Convict |
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 Henry VII. Convicted by attainder for constructive treason. |
Edmund de la Pole, 6th Earl of Suffolk |
30 April 1513 |
Leading Yorkist claimant to the throne. Extradited to England by Philip the Handsome and executed for treason at Tower Hill. |
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham |
17 May 1521 |
Member of the Henry VIII's Privy Council and descendant of the Plantagenet Dynasty. Executed for alleged treason at Tower Hill. |
Rhys ap Gruffydd |
4 December 1531 |
Arrested after threatening Lord Ferrers at knifepoint and accused of plotting to overthrow the English administration in Wales. Executed for treason at Tower Hill. |
Elizabeth Barton |
20 April 1534 |
Catholic nun executed after prophesizing against Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn. |
Edward Bocking |
Benedictine monk executed for supporting Barton. |
Richard Risby |
Franciscan friar executed for treason. |
John Houghton |
4 May 1535 |
Carthusian hermits from the London Charterhouse executed for refusing to sign the Oath of Supremacy swearing allegiance to the King as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England and renouncing papal primacy before a royal commission under the Act of Supremacy. Some of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. |
Robert Lawrence |
Augustine Webster |
Humphrey Middlemore |
19 June 1535 |
Carthusian hermits from the London Charterhouse executed for refusing to sign the Oath of Supremacy before a royal commission under the Act of Supremacy. |
William Exmew |
Sebastian Newdigate |
John Fisher |
22 June 1535 |
Bishop of Rochester, former Chancellor of Cambridge University, and Cardinal-Priest of San Vitale. Executed for treason after refusing to accept Henry VIII as Supreme Governor of the Church of England under the First Succession Act and supporting his former wife Catherine of Aragon during their divorce. Canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935. |
Sir Thomas More |
6 July 1535 |
Lord High Chancellor of England, author of Utopia, and opponent of the Protestant Reformation. Executed for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy. Canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935 and declared patron saint of statesmen and politicians by Pope John Paul II in 2000. |
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford |
17 May 1536 |
Executed for a false charge of high treason. |
Henry Norris |
Groom of the Stool. Executed for a false charge of high treason. |
William Brereton |
Groom of the Privy Chamber. Executed for a false charge of high treason. |
Mark Smeaton |
Court musician. Executed for a false charge of high treason. |
Francis Weston |
Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. Executed for a false charge of high treason. |
Anne Boleyn |
19 May 1536 |
Former Queen consort of England. Executed at White Tower for a false charge of high treason engineered by Thomas Cromwell after she was unable to bear King Henry VIII a male heir. |
John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford |
early 1537 |
Chief Butler of England, member of the House of Lords, and chamberlain to Mary I. Executed for role in the Pilgrimage of Grace. |
Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare and his five uncles |
3 February 1537 |
Executed under an act of attainder after leading a rebellion against English rule in Ireland. |
John Rochester |
11 May 1537 |
Publicly executed in York for refusing to sign the Oath of Supremacy. |
Sir Thomas Percy |
2 June 1537 |
Executed for treason at Tyburn after leading Bigod's rebellion. |
Francis Bigod |
Leader of Bigod's rebellion. |
Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy |
30 June 1537 |
Opponent of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Executed for high treason on Tower Hill after delivering Pontefract Castle to rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace. |
Robert Constable |
6 July 1537 |
Executed for treason in Hull after the Pilgrimage of Grace. |
Robert Aske |
12 July 1537 |
Executed for treason at Clifford's Tower after leading rebellion against dissolution of lesser monasteries in Yorkshire. |
Thomas Johnson |
20 September 1537 |
Carthusian hermit executed by starvation for treason at Newgate Prison. |
Mabel Brigge |
April 1538 |
Executed for treason after committing to a black fast. |
Edward Neville |
8 December 1538 |
Executed for treason. |
Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter |
9 December 1538 |
Feudal baron of Okehampton and Plympton, grandson of King Edward IV. Executed for treason after being implicated in the Exeter Conspiracy to overthrow the King and place Cardinal Reginald Pole on the throne. |
Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu |
9 January 1539 |
|
Nicholas Carew |
3 March 1539 |
Executed for treason after being implicated in the Exeter Conspiracy to overthrow the King and place Cardinal Reginald Pole on the throne. |
Hugh Faringdon |
14 November 1539 |
Benedictine Abbot of Reading Abbey. Executed for treason at the inner gatehouse. |
John Eynon |
15 November 1539 |
Executed for treason at the inner gatehouse of Reading Abbey. |
Adam Damlip |
early 1540s |
Executed for seditious libel and treason in Calais. |
Thomas Cromwell |
28 July 1540 |
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Principal Secretary, Master of the Rolls, Lord Privy Seal, Governor of the Isle of Wight, and Lord Great Chamberlain. Executed for treason and heresy at Tower Hill after arranging King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves. |
Thomas Abel |
30 July 1540 |
|
Giles Heron |
August 1540 |
Executed for treason at Tower Hill. |
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury |
27 May 1541 |
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. |
Catherine Howard |
13 February 1542 |
Former Queen consort of England. Executed for treason. |
Jane Boleyn |
Sister in law of Anne Boleyn and also the widow of Lord Rochford (George Boleyn) lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard. Executed for treason. |
German Gardiner |
7 March 1544 |
Executed for treason. |
Anne Askew |
16 July 1546 |
Burned at the stake in Smithfield for heresy |
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
19 January 1547 |
Executed for treason. Final execution of King Henry VIII. |
Convict |
Date of Execution |
Details |
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland |
22 August 1553 |
Lord President of the Council under King Edward VI. Executed for not recognizing Mary as Queen and attempting to support his daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey's rival claim to the throne. Renounced Protestantism and converted to Catholicism before his death. |
Sir John Gates |
Executed for leading military expedition against Queen Mary in East Anglia. Renounced Protestantism and converted to Catholicism before his death. |
Sir Thomas Palmer |
Executed for not recognizing Mary as Queen. Refused to convert to Catholicism before his death. |
Lady Jane Grey |
12 February 1554 |
Former de facto Queen of England and Ireland. Executed for high treason at Tower Hill under the Third Succession Act and the Treason Act 1547 establishing Queen Mary as the legitimate heir to the throne. |
Guilford Dudley |
Former de facto king consort of England and Ireland. Executed for high treason at Tower Hill. |
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk |
23 February 1554 |
Executed for high treason after supporting his daughter Lady Jane Grey's claim to the throne. |
Sir Henry Isley |
February 1554 |
Executed for role in Wyatt's Rebellion. |
Sir Thomas Wyatt |
11 April 1554 |
Executed for leading anti-Spanish rebellion against Queen Mary in protest of her marriage to King Philip II. |
Sir William Thomas |
18 May 1554 |
Welsh member of the Privy Council and scholar of the Italian language and history. Executed for treason. |
John Rogers |
4 February 1555 |
Burned at the stake for heresy for role in drafting the Matthew Bible. |
John Hooper |
9 February 1555 |
Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester. Burnt at the stake in Gloucester during the Marian Persecutions. |
Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London |
16 October 1555 |
Anglican Bishop of London. One of the Oxford Martyrs burnt at the stake. |
Hugh Latimer |
Anglican Bishop of Worcester. One of the Oxford Martyrs burnt at the stake. |
Thomas Cranmer |
21 March 1556 |
Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. Author of the Book of Common Prayer and prominent supporter of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and the Acts of Supremacy. Executed for heresy. |