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.
• Suffolk, 1513
• Buckingham, 1521
• John Fisher, 1535
• Thomas More, 1535
• George Boleyn, 1536
• Henry Norris, 1536
• William Brereton 1536
• Mark Smeaton, 1536
• Francis Weston, 1536
• Anne Boleyn, 1536
• Henry Courtenay, 1539.
• Thomas Cromwell, 1540
• Margaret Pole, 1541.
• Francis Dereham, 1541.
• Thomas Culpeper, 1541.
• Catherine Howard, 1542.
• Jane Boleyn, 1542.
• Anne Askewy, 1546
• Henry Howard, 1547.

In the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553)

• Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1552, executed for treason.
• Lord Seymour, 1549.

In the reign of Mary (1553-1558)

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

In the reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603)

• Norfolk, 1572, executed for treason.
• Northumberland, 1572.
• Northumberland, 1585.
• Sir Anthony Babington, 1586, executed for high treason
• Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587.
• Henry Abbot, 1597.
• Robert, Earl of Essex, 1601, executed for treason.
• Westmorland, 1601.

See also

• Tudor dynasty
• Babington Plot
• Ridolfi plot