wikepedia links in the game are stellar! I've spent more time reading those then playing.

Have you ever noticed the large number of so called "hunting accidents" during the medieval era?

It seems rulers with rivals to the throne suddenly died of "hunting accidents".....lol

 

[Hidden Legend]

Richard of Normandy the brother between Robert Curthose and William Rufus died of a hunting accident in the 1070s and then so did Rufus around 1100

 

[rashtrakut]

Wikepedia links in the game are stellar! I've spent more time reading those then playing.

Have you ever noticed the large number of so called "hunting accidents" during the medieval era?

It seems rulers with rivals to the throne suddenly died of "hunting accidents".....lol

The New Forest was dangerous for the Norman royal house. William Rufus (whose manner of death is explicit) had an older brother Richard die in the same forest 30 years earlier...not sure if he was shot by an errant arrow or just took a fall from his horse.

 

[DreadLindwyrm]

Hunting accidents are a perfect way to dispose of a rival to the throne. If you're really lucky you can actually force them into having to face a boar, alone and on foot. That should kill them...

 

[TheChronoMaster]

He used to be a pretender to the throne like you, but then he took an arrow in the face.

Fired by you, of course.

 

[Gatkramp]

Robert Baratheon anyone?

 

[HolisticGod]

Hunting accidents are a perfect way to dispose of a rival to the throne. If you're really lucky you can actually force them into having to face a boar, alone and on foot. That should kill them...

So are royal weddings.

No matter how suspicious the circumstances, you can just blame it on the dwarf...

 

[Sarin]

Robert Baratheon anyone?

Harold Holt

google it

 

[sirbruce]

Conan II, Duke of Brittany, died in 1066 during his war with Duke William of Normandy after donning a pair of riding gloves that happened to be coated with poison. William was widely suspected...

Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, died in 1186 under mysterious circumstances. He was trampled to death by a horse at a tournament in Paris; some say his riding stirrups were cut thus causing him to fall off.

 

[Taiisatai64]

So are royal weddings.

No matter how suspicious the circumstances, you can just blame it on the dwarf...

That crafty dwarf, poisoning the king in front of the whole court! It was obviously him!

 

[tanathos]

Robert Baratheon anyone?

I was thinking of Samwell Tarly.

 

[Duke of Bavaria]

Thinking of how popular hunting was among rulers in the Middle Ages i dont get as suspicious as you when i hear " hunting accident".

 

[bgibbard]

Hunting was a truly dangerous activity and did cause a lot of deaths and injuries (to this day many people are killed in hunting accidents every year). I'd agree that Rufus' death was highly suspicious, although it could indeed have been an accident. There wasn't anything suspicious about Richard's death. I gather he was crushed between his saddle and a low tree branch, which would be hard to deliberately arrange.