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What Was the Last Torture Wallace Got in Braveheart?
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He was drawn and quartered. Drawn = disembowled. Quartering was cutting him up. They sent his parts to four different areas of England for display.
You can survive (for a short period) being drawn. So possibly he was still alive when quartered.
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Immediately after the "trial," Wallace was taken to the place of execution. Today that place is known as Smithfield, in London . (Be patient with this link. It takes awhile to load, but where else are you going to see London as it was in 1300?) He was stripped naked, bound and dragged face down four miles, under the tails of two horses. As he was led to the scaffold, William asked for his psalter to be held open where he could see it.
To ensure Wallace felt the most extreme effects of the sentence, officials made sure William hung but did not die. While he was still alive, his genitals were cut off with a dull blade. His intestines were cut out and burned in his presence. Only after he had endured torture beyond human comprehension was beheaded. After he died, his body was quartered. The body parts were sent to Newcastle, Stirling, Berwick and Perth, as specified in the sentence.
Stirling received one of his arms. Legend has it that once the flesh deteriorated, monks at Cambuskenneth Abbey buried Williams's arm somewhere on the Abbey's grounds. As one last stroke of defiance, the buried arm was outstretched toward Abbey Craig, the scene of William's great victory against the English at Stirling Bridge.
The sentence imposed on William Wallace was brutal. But it wasn't until 1870 that England abolished the barbaric practice of dragging a condemned criminal to the place of execution and then beheading and quartering him after death by hanging. Today it is hard to imagine this primitive behavior was still legal for more than 500 years after Wallace died.
Looks like I was wrong. He was quartered after death.
You can survive (for a short period) being drawn. So possibly he was still alive when quartered.
Here's a quote:
Immediately after the "trial," Wallace was taken to the place of execution. Today that place is known as Smithfield, in London . (Be patient with this link. It takes awhile to load, but where else are you going to see London as it was in 1300?) He was stripped naked, bound and dragged face down four miles, under the tails of two horses. As he was led to the scaffold, William asked for his psalter to be held open where he could see it.
To ensure Wallace felt the most extreme effects of the sentence, officials made sure William hung but did not die. While he was still alive, his genitals were cut off with a dull blade. His intestines were cut out and burned in his presence. Only after he had endured torture beyond human comprehension was beheaded. After he died, his body was quartered. The body parts were sent to Newcastle, Stirling, Berwick and Perth, as specified in the sentence.
Stirling received one of his arms. Legend has it that once the flesh deteriorated, monks at Cambuskenneth Abbey buried Williams's arm somewhere on the Abbey's grounds. As one last stroke of defiance, the buried arm was outstretched toward Abbey Craig, the scene of William's great victory against the English at Stirling Bridge.
The sentence imposed on William Wallace was brutal. But it wasn't until 1870 that England abolished the barbaric practice of dragging a condemned criminal to the place of execution and then beheading and quartering him after death by hanging. Today it is hard to imagine this primitive behavior was still legal for more than 500 years after Wallace died.
Looks like I was wrong. He was quartered after death.
supersizeme
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i'm sure he would've much preferred a quicker execution such as this one
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THeMaCHinE
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Shit, you still have people being fed into tree chippers and stuff today. All torture, regardless of time period, would absolutetly suck.
GodOfThunder
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I was under the impression that he was castrated. FREEEEDOM!!
I am directly related to this fellow, isn't that nice?
Prince Vlad III Dracula, as far as full names goes. Vlad Tepes, or The Impaler, was a prince of a small area called Wallachia, he was an appointed prince, not hereditary, from 1431 to 1435.
Read the history someplace else, but for pure crowd pleasing gore, impaling was the shit... er.. if you will pardon the pun. A nice, thick stake, with a rather dull tip, anywhere from 6 to 30 feet high, with you riding the top via the dull tip up your ass. You wriggle and giggle their until your muscles fail and the pole works its way up until you die: either from it crushing your heart, or more likey, suffocating from the pressure against your diaphragm.
He wasnt picky, kids women priests old folks, you name it. You late with your restaurant tab? Impaled. Wife talks too much in church? Impaled. Shirt is out of fashion? Impaled.
this is a good one too:
A visiting merchant once left his money outside all night, thinking that it would be safe because of Dracula's strict policies. To his surprise, some of his coins were stolen. He complained to Dracula, who promptly issued a proclamation that the money must be returned or the city would be destroyed. That night Dracula secretly had the missing money, plus one extra coin, returned to the merchant. The next morning the merchant counted the money and found it had been returned. He told Dracula about this, and mentioned the extra coin. Dracula replied that the thief had been caught and would be impaled. And if the merchant hadn't mentioned the extra coin, he would have been impaled, too.
Prince Vlad III Dracula, as far as full names goes. Vlad Tepes, or The Impaler, was a prince of a small area called Wallachia, he was an appointed prince, not hereditary, from 1431 to 1435.
Read the history someplace else, but for pure crowd pleasing gore, impaling was the shit... er.. if you will pardon the pun. A nice, thick stake, with a rather dull tip, anywhere from 6 to 30 feet high, with you riding the top via the dull tip up your ass. You wriggle and giggle their until your muscles fail and the pole works its way up until you die: either from it crushing your heart, or more likey, suffocating from the pressure against your diaphragm.
He wasnt picky, kids women priests old folks, you name it. You late with your restaurant tab? Impaled. Wife talks too much in church? Impaled. Shirt is out of fashion? Impaled.
this is a good one too:
A visiting merchant once left his money outside all night, thinking that it would be safe because of Dracula's strict policies. To his surprise, some of his coins were stolen. He complained to Dracula, who promptly issued a proclamation that the money must be returned or the city would be destroyed. That night Dracula secretly had the missing money, plus one extra coin, returned to the merchant. The next morning the merchant counted the money and found it had been returned. He told Dracula about this, and mentioned the extra coin. Dracula replied that the thief had been caught and would be impaled. And if the merchant hadn't mentioned the extra coin, he would have been impaled, too.
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