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 VIII (1509–1547)
- Edmund Dudley 1510.
- Sir Richard Empson, 1510.
- Edmund de la Pole, 6th Earl of Suffolk, 1513
- Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, 1521
- Elizabeth Barton, The Nun of Kent, 1534
- 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
- Robert Aske, 1537. Leader of Pilgrimage of Grace
- Francis Bigod, 1537. Leader of Bigod's Rebellion
- Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of Kildare and his five uncles 1537
- Edward Neville, 1538
- Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, 1539
- Henry Pole, s/o Henry, 1st Baron Montagu, was arrested with his father and starved in the tower, per Allison Weir
- 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.
- George Smithes, 1539.
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 )
- William Dast, 4th Duke of Norfolk, 1572, executed for treason.
- Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1572.
- Edmund Campion, Alexander Briant and Ralph Sherwin, 1581.
- 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.