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  • 3 February - Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare
    Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare
    Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare , also known as Silken Thomas , was a figure in Irish history.He spent a considerable part of his early life in England: his mother Elizabeth Zouche, was a cousin of Henry VII...

     (Silken Thomas) was hanged, drawn and quartered
    Hanged, drawn and quartered
    To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III and his successor, Edward I...

    , with his five uncles, at Tyburn
    Tyburn, London
    Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn or Teo Bourne 'boundary stream', a tributary of the River Thames which is now completely covered over between its source and its outfall into the...

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