Opening The Coffin Of The Most Important Tudor Men And Women

throughout history there have been few periods as brutal and bloody as the chudah era it may have lasted just over a century but it's all the Reigns of Ruthless kings and queens who sentenced many people to death and even turned on their own friends and wives Henry VII had Six Wives two of whom lost their heads inside the Tower of London and Bloody Mary his daughter burnt many people at the stake across the country but some of the most prominent and Powerful Judah figures had their coffins and remained dug up after their death some of these with more Sinister intentions than others in this video we will look at the story of those important Judah men and women some close to royalty and the monarchy and how their coffins were opened and their remains Disturbed in some cases centuries after their death one of the most horrific executions of the chuda period so hry the ap's Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas Moore a very Pious and religious man go to his execution upon the scaffold of Tower Hill he was a well respected man who served the king loyally and mo was a man of principle who could not support Henry VII's changes to the church and he also could not support an berin as the Queen of England Mo's execution on Tower Hill was performed by an axeman who efficiently took his head clean off in one swift blow however this was not the end of the story as his head was then placed on a pike high above London Bridge then his body was laid to rest within the walls of the Tower of London however his head was located inside of somewhere completely different and the true story of this is shocking and remarkable Sir Thomas Moore refused to take the oath in which he recognized hry the8's second wife amberin as Queen and also the chuda king as the Supreme head of the Church of England he was even forced to resign from his role as the Lord Chancellor on the 16th of May 1532 however he stayed inside of Henry the ap's court as an adviser however his enemies then dug their claws in people became vocal about his refusal to support the changes and because of this he would fall from grace spectacularly he was even accused of working with a nun who predicted the death of Henry VII which was said to have been Tre and in the April of 1534 Sir Thomas Moore was forced to meet with the king's privy Council to discuss the oath of succession and Supremacy He was ordered to accept the changes and swear his support as so many had and he did make some concessions saying Anne Belin could have been proclaimed the queen however he did not accept the validity of Henry VII and an's marriage and he said this was not lawful in the eyes of God he continually refused and to get more to come around Henry VII had him sent to the Tower of London it's believed as a threat more than anything but Sir Thomas Moore was put up in comfortable lodgings inside of the tower but he was willing to die for his beliefs and he was brought to trial on the 1st of July 1535 he was called in front of a court which was made up of Amin's family members including her father and mo being incredibly intelligent managed to wrap up the judges in his arguments and he refused to answer questions but the prosecution's key witness was Richard Rich a man who is regarded to have been one of the most barbaric of the chudah period and Rich claimed that in his presence Thomas Moore denied the king Supremacy over the church because of this evidence Moore was then found guilty of treason and was sentenced to death and he continued to speak out the standard sentence for a traitor was hanging drawing and quartering but the king then commuted this to beheading as he had been a friend and a loyal companion for so long which was said to have been more straightforward and less horrific on the 6th of July 1535 Sir Thomas Moore was led out of his prison cell inside the Tower of London and was guided up to Tower Hill on the short walk north of the Tower by a number of guards there were a huge number of witnesses and the public flocked to see the execution of Sir Thomas Moore Henry VII's Lord Chancellor and he was a man himself who had treated others brutally throughout his life as he had beaten Protestants and treated them roughly he wasn't the most liked by parts of the crowd but it was noted that about 9 he was brought out of the tower his her was long his face pale and thin and carrying a Red Cross in his hand he often lifted his eyes to Heaven a woman meeting him with a cup of wine he refused it saying Christ at his passion drank no wine but gal and vinegar another woman came crying and demanded some papers she said she had left in his hands when he was Lord Chancellor to whom he said good woman have patience but for an hour the king will rid me of the care I have for those papers and everything else another woman followed him crying he had done her much wrong when he was Lord Chancellor to whom he said I very well remember the cause and as I were to decide it now I should make the same decree when he came to the scaffold it seemed ready to fall whereupon he said merrily to the lieutenant pray sit see me safe up and as to my coming down let me shift for myself being about to speak to the people he was interrupted by the sheriff and there upon he only desired the people to pray for him and bear witness he died in the faith of the Catholic Church a faithful servant to God and the king and kneeling he repeated The Miser Psalm with much devotion and rising up the Executioner asked him for forgiveness he kissed him and said pick up thy Spirits man and be not afraid to do thine office my neck is very short take heed therefore thou strike not AR Ray for having thine honesty laying his head upon the block he bid the Executioner stay till he had put his beard side for that he had committed no treason thus he suffered with much cheerfulness his head was taken off at one blow and was placed upon London Bridge where having continued for some months and being thrown into the temps to make room for others his daughter Margaret brought it inclosed it in a leaden box and kept it for a relic however this was not the end of the grizzly demise of Sir Thomas Moore as mentioned his head was placed placed on a pike above London Bridge but his body was taken back inside the walls of the Tower of London was carried into the chapel of St Peter advincula where it was interred inside of a crypt alongside many others who were executed on Tower Hill his body would be joined by the remains of thousands and today the body of Sir Thomas Moore is interred inside of an outof bounds tomb within the Crypt which cannot be viewed by the public however what happened to Moore's head is remarkable and shocking after it was taken