List of people executed by the Tudors

This is a list of prominent people executed by the state during the reign of the Tudors. It is not exhaustive.

In the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509)

• Sir William Stanley, 1495, executed for treason.
• Perkin Warbeck, 1499.
• Edward, Earl of Warwick, 1499.

In the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547)

• Edmund Dudley, 1510.
• Richard Empson, 1510.
• Edmund de la Pole, 6th Earl of Suffolk, 1513
• Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, 1521
• John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, 1535
• Sir Thomas More, 1535
• George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, 1536
• Henry Norris, 1536
• William Brereton 1536
• Mark Smeaton, 1536
• Francis Weston, 1536
• Anne Boleyn, 1536
• Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of Kildare and his five uncles 1537
• Edward Neville, 1538
• Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, 1539
• Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, 1539.
• Thomas Cromwell, 1540
• Walter Hungerford, 1540
• Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1541.
• Francis Dereham, 1541.
• Leonard Grey, 1541
• Thomas Culpeper, 1541.
• Catherine Howard, 1542.
• Jane Boleyn, 1542.
• Anne Askew, 1546
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 1547.

In the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553)

• Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, 1549.
• Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1552, executed for treason.

In the reign of Mary (1553-1558)

• John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1553, executed for high treason.
• Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 1554, executed for treason.
• Lady Jane Grey, 1554
• Guilford Dudley, 1554
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1554.
• William Thomas, 1554
• John Rogers, 1555, executed under the Marian Persecutions.
• John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, 1555, executed under the Marian Persecutions.
• Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London , 1555
• Hugh Latimer, 1555
• Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1556

In the reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603)

• Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, 1572, executed for treason.
• Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1572.
• Sir Anthony Babington, 1586, executed for high treason
• Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587.
• Henry Abbot, 1597.
• Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1601, executed for treason.

See also

• Tudor dynasty
• Babington Plot
• Ridolfi plot