It is not death that destroys a conqueror, but obesity. That is what happened to King William when he was 59.

On that early September morning in 1087, during a battle to take the city of Paris, the king was thrown from his horse. His bulging stomach hit the pommel of his saddle and he could not keep his balance. He tumbled forward and was killed.

But things did not end there. When the interment began, it turned out that the stone sarcophagus that h