Famous Last Words from the Middle Ages

From the strange to the serene, here are some last words by kings, queens, saints, warriors and other people from the Middle Ages.



From the book Last Words: A Dictionary of Deathbed Quotations, by C. Bernard Ruffin (1995). Keep in mind that in many cases we have multiple accounts of how a person died, so that you mind find other versions of these last words.

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