to London Bridge it was handed over to The Keeper of the heads the man who was responsible for maintaining the heads placed above the gate House of those who had been executed these macabra exhibitions were intended to scare the people of London but the head was dipped in tar and was placed 80 ft in the air it was held there for around a month with thousands passing under the head of Thomas Moore and it was then replaced by one of his friends Bishop John fiser but the head of Mo was not thrown into the river temps as was customary it's considered that his daughter Margaret rer managed to bribe The Keeper of the heads to knock the head of her father off the pike and that she then managed to gather this and take it away with her for reburial she embalmed the head of her father covering it in spices and she managed to preserve it rather well for taking the head of her father a man considered by Henry VII a traitor she could have been imprisoned or even executed herself but when Margaret died in 1544 the head of her father Sir Thomas ma was buried next to her in the same Vault however in 1824 this Vault was opened and the head of Sir Thomas Moore was taken out of it and shown to the public inside of St Dunston's Church in Canterbury many people continued to visit it but there was some debate as to where the head of Mo actually was as some said it had been actually buried inside of a tomb Made for More inside of Chelsea old church however the majority of the evidence which even includes eyewitness testimony claims the head of Sir Thomas Moore was interred with his daughter after a number of years it was placed back inside of the ROP of Vault and it was even photographed by someone who looked at it through a grill and showed his daughter's lead casket but the head of the man who had been considered one of the finest historians of the chudah period the demise of Sir Thomas More was shocking he was for a long time a loyal member of King Henry the ap's government and staff but he was a man of such strong morals and principles that he could not accept the changes that the king made to the nation because of this he faced the ultimate punishment and he would lose his head on the orders of his former friend the infamous Judah Monarch who in the years later would also order the execution of his second wife anbin the very woman that Moore could not support and she is buried close to the remains of Mo inside of the Chapel of the Tower of London inside the Tower of London during the reign of King Henry VII two of the chuda Monarch's wives were executed upon the scaffold on Tower green Anberlin was the second wife of the king and she was executed by sword but Catherine Howard was the tragic fifth wife of the king who was allegedly a teenager when she was executed by axe Catherine had been sentenced to death for treason and adultery behind her husband's back but one woman who was implicated in the whole Catherine Howard Scandal was a woman who allegedly arranged for the queen to have time and Liaisons with her lover the King's favorite courtier Thomas Co pepper but Jane bin was the sister-in-law of the king's second wife an bin and she has gone down in history as being a woman who was rather Sinister and she may have even sent her own husband to the block on Tower Hill but her coffin was opened centuries after her execution inside of the Tower of London Chapel Jane bin was born as Jane Parker and she came from a rather Noble family and she was through her great grandmother related very distantly to the King Henry VII she was his half second cousin and she was raised in Norfolk and her family were well thought of and she was then sent to the Royal Court to serve the king and the Queen at the age of 14 Jane became a member of Katherine of aran's household the King's first wife and she was present when the the Royal Entourage traveled to France for the field of the cloth of gold where the king and the French King met Jane was its believed attractive and she was well liked at court as she got stuck into the entertainment and different masquerades that were held in 1525 she then got married to George bin who was the brother of Anne and Mary bin and he was the only Bin's son at this time an berin George's sister was not involved with Henry VII but but she was present at the Royal Court and Jane and George were gifted grimston Manor in Norfolk by Henry VII and Jane became known from then on as the vice Countess rashford Jane received a number of gifts and items for her new home which was renovated to a huge extent however her marriage was not the happiest as George was known to have cheated on her many times and he had a very wild lifestyle in which he slept with many many women he had a number of Affairs but when amberin then married Henry VII Jane was the sister-in-law of the queen and she was the aunt to the Future Queen Elizabeth the and Jane and Anne did not get on at all however the bins then fell from grace and it was Henry the ape's frustrations with regards to amberin being unable to give him the male air that he greatly wanted that led to the chaos which occurred with an berin then later losing her head on Tower green but for Jane berin the largest effect of this was that her husband George was implicated in the charges alongside Anne George was accused of sleeping with his sister and incest and because of this he was executed on Tower Hill over the centuries it has emerged that Jane may have been involved in giving evidence against her own husband but she was certainly a bitter woman one historian claimed with regards to this accusation that Jane rashford found herself Dragged In into a mom of intrigue innuendo and speculation for when Cromwell sent for Jane he already had much of what he needed not only to bring down Anne and her Circle but to make possible the king's marriage to Jane Seymour faced with such relentlessness incessant questions which she had no choice but to answer Jane would have searched her memory for every tiny incident that occurred to her Jane had not been quick to tell Tales but she had buckled under the pressure of Relentless questioning and it was her weakness under interrogation that gave her future detractors happy to find a scapegoat to exonerate the king from the heinous charge of callously killing his innocent wife the ammunition to maintain that it was her evidence that had fooled Henry and destroyed Anne and George George bin James husband was executed on the 17th of May 1536 alongside a number of other men who were accused of sleeping with the queen however Jane may have even witnessed her own husband's execution or her sister-in-law and belin's execution she was greatly affected by this new change in position as the lands which were owned by her husband due to his