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1312

Piers Gaveston beheaded at Blacklow Hill

June 1312

Captured by the Earl of Warwick, Edward II's Gascon favorite was tried on the spot and beheaded on a Warwickshire hill by two Welsh soldiers. The king wept inconsolably. His court lost its most flamboyant figure. The political consequences of the lynching poisoned baronial-royal relations for the rest of the reign and set the stage for Edward's own deposition.

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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.