Timeline for Why was the swordsman of Calais chosen as Anne Boleyn's executioner?
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| Feb 4, 2020 at 23:32 | comment | added | C Monsour | @pietergeerkens In England, being hanged and being drawn and quartered were not mutually exclusive. Hanged, cut down while still alive, some organs cut off/out, then drawn, and finally quartered by four horses, was the punishment for treason for commoners. | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 20:22 | comment | added | Martine Audenaert | @Mark C. Wallace I also know that the witch hunters in the Low Countries didn't use the false methods the used in England! I refer to the examination with the needle to find the devilsmark! In England they had a mechanism that could retract the needle so that the witch didn't feel anything and that the didn't bleed! | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 20:16 | comment | added | Martine Audenaert | @Mark C. Wallace In The Low Countries we had a great variety of death sentences! Women were never send to the gallows or hanged because this was not descend! Their skirts could blow up and that was amoral! They had to deal with the very cruel sentence to by buried alive! Or to be burned at the stake, or to be drowned! The drowning could be performed in a barrel or in a river! | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 15:39 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | In England it was normal for the lower classes to be hung, or drawn and quartered, or on occasion even gibbeted. Only the upper classes were ever beheaded. Perhaps it's part of the distinction between a republic and a monarchy. | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 15:38 | comment | added | MCW♦ | This doesn't really answer the question, but I think you're right that the difference is interesting. Could I persuade you to ask this as a question? | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 14:51 | history | edited | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2018 at 13:54 | history | answered | Martine Audenaert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |