What a horrible end for Latimer and Ridley. Regardless of how much they offended Mary I, it’s still a horrible way to die. Especially Latimer! Thank you for not shying away from the brutal side of Tudor history, we need to remember all of history not just the happy things. I can’t wait to see what tomorrow’s video will bring.
I'm not sure if it was a case of offending Mary I, rather that the Heresy laws had been reintroduced during the reign of MaryI by Parliament and burning was the usual punishment for Heresy. I guess Mary had the power to to intervene and lessen the punishment but I don't know the circumstances. And remember, Mary had a council to advise her.
Just horrible...I don’t even want to imagine how horrible these deaths were...these poor men dying for their religious beliefs...so sad. Thank you for sharing Claire.
Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were mentioned in Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451. When I taught that book, I had to explain to my students who wouldn't have gotten the illusion without knowing the background.
Both my beloved husband and my own family, my family were Catholic, my husband were Protestant, both of our family were slaughtered by both of our family. So sad.
🇭🇲🦘 (viewed 15/10/2020) Nothing I write can do these brave men justice. We need to learn of these terrible deeds in the hope that mankind will one .... day learn. Sadly, these hundreds of years later, we still harm each other, for all the wrong reasons. When will we learn? Only God knows! Such HORROR suffered by these men. 🙏 Regardless - an informative video. "Thank you" Claire 💓👑👍
Oh my Lord! How awful. I can never understand why such horrible are done "in the name of God". While this was bad, still educational. I learn so much. Thank you.
As a nurse, this always horrifies me. As a nurse, I have seen terrible things, terrified patients, horrific awful injuries. I have worked ER, CCU, ICU, as well as maximum security forensic psychiatric facilities with Sexually Violent Predators and serial killers/mass murderers. In the last 40 years I have seen it all.
I really enjoy your contributions. I'm trying to find the martyr who converted William Roper, son-in-law of Thomas More, to Lutheranism. Thank you for your help and please continue the great work!
On August 8, 1555 an agreement was reached in Augsburg, Germany that gave parity between Protestants (mainly Lutheran) and Catholics in government positions in the city and any other official positions. This was reintroduced after the Thirty Years War. We celebrate Friedenstag (Peace Day) as a public holiday every year on August 8. My own family history encompasses the Tudor years and not Augsburg, However, I'm quite proud of my adopted city especially when learn of the Oxford Martyrs in my own ancestral country. Thank you for your wonderful insight into this era of English history.
I was surprised when our priest Veronica read about the two martyrs being burned as heretics during the reign of Queen Mary. I rarely recognize the names of the various saints or martyrs. Always interesting to note following your videos helped me. Thank you.
I feel so awful for them both, but to not be able to burn properly like the burning is supposed to happen is just awful. Poor man had gunpowder to hasten the process and stop his suffering as fast as possible, and for him not to be able to use it is just terrible. Especially for a man of God. Another bloody day on Tudor history! Lol! But still my absolute favorite subject!!
Imagine the panic of the brother in law as he tried to help Ridley by piling on more branches but only succeeded in prolonging his agony. It was ghastly.
@@marionarnott750 So do we know if Mary possibly had anything to do with the selecting of the wood used to burn these men? Or was it just an awful day to be burned at the stake? You'd think they'd test a few pieces to see if it would have been able to burn correctly!
@@peachymeechie1844 I wonder if the burnings were carried out by a trained executioner or just by any official or soldier who happened to be handy. The horror of executions by axe going badly also calls into. question the efficiency of executioners - no wonder Anne Boleyn wanted the French swordsman for her execution. Although I did see a horrible history type programme which showed that the Tudor axe was badly weighted and led to those executions which required many strikes to kill the victim. All in all, death by burning or axe was amateurish.
@@marionarnott750 I also watched that documentary. I thought the same thing. Either way you die it's just the roll of the dice if you get a good executioner or not, and luckily for Anne, Henry thought he'd do her a last favor by getting the swordsman from France. Thank God because if not her execution would have been one of the more gruesome ones because I just feel like Anne was a fighter and wouldn't have gone out so easily. I know they said he distracted her by asking for the sword when he already had it in hand and so she didn't expect it yet. So she did luck out in a way, but being burned would have been the worst thing I could have ever imagined. Even now when people die in fires you know it is a prolonged way to go. I don't think I'll ever understand why Mary thought she was helping them by purifying their souls and sending them straight to heaven. Nope, it was just a prolonged evil way to kill!!
