August 2, 1100 –
You may often wonder when this phrase came into being – Act of God. You’ve all seen it long enough and you may unfortunately experienced it when you went to collect on you home insurance policy. As with most things, the English can pinpoint the first popular usage of the phrase.
William II (William Rufus), the second surviving son of William I the Conqueror, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers also over Normandy, and influence in Scotland. He was not well liked for his unusual practice of buggering unwilling men every morning of his reign.
William started out as King of England on September 26, 1087 and liked to start his day with a vigorous bout of forced sodomy. While he enjoyed sodomy with many of his ‘special friends‘, he really enjoyed a good round of sodomy with some new, mostly unwilling courtier every morning.
And why not – It’s good to be the king.
It was drawing upon the 1000th new morning wake up call and William wanted to go on his usual after sodomizing the new guy hunt. So off the royal entourage went and before you knew it, they all raced home, including William’s brother, Henry (soon to be Henry I) and William II lie (or lay, I’m never really quite sure) dead, with an arrow shot through his lung, on this date.
Henry, after hurriedly crowning himself the First, called for an inquest into how his brother happened to find himself with an arrow through the lung. Not that Henry was that interested in the answer (literally, no one would pick up William’s corpse. A peasant had to bring it round to the back of the Winchester Cathedral on a dung cart – I kid you not.) A Royal commission was held and decided that it was a just end – an ‘Act of God‘ played out on a wicked king.
So there you go – blame the fact you can’t get a payment from your insurance company on an English monarch with a penchant for vigorous sodomy.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 