treason were forfeited and they fell into the hands of the king of England Henry VII Jane had to leave the court to secure her status and her finances and she was then given a good pension and she acted as a lady in waiting for Jane's Seymour and she was even given accommodation inside the Royal palaces and other luxuries including expensive luxury food she helped the king get rid of his fourth wife an of cleaves and Jane testified that he and an of cleaves did not consumate their marriage but Jane is mostly commonly remembered for her involvement with the king's fifth wife the teenage Katherine Howard Jane was clearly in favor with the King and Henry VII may have believed that she was a good good influence on his young wife and she was a senior lady in waiting for Catherine Howard she had a lot of influence over the young girl but later Catherine's past would come back to bite her and as she had allegedly been involved with other men and at this time this was considered not acceptable for the king's wife but Jane then encouraged Catherine to strike up a relationship with the King's favorite courtier Thomas Co pepper he and Catherine were distant cousins and when she was a lady in waiting for the previous Queen Catherine considered Maring Co pepper and the pair had a lot in common and More in fact than the young Queen had with her husband Henry VII the pair met up in secret and had it's believed an affair which was physical and much of these meetings were arranged and organized by Jane Belin and she would be arrested also along with the queen when the truth came out inside the Tower of London Jane Belin was imprisoned and locked up and she was interrogated and it was said that she had a complete nervous breakdown as she was in 1542 declared insane that she was prone to having fits of frenzy but at the time the king could not execute someone who was said to have been declared insane this wasn't a problem for Henry VII who changed the laws of his country to allow high treason to carry the same death penalty even for the insane Jame was scheduled for her execution on the 13th of February 1542 and she would be executed straight after the woman she served the Queen Catherine Howard she had been stripped of this title and inside the Tower of London on the scaffold Catherine's head was taken off in one swift blow the scaffold was covered in hay and Catherine had bled a lot and Jane Belin was then brought out straight after for her own execution and she then knelt in the blood of the for former Queen the woman who she had helped to commit adultery behind the king's back in a long speech Jane apologized for her sins and she gave the Executioner forgiveness and she knelt on the Block and rested her head on it in one swing the Executioner took her head off too and then Jane's body was taken inside the chapel of St Peter advincula ready for burial as jamlin was a noble woman we must consider a few different things the king had given Specific Instructions for Katherine Howard to be covered in quick lime to dissolve and Decay her remains quicker but he probably did not order this for Jane due to her status and the fact she was an aunt of the future Queen Elizabeth I Jane may have been given an arrow chest or some form of coffin also and may have been buried with more dignity than Catherine Howard she was taken into the chapel of St Peter advincula next to the scaffold site for her burial but the bones of Berlin were actually discovered and located centuries later during the reign of Queen Victoria the Monarch ordered renovations to occur inside the tower's Chapel as she believed it was somewhere which was not fit to house the burials of a number of Queens the floor in particular was very uneven and because of this there were a number of exclamations ordered of those who had been buried in there amongst the bones found were those who belonged to anbin Henry's second wife and Jane's sister-in-law but other remains were found too of high-profile people a committee gathered to help identify the remains of these people and they deliberated on what they found in the site close to where it was believed that Catherine Howard was buried no remains of the fifth wife were located except a small pile of bone which had been affected by the presence of lime but the first bones located belonged to a woman who was dated to have been around 40 years old and the committee reached the the conclusion due to the location of where Katherine Howard's remain should have been as well as the evidence that this was Jane berin this skeleton was clearly of a woman who had been executed using a sharp instrument such as an Axe and it was stated that she was around 40 when she was executed and because of this it was concluded that these were Jane bin they were found close to a second woman's bones who was said to have been a woman of considerably Advanced years who had been tall and above average height and these remains were of Margaret pole the Countess of Solsbury who was executed also during the reign of Henry VII it appear these two Noble women were buried next to each other or close to each other out of respect for their position later the remains of Jane bin were removed whilst the renovation work took place and they were put inside of a lead casket and a small plaque marking who the bones belonged to was made on this but she was then reinterred inside the chapel of St Peter advincula close to the high altar near to an belin's remains and also Margaret pole her husband George bin was also identified during this process and she was buried close to him also Jane's reputation in history is debated as some believed she was a woman who told the authorities about her husband's actions that led to his execution and these charges that he was accused of were ultimately false but Jane's execution inside by the tower was also brutal as she lost her head at the sharp Blade Of The Executioner's Axe and centuries later her remains were dug up throughout the reign of King Henry VII the infamous chudam monar executed up to 70,000 people inside of his own kingdom and this included two of his own wives but those who were of the very Noble status and birth were allowed what was regarded as a private execution away from the eyes of the general public inside the Tower of London truth be told when these executions were carried out inside of the tower there would actually be hundreds of witnesses some of whom even snuck into the Fortress as the gates were regularly accidentally left open but one woman is often forgotten about when compared with the two wives of the king who were condemned inside of the tower was a woman who had Royal Blood and who many regarded to have a legitimate claim to the English Throne some classed Margaret Paul the