They didn't call her Bloody Mary for nothing... If only my hoodie were here; would've been perfect to wear for today's topic! 🤣 Can't wait until it arrives.
Dont be sorry, you are one of my favorites! Both me, a psychiatric technician/nurse, a woman who has worked in maximum security forensic psychiatric facilities with Sexually Violent Predators and serial killers/mass murderers, my husband is an amazing person, I cannot tell you what he worked with the CIA, all over the world. But we both love your posts. My husband is a Howard! I am a Scottish Catholic,
They weren't as sensitive as we are. You have to believe that some of them may have enjoyed it on some level. I think that in many ways they were constitutionally much stronger. They had to be.
In England, it was abolished for heresy in 1676 and for female traitors, the last woman to be burned alive was in 1726, although 1784 for a woman who was already dead. Hanging, drawing and quartering, burning, beheading, boiling to death, hanging... They're all horrible, and, of course, there's still capital punishment in countries today, although some try to make it "humane". Burning is still being used as a method of execution today in some countries.
this is so sad,, .. MARY 1 was a .. crazy woman driven by the hate of ANN Boylen and any one who was not a Catholic .. IM suprised that she Let Elizabeth Live..
Burning was a common punishment for heresy at the time. Mary wasn't the only monarch who practiced it so I'm sure it hadn't anything to do with Mary's hatred for Anne Boleyn.
I think she was trying to protect her people's souls. People were more focused on the afterlife, the fate of their immortal soul, as life on earth was short, and Mary would have seen the reformed faith as damning people for eternity. I can't condone what she did, but there's method to her madness.
@@anneboleynfiles Yes, this is also my belief (re Mary's incentive). She may well have been vengeful, but her actions were not so very different from the actions of others who have not suffered from history's vengeance.
I don't think Mary was a crazy woman at all. Admittedly she had an axe to grind in the case of Thomas Cranmer, in particular, whom she would have seen as the one responsible for ending her parent's marriage, and being separated from her mother and never seeing her again. Also remember that Cranmer was implicated in having Lady Jane Grey declared Queen contrary to the Will of HenryVIII which stated that Edward, then Mary then Elizabeth would be in line for the succession. Mary didn't personally sanction the executions, they were sanctioned by Act of Parliament and she was advised by her council. Mary was (unfortunately) a victim of her times.
Your use of the past tense is inaccurate. If, IF your surmise about God's judgement is correct, it hasn't happened yet. But neither you nor I know what went through Mary's head in the last days of her life
A dreadful way to go. Do you think Foxe exaggerated any of the deaths he speaks of? I cant imagine the body being able to endure such pain without shutting down or going into cardiac arrest. Thank you once again delivering my daily Tudor fix, even though something awfully bad happened.
We Americans have our sins, but the British Aristocracy are the hands down winners for extreme cruelty. Beheadings, being burned at the stake alive, drawing and quartering, the rack, and other forms of inhumane.torture that are unspeakable, these guys really believed in the word suffer for their victims. It would have been scary to even be a peasant back then. The little guy wouldn't stand a chance if accused of a crime. Thankfully all that torture.was finally abolished. The French were no better with their ghastly Guillotine.
Being American you don't recall the Salem witch burnings, hangings, stoning? Yes WE Americas did our own atrocities. It was the way of the times. ALL COUNTRIES have some form of brutal penalties in their past histories. Clare loved it. Sorry missing you live again 😞
😮hi! Distant cousin!? Nicholas Ridley is in my tree as well! I came here to learn what happened to him after finding his name in my 4x great grandmothers journal and I am in shock. He lives thru us. ❤
Yes it was horrible indeed but lets not forget that Hugh Latimer also preached and presided over the 'roasting alive' of the Franciscan Friar John Forest in 1538 during the reign of Edward VI
The 5.45 bit is from an account which states that Mr Latimer embraced the flames, bathed his hands in them and soon "died, apparently with little pain", whereas Ridley suffered a long drawn out death. I think we can safely say that Latimer suffered an awful death, though, even if it wasn't as bad as Ridley's.
