That Time When Sixty Members of Nobility Died in a Latrine Disaster
In July 1184, Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held court at a Hoftag in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the morning of 26 July, the joined load of the gathered aristocrats caused the wooden second story floor of the structure to implode and a large portion of them fell through into the restroom cesspit beneath the ground floor, where around 60 of them suffocated in fluid dung. This occasion is called Erfurter Latrinensturz (lit. 'Erfurt lavatory fall') in a few German sources.A quarrel between Landgrave Louis III of Thuringia and Archbishop Conrad of Mainz which had existed since the loss of Henry the Lion strengthened to the point that King Henry VI had to mediate while he was going through the locale during a tactical mission against Poland. Henry chose to call an eating regimen in Erfurt, where he was remaining, to intercede what is happening between the two and welcomed various different figures to the negotiations.
Every one of the Nobles across the Holy Roman Empire were welcome to the gathering, and many showed up on 25 July to attend. Just as the gathering started, the wooden floor of the deanery, in which the aristocrats were sitting, bankrupt under the pressure, and individuals tumbled down through the initial floor into the lavatory in the basement. Around 60 individuals died,including Count Gozmar III of Ziegenhain [de], Count Friedrich I of Abenberg [de], Burgrave Friedrich I of Kirchberg [de], Count Heinrich I of Schwarzburg [de], Burgrave Burchard of Wartburg and Beringer of Meldingen. King Henry was said to have endure simply because he sat in a niche with a stone floor.
ABOUT THE CITY ERFURT
Erfurt is a city in the focal German province of Thuringia. Martin Luther, father of the Protestant Reformation, was appointed in the Cathedral of St. Mary, whose beginnings date to the eighth hundred years. Close to the basilica is the Gothic Church of St. Severus. The Augustinerkloster is a cloister where Martin Luther resided as a priest. The Krämerbrücke span has archaic houses and shops, and stretches over the Gera River.
ABOUT HENRY VI
Henry VI (Heinrich VI) (November 1165 - 28 September 1197), an individual from the Hohenstaufen line, was King of Germany (King of the Romans) from 1169 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his demise. From 1194 he was likewise King of Sicily.
He was the second child of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his partner Beatrix of Burgundy. Knowledgeable in the Latin language, as well as Roman and ordinance regulation, Henry was likewise a benefactor of writers and a talented artist himself. In 1186 he was hitched to Constance of Sicily, the post mortem little girl of the Norman ruler Roger II of Sicily. Henry, trapped in the Hohenstaufen struggle with the House of Welf until 1194, needed to implement the legacy claims by his better half against her nephew Count Tancred of Lecce. Henry's endeavor to overcome the Kingdom of Sicily fizzled at the attack of Naples in 1191 because of a pestilence, with Empress Constance caught. In light of a gigantic payoff for the delivery and accommodation of King Richard I of England, he vanquished Sicily in 1194; nonetheless, the planned unification with the Holy Roman Empire at last bombed because of the resistance of the Papacy.
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