I've looked in all my history books and can't find who it was.
Please help! It's an extra credit from my professor.
2007-10-12 09:26:30 · 4 answers · asked by Mannie मञ्जुला 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I think it was Charles V.
I'm not 100% certain though.
Edit: Yes. It was Charles V.
"Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor was born in Ghent, in the kingdom of Flanders on February 24, 1500.
His mother, Joan "the Mad" of Castile, had been expecting a child. Against the advice of her physicians, she enjoyed partaking in court social events during her pregnancy.
During one such celebration, the queen took ill. Thinking it an upset stomach, the queen slipped discreetly from the party, heading for the commodes.
She did not realize her mistake until it was too late to move her, and the queen was forced to deliver the child on the commode. The child born that afternoon was the future Charles V and I of the Holy Roman Empire and Spain."
LOL. You'll laugh when you see my source.
Peace.
2007-10-12 09:28:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I only know of one bizarre birth of a Holy Roman Emperor. Frederick II was born the day after Christmas, 1194. His father, Henry VI, was significantly younger than Frederick's mother, Constance of Sicily (it was a political marriage of course) and Constance was at least 40, by some counts closer to 50, when she was pregnant with their son, which caused many people to gossip that she was faking her pregnancy and planned to substitute a peasant baby. Knowing the trouble this could bring down the road, Constance had her servants erect a tent in the marketplace of the city of Jesi (a city on the east/Adriatic coast of Italy) and she did her "lying in" (the period in the final stage of a woman's pregnancy) there. When she went into labor, her servants (on her orders) raised the flaps of the tent so that all of the villagers could witness her giving birth and so that there would be no question later as to the baby's parentage.
This wasn't a latrine (though there was a latrine there I'm sure), but if you can't find the answer you can mention this one and he'll probably still give you some extra credit. (Frederick grew up to be one of the most brilliant and one of the strangest rulers of the Middle Ages.)
2007-10-12 10:29:53 · answer #2 · answered by Jonathan D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ELAGABALUS WAS MURDERED IN A LATRINE AS WAS HIS MOTHER SEE ATTACHED LINK. http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/emperors/ig/Roman-Emperors/Elagabalus.htm
2007-10-12 09:41:44 · answer #3 · answered by Loren S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many were ......Lateran was the Name of the center of Catholic religion before the Vatican it was spelled Lateran not latrine
2007-10-12 09:39:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