Posted on 04/18/2024 7:52:21 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1567, Wilhelm von Grumbach was dismembered along with two of his followers in the marketplace of Gotha.
Grumbach (English Wikipedia entry | German) was the cantankerous German instigator of the aptly-named Grumbachsche Handel, a messy clash of rights and prerogatives at the hinge of the old feudal order and centralized princely authority.
Grumbach was a knight who’s invariably described as an “adventurer”. As a young man he fought in the Peasants War, but as he headed into middle age he became your basic penniless minor nobleman chafing at the failures and obstructed opportunities life threw at him......
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... was dismembered along with two of his followers in the marketplace of Gotha.
I wonder how that pleasant scene played upon the minds of shoppers on the next market day ?
John Jacob Jingle-heimer Schmidt?....................
Such events were part of the entertainment that shoppers could look forward to. In England, prisoners convicted of stealing items worth 12 cents or less would be whipped on market days to show the largest possible crowd what happens to those who break the law. If what they stole was worth more than 12 cents, they would go to the gallows.
How humiliating. It’s bad enough when I dismember where I put my car keys.
That would be a clear moral division.
How sick a human must you be to be entertained by human dismemberment, or even to not be violently revolted by it.
Did you say of Ulm, or of Ume?
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