Countess of Solsbury as someone who had a better claim to the throne than the King Henry VII but Henry would dispatch her at the hands of a brutal executioner who made a terrible job of the execution but centuries later the body of Margaret Paul was dug up and Exum inside the Tower of London's Chapel what's the story of this Margaret Paul was the daughter of George plantagenet the Duke of Clarence who is considered one of the medieval period's biggest traitors he stabbed his brother Edward I four in the back a number of times during the wars of the roses and as George plantagenet was the brother of the king this then meant that Margaret possessed Royal Blood and equally a later claim to the English Throne she was one of only two women who During the chuda period became a piess in her own right without having a husband who claimed a title and she was considered the last remaining member of the plantagenet Dynasty in the house of York the sworn enemies of the chudah but following the battle of bossworth Field the chuds of course took the throne as Henry iith defeated Richard III the uncle of Margaret Margaret Paul was the cousin of the new Queen Elizabeth of York and Margaret was cared for by the new king and queen she was then married off to Sir Richard Paul Henry I 7's cousin and he was a key player in the king's government but she then also became close with Katherine of aragan who was married to the heir at the time Arthur chuda but Richard Paul died in 1505 leaving Margaret a widow with five children and she did not know where to turn and she was forced to live inside of Sion Abbey with the nuns but she came to prominence during the reign of Henry VII when Henry VII married Katherine of aragan Margaret became one of the Queen's ladies in waiting and she was restored to some of her brother's lands and she was known as the Countess of Salsbury as a landowner Margaret was rather skilled and she was very well thought of she promoted learning and her sons also did well but Margaret even had land disputes with Henry VII and came off rather well from them she was the governess of the king's eldest daughter Mary the future Mary the first and she was close with her however one of the biggest issues for Margaret Paul was that her son dissented against the king Reginald Paul was later accepted as a card for Rome and he was a massive enemy of Henry VII he began to plot to provoke an invasion of England following Henry's changes to the church in England and the King learned of this and he was Furious Margaret also angered the king as she refused to hand Mary the first Joels back and the King said that she was a fool and then as Regal Paul continued to rise through the Catholic Church's ranks he then continued to speak out against Henry and Anberlin his second wife but the King Henry VII threatened Paul and said that if a Cardinal's hat ever arrived on English soil for them he would not have a head to wear it on but Reginal Paul was made a cardinal in 1537 and the pope then put him in charge of organizing resistance and then colluding with the pilgrimage of Grace the uprising that took place in the north of England this rebellion was the most serious during Henry VII's Reign and it focused on the dissolution of the monasteries and Cromwell in the king's changes to the church that brought misery to many and made many monks and religious people homeless but following this there was a huge amount of Bloodshed as the king executed many and Jeffrey Paul Margaret's son was arrested in 1538 and then Margaret Paul was arrested at the age of 65 and was then accused of treason and was sent to the Tower of London she lost all of her lands and her titles and it was claimed that during interrogation that romwell had located in her home a tunic which carried the Five Wounds of Christ and Margaret was then accused of underground illegal Catholic Worship but this was apparently found 6 months after her arrest meaning it was therefore planted as false evidence and Cromwell had produced this himself but it was used as a way to sentence Margaret Paul the elderly Countess to death she was not given an execution date and she was to be executed whenever Henry VII wished and this meant that every day she awoke inside of the tower not knowing if it would be her last she was kept under lock and key for 2 and a half years inside of the tower she was given some servants and some clothing inside of the Tower and she carved inside the wall of her cell that for traitors on the Block shall die I am no traitor no not I my faithfulness stands fast and so towards the block I shall not go nor make one step as you shall see Christ in thy mercy save thou me then on the morning of the 27th of May 1541 Margaret Paul was told she was going to be executed within the next hour and she said she had not committed any crimes but the king had ordered her execution it was quickly planned and no scaffold was available for her execution she was dragged from her prison cell to where a wooden block had been placed on the ground and she was then approached by an axeman but not the normal executioner who performed executions inside the Tower or on Tower Hill he was armed with his weapon and there are differing accounts of her execution the main executioner had been sent North to deal with the executions following the pilgrimage of Grace but the man who executed Margaret it was said to have been a wretched and blundering youth who literally hacked her head and shoulders to pieces in the most pitiful manner the account stated that it took roughly 10 swings of the axe to perform her execution and to take Margaret Paul's head from her shoulders another claimed that after the first blow from the axe that Margaret left up from the Block and tried to run around the courtyard and then 11 swings of the Axe were needed to behead her but following her execution the remains of the elderly Margaret pole were collected and they were then taken to the nearby Chapel of St Peter advincula within the towers walls but during the reign of Queen Victoria the Monarch visited the chapel and said that the repair work was needed as it was not fit enough of a place to house the remains of Queens the floor in particular was a mess and it needed lifting Specialists and archaeologists were brought in and inside of the chapel the remains of many of those people who lost their lives inside the Tower of London During the chuda period and later and also those who were executed on Tower Hill were discovered Queen Amin's body was located and identified by the Royal Physician and doctor and a committee was gathered to analyze the remains of those who were discovered to try and identify them with Margaret Paul the committee were looking for something quite particular an elderly woman