" A 19 - year - onetime lady friend being slowly burned to death by the same church building she commit her life to , while chanting Christ ’s name over and over . Only to be name a Saint by that same church centuries subsequently . "
Warning : This post discusses intense ferocity .
They say history is always written from the perspective of the victor, even though those who have been defeated in gruesome deaths find themselves immortalized in some capacity. Their endings aren’t pretty by any means, though they’re remembered more vividly than those who’ve left this world on a less disastrous note.
Recently, I did a deep dive onr/AskRedditwhere, in one post, someoneaskedusers to name the “famous historical figures [who] had deaths proportionally brutal to their level of fame.” Here’s what people had to say:
1.“Ulysses S. Grant, but it was still a noble death.”
2.“Julius Caesar’s death is pretty wild. Stabbed todeathon the Senate floor by people he thought were his political allies and personal friends.”
3.“Blackbeard the Pirate (Edward Teach). Cornered by the British Navy, he went down fighting. When his body wasexamined, he had been shot five times and had 20 sword cuts. The British sailors fired another 20 shots into his body and cut off his head to be displayed as a warning to other would-be pirates.”
4.“Sigurd the Mighty.A Norwegian Jarl of Shetland who conquered part of Northern Scotland.”
" At one level , he challenged Máel Brigte the Buck - Toothed , a local drawing card , to a fight with 40 men to each side . Dishonorably , he brought 80 human being to the battle instead of 40 and , as you might imagine , easily won . Máel Brigte was beheaded , and Sigurd rode home triumphant with the fountainhead strapped to his bicycle seat . That victory proved to be his last , however , as Máel Brigte the Buck - Toothed proved that his nickname was well clear . As Sigurd tease , the teeth of the severed fountainhead rubbed up against his pegleg , cause an open sore which became infect , leading tothe deathof Sigurd the Mighty . "
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5.“Charles of Navarre (Charles the Bad) dieda quite terrible death. At 54 years old (1387), he fell seriously ill, and on the doctor’s advice, they wrapped him in linen soaked in brandy. Because, you know, medieval medicine. Unfortunately, the maid tripped and dropped a candle, which set the brandy ablaze, burning the man alive.”
6.“Anne Boleyn. Henry VIII must have actually loved her at one point, to then turn around and have her not only executed, but then erase her as much as he possibly could afterwards. He felt so betrayed (despite being the betrayer himself), he tried to erase her existence.”
7.“Jamestown governor John Ratcliffe, the villain in Disney’sPocahontas. Had his skin peeled off and thrown in a fire in front of him.”
8.“Joan of Arc, a 19-year-old girl being slowly burned to death by the same church she dedicated her life to, while chanting Christ’s name over and over. Only to be named a Saint by that same church centuries later.”
9.“Qaddafigetting sodomized with a bayonet has to be up there.”
10.“Robespierre.Shot in the jaw, unable to speak, which is what helped start the Terror in the first place — his words. Taken to the guillotine like so many others.”
11.“Roland Freisler dieda fittingly brutal death. He was a Nazi judge who oversaw a lot of torture and thousands of death sentences. Differing accounts say that he was killed either when a piece of his courtroom crushed him in an air raid, or when shrapnel hit him and he ran out only to bleed to death on the courthouse steps.”
12.“Stalin lay on the ground in his office for about 11 hours after having astroke, dying slowly in pain. The staff were too scared to enter his private office without explicit permission, so they waited until a senior person showed up.”
13.Martin Luther King Jr., as the most visible leader of the Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated in a brutal act of racial violence intended to silence his powerful message. Instead, his death became a rallying cry for the movement and further elevated his status as a global icon of peace and justice."
14.“Bonnie and Clyde. Holy shit, that car had a lot ofbullet holesin it.”
15.“Joseph Smith.”
16.“William the Conquerordiedof a massive infection caused by an injury he received from the pommel of his saddle.”
17.“Samuel Doe (21st President of Liberia). He faced 12 hours oftorture(which included his ears getting cut off and some of his fingers and toes amputated) before he was finally murdered.”
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