Which King of England/Scotland was murdered by red hot poker?

Answer 1

Edward II

"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 so that it burned the inner portions beyond the intestines."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_II_of_England#Life_in_captivity_and_death

To sum up... the heated poker was shoved up his rear end.

Definitely a gruesome death. I never cease to be amazed at the ugliness of some "human beings."

Answer 2

As the others have said - Edward II. He wasn't king of Scotland, though.

Apparently (as I found out when I went to Berkeley Castle last year - where he was murdered) the first mention of that method of execution was in a book written 60 years after he died. But it doesn't mean it isn't true, necessarily.

Answer 3

Supposedly, Edward II. But read the book, "Isabella", by Alison Weir, or Ian Mortimer's book on Roger Mortimer. There is a pretty solid body of evidence to indicate that he was never murdered at all, but eventually made his way to Italy to live a monkish life. It's quite fascinating, and convincing.

Answer 4

It was Edward II. Christopher Marlowe wrote a great play about it. Apparently they used a hunting horn as a 'funnel' to get the poker in!

Answer 5

That was Edward II the son of Edward I also known as Long-shanks, because of this height. It is said that his wife and her lover caught him between 2 tables bent Hind over and wow, right up his hind end. Later his son Edward III would have his mothers lover killed and have her sent to a nunnery.

Answer 6

Edward II the authorities of Isabella and Mortimer became so precarious that they dared no longer depart the deposed king contained in the palms of their political enemies. On April 3 he became removed from Kenilworth and entrusted to the custody of two dependents of Mortimer. He became imprisoned at Berkeley fort in Gloucestershire. opposite to the polemical chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker, list info shows that he became properly-dealt with in captivity. It became later rumoured that Edward were killed by the insertion of somewhat of copper into his anus (later a purple-warm iron rod, as contained in the meant homicide of Edmund Ironside), supposedly as a deserved end of a gay. It also supposedly had the added advantage that it would look that the king had died a organic lack of life; it is because of the particular undeniable reality that a metal tube became inserted into the rectum first, allowing the iron rod to penetrate the innards with out leaving a burn on the anus. This became elaborated in a history by Sir Thomas extra: "on the nighttime of October 11 (1327 ad) at the same time as mendacity in on a mattress (the king) became unexpectedly seized and, at the same time as an astounding mattress... weighed him down and suffocated him, a plumber's iron, heated intensely warm, became presented by a tube into his secret aspects (into his anus) so as that it burned the interior parts previous the intestines." this technique is unnecessarily complicated, as user-friendly suffocation would have met the targets and so is not likely.

Answer 7

Edward II of England, I'm not sure it is true of him, but apparently this was done to homosexual men in less enlightened times. A pretty gruesome death.

Answer 8

edward the second at berkley castle.

said to be revenge ordered by his wife, isabella of france, for neglecting her, to frolic with his male paramours.

Answer 9

Edward II. not sure if it's true or just a myth though.

Answer 10

I think it may have been richard.