of the 16th century who had lost her head through execution by a sharp instrument such as an axe the first woman's bones that were found under the floor were of a woman of 40 years old and the committee settled that these belonged to Jane Belin or lady rashford the sister-in-law of an berin and the wife of George berin but she had been executed inside the Tower of London by axe close by to the remains of Lady rashford were found the full skeletal remains of a woman who was described of considerably Advanced years who had been tall and certainly of above average height the committee analyzed these remains and this elderly woman had clearly been executed by decapitation using a sharp instrument and there was only one woman who fitted the bill for this and that was Margaret Paul the Countess of Solsbury she was 67 when she was executed and during the chuda period was said to have been very old by the standards of the day and it was also known that she was a rather tall lady her remains were then gathered and were then placed inside of an individual leaden box or a small coffin on top of this a small engraving outlined whose remains were inside and this coffin were then moved to a number of months to the Queen's house opposite the chapel after the work had been completed the remains of Margaret Paul were then reburied back inside the chapel close to the high altar she was interred in front of the altar on the plot closest to the wall next to Jane Belin but let's remember she was a woman who lost her head in one of the most brutal and barbaric ways possible and she was a victim of the most notorious King that England had ever seen she was a woman who had had Royal Blood being the daughter of the brother of Edward IV and she had in the eyes of some a better claim to the English crown than the man who condemned her the 22nd of January 1552 on Tower Hill one of the most important and influential chudah politicians was led out to his execution scaffold he was taken out of the Tower of London and was escorted by guards to Tower Hill where the crowds flocked to see his demise Edward Seymour was the uncle to King Edward v 6 and he was also the Lord protector who had been entrusted to practically govern England whilst the King was too young to rule himself but Edward Seymour found himself forced out of power and was imprisoned as John Dudley the Earl of Warick and other prominent members of the king's government convinced the king to sentence him to death however in the Years following his execution Edward Seymour had his body Exum from its place of burial inside the Tower of London chapel and what was discovered was remarkable Edward Seymour was a very important member of the king's Council during the reign of King Henry VII he was the brother of Henry's third wife Jane Seymour who died following giving birth to the Future King Edward v 6 Seymour was made the warden of the Scottish marshes and the Lord High Admiral and he was a man who was tasked with bringing Scotland to heal and he would cause chaos during the war of the rough woing as the English forces pillaged Edinburgh and burned down many different Villages and settlements on their way to the Scottish Capital he remained in power throughout Henry's Reign and he was a skilled military commander and was a man greatly trusted by the sixth wife chuda King he attended on the king in his final moments but upon the death of Henry VII Seymour was then appointed one of the 16 executors who were to act as Edward V 6th Council until he got to the age of 18 but Edward Seymour was then appointed as the Lord protector and despite the king's will not saying that this was necessary he took control of Edward v 6 Regency Council and he was the most powerful man across England whatever he said practically went and he took over power rather quickly and he repealed all the heresy laws and treason laws passed across England since the reign of Edward III he then also tried to win over the Scots but further battles broke out but one of the most serious issues he had to deal with was his brother Thomas Seymour was a jealous power hungry man who wanted his brother's influence and he even married Henry the ap's Widow Katherine par shortly after the King's death and with this Thomas Seymour then plotted to even marry princess Elizabeth at one point but he would find himself executed as he made a plan to Abdu the young King Edward v 6 and it was Edward Seymour who signed his own brother's death warrant as Thomas Seymour was executed on Tower Hill on the 20th of March 1549 but across England there were many rebellions and in 1549 armed revolts occurred and this was caused by many of the religious changes made by the government there was a significant number of uprisings which were also focused around changes to land and these events were rather troubling for Edward Seymour as he was seen as the Figure Head of the government which was a failing government it was stated in a letter to him that every man of the council has misliked your proceedings would to God that at the first stir you had followed the matter hotly and caused Justice to be Mis ined in solemn fashion to the terror of others but his removal from power would come in the form of a coup and Seymour knew he faced a threat to his rule he requested troops to protect him but his removal from power was led by John Dudley the Earl of Warick he became the leader of the council and the councilors convinced the King Edward I 6 that Seymour was making the nation poorly and that he was guilty of ambition vain Glory entering into rash Wars in mine youth negligent looking of New Haven enriching himself of my treasure following his own opinion and doing all by his own authority for his troubles Edward Seymour then found himself locked up inside of the Tower of London and he was sentenced to death by an act of atender he wrote whilst inside of the tower that fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom put thy trust in the Lord with all things K's heart and his en wrote from the tower the death before my death on the morning of the 22nd of January 1552 Edward Seymour was taken from his prison cell in the Tower of London at 8:00 a.m. and was escorted on the short walk North to Tower Hill and the public beheading spot it was here when many tudah figures such as Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas Moore were executed and awaiting him was an executioner armed with an axe as he was led up the steps of the scaffold he turned to the crowd and prayed to them and he did make a speech saying he had been sentenced to death by law and that he accepted the actions of the king and Regency Council but he did think that he had caused no offense or committed no crime and he said in his final moments he was