CSI: 1664
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The writer of this document and shedder of this blood is Frisian stadtholder Willem Frederik. While he was cleaning his pistol on the 24th of October 1664, he accidentally shot himself in the head. However serious this injury, he didn’t die from his wounds immediately. Unable to speak or eat, he scribbled down his last wishes. This is one of the notes that he left, stipulating that his “hofmeester” (magister curiae) was to stay with his wife and children. As he jotted this down, blood must have dripped from his wound onto the paper, leaving us with DNA evidence of the tragedy that had befallen him.
Do read more at the source, the wonderful Medieval Fragments: http://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2014...
Do read more at the source, the wonderful Medieval Fragments: http://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2014...