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St Oliver Plunkett's head. Oliver Plunkett was beatified on 23 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV. [14] The cause for his canonization was opened on 27 July 1951, [14] and he was canonized in 1975, the first new Irish saint for almost seven hundred years, [1] and the first of the Irish martyrs to be beatified. For the canonisation, the customary ...
Another victim of the Popish Plot, Oliver Plunkett, the Archbishop of Armagh, was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn in July 1681. His executioner was bribed so that Plunkett's body parts were saved from the fire; the head is now displayed at St Peter's Church in Drogheda. [74]
Oliver Plunkett: Last victim of the Popish Plot: 1685: over 200: Charged with treason following the Monmouth Rebellion, their remains were parboiled, tarred, and displayed on poles, trees and lampposts; only when James II conducted a progress through the area were they removed and buried [49] 16 February 1788: Robert Keon
Sir Thomas St. Leger (1483) – beheaded at Exeter for rebellion against his brother-in-law Richard III; Sir George Browne (1483) – beheaded at Tower Hill for rebellion against Richard III; William Catesby (1485) – beheaded at Leicester by order of Henry VII of England after the Battle of Bosworth for being a Yorkist
Oliver Plunkett, 1st Baron Louth (d. c. 1555), was an Irish peer. He was the eldest son of Sir Richard (or: Patrick, Lodge vol. 6, p. 161) Plunkett of Beaulieu (died 1508), High Sheriff of Louth , and his wife Catherine Nangle, daughter of Thomas Nangle, 15th Baron of Navan .
Randal Pilgrim Ralph Plunkett, 14th Baron Louth (1868–1941) Otway Randal Percy Oliver Plunkett, 15th Baron Louth (1892–1950) Otway Michael James Oliver Plunkett, 16th Baron Louth (1929–2013) [1] Jonathan Oliver Plunkett, 17th Baron Louth (born 1952) The heir apparent is the present holder's son Hon. Matthew Oliver Plunkett (born 1982)
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Oliver Cromwell: 30 January 1661: Posthumous execution following exhumation of his body from Westminster Abbey. Robert Hubert: 28 September 1666: Falsely confessed to starting the Great Fire of London. [62] Claude Duval: 21 January 1670: Highwayman. [63] Saint Oliver Plunkett: 1 July 1681: Lord Primate of All Ireland, Lord Archbishop of Armagh ...