close with God and that he was glad he had been given time to pray but then a huge rush occurred and some believed that it was Seymour's pardon from the King but the reality was that a group of guards rushed forwards to see the execution themselves he then signed off by saying for allbe it the spirit be willing and ready the flesh is frail and wavering and through your quietness I shall be much more quieter he quietly spoke with the Executioner and prayed for a quick execution consisting of one Blow from the axe and he read a final confession before he gave a number of gold rings to the Executioner but Edward Seymour then took off his gown and laid his head on the Block and the Executioner United the strings of his shirt collar and he was given a handkerchief to tie around his eyes his final words were oh Lord Jesus preserve me and the Executioner then struck his axe down toward Seymour's neck and in one swift blow the head of the former Lord protector was then taken off but this was not the end of his story his body and his head were collected and were then placed on a cart to be taken back into the Tower of London's Chapel for burial a short burial ceremony took place for the former Lord protector and because of his status he was buried close to the altar near to the remains of Anne berin and Katherine Howard two of Henry VII's wives and women that Edward Seymour had known however during the reign of Queen vict Toria the church that he had been buried in had fallen into a state of disrepair and when the Monarch visited she claimed that it was no place for a burial of one Queen let alone three who were buried inside of the walls in particular one of the big problems was at the floor and to conduct this work the builders needed to lift the path and they knew as they were near the altar that they would come across the bodies of some of the chuda period's most infamous figures a committee was was gathered to help identify the bodies of those who were discovered and the remains of anolin were found and the Royal doctor confirmed these but the remains of Edward Seymour the Lord protector were then discovered close to the remains of anbin were found the bones of two men it was stated that there were two Jukes who were buried between two queens Queen Victoria's doctor Frederick Moet confirmed that one of the skeletons belonged to a tall and Broad man who was roughly 50 years old when he died he confirmed that he had died through beheading and decapitation with a sharp instrument such as an axe crashing down on his neck the committee and the doctor came to the conclusion that this was in fact Edward Seymour the Duke of sumerset and Edward v 6 Lord protector interestingly the other man's remains were said to have been attributed to the Earl of Warick John Dudley the very man who was The Mastermind behind the Fall From Grace of Edward Seymour and these two enemies had been laid to rest next to each other the remains were then gathered inside of a new lead coffin and on this was a small plate that stated that the remains and Bones belonged to Edward Seymour months later the remains were returned to the Chapel of St Peter advincula inside the Tower of London a number of men witnessed the reburials which included an Bin's remains being returned below the high altar he was buried next to queen anbin and the Earl of Warick John Dudley or the Duke of Northumberland as he was also known he was buried on the first row of burials behind the Duke of Monmouth Edward Seymour is seen as a controversial figure During the chudah period he was practically ruling as a king and would during the early part of Edward V 6th Reign and he made a number of huge changes to religion and was seen as a skilled military commander he was trusted by Henry VII but then he fell from Grace as a number of other dukes and Earls dug their claws into his unpopular reputation and with this he was executed on Tower Hill but his remains were then dug up and exume centuries after his death on the 22nd of August 1553 one of the most powerful men in England was led to the execution scaffold on Tower Hill he was there to meet the Axeman and executioner who was there to take his head clean off with the axe John Dudley was the first Duke of North umberland and following the downfall of Edward Seymour the Lord protector John Dudley emerged as the de facto Regent and ruler for England during the reign of King Henry VII's young son Edward II Dudley was a very powerful man and he oversaw a turbulent time in England as following the death of young Edward II there was a dispute for the throne as Dudley's daughter-in-law Lady Jane gray was made Queen Dudley was a master manipulator and someone who positioned himself as the main power behind the throne but when Mary the first or Bloody Mary came onto the throne following Jane's nine days as Queen she dealt with Dudley ruthlessly but after his execution the body of Dudley was laid to rest inside the Tower of London's small Chapel but it was then dug up and was exhumed John Dudley was a powerful politician and a soldier who as mentioned practically ruled England between the years 1549 and 1554 it had been agreed that he was a schemer and a plotter who was obsessed with power and he wanted more and more influence and power over the crown Dudley's father was a man who was executed by King Henry VIII and John Dudley became the Deputy Governor of the English Port of Cal and he was a skilled Soldier and military leader in France and was later appointed the Lord High Admiral he was then part of Edward Seymour's invasion of Scotland which ramp rampaged north of the border and he was also then made the Earl of Warick in 1546 however following the death of King Henry VII wari was appointed to become a member of the Regency Council that would help govern and rule England during the Youth of Edward v 6 the council was to rule whilst the King was too young to do so and whilst he was a child the man who was in charge of this was Edward Seymour he ruled as the protector and to begin with he and Dudley worked together and John Dudley's skilled military leadership was responsible for much of Edward Seymour's victories in Scotland however there was a lot of unrest in England during this time and the ear of Warick Dudley took advantage of this and he planned then to dispose Seymour and he managed to imprison him the pair did briefly reconcile however John Dudley the ear of Warick then began the head of the government and he was now the de facto ruler of England whilst Edward v 6 was young he managed to replace Seymour as the leader of the government and made a number of changes he left Scotland reversed a lot of what Seymour had done and continued to consolidate the Protestant Reformation and also seized a lot of