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Something smells off about this story. It’s got linked references but I can imagine this ending up being disproven as one of those fictitious Wikipedia articles

• garciansmith 4y ago
  The primary sources, both chronicles, are cited in the article, reproduced in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (a series of edited Medieval texts, known for being carefully edited). There could be issues, of course, like the original authors of the chronicles making up the stories, but this isn't just a baseless Wikipedia hoax. The Chronicle of Reinhardsbrunn, at least, does make specific mention that the nobles fell into a cesspit (cloaca) and died miserably by suffocating in the filth (sceno suffocati miserabiliter interierunt).
  • danjc 4y ago
    I was half joking. You just can’t make this stuff up though.
• zby 4y ago
  Most probably they just died from the fall and only one or two landed in the latrine. But the latrine was the most salient part of the story - so it was what everybody was talking about and then it was recorded that way.
  • TylerE 4y ago
    It seems latrine isn’t really accurate either. More like an (open…) septic tank
• jprd 4y ago
  I see what you did there.