Posted on 10/03/2020 12:51:09 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
If you cross “Longshanks,” as the regal man was called, you’re in for some serious pain. And then, eventually, you’ll die, like Dafydd ap Gruffydd did this day in 1283.
It is Dafydd, a Prince of Wales, who became the first prominent person in recorded history to have been hanged, drawn and quartered.
Yes, Dafydd’s death was particularly gruesome. Having fought alongside King Edward against Dafydd’s own brother and then returning to his brother’s side attacking King Edward’s Englishmen at Hawarden Castle, made the king rather peeved.
The English conquest of Wales: end of an era. When Longshanks got the better of him, Dafydd was dragged through the streets of Shrewsbury attached to a horse’s tail. He was then hanged, but not enough to kill him, just enough to make it awfully uncomfortable.
More uncomfortable was the emasculation....
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What was that from???
That was from the movie Braveheart. Longshanks’ sissy son declared Philip to be his royal counsel as things were falling apart. Philip was just as fruity, and Longshanks took him aside to ask for “advice” before throwing out the window.
Braveheart. Great movie. In that scene I did not see it coming at all.
It’s not stated but strongly implied that he was a lover of the King’s son.
The look on the son’s face when he throws him out the window is hysterical :)
Longshanks was the bad guy, but I remember people cheering in the theater when that happened.
Do not cross King Edward I.
If you cross “Longshanks,” as the regal man was called, you’re in for some serious pain. And then, eventually, you’ll die, like Dafydd ap Gruffydd did this day in 1283.
It is Dafydd, a Prince of Wales, who became the first prominent person in recorded history to have been hanged, drawn and quartered.
Yes, Dafydd’s death was particularly gruesome. Having fought alongside King Edward against Dafydd’s own brother and then returning to his brother’s side attacking King Edward’s Englishmen at Hawarden Castle, made the king rather peeved.
When Longshanks got the better of him, Dafydd was dragged through the streets of Shrewsbury attached to a horse’s tail. He was then hanged, but not enough to kill him, just enough to make it awfully uncomfortable.
More uncomfortable was the emasculation.
Perhaps more uncomfortable than being emasculated was when Dafydd was disemboweled and his entrails burned before his eyes.
Then they cut off his head, which must have been a relief.
Then they cut off his limbs.
Then they parboiled his head for later viewing.
(William Wallace met the same fate from the same king a couple of decades later.)
I’ve only seen parts of Braveheart. Another movie I need to see.
I wonder if that particular incident was part of the inspiration for the “Swamp Castle sequence” (where the dad (Palin) tosses his son Herbert (Jones) out the window and adopts Lancelot (Cleese) as his son instead) in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
I did hate him in the movie.
What a monster.
And I was stunned more than anything when he took a dive.
I guess that fact that he was well versed in the art of war...or whatever he said..didn’t matter to the king :)
The son tried to knife the king right after, right?
I’ve seen it a million times...getting old :)
It’s likely the other way around as the Python movie predates Braveheart.
Arise, Prince Of Wales.
Well Daffy Duck is the brother to the Prince of Wales today...... Appropriate match.
I’m not good with that kind of stuff.
You would think growing up around gangsters I would be sharper when it came to stuff like that.
But I just don’t think like that.
Thank God no one wants to hurt me :)
That I know of.
Edward I is supposed to be my 20th great-grandfather. And Robert the Bruce I is also shown as my 20th great-grandfather. Both from different lines in my mother’s side of the family. God only knows if it’s true.
I have a theory that many historical beheadings were just really bad haircuts by totally incompetent barbers. Their guild was a powerful lobby and had history blame all of the errant deep neck divots on political or religious differences.
Agreed. My sister worked in ER many years ago.
Horror stories she came home with...and that was like 40 years ago.
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