wealth from the church however to give him more power John Dudley then made himself Duke of North umberland and then arrested Seymour again and persuaded the King Edward II to sanction his execu ution with Seymour out of the way he continued to bring in a number of policies and some of these were positive as he tried to legitimize coinage and also tried to fight inflation Across the Nation but when Edward v 6 died from tuberculosis at the age of 15 John Dudley carried out his plan he had worked on the young king who had named Lady Jane gray his successor and as a matter of fact Jane was actually Dudley's daughter-in-law as she was married to Guildford John son Lady Jane gray is remembered as the nine-day queen for the fact she ruled for nine days and accepted the crown before she was deposed by Mary the first the eldest child of King Henry VII it was John Dudley who proclaimed Jane the Queen of England but the privy Council switched their support to Mary and with this Jan was imprisoned inside the Tower of London Dudley also found himself locked up inside the tower accused of treason and he was tried on the 18th of August 1553 inside of Westminster Hall his former colleagues acted as the judge and jury and Dudley believed he had acted in the best interests of the king and by the warrant of the Great Seal but he was found guilty of treason and was then sentenced to death he tried to appeal to Queen Mary the first to overturn his death sentence as he had five Sons but she would not relent he was left to rot inside the Tower of lendon and was visited by senior government officials and his execution was then planned for the 21st of August 1553 at 8:00 in the morning but it was then cancelled with this Dudley was then taken to the Chapel of St Peter advincula inside the tow walls and he took Catholic communion and he said that the leagues that is upon the realm and upon us now is that we have heard from the faith these 16 years but that evening Dudley learned that he must prepare myself against tomorrow to receive my deadly stroke and he wrote Oh my good Lord remember how sweet life is and how bitter ye cont on the 22nd of August 1553 John Dudley the Duke of North umland was brought to Tower Hill for his execution a crowd of 10,000 people had gathered to witness the proceedings and on the scaffold it was said Dudley confessed to his crimes it was said of his execution that and yet this act whereof I die was not altogether of me as it is thought but I was procured and induced there unto by others I was I say induced there unto by others how be it God forbid that I should name any man unto you I will name no man unto you and therefore I beseech you not look for it and one thing more good people I have to say unto you and that is to warn you and exort you to beware of these seditious preachers and teachers of new doctrine which pretend to preach God's word word but in very deed they preach their own fancies they know not today what they would have tomorrow they open the book but they cannot shut it again I could good people rehearse much more but you know I have another thing to do where unto I must prepare me for the time dwth away and after he had spoken he kneeled down and bowing towards the block he said I have deserved a thousand deaths and thereupon he made a cross upon the straw and kissed it and laid his head upon the block and so died the Executioner took his head clean off with the axe and following this Dudley's remains were taken into the Tower of London and he was buried inside the chapel of St Peter ad vinula but during the reign of Queen Victoria the church underwent a significant amount of repairs when Victoria visited the tower she deemed the Chapel to have been not good enough to house the remains of three queens because of the State of Decay and disrepair it was in the floor was uneven and broken in places and the renovation work was to take place but to carry out the sufficient repair work the Tower of London's Chapel floor was removed and when this was carried out a number of significant remains were found the body of Henry the ap's second wife an berin was found and it was known that northumberland's remains were nearby and a committee was then gathered to search for these and identify them it was known that Queen and belin's remains were buried close to the remains of Two Men and it was said that two Dukes were buried between two queens the body of one man was found and it belonged to a tall and Broad man of around 50 years of age and the committee concluded that this man who lost his head by sharp ax or weapon was Edward Seymour the Rival of John Dudley but next to this the body of another man was found and these remains it was said belonged to a large man about 6 ft in height and aged around 50 years and in particular it was noted that this man had a rather large skull the committee then came to the conclusion that these remains were those belonging to John John Dudley the Duke of Northumberland his body and skeletal remains were then collected and were placed inside a new lead coffin and container the name of Dudley was etched onto this and months after his remains were exhumed they were then reburied inside the tower's Chapel John Dudley was the Duke of North umland who is remembered as being a schemer and a manipulator who took control of England whilst Edward v 6 was just a young boy he was supposed to be helping to rule but he made a number of significant changes to the nation Dudley however was someone who flew too close to the Sun and his involvement in placing his daughter-in-law as the Queen of England led to his downfall one that was result in the loss of his head in front of a crowd of 10,000 as an axeman performed the job of his execution on the 25th of February 16001 on Tower green inside of London inside the Tower of London a former favorite of Queen Elizabeth I the last Judah Queen was led upwards towards the execution scaffold for his death waiting for him was an axeman who was ready to take his head from his shoulders Robert Deo was the second Earl of Essex and he was was sentenced to death for treason and he was someone who was linked to Rebellion he was a man who was jealous but he captured the imagination of the queen and some believed he may have even been a man linked to marriage with the Queen Elizabeth I but following his execution Robert Deo was interred and buried inside of the chapel of St Peter advincula inside the Tower of London's walls however this was not the end of his story as centuries later his body was dug up up and was exume from its grave and what those people who did this found was remarkable Robert Deo was a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and at the age of nine he succeeded to his father's title and became