The King took diligent care of their education, and they became proficient in music, languages, and other court accomplishments.

Between them they would carry on animated conversations, sometimes merging into curious debates, followed by blows.

Above the point of union they had no synchronous sensations, while below, sensation was common to both.

This monster lived twenty-eight years, surviving the royal patron, who died June, 1488.
One of the brothers died some days before the other, and the survivor, after carrying about his dead brother, succumbed to "infection from putrescence." There was reported to have been born in Switzerland a double headed male monster, who in 1538, at the age of thirty, was possessed of a beard on each face, the two bodies fused at the umbilicus into a single lower extremity.

These two twins resembled one another in contour and countenance.