Edward II Piers Gaveston Bucklow Hill, Red Hot Pokers, Beheadings and French Girls
Channel: Deep FACT Friar
Date: 22/03/2020

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22/03/1322 Edward II takes revenge on Thomas, The Earl of Lancaster beheading him outside Pontefract Castle for the part he played in the death of Piers Gaveston https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Gaveston,_1st_Earl_of_Cornwall

Thomas was a baron and as such had a lot of land. Edward II was his cousin, at first everything was cool between them and Tom supported Edward but he despised Piers Gaveston and the feeling was mutual. 

Piers who was exiled twice was captured and moved from Castle to Castle, Warwick heard he was in Deddington, Oxford, so he rode there, captured him, bought him back to Warwick Castle and on a March to Kenilworth Castle they stopped at Bucklow Hill where Gaveston was murdered on Lancaster’s orders and on Lancaster’s land ran through by two Welshman.

Thomas was then captured by Edward II’s gang, bought back to Pontefract, tried in a kangaroo court and sentenced to death. 

Being cousins though Edward went for a simple beheading rather than the popular hung, drawn and quartering. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas,_2nd_Earl_of_Lancaster

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