"Was the White Ship disaster mass murder?" Topic
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Tango01  | 22 May 2013 11:36 a.m. PST |
"It was perhaps the worst maritime disaster of the Middle Ages, not just because it cost 300 lives, but because one of them was the heir to the Anglo-Norman Empire. One scholar has a theory that the sinking of the White Ship on the night of November 25, 1120 was not a tragic accident, rather a case of mass murder. In the year 1120, King Henry I was at the peak of his power. He had taken control of both England and Normandy having defeated and imprisoned his brother Robert Curthose, and crushed several rebellious barons. He had also succeeded in convincing the French king to acknowledge that his son, William the Atheling, would succeed him as Duke of Normandy.…"
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| David Manley | 22 May 2013 11:58 a.m. PST |
| 22 May 2013 12:40 p.m. PST |
The above is the reason why the Brother Gadfly novels never quite took off! |
 Parzival | 22 May 2013 12:41 p.m. PST |
Fun article, but there's a big stretch in having the proposed conspirators rely solely on an assumption that the drunken sailors would necessarily hit a rock and sink the ship with all hands. Absent any real evidence, I'll go with accident. |
| MajorB | 22 May 2013 2:40 p.m. PST |
"Was the White Ship disaster mass murder?" No, just a tragic accident. |
| Proniakin | 22 May 2013 6:46 p.m. PST |
Ken Follet's 'Pillars of the Earth' indicates not an accident. |
| Wardlaw | 22 May 2013 11:51 p.m. PST |
and Follett's 'Pillars' is fiction! No evidence for any conspiracy, certainly far less than for the 'hunting accident' that saw the death of William Rufus. |
 20thmaine | 23 May 2013 6:23 a.m. PST |
certainly far less than for the 'hunting accident' that saw the death of William Rufus.
I read a non-fiction book on that years ago – can't recall title or author – any ideas anyone ?? |
Puster  | 23 May 2013 11:15 a.m. PST |
>"It was perhaps the worst maritime disaster of the Middle Ages Murder, perhaps. The "worst" disaster. Unlikely, highly unlikely. Some 1000 years of naval travels will certainly yield worse desaster then a single ship with 300 victims.
Looking to the east, not so long after this the Mongol invasion fleet sinks before Japan with estimated casualties in the five digits. |
| rampantlion | 23 May 2013 12:47 p.m. PST |
I would say accident, that was a treacherous crossing in those days. |
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