. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ike most great men; his neck was short and thick; and when he grew old hebecame corpulent but he had great dignity of presence. Eginhard describeshim as Apice capitis rotundo—a round-headed man. His health wasuniformly good until the last four years of his life, when he suffered fromfever and ague. He was accustomed to take plenty of exercise and delightedin riding and swimming. He wore a linen shirt and drawers, over that atunic with a silver border; his legs were bound
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ike most great men; his neck was short and thick; and when he grew old hebecame corpulent but he had great dignity of presence. Eginhard describeshim as Apice capitis rotundo—a round-headed man. His health wasuniformly good until the last four years of his life, when he suffered fromfever and ague. He was accustomed to take plenty of exercise and delightedin riding and swimming. He wore a linen shirt and drawers, over that atunic with a silver border; his legs were bound with garters, and he worelatched shoes on his feet. In the winter he protected his shoulders and chestwith an otter skin vest. He was always girt with a sword, the hilt and beltbeing of gold; his favourite sword he called La Joyeuse, and this wasburied with him. In his eating and drinking he was most temperate and hehad an abhorrence of intoxication. During his meals he liked some one toread aloud, or he listened to music. Such was Charlemagne. Authorities: Mombert; Gibbon; Eginliard; J. P. ; Glaister; No. 13 The Death of King Henry IV of England. Born 3rdApril 1367. Died 20th March 1413, aged 46. IT was gloomy and dull at Westminster Abbey on the morning of19th March 1413, when the King went by. He was in a litter, and thecurtains hanging loosely by the pole at the corner showed his faceupon a pillow. It was a terrible face, red and made hideous by disease, andscant of hair as that of an old man. The carriers went by quickly and roundby the little gate that was there, into the South Transept. Inside the Abbeyit was warm but quite silent and dark. The King lay in his litter andgroaned: then he bade the men take him forward again whither he wouldgo. But just as the four men laid hold of the handles, he asked as loudly ashis disease and his weakness would permit, where, if anywhere, the BlessedSacrament was reserved that day. The man-at-arms who accompanied theli
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