Was a King of England or Scotland murdered by red hot poker.?

Answer 1

Edward the Second was dispatched in such a manner, the poker being inserted up his tail pipe, so that there would be no apparent marks of violence on the body. As an aside, Edward was the wimpish gay character in the movie Brave heart, son of Long shanks, and it was probably done on his wife's orders. If he really was gay then that might have also been a factor in her choice of methods for his execution, "neglect me and like things in your butt do you" Regardless, it was a crappy way to die.

Answer 2

Red Hot Poker King

Answer 3

Edward II

The government of Isabella and Mortimer was so precarious that they dared not leave the deposed king in the hands of their political enemies. On April 3 he was removed from Kenilworth and entrusted to the custody of two dependents of Mortimer. He was imprisoned at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire. Contrary to the polemical chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker, record evidence shows that he was well-treated in captivity. It was later rumoured that Edward had been killed by the insertion of a piece of copper into his anus (later a red-hot iron rod, as in the supposed murder of Edmund Ironside), supposedly as a deserved end of a homosexual. It also supposedly had the added benefit that it would appear that the king had died a natural death; this is due to the fact that a metal tube was inserted into the rectum first, allowing the iron rod to penetrate the innards without leaving a burn on the anus. This was elaborated in a history by Sir Thomas More:

"On the night of October 11 (1327 AD) while lying in on a bed (the king) was suddenly seized and, while a great mattress... weighed him down and suffocated him, a plumber's iron, heated intensely hot, was introduced through a tube into his secret parts (into his anus) so that it burned the inner portions beyond the intestines."
This method is unnecessarily complicated, as simple suffocation would have met the objectives and so is unlikely.

Answer 4

English King Edward II was murdered in his prison at Berkeley Castle on September 21 1327. He was either smothered or, according to the more colourful version, killed by having a red-hot poker thrust into his rectum.

Answer 5

His enemies wanted him to die without any mark of violence. By tradition, the poker was inserted through a horn - to leave no flesh scorching. This was done as a last resort when other methods failed. Edward was first starved, but this took too long, then confined in a pit full of corpses in the hope that the stench - or 'miasma' - would kill him.

Answer 6

I beleive that at the end of the 19th century the coffin of Edward II was opened and his remains subjected to an autopsy. No evidence was found indicating the use of the mythical murder weapon. The result of the autopsy is reported in a copy of Archaeologia journal, but don't ask me to quote the volume reference off hand.

Answer 7

I can't believe you would ask such a question when there are Elephants, Oranges,Grapes and Barrels to be solved.
But okay I did it! but it was an accident. King Edward asked me to poke the fire at the same time as he bent over to pick up his Tiara. The rest as they say, is history!
No copper tube was used despite what that ratbag Cardinal said. It was a bum rap.

Answer 8

yes, King Edward II

Answer 9

well you've made my eyes water
do belive that he'd been down the local Taj Mahal and had a vinda Lo , he turned round to the Jester and said i can stand anything hot, the Jester rep[lied cop this then...did for him

Answer 10

Edward 2nd had the pleasure of that one.