Ep. 44: Posthumous Trials and Executions - Stripping and Wiping

Off with their heads!!! But not before you listen to this episode. This episode we take a look at three examples of posthumous trials and executions. You heard right, posthumous. We cover what happened to Oliver Cromwell, Gilles van Ledenberg, and Pope Formosus and the Cadaver Synod after their deaths. Because even in death, they couldn't escape pissed off and powerful enemies. Things get messy on this episode of Under the Pendulum Podcast. 

 

Sources: 

Formosus Sources

https://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pope-on-trial/

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Medievaltrials/The_Body_of_Pope_Formosus.pdf

https://www.medievalists.net/2017/07/cadaver-synod-low-point-history-papacy/

Guerra, Stephen. History of the Papacy Podcast. Episode 89: A Very Cadaver Synod Christmas! 2019

 

Cromwell Sources

https://historyinnumbers.com/people/oliver-cromwell/execution/

https://historyinnumbers.com/people/oliver-cromwell/cromwells-head/

https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/oliver-cromwell

https://www.cromwellmuseum.org/cromwell/cromwell-the-man/mp

https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/oliver-cromwell-and-family

 

Ledenberg Sources

https://historiek-net.translate.goog/gilles-ledenberg-johan-oldenbarnevelt/59881/?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

https://historiek-net.translate.goog/maurits-van-oranje-1567-1625/5382/?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

https://historiek-net.translate.goog/executie-van-johan-van-oldenbarnevelt-1619/42652/?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_van_Ledenberg