List of people convicted of high treason in England before 1 May 1707
This is a list of people convicted of high treason in the Kingdom of England before the Union with Scotland on 1 May 1707. It does not include people convicted of petty treason.
Chronological list
1283
- Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales
1305
1381
1405
- Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York
1478
- George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, for plotting against King Edward IV of England in 1478
1495
1499
1521
1535
1536 - Anne Boleyn, Kildare Rebellion, etc.
- Anne Boleyn,Queen
- George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford
- Sir William Brereton
- Sir Henry Norris
- Archdeacon Charles Reynolds
- Mark Smeaton
- Silken Thomas
- Sir Francis Weston
1537 - Pilgrimage of Grace
1541 - Catherine Howard, etc.
1549 - Kett's Rebellion Persons convicted for their involvement in Kett's Rebellion:
1553 Jane Grey, etc.
1554 - Wyatt's Rebellion
1572 - Ridolfi plot See Ridolfi plot:
1586 - Babington plot Fourteen individuals were executed for their involvement in the Babington plot. Persons convicted include:
- Sir Anthony Babington
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Chidiock Tichborne
1601 - Essex Rebellion
1603 - Main plot
Persons convicted for their involvement in the Main Plot include:
- Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham
- Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton
- Sir Walter Raleigh, executed 1618
1605 - Gunpowder plot
- Robert Catesby, John Wright, Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Robert Wintour, Christopher Wright, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham, for the Gunpowder Plot[1]
1649
Regicides of Charles I
See List of regicides of Charles I
Tonge plot
1680 - Popish Plot
Persons implicated in the alleged Popish Plot:
1683 - Rye House Plot
Those convicted in relation to the Rye House Plot include:
Alphabetical list
A
B
- Anthony Babington (1586) (Babington Plot)
- Anne Boleyn, Queen (1536)
- George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (1536)
- Sir William Brereton (1536)
- Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham (1603) (Main Plot)
C
D
- Francis Dereham (1541)
- Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1601) (Essex Rebellion)
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1553)
E
F
- Guy Fawkes (1605) (Gunpowder Plot)
G
- Elizabeth Gaunt (1685) (Rye House Plot)
- Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1554) (Wyatt's Rebellion)
- Lady Jane Grey
- Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton (1603) (Main Plot)
- Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales (1283)
H
- Catherine Howard, Queen (1541)
- Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1572) (Ridolfi Plot)
- William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (1680) (Popish Plot)
I
J
K
- Robert Kett (1549) (Kett's Rebellion/Norfolk rebellion)
L
M
- Thomas More, Lord Chancellor (1535)
N
- Sir Henry Norris (1536)
O
P
Q
R
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1603, executed 1618) (Main Plot)
- William Russell, Lord Russell (1683) (Rye House Plot)
S
- Mark Smeaton (1536)
- Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1521)
- Sir William Stanley (1495)
- Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1586) (Babington Plot)
T
- William Thomas (1554) (Wyatt's rebellion)
- Chidiock Tichborne (1586) (Babington Plot)
W
- William Wallace (1305)
- Perkin Warbeck (1499)
- Sir Francis Weston (1536)
- Thomas Wintour or Winter (1605) (Gunpowder Plot)
- Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1601) (Essex Rebellion)
References
- "Guy Fawkes: A Biography". Britannia.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
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