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REASON FOR BEHEADING AND SOURCE OF POWER

REASON FOR BEHEADING AND SOURCE OF POWER

 

 

 

 

 

Individual

Year

 

Reason

Source

 

 

 

 

 

Sir John Montacute

1400

 

Attempted Regicide

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

Sir William Stanley

1495

 

Supporting a pretender to the throne

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Edmund Dudley

1510

 

Extortion

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

John Fisher

1535

 

Religion

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Thomas More

1535

 

Religion

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

Queen Anne Boleyn

1536

 

Adultery

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

Countess Margaret Pole

1541

 

Religion

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Thomas Culpepper

1541

 

Adultery with Queen

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

Queen Catherine Howard

1542

 

Adultery

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

Lady Jane Gray

1554

 

Religion

Parliament

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Queen of Scots

1587

 

Threat to the throne

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Walter Raleigh

1618

 

Regicidal plot

Monarch

 

 

 

 

 

King Charles I

1649

 

Tyranny against the state

Parliament

 

 

 

 

 

Oliver Cromwell

1658

 

Regicide

Parliament