Now before y'all would ask how I came across this...
To be honest I don't know😭😭😭
Could be some chronic boredom on my part, or just the fact that I had a bit too much beans for lunch.
Either way I just had the bright idea of figuring out how it was done in those days, the medieval days...
How did the Kings and Queens poop.
What I saw both amazed and shocked the living dung out of me.
Image collected from here by me using Canva
Now the way that the royals in those days designed their thrones🚽, is a bit like the outhouses that you'll see around. Except those outhouses are 2000 to 3000 feet in the air🌝😀.
Designed solely with their functions in mind, the medieval toilet often called garderobe of if you want to sound posh the Privy Chambers✨, had the barest of necessities. A small enclosed space not bigger than a coffee shops restroom and the throne itself with a bit of rough toilet paper for the bum.
The throne opens up below where both your number 1 or 2 or both 💩 falls to a pit or to the moat (if there is one.)
A Bit of History....
Despite common thought, the Middle ages weren't that long, a bit of intermediary time period between different era's to be exact.
This hard time in Europe began after the fall of the Roman Empire in 467 AD and continued through the period of the 14th century Renaissance.
With the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe largely became feudal. With disbanded nations and a general scarcity of natural resources, wealthy lord's took power and went to war with one another with the expensive castles they built for themselves.
Most average blokes found it hard enough to eat and survive but this loaded fellows had time and money to plan for such luxuries 🚽✨.
I know most of y'all are already thinking it and yes....
The Toilet's were used in Battles
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During war's, most brave knights do infiltrate the castle by crawling up through the Garderobe. (Its all for glory I suppose 😂)
Infact there are a few people throughout history who were killed from the toilet, most of them stabbed from behind during the processing of defecating.
- King Edmund of England (30 November, 1016)
- Jaromír Duke of Bohemia (4th of November 1035)
- Usuegi Kenshin (19th April 1578)
Just to name a few....
So I guess that's all I managed to learn about the medieval toilet today without being disgusted enough to puke😂
Its crazy how much has developed that the throne has turned from
That...
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To this...
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