[21st Century Crusader]

Boot Cites Cromwell’s Military Coup In Call To Oust Trump

I believe Cromwell was beheaded. Is this clown, Boot, willing to follow his lead?

[RitchieAprile]

nonsense.

Cromwell died a kidney ailment. It was Charles I who lost his head.

[IronJack]

Oliver Cromwell died of malaria.
It was the king — Charles I — who was beheaded.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Wrong Cromwell — Thomas Cromwell was beheaded. Oliver died of natural causes, although his body was dug up and posthumously beheaded some time later. That really showed him.

[mass55th]

Cromwell died of natural causes. Once Charles II reclaimed the throne he was bent on revenge of those who had toppled his father. Cromwell’s body was disinterred, hung, drawn and quartered, and his head placed on a pike on London Bridge as a message to all would-be traitors.

[SmokingJoe]

You are all correct. Cromwell did die of natural. causes AND was beheaded too.
That’s right, he is one of only a few people who was executed posthumously.

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Cromwell’s son succeeded him in ruling as Lord Protector, but did not last long, and resigned in 1659. The monarchy was then restored under the rule of Charles II. It was this king who demanded that Cromwell be punished for his crimes of high treason and regicide. And so Cromwell’s body was exhumed, along with John Bradshaw, President of the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I and Henry Ireton, Cromwell’s son-in-law and general in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War, to be posthumously killed. The date of the execution was chosen as it was the anniversary of King Charles I own death, 12 years earlier.

The bodies were hung and then beheaded at sunset and thrown into an unmarked pit. The heads were put on a spike at Westminster Hall, where they stayed on display for more than 20 years. The heads only came down because a storm broke the spike and sent the heads tumbling down.

https://mysendoff.com/2011/11/oliver-cromwells-posthumous-execution/

[hanamizu]

I believe Cromwell was beheaded.

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Oliver Cromwell was beheaded—posthumously. After the Restoration, Charles II had those who had passed sentence on his father, Charles I, sentenced for treason. Those who had died in the meantime were not spared. Cromwell’s body was dug up, beheaded and his head displayed on London Bridge on a spike. After a while, some one fetched the head and hid it. A few years ago (after 100s of years and no likely punishment for harboring a fugitive) it was reburied at Cambridge.

[SmokingJoe]