Poor Cranmer, he never stood a chance with Mary. His first sin was his working in her Mother's marriage annulment. And the 2nd was supporting Edward VI to be succeeded by Jean Grey and declaring Mary a bastard ( and Elizabeth too.)
Quite correct Marinella....he was his own undoing in some ways but a remarkable man in many ways and very loyal to that horrid creature Henry VIII. I often wonder why he didn't do more to prevent the execution of Ann Boleyn seeing as he had been supported in the early years by her family.
Luke77: Mary Tudor is not in hell....in the first place I don't believe there is such a place. Queen Mary was not personally responsible for the punishment of of these people, she was advised by her Council and Parliament had enacted laws against what was deemed to be heresy. Anyone accused of heresy was given a triail. Thomas Cranmer the evangelical Abp of Canterbury had planned to restore the death penalty by burning for heresy before Edward's death intervened. Hugh Latimer the evangelical Bp of Worcester preached and presided over the 'roasting alive' of the Franciscan Friar John Forest in 1538 during the reign of Edward VI. Part of the fuel for the fire was a wooden image of the Welsh pilgrim Darvell Gadern. You need to read more of English History. Mary Tudor has been much maligned in English history for hundreds of years simply because she was a catholic and wished to return England to the old faith.....the faith of English Kings, saints and bishops extending back for hundreds of years until the emergence of the greedy, selfish, vindictive Henry VIII. Mary Tudor was a more hard working, hands on and decisive Queen that is commonly recognised.
@@colinlavelle7806 read your Bible and see that hell is a real place where those who chose to not know their saviour, will spend eternity. Sin does not prevail!
Luke 77. One more thing I suggest you try and find a book titled MARY TUDOR by Judith M. Richards an Australian author (Im an Australian) It's a short book but gives a very balanced view of the life and times of Mary Tudor. After all she was the first English Queen to reign in her own right.
@@colinlavelle7806 If anyone doesn’t accept Christ as their saviour, they have decided to spent eternity separated from Christ. Why would unbelievers spend eternity in the presence of God? Why did Christ go to the cross for?
What a horrible end for Latimer and Ridley. Regardless of how much they offended Mary I, it’s still a horrible way to die. Especially Latimer!
Thank you for not shying away from the brutal side of Tudor history, we need to remember all of history not just the happy things.
I can’t wait to see what tomorrow’s video will bring.
I kept wondering why the gunpowder didn't work. I suppose green branches didn:t produce a flame lively enough to reach the bags.
Poor souls.
I'm not sure if it was a case of offending Mary I, rather that the Heresy laws had been reintroduced during the reign of MaryI by Parliament and burning was the usual punishment for Heresy. I guess Mary had the power to to intervene and lessen the punishment but I don't know the circumstances. And remember, Mary had a council to advise her.
Just horrible...I don’t even want to imagine how horrible these deaths were...these poor men dying for their religious beliefs...so sad. Thank you for sharing Claire.
Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were mentioned in Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451. When I taught that book, I had to explain to my students who wouldn't have gotten the illusion without knowing the background.
On this day in Tudor History something grisly happened. Horrible to die by such torture.
It makes the heart hurt.
Both my beloved husband and my own family, my family were Catholic, my husband were Protestant, both of our family were slaughtered by both of our family. So sad.
What a sad day. These men of great faith did light a candle never to be put out.
🇭🇲🦘 (viewed 15/10/2020) Nothing I write can do these brave men justice. We need to learn of these terrible deeds in the hope that mankind will one
.... day learn. Sadly, these hundreds of years later, we still harm each other, for all the wrong reasons. When will we learn? Only God knows!
Such HORROR suffered by these men. 🙏
Regardless - an informative video. "Thank you" Claire 💓👑👍
Oh my Lord! How awful. I can never understand why such horrible are done "in the name of God". While this was bad, still educational. I learn so much. Thank you.
How awful! Thank you for another great video, as horrible as it was. We must know that these things happened. It is history after all.
