After his return from Italy, Attila married a young girl. The marriage took place in 453, and was celebrated with a grand feast, and plenty of alcohol. After dinner, the new couple retired to the wedding chamber. Attila did not show up the next morning, so his nervous servants opened the chamber door. The king was dead on the floor-‘covered with blood’, and his bride was huddled in a corner in a state of shock. No one really knows whether he died of a nose-bleed, or whether he was murdered by his wife, or whether he died of alcohol poisoning.