the second Earl of Essex as a young man he was seen as a skilled Soldier and he fought in the Spanish Netherlands and when he returned to England he was made the master of the Horse by Elizabeth the but he at times could anger the queen but he always managed to gain her favor again if he had ever annoyed her some at the time thought that he would be a possible husband to Elizabeth the first as they would stay up late playing cards but he also married Francis wallingham in secret this was not ideal as the queen would not be happy when she found out about this he stayed inside of England after a number of foreign adventures and he then even helped to foil an alleged plot against the Queen's Life by a physician in side of her Court Rodrigo Lopez he tried to challenge the authority of the cile family and defied the Queen's Authority when he pursued a Spanish treasure Fleet and also when the third Spanish Armada appeared off the English Coast in October 1597 the coast was undefended and there was a significant amount of chaos and panic but Deo fell further from favor in the eyes of Queen Elizabeth when he took the job as the Lord left tenant of Ireland he was sent to deal with the rebellious Irish Chieftain and he led a huge Force to Ireland 16,000 soldiers to end the Rebellion he said he would confront them head on however he fought a series of pointless battles and wasted money and he also entered a truce with one of the rebels which was seen as a humiliation for the English and the queen was furious with this when he returned the queen had banned him ever back to court and he then burst into her bed chamber in the morning at nonsuch Palace whilst the queen was getting dressed which then caused chaos he was then ordered to stand in front of an interrogation regarding his dereliction of Duty in Ireland and he was held under house arrest at this time whilst the investigations occurred into what had actually happened in Ireland Essex was tried in front of 18 men and he was convicted and was deprived of his public office however he then after achieving Freedom was involved in rebellion and this was known as essex's Rebellion after him he began to fortify Essex House and rally supporters and he turned in his opinion of the queen he on the eth of February 16001 marched out of Essex House and he entered the city of London to try and gain an audience with the queen but he was proclaimed a traitor by ceile and his men tried to get through a barrier and this was a scar is but Deo then surrendered after he was besieged inside of Essex House he was then in the February of 16001 tried in front of peers for treason it was stated of this that the indictment charged Essex with conspiring and imagining at London to depose and slay the queen and to subvert the government it also stated that Essex had endeavored to raise himself to the crown of England and usurp the dignity and that in order to fulfill these intentions he and others Rose and assembled themselves in open rebellion and moved and persuaded many of the citizens of London to join them in their treason and endeavored to get the city of London into their possession and power and wounded and killed many of the Queen's subjects then and there assembled for the purpose of quelling such Rebellion Essex was charged also with holding the Lord keeper and the other privy counselors in custody for 4 hours and more he also claimed that the infant of Spain had a right to the crown of England which was a terrible thing and he was then found guilty of treason and on the 25th of February 16001 his execution was carried out he was allowed an execution inside the Tower of London as he was of such Noble standing he was to be executed by beheading and he did not get the standard sentence of hanging drawing and quartering and he was brought by 16 guards from his rooms inside the Tower of London to the execution scaffold his execution was not very clean the Executioner that day was Thomas Derek who listened to deo's speech on the scaffold and he admitted his treason and he said he never wanted to hurt the queen he bed farewell and hoped the queen would get a long Reign but when Deo placed his head on the Block the Executioner stood there with his sharp Axe and he then struck the weapon on De 's head but it did not come off with one blow and then it took a second swing to do this but still his head did not come off finally a third swing of the axe took deo's head clean away following his execution his remains were then collected and Deo was taken into the chapel of St Peter advincula next to the tower green his body was lowered into a grave which was then covered over and he was buried close to where two of Henry VII's wives and Belin and Katherine Howard were interred but over the next few centuries the chapel of St Peter advincula inside the tower fell into a terrible state of disrepair and Decay during the reign of Queen Victoria the queen visited the tower and ordered Renovations of the Chapel to make sure the resting place of the chudah Queens was well respected and was in good condition because of this the floor which had lifted and was an even was lifted and the chapel and a committee of people were brought to identify the bodies of those men and women who were found the bodies of some of the most prominent executed chuda Figures were found and this included the remains of Queen an berin but amongst the bodies found were the remains of Robert Deo the committee that gathered inspected the remains and they confirmed they belonged to a man in his 30s Who Lost His Life by decapitation and beheading by a sword or an axe with this they came to the conclusion that this body belonged to the executed former favorite of Elizabeth the his remains were then placed inside of a new lead casket and a plate was placed on this to show who the bones belonged to and these were then placed inside of the Queen's house opposite the chapel before they were then reburied close to the altar along with some of the most prominent executed Judah people Deo was interred in the second row below the Altar and was interred second in on the right between the murdered poet Sir Thomas overb and the executed Earl of of arendel he was buried behind Lady rashford Jane Belin who lost her life alongside Katherine Howard Henry VI ap's fifth wife Robert Deo was a former favorite of Queen Elizabeth I and he was someone who also callused the queen a significant amount of stress and turmoil he made a number of significant issues inside of Ireland and later because of him being ostracized he tried to Rebel to catch the Queen's attention but for this he was sent to the execution of scaffold inside the Tower of London he was then buried in the chapel there and his remains were then dug up centuries later