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Kings Betrayed to Death

Kings Betrayed to Death

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Royalty attracts assassins the way thrones attract rivals. A dagger in a corridor, poison in a favorite dish, a hunting accident that was no accident: this show tells the true stories of royalty murdered for their crowns.

Each episode reconstructs one royal murder in full, cinematic detail: the reign and its enemies, the conspiracy forming in the shadows, the night the deed was done, and the storm of succession that followed. No host chatting between clips, no panel debating legends. Just one complete story, narrated start to finish, built from chronicles, inquests, and the letters conspirators thought would be burned.

You will walk the corridors where royalty died at the hands of brothers, wives, guards, and strangers: kings killed mid-prayer, queens erased to make room for successors, and heirs who vanished into fortresses and never came out. Some episodes follow the murder plot day by day; others reopen cold cases where history still argues over the killer's name. All of them treat royalty murders as what they are: politics by the sharpest possible means.

If you are drawn to royal history with a true crime spine, this is built for you. New episodes drop regularly, each one a self-contained royal murder from motive to aftermath. Subscribe now so the next of the murdered crowns lands the moment it goes live.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT Crimini reali
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  • The Fleet That Went Home and Drowned Canute's Plan

    The Fleet That Went Home and Drowned Canute's Plan
    Sep 7 2026
    The Fleet That Went Home and Drowned Canute's Plan

    Nearly a thousand ships sat anchored in the Limfjord through the summer of 1085, waiting for a king who had gone somewhere else. Denmark's peasant soldiers had assembled for what would become the last serious Viking attempt to conquer England, but as the harvest crept closer, their commander was hundreds of miles away managing a different threat entirely. What happened when that fleet finally went home would set in motion a chain of decisions no one could undo.

    In this episode, we trace the five-year reign of Canute the Fourth of Denmark, from his marriage alliance against William the Conqueror and his sweeping domestic reforms to the fatal miscalculation that turned an exhausted army into a mortal enemy, asking whether he was a tyrant who provoked his own downfall or a reformer whose vision outpaced the age he ruled.

    Person: Canute the Fourth of Denmark
    Location: Odense, Denmark
    Date: July 10, 1086
    Case: the killing of a Danish king inside the wooden church of Saint Alban's Priory
    Status: canonized as a saint by Pope Paschal the Second on April 19, 1101

    - In May 1085, Canute signed a donation letter to Lund Cathedral that survives today as the oldest comprehensive written text from Denmark
    - Nearly a thousand ships gathered at the Limfjord in 1085 for an invasion of England, prompting William the Conqueror to order the Domesday survey
    - Canute had his brother Olaf arrested and sent to Flanders after Olaf carried the fleet's request to disband for the harvest
    - The Chronicon Roskildense confirms that fines were levied against the peasants who left the leding to bring in their crops
    - A 2008 CT scan of Canute's remains in Saint Canute's Cathedral found the fatal wound was a thrust through the abdomen into the sacrum, contradicting Ælnoth of Canterbury's account of a lance through the flank

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  • The papal decree that excommunicated him buried his body unblessed

    The papal decree that excommunicated him buried his body unblessed
    Sep 7 2026
    The papal decree that excommunicated him buried his body unblessed

    At Visegrád, on the bend of the Danube, a king's body was lowered into the earth in the winter of 1386 with no priest present, no candles lit, no absolution offered — because a piece of paperwork from the year before had never been rescinded. This was a man who had defeated a French army three times his size, besieged a sitting pope inside a fortress, and seized two crowns within the same decade. How does a man who conquered kingdoms end up in a grave the Church refuses to bless?

    In this episode, we trace the life of Charles of Durazzo from child hostage to twice-crowned king, asking how a single unresolved document could outlast wars, sieges, and assassinations to determine the way a man was buried.

    Person: Charles of Durazzo
    Location: Visegrád, Kingdom of Hungary
    Date: February 24, 1386
    Case: the excommunication issued by Pope Urban VI in 1385, never rescinded before his death
    Status: died of wounds from an attack, buried without ecclesiastical rites

    - Charles was sent to Queen Joanna I's court in Naples as a hostage around 1360, at an age recorded as between three and six
    - He married Margaret of Durazzo on January 24, 1370, under a papal dispensation Urban VI had granted on June 15, 1369
    - On June 17, 1379, Urban VI declared Joanna I deprived of the Kingdom of Naples and transferred the crown to Charles and Margaret
    - Charles commanded roughly 14,000 men, including mercenaries under John Hawkwood, against a French invasion force of about 40,000
    - In January 1385, Urban VI excommunicated Charles and placed the Kingdom of Naples under interdict, after which Charles besieged the pope at Nocera for six months

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    22 min
  • The loyal servant's letter lured the king into the barn

    The loyal servant's letter lured the king into the barn
    Sep 7 2026
    The loyal servant's letter lured the king into the barn

    On the morning of November 23rd, 1286, villagers found a body on the floor of a church barn in Finderup, stabbed fifty-six times. The body belonged to the King of Denmark, dressed as a hunter, guarded by no castle walls and only a handful of attendants. Someone inside his own household had been feeding his location to his enemies for months — but who gave the final order, and whether the men punished for it ever raised a weapon at all, is a question the historical record has never fully closed.

    In this episode, we trace Eric the Fifth of Denmark from his captive childhood through his forced signing of Denmark's first constitution to the night at Finderup, asking whether a king's murder can ever be untangled from the political charter that died alongside him.

    Person: Eric the Fifth of Denmark, called Klipping
    Location: Finderup, central Jutland, Denmark
    Date: November 22-23, 1286
    Case: the assassination of a king in a borrowed church barn
    Status: nine men outlawed by the Danish court, none ever tried

    - Eric the Fifth was stabbed fifty-six times in the barn at Finderup, known as Finderup Lade
    - He was born in 1249, became king at age ten after his father Christopher the First died in 1259
    - His mother, Queen Margaret Sambiria, ruled as regent and was defeated and captured with her son at the Battle of Lohede in 1261
    - Eric signed the Nyborg charter (håndfæstning) in 1282, recognized today as Denmark's first constitution
    - Rane Jonsen, the household spy who guided the king to the barn, was the only one of nine outlawed men charged directly with the killing
    - Marshal Stig Andersen Hvide and Jacob Nielsen, Count of Halland, fled to Norway and were never tried; Stig reportedly raided the Danish coast for nearly twenty years under the protection of King Haakon the Fifth of Norway

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    23 min
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