6. The White Ship Disaster, Barfleur, Normandy 1120

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The White Ship sinking, from a manuscript c. 1321, now held at the British Library (Cotton Claudius D. ii, fol. 45v)

The fact that some people think that Stephen of Blois — or maybe Ranulf Meschin — caused the sinking of la Blanche-Nef allows us to consider it a True Crime. It wasn’t. But it was the worst teenage drunken party in history, and that’s good enough for us.

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