As a nurse, this always horrifies me. As a nurse, I have seen terrible things, terrified patients, horrific awful injuries. I have worked ER, CCU, ICU, as well as maximum security forensic psychiatric facilities with Sexually Violent Predators and serial killers/mass murderers. In the last 40 years I have seen it all.
Thank you, Claire...despite the content, you provide a stabilizing moment in what was a terribly discouraging day. Thank you for what you do.
I can only imagine how the crowd gathered and witnessed the burning.
I really enjoy your contributions. I'm trying to find the martyr who converted William Roper, son-in-law of Thomas More, to Lutheranism. Thank you for your help and please continue the great work!
My goodness...Thank you.
Shocking, spiritual warfare indeed. 🔥
I wish I hadn’t listened to this. Shocking what people do to others, in the name of their highest good, their ‘god.’
Very true.
On August 8, 1555 an agreement was reached in Augsburg, Germany that gave parity between Protestants (mainly Lutheran) and Catholics in government positions in the city and any other official positions. This was reintroduced after the Thirty Years War. We celebrate Friedenstag (Peace Day) as a public holiday every year on August 8. My own family history encompasses the Tudor years and not Augsburg, However, I'm quite proud of my adopted city especially when learn of the Oxford Martyrs in my own ancestral country. Thank you for your wonderful insight into this era of English history.
I was surprised when our priest Veronica read about the two martyrs being burned as heretics during the reign of Queen Mary. I rarely recognize the names of the various saints or martyrs. Always interesting to note following your videos helped me. Thank you.
May they rest in peace!
My hoodie came in today!!!! Its so soft and warm ❤️❤️ a great day for it given the video topic 😂😂
I cant wait to get mine.
Ooooh! Now I'm really looking forward to mine!! So excited!
It's super comfy i love it
Yay! They are lovely and soft, aren't they?
@@anneboleynfiles it is officially my favorite hoodie its so warm and soft and perfect for the bottom layer for winter here
So awful! So sad.
I feel so awful for them both, but to not be able to burn properly like the burning is supposed to happen is just awful. Poor man had gunpowder to hasten the process and stop his suffering as fast as possible, and for him not to be able to use it is just terrible. Especially for a man of God. Another bloody day on Tudor history! Lol! But still my absolute favorite subject!!
Imagine the panic of the brother in law as he tried to help Ridley by piling on more branches but only succeeded in prolonging his agony. It was ghastly.
@@marionarnott750 So do we know if Mary possibly had anything to do with the selecting of the wood used to burn these men? Or was it just an awful day to be burned at the stake? You'd think they'd test a few pieces to see if it would have been able to burn correctly!
@@peachymeechie1844 I wonder if the burnings were carried out by a trained executioner or just by any official or soldier who happened to be handy.
The horror of executions by axe going badly also calls into. question the efficiency of executioners - no wonder Anne Boleyn wanted the French swordsman for her execution. Although I did see a horrible history type programme which showed that the Tudor axe was badly weighted and led to those executions which required many strikes to kill the victim.
All in all, death by burning or axe was amateurish.
@@marionarnott750 I also watched that documentary. I thought the same thing. Either way you die it's just the roll of the dice if you get a good executioner or not, and luckily for Anne, Henry thought he'd do her a last favor by getting the swordsman from France. Thank God because if not her execution would have been one of the more gruesome ones because I just feel like Anne was a fighter and wouldn't have gone out so easily. I know they said he distracted her by asking for the sword when he already had it in hand and so she didn't expect it yet. So she did luck out in a way, but being burned would have been the worst thing I could have ever imagined. Even now when people die in fires you know it is a prolonged way to go. I don't think I'll ever understand why Mary thought she was helping them by purifying their souls and sending them straight to heaven. Nope, it was just a prolonged evil way to kill!!
They didn't call her Bloody Mary for nothing...
If only my hoodie were here; would've been perfect to wear for today's topic! 🤣 Can't wait until it arrives.
I hope it gets to you soon!
@@anneboleynfiles Is it true that a pregnant woman gave birth while being burned at the steak during the rain of Mary I?!?!?
