How did Attila The Great Hun die??

Question

I had heard that he was killed by his own bride in their first night..

Answer 1

Attila, the Hun, died in the early months of 453, AD :
The conventional account, from Priscus, says that on the night after a feast celebrating his latest marriage to Hildico (a beautiful Burgundian or Gothic girl) he suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death in a stupor.
An alternative to the nosebleed theory is that he succumbed to internal bleeding after heavy drinking. For a man who boasted 'Where my horse has trodden, no grass grows', it was a curiously anti-climactic death.
Jordanes says that his warriors, upon discovering his death, mourned him by cutting off their hair and gashing themselves with their swords so that, 'the greatest of all warriors should be mourned with no feminine lamentations and with no tears, but with the blood of men'.
His horsemen galloped in circles around the silken tent when Attila lay in state, singing in his dirge, according to Cassiodorus and Jordanes, 'Who can rate this as death, when none believes it calls for vengeance?', then celebrating a strava over his burial place with great feasting.

Answer 2

The Death of Attila
His failure to marry Honoria didn't mean Attila was a lonely Hun. He had plenty of wives, and in 453, while plotting another invasion of the Eastern Roman empire, he took some time off to get married again. His bride was a beautiful girl named Ildico, and their wedding night was the last night of Attila's life.

Late the next morning, worried because the king hadn't emerged from his bedroom, his servants broke in and found Attila dead, with Ildico weeping nearby. The drunken Attila had suffered a terrible nosebleed in the night and choked to death on his own blood.

But did Attila really die of natural causes? Some think the Hun king was murdered. Attila was the target of an earlier assassination attempt. Two of Attila's so-called 'logades' (chosen men who made up Attila's 'cabinet'), had travelled on an embassy to Constantinople. One of them, Edeco(n), was apparently bribed into agreeing to betray Attila. At some point, however, Edecon reneged on his pledge and turned the tables, revealing the whole plan to Attila.

What happened in Gaul and Italy in 451-52 is also very significant in that Attila's army was badly weakened. There's every reason to believe that widespread dissatisfaction existed among Attila's lieutenants and that the wedding ceremony, with its elaborate drinking rituals, provided the perfect opportunity to poison the chieftain. The evidence assemble points to a widespread conspiracy that linked the eastern and western Roman courts (specifically Emperor Marcian in the East and General Aetius in the West)."

Answer 3

Because it happened so many centuries ago, we cannot be sure what caused Attila the Hun's death. The historical sources are few, and seem to focus on death from a massive hemorrhage. We cannot be sure whether the bleeding source was from the nose or from the digestive tract, but death from epistaxis is rare, whereas gastrointestinal hemorrhage, particularly from esophageal varices, is often fatal. Attila was known to consume substantial amounts of alcohol, and the timing of his death after a wedding banquet with lots of drinking is compatible with a massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

An epidemic of malaria originating in the marshy region surrounding Rome was the probable reason why Attila did not attack the city. After his death, his numerous offspring were unable to sustain the might of the Hun Empire, but persistent attacks by other tribes led to the fall of the Roman Empire a few decades after Attila's death.

Answer 4

Attila's death in 453 wasn’t quite what one would have expected from such a fierce barbarian warrior. He died not on the battlefield, but on the night of his marriage. On that night Attila, who, despite common misconceptions, was not a heavy drinker, drank heavily in celebration of his new bride. In his wedding chambers at the end of the event, Attila passed out flat on his back. It was then and there that Attila had a massive nosebleed which caused him to choke on his own blood.

Answer 5

Attila is not Great !

No historian ever called him Great.

Attila was something like an illegal immigrant, he came to Europe to take, steal and create nothing.

Answer 6

it is generally thought he died from a severe nosebleed after massive feasting on his wedding night

after looking in wikipedia .....
"The Volsunga saga and the Poetic Edda claim that King Atli died at the hands of his wife Gudrun.[7] Most scholars reject these accounts as no more than romantic fables"