Who was a held prisoner in the Tower of London who was not beheaded?

Answer 1

Hundreds of people - some of the more famous ones (not beheaded) were...

• Bishop Ranulf Flambard - the first prisoner

• Hubert de Burgh, Chief Justiciar of England (1232)

• 1238 - William le Marish

• Prince Gruffydd of Wales ( fell 90 feet whilst trying to escape - 1244 )

• King Baliol of Scotland (1296)

• William Wallace (1305)

• Lady Badlesmere, Margaret de Clare, first woman recorded as a prisoner of the Tower (1322)

• Charles, Duke of Orleans (1391-1465)

• Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester 1441

• King Henry VI 1465

• Duke of Clarence 1478

• 1483 - William Hastings

• 1483 - Jane Shore

• 1483 The Two Princes - Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York

• John Fisher Bishop of Rochester (1534)

• Sir Thomas More (1535)

• Implicated with Anne Boleyn - Mark Smeaton, Henry Norris, Frances Weston, William Brereton and George Boleyn (1536) NB Sir Thomas Wyatt was also arrested and imprisoned but was released

• Sir William de la Pole was incarcerated at the Tower for 37 years

• Thomas Cromwell (1540)

• Implicated with Catherine Howard - Anne Howard, Thomas Culpepper, Henry Mannox & Francis Dereham(1542)

• Protestant Anne Askew tortured at the Tower (1545)

• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1546)

• Thomas, Duke of Norfolk (1546)

• Princess Elizabeth and her servants Kat Ashley and Henry Parry (1554)

• Thomas Seymour, High Admiral of England (1549)

• The Duchess of Somerset (1551)

• Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector (1552)

• Guildford Dudley - husband of Lady Jane Grey (1554)

• Hugh Draper of Bristol - sorcerer (1561)

• John Store (1571)

• Guy Fawkes (1606)

• Nicholas Owen Jesuit builder of priests' holes (1606)

• Thomas Overbury (1613)

• Sir Walter Raleigh - first imprisoned for 13 years then released but eventually executed (1618)

• Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (1641)

• William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1645)

• James Scott, Duke of Monmouth (1685)

• 1780, the only American prisoner, Henry Laurens

• Sir Francis Burdett

• The Cato-street Conspirators

• Roger Casement

• Norman Baillie-Stewart in 1933-1937

• Corporal Josef Jakobs

• Rudolf Hess

• The Kray Twins