Dont be sorry, you are one of my favorites! Both me, a psychiatric technician/nurse, a woman who has worked in maximum security forensic psychiatric facilities with Sexually Violent Predators and serial killers/mass murderers, my husband is an amazing person, I cannot tell you what he worked with the CIA, all over the world. But we both love your posts. My husband is a Howard! I am a Scottish Catholic,
What brutal times. It does make one cringe.
A quick shout out for Claire's books..2 are available on Audible and read by the author! I'm loving them!
Thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying them.
Oh wow which 2?
What is with people wanting to watch executions. I get physically ill seeing commercials for Roots. Thank you, Claire! xo
I know! Executions seem to have been family days out. Horrible.
They weren't as sensitive as we are. You have to believe that some of them may have enjoyed it on some level. I think that in many
ways they were constitutionally much stronger. They had to be.
This poor men!
Poor and sooo BRAVE MEN
Were people required to attend these horrid public executions?
Lisa Ann Pennington Good question. I sure as heck wouldn’t watch anything like that. Some people are just awful.
No, they were not required. They chose to.
Yikes ... vengeance or self-righteousness, or just plain bloodlust ... human nature's darkest corners ...
was this Mr. Latimer related to Catherine Parr's personal priest?
I think he did serve her for a time too.
When was burning outlawed? Seems bizzare to me that not one person had the guts to say "er..stop! This isnt right".
In England, it was abolished for heresy in 1676 and for female traitors, the last woman to be burned alive was in 1726, although 1784 for a woman who was already dead.
Hanging, drawing and quartering, burning, beheading, boiling to death, hanging... They're all horrible, and, of course, there's still capital punishment in countries today, although some try to make it "humane". Burning is still being used as a method of execution today in some countries.
Mary was a merciless fanatic.
She was as bad as the Taliban and other terrorists.
Please do not identify the past to present context, this is not a political website but a history lesson and a well-researched one.
At least with a beheading it was over quickly. Usually. 😣
Yes, unless you got an unskilled executioner or one on a bad day.
Horrendous, what a horrible death. Sorry for him.
this is so sad,, .. MARY 1 was a .. crazy woman driven by the hate of ANN Boylen and any one who was not a Catholic .. IM suprised that she Let Elizabeth Live..
Burning was a common punishment for heresy at the time. Mary wasn't the only monarch who practiced it so I'm sure it hadn't anything to do with Mary's hatred for Anne Boleyn.
I think she was trying to protect her people's souls. People were more focused on the afterlife, the fate of their immortal soul, as life on earth was short, and Mary would have seen the reformed faith as damning people for eternity. I can't condone what she did, but there's method to her madness.
@@anneboleynfiles Yes, this is also my belief (re Mary's incentive). She may well have been vengeful, but her actions were not so very different from the actions of others who have not suffered from history's vengeance.
I don't think Mary was a crazy woman at all. Admittedly she had an axe to grind in the case of Thomas Cranmer, in particular, whom she would have seen as the one responsible for ending her parent's marriage, and being separated from her mother and never seeing her again. Also remember that Cranmer was implicated in having Lady Jane Grey declared Queen contrary to the Will of HenryVIII which stated that Edward, then Mary then Elizabeth would be in line for the succession. Mary didn't personally sanction the executions, they were sanctioned by Act of Parliament and she was advised by her council. Mary was (unfortunately) a victim of her times.
And Mary burned for eternity for her cruel and evil acts.
Your use of the past tense is inaccurate.
If, IF your surmise about God's judgement is correct, it hasn't happened yet.
But neither you nor I know what went through Mary's head in the last days of her life
I remember seeing this portrayed in Cate Blanchetts Elizabeth. Horrible.
A dreadful way to go. Do you think Foxe exaggerated any of the deaths he speaks of? I cant imagine the body being able to endure such pain without shutting down or going into cardiac arrest. Thank you once again delivering my daily Tudor fix, even though something awfully bad happened.
Yes, I expect he elaborated to try and make even more of an impact on his readers.
Beyond horrible!
We Americans have our sins, but the British Aristocracy are the hands down winners for extreme cruelty. Beheadings, being burned at the stake alive, drawing and quartering, the rack, and other forms of inhumane.torture that are unspeakable, these guys really believed in the word suffer for their victims.
