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Executed after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for two years. Sir John Neville: 15 June 1541 Executed for treason for failing to report a planned rebellion. Leonard Grey: 28 July 1541 Lord Deputy of Ireland. Executed for treason after allegedly aiding his nephew Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare's escape to France. Francis Dereham
People executed by the Kingdom of England during the Tudor dynasty (1485–1603). ... People executed by Tudor England by hanging, drawing and quartering (1 C, 24 P)
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
Pages in category "People executed under the Tudors for treason against England" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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The last person to be executed in the Tower, Josef Jakobs, Nazi spy, shot by a firing squad on 15 August 1941. [15] The last people to be held in the Tower, the Kray twins. [16] They were imprisoned for a few days in 1952 for failing to report for national service.
The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots took place on 8 February 1587 at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England. After nineteen years in English captivity following her forced abdication from the throne of Scotland , Mary was found guilty of plotting the assassination of her cousin, Elizabeth I in what became known as the Babington Plot .
Symbolic robed figure of a medieval public executioner at Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Russia Photograph (hand-coloured), original dated 1898, of the lord high executioner of the former princely state of Rewah, Central India, with large executioner's sword (Tegha sword) Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's The Triumph of Death 1562–1563 Stylised depiction of public ...