the worst death...

[VAE VICTUS]

who in history had the worst death?
i would say edward the 2nd if what i have read is true.or william wallace(and no im not saying that because of the movie,it was way worse than that,something along the lines of being castrated and dragged miles over cobblestones etc. you get the picture)

also i heard a tiny bit about a bzyantine emperor,i want to say alexis something but i think thats wrong,he supposedly died the gruesomest death a monarch had died up to that time.he was emperor after manuel i think(more than one manuel?manuel comnemus?

[Templar Knight]

Edward II: red hot poker up his....

[[DnC]]

The murderer of William of Orange Nassau (the Silent), Balthasar Gérard died horribly I imagined. It was however an act of justice, or revenge, whichever way you would like to interpret it considering it's brutality.

"Gérard was caught before he could flee Delft, and imprisoned. He was tortured before his trial on 13 July, where he was sentenced to be brutally — even by the standards of that time — killed. The magistrates sentenced that the right hand of Gérard should be burned off with a red-hot iron, that his flesh should be torn from his bones with pincers in six different places, that he should be quartered and disemboweled alive, that his heart should be torn from his bosom and flung in his face, and that, finally, his head should be taken off."

Source: Wikipedia.

I'm not entirely sure if the information is accurate however. What are people's experiences with Wiki? Historically accurate-wise I mean.

[Conqueror]

"and that, finally, his head should be taken off"

As if it was even necessary at that point. I guess they really wanted to be thorough...

[Knight Templar]

also i heard a tiny bit about a bzyantine emperor,i want to say alexis something but i think thats wrong,he supposedly died the gruesomest death a monarch had died up to that time.he was emperor after manuel i think(more than one manuel?manuel comnemus?

The emperor after Manuel I Comnenus was his young son, Alexius II Comnenus (1180-82). He was strangled by Andronicus's friends. Andronicus then beacme emperor (Andronicus I Comnenus),


Back on topic: the leaders of peasent rebellions usually suffered terrible deaths. Also, in 13th century one French nobleman (I think Thomas de Coucy) hanged his captured oponents for their balls and let them bleed.

[Dutch_guy]

Edward II get's my vote, what they did to him was just horrible...

[English assassin]

Funny question.

You would have to go some to suffer a worse fate than Marc Antony Bragodino, who commanded Famagusta under seige from the turks in 1570-71. Despite agreeing surrender terms that included safe passage, he was captured by the turks, severely beaten, had his ears and nose cut off, and was paraded in front of the troops. He was then give two weeks to regain his strength in prison, before being slowly skinned alive, not dying until he was skinned down to his waist.

After that his skin was stuffed and put on display in Istanbul, but I suppose by then he was past caring.

That said, a bog standard crucifixion doesn't seem to have been a bundle of laughs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisw...187561,00.html

[The Stranger]

i gues there are way more people that died gruesome deaths, but we dont know of m. i dont like to be a astronaut lost in space, just doing nothing for then hours dragged around by nothing knowing you'll die in 10 hours and there is nothing you can do till you sufficate. now thats gruesome, mentally

[Taurus]

I don't really know who had the worst death. However their is such a way I would not like to die but I'm not quite sure which period it is from or who invented it etc.
It is as follows: the victim is placed inside of a barrel. All around the inside of the barrel are spikes which do not touch the person inside initially. The vicitim is then sealed inside and the barrel is rolled down a hill. The result...

I find that pretty horrific