Jenne Heise wrote: > Ob. cookery reference: who was it, in the succession of England after > William the Bastard and before Matilda-Empress, who died of a surfeit of > lampreys (or choked on a plate of eels?) Henry I. Youngest son of William and the father of the Empress Matilda. What a way to go... 'Lainie whose tummy hurts just thinking about it...