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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
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.
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as pictured in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a penalty in England, Wales, Ireland and the United Kingdom for several crimes, but mainly for high treason .
People executed by the Kingdom of England during the Tudor dynasty (1485–1603). Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
The standard penalty for all those convicted of treason at the time was execution by being hanged, drawn and quartered. In the reign of Pope Gregory XIII (1572–85), authorisation was given for 63 recognised martyrs to have their relics honoured and pictures painted for Catholic devotions.
Burning of the Templars, 1314 Burning of William Sawtre, 1401 John Badby burned in a barrel, 1410 Burning of Jan Hus in Constance, 1415 Joan of Arc at the stake, 1431 Rogers' execution at Smithfield, 1555 Burning of John Hooper in Gloucester, 1555 Burning of Thomas Hawkes, 1555. Ramihrdus of Cambrai [4] [5] (1076 or 1077) (burned)
An ISIS-offshoot based in Algeria has executed a French hostage after previously threatening to kill him over France's participation in airstrikes over Iraq. Herve Gourdel, 55, was captured Sunday ...
Edmund, Earl of Rutland (1460) – executed by order of Lord Clifford for being a Yorkist (stabbed to death during the Battle of Wakefield and later decapitated) Thomas Thorpe, Speaker of the House of Commons (1461) – beheaded by a London mob; Sir Owen Tudor (1461) – executed after the Battle of Mortimer's Cross for being a Lancastrian