Tod durch ein Schwein: Wie starb König Philipp?

On October 13, 1131, the French Crown Prince Philip of France from the House of Carpetinger rides on his horse through a suburb of Paris. While he is riding there, a pig suddenly appears which startles the galloping horse of the French Crown Prince and this horse then throws it Reiter the French Crown Prince from the French Crown Prince reports his neck and dies is still a teenager at the time of his death and was made co-king of his father Louis VI of France in 1129. As co-king, Philip did not have such extensive powers, but he certainly did As the successor of his father Nutwiis the Fat, there are two very different reports about the death of this King Philip, which represent the very unusual incident of death by a pig very differently. The two most important source documents are the historical piece by a French historiographer su von Seni and the work of a valisis sy chronicler named Walter Map in this video we will look at both testimonies and try to understand how the death of Philip was interpreted and how the person of Philip is portrayed. First and foremost is the report by the French historiographer S from S this s was active in the closest circle of Louis the sest or just the fat one and wrote relatively promptly, so it goes without saying that he would like to pass on a certain picture of the situation. I quote, in the meantime, a unique and previously unknown event occurred for King Ludwig in the French kingdom Son Philip a healthy and pleasant boy who brought hope to good people and fear to bad people. One day he was riding in a suburb of Paris when his horse collided with a devil pig on the street and fell over heavily, throwing the noble boy and his rider violently against one Stone that shattered him to pieces under his weight, the citizens and all who heard undon were full of grief. On the same day he had called up the army for a campaign and they screamed, cried and lamented. They picked up the young boy just before death's door and took him to a nearby house where he unfortunately died as the darkness set in. Even Homa would not have been able to adequately express the extent and depth of grief and sadness that befell his father and mother as well as the magnates of the kingdom, it is quite obvious that von Son den portrays the situation as incredibly tragic and of course it goes without saying that Ludwich VI must have mourned the death of his son very much. However, as to the successor to this King Lu the VI, it can be said that he actually had many other sons, including the later king Ludwig the VI of France Ludwig the Young or Ludwig the Younger as he is also called so not at all then viewed in the sense of a succession regulation it wasn't such a big catastrophe which is quite noticeable it emphasizes again and again what a lovely person this Philip is should have been and that he would actually have been the predetermined perfect ruler, so a lot of classic, positive ruler attributes are attributed to this Philip, so that he brought hope to good people and terror to bad people. If you read it like that, you think it was really a catastrophe that this Philip died, nevertheless, for this reason and also because of syg's position, it is even more important that we read a counter-proposal, namely that of the crownist Walter Map Walter Map writes later in time than of but what speaks for him is the fact He is not employed at the French court and is not employed in the French king's inner circle and for this reason it is less likely that he will pursue an agenda that is favorable to the French king. Let's read the report by Walter Map, his father Ludwig the Fat made after he had subjugated France with a sword or subdued it with the sword and had taken possession of his first-born son Philip as king, who, after his anointing and the oath of loyalty that all France had sworn to him, renounced his father's commandments and violated with a proud forehead and Tyrannis is proud of everyone but one day when, accompanied by many knights, he was galloping his horse in that part of Paris called lagrev, a black pig fell out of a dung heap on the banks of the SEN and ran between the feet of the galloping horse The horse stumbled and fell, the rider broke his neck and the pig suddenly fell into the scene and as no one had seen it before, no one saw it afterwards either, so his father Ludwig the Fat, or rather the Lord of the Fangich, put him out Jaws of the Lion had freed the kind and compassionate Louis in his place, that is the later Ludwig VI, just as he put David in Saud's place, that is something completely different and for several reasons, so here this Philip is portrayed as tyrannical and that If France had come under his rule, it certainly wouldn't have seen such great times and what's also quite interesting is the speed of the horse, so Walter Map emphasizes that the French Crown Prince's horse really galloped and I think that a galloping horse would probably be wider throws off as such a slow horse - that's obvious - the pig is n't actually seen as something evil here, so we remember the subject described the pig as a so-called devil's pig and in Walter Map the pig is in a certain way even a holy god Saving France from this Prince Philip the situation is presented as almost absurd and yet Walter Map tries to somehow give a religious justification for this absurdity and this propaganda that is obviously directed against Philip, so he compares it with the death of Philip, as has become obvious the replacement of Saul by David in the Bible, so a tyrannical king as depicted here in Walter's report is replaced by a GU-hearted king. At the end of the day, these are now two completely different designs and the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle as far as we can I really can't make any precise statements about what Philip was like as king simply because there aren't that many reports about it, so the reports presented here are the two most important ones Reason because it shows us how differently two different perspectives can represent the same person and also how symbols are always reinterpreted. The pig is something evil, something bad, it is a devil's pig in the subject, so it is even hinted that the devil sent it and is in Water Map It is God who sent the pig and who saved Freich from the lion's mouth. It is really more than impressive how a simple pig is always reinterpreted and given a completely different symbolic meaning