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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