Posted on 02/17/2021 11:56:55 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1524, the French aristocrat Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint Vallier lay his head on a chopping-block.
He kept it there for a full hour, but the headsman never swung the blade — and Jean de Poitiers walked away with a royal clemency.
This lucky Seigneur had been caught up in an English- and Habsburg-backed plot by the Constable of France to break off a chunk of France. (Said Constable fled to Charles V.)
Jean de Poitiers skated on noblesse oblige and lesser culpability, but there’s a scurrilous story that he was heard thanking God as he was led back from the scaffold for his daughter’s many charms.
On this date in 1524, the French aristocrat Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint Vallier lay his head on a chopping-block.
He kept it there for a full hour, but the headsman never swung the blade — and Jean de Poitiers walked away with a royal clemency.
This lucky Seigneur had been caught up in an English- and Habsburg-backed plot by the Constable of France to break off a chunk of France. (Said Constable fled to Charles V.)
Jean de Poitiers skated on noblesse oblige and lesser culpability, but there’s a scurrilous story that he was heard thanking God as he was led back from the scaffold for his daughter’s many charms.....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Made me think of Zeppelin’s “Gallows Pole”
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