On the 25th April 1112, the bourgeois entered Notre-Dame Cathedral of Laon where Waldric was slaughtered of a fall of axe.
On the 25th April 1112, further to the uprising of the bourgeois against Waldric, bishop of Laon, who, trying by all means to levy taxes and additional rights, wanted to stop the communal charter, the bourgeois entered Notre-Dame Cathedral of Laon where Waldric was slaughtered of a fall of axe in a cellar. - Histoire Populaire de la France, Tome Premier, Ch. Lahure's Publication, circa 1860
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