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Date of Execution Details Edmund Dudley: 17 August 1510 Member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons, and President of King's Council under Henry VII. Executed for constructive treason. Sir Richard Empson: Speaker of the House of Commons and knight of the shire for Northamptonshire in the English Parliament under ...
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.
People executed by Tudor England by hanging, drawing and quartering (1 C, 24 P) People executed under Henry VII of England (11 P) People executed under Henry VIII (97 P)
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 .
Francis Dereham (c. 1506/09 – executed () 10 December 1541) was a Tudor courtier whose involvement with Henry VIII's fifth Queen, Catherine Howard, in her youth, prior to engagement with the king, was eventually found out and led to his arrest. The information of Dereham having a relationship with Howard displeased King Henry to such great ...
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 .
The third season of The Tudors premiered on 5 April 2009, and attracted 726,000 viewers in the United States, which was a five per cent decrease from the previous season's premiere. The premiere bested HBO 's In Treatment season two premiere which drew 657,000 viewers, and marks one of the few times that a Showtime original received more ...
Historians often consider his execution as a watershed in the history of attainder, which traditionally acted as a corollary to common law rather than replacing it. It was a direct precursor to the treason attainders that were to underpin the Tudors'—and particularly Henry's—destruction of political and religious enemies.