Royalty Lost to the Bubonic Plague 🏰: Tragic Stories of Monarchs Who Died from the Disease

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As the great pestilence burned across central Asia, north Africa and Europe, roughly 100 million people lost their lives in the worst pandemic in human history. More than half of the populations of Florence, Paris and London fell victim. We will never know the names of most of the poor souls who met their end in mass graves. But perhaps the best way to put a human face on this apocalyptic event is to explore the lives of those victims for whom we do have carefully kept records - the Royals. Today let’s meet 21 Kings, Queens and Princes who where cut out of history by the scythe of the black death, and the many outbreaks of plague that followed. And see how their sudden deaths changed the course of history.
Abu Sa’id Bahadur Khan, Mongul Sultan
Joan of England, daughter of Edward III
Blanche of Lancaster
Edward of Angoulême, Son of Edward the Black Prince
Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England
Gruffudd ap Owain
George Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford, Future Prince of Wales
Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond
Joan II, Queen of Navarre
Jeanne of Burgundy, Queen of France
Bonne of Luxembourg
Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Aragon
Alfonso XI, King of Castile
Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal
Duarte, King of Portugal
Ludovico, King of Sicily
Luigi I , king of Naples
Maria I, Queen of Sicily
Erik Magnuson, King of Sweden
Beatrix of Bavaria, Queen of Sweden
Margrethe I of Denmark

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