King Henry was said to have survived only because he sat in an alcove with a stone floor. About 60 people died, including Count Gozmar III of Ziegenhain, Count Friedrich I of Abenberg, Burgrave Friedrich I of Kirchberg, Count Heinrich I of Schwarzburg, Burgrave Burchard of Wartburg and Beringer of Meldingen.
Just as the assembly began, the wooden floor of the deanery, in which the nobles were sitting, broke under the stress, and people fell down through the first floor into the latrine in the cellar. Nobles across the Holy Roman Empire were invited to the meeting, and many arrived on 25 July to attend.
This event is called Erfurter Latrinensturz (lit. ’Erfurt latrine fall’) in several German sources. On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement. In July 1184, Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held court at a Hoftag in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. Maybe his book is worth a read, doesn’t it? 2) The day when 60 German nobles drowned in liquid excrement. Napoleon may have been a successful general and statesman but not a successful writer and novelist. Heartbroken at the end of his marriage, Clisson then sends off one final letter to his unfaithful wife and her new lover before deliberately engineering his death at the front of an armed charge toward the enemy. Unfortunately, Clisson is injured in battle and Berville, a comrade sent to reassure Eugénie, seduces her, who stops sending Clisson letters. Retiring from the military, Clisson and Eugénie marry and raise several children within an idyllic countryside retreat, but war returns and Clisson feels compelled to serve his country. The plot can be synopsized as: Clisson, a heroic revolutionary French soldier, but tired of war, meets and falls for Eugénie at a public bath. The book was based on the relationship he had with one of his mistresses and the future queen of Sweden, Eugénie Désirée Clary. In 1795 the French general and soon to be consul and emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, aged 26, wrote a romance novel called “Clisson et Eugénie” (English: Clisson and Eugenie) which was 17 pages long. 1) Napoleon Bonaparte once wrote a romance novel.
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