By Cassandra Samuels
There are so many scandalous men in history but I can only supply you with a few today.
First up is
Ferdinand 1 of Naples. Oh boy, this guy was not nice. He was a dirty fighter and, after promising amnesty to his enemies, went back on his word and had them all murdered. Worse, he had them mummified and set up in a gruesome gallery. If he suspected anyone wasn't loyal to him he would take them on a tour of the gallery. If you didn't get the hint after that, well....
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| Courtesy of wikimedia commons |
Next is
King Edward 1 of England, otherwise known as Longshanks. He was 6'2" which was very tall for that time. In 1304 Edward laid siege to Stirling Castle. For months he battered the castle with his favourite toy, the trebuchet. When eventually the occupants of the castle wanted to surrender he actually said no. Why? Because he had just had a new trebuchet called Warwolf delivered and he wanted to test it out. So he wouldn't accept surrender until he had bombarded them for a whole day with Warwolf.
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| By DeFacto - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61084386 |
Last of all is the
Chevalier D'Eon, a successful French spy who was known for dressing as a woman and crossing over to Russia and even becoming a maid in Empress Elizabeth's court. Rumours started to abound: he was either very good or perhaps a woman playing a man all along so he could become a spy. It became such a hot topic that even the London Stock Exchange took odds on his true gender. So was he a man or a woman?
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| Wikimedia Commons - Chevalier D'Eon by Thomas Stewart |
After being exiled for unrelated indiscretions, Chevalier decided to plead for mercy as a woman. He lived as a woman until his death where it was found he was in fact male but just had very feminine characteristics. Talk about a double life.
Have you heard any scandalous stories of historical figures?
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