It would have been scary to even be a peasant back then. The little guy wouldn't stand a chance if accused of a crime. Thankfully all that torture.was finally abolished. The French were no better with their ghastly Guillotine.
Being American you don't recall the Salem witch burnings, hangings, stoning? Yes WE Americas did our own atrocities. It was the way of the times. ALL COUNTRIES have some form of brutal penalties in their past histories. Clare loved it. Sorry missing you live again 😞
Such hideous violence. These people were of the most dreadful nature. The most rotten souls acting in the realm of religion.
Oh no...a bad ending today 😢😢
Yes, sorry!
Your hair looks nice ☺️
Thank you!
Im related to the family of Nicholas Ridley. He lives on inside of me.
😮hi! Distant cousin!? Nicholas Ridley is in my tree as well! I came here to learn what happened to him after finding his name in my 4x great grandmothers journal and I am in shock. He lives thru us. ❤
Hi! Jessica Ridley here ! Where are you from?
@Jess White I'm in Alabama USA! 👋 🫂
Eastern Oregon!
Yes it was horrible indeed but lets not forget that Hugh Latimer also preached and presided over the 'roasting alive' of the Franciscan Friar John Forest in 1538 during the reign of Edward VI
My mistake it was during the reign of Henry VIII 1538.
I'm confused 😕, 5:45 you say opposite of 7:05
The 5.45 bit is from an account which states that Mr Latimer embraced the flames, bathed his hands in them and soon "died, apparently with little pain", whereas Ridley suffered a long drawn out death. I think we can safely say that Latimer suffered an awful death, though, even if it wasn't as bad as Ridley's.
Poor Cranmer, he never stood a chance with Mary. His first sin was his working in her Mother's marriage annulment. And the 2nd was supporting Edward VI to be succeeded by Jean Grey and declaring Mary a bastard ( and Elizabeth too.)
I agree!
Quite correct Marinella....he was his own undoing in some ways but a remarkable man in many ways and very loyal to that horrid creature Henry VIII. I often wonder why he didn't do more to prevent the execution of Ann Boleyn seeing as he had been supported in the early years by her family.
Three blind mice, three blind mice, see how they run. See how they run ......
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What a sad time in England history 🤣
That's entertainment! Sorry Claire, I just couldn't handle the burning details!
No doubt Catholic Queen Mary is in hell, whilst Latimer and Ridley are forever with our Heavenly Father!
Luke77: Mary Tudor is not in hell....in the first place I don't believe there is such a place. Queen Mary was not personally responsible for the punishment of of these people, she was advised by her Council and Parliament had enacted laws against what was deemed to be heresy. Anyone accused of heresy was given a triail. Thomas Cranmer the evangelical Abp of Canterbury had planned to restore the death penalty by burning for heresy before Edward's death intervened. Hugh Latimer the evangelical Bp of Worcester preached and presided over the 'roasting alive' of the Franciscan Friar John Forest in 1538 during the reign of Edward VI. Part of the fuel for the fire was a wooden image of the Welsh pilgrim Darvell Gadern. You need to read more of English History. Mary Tudor has been much maligned in English history for hundreds of years simply because she was a catholic and wished to return England to the old faith.....the faith of English Kings, saints and bishops extending back for hundreds of years until the emergence of the greedy, selfish, vindictive Henry VIII. Mary Tudor was a more hard working, hands on and decisive Queen that is commonly recognised.
@@colinlavelle7806 read your Bible and see that hell is a real place where those who chose to not know their saviour, will spend eternity. Sin does not prevail!
Luke 77. One more thing I suggest you try and find a book titled MARY TUDOR by Judith M. Richards an Australian author (Im an Australian) It's a short book but gives a very balanced view of the life and times of Mary Tudor. After all she was the first English Queen to reign in her own right.
@@Luke-er6pg So Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth I all had people both catholics and protestants executed are they then in hell?
@@colinlavelle7806 If anyone doesn’t accept Christ as their saviour, they have decided to spent eternity separated from Christ. Why would unbelievers spend eternity in the presence of God? Why did Christ go to the cross for?