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Execution of John Dudley

When
22 August 1553
Where
Unresolved site
Part of
The Jane Grey Interregnum and Accession of Mary I

John Dudley was executed on 22 August 1553 after being convicted of high treason and abjuring the Protestant faith.

Tried in Westminster Hall on 18 August, Dudley was convicted of high treason. He returned to Catholicism and abjured Protestantism before his execution on 22 August 1553. The specific execution site is not identified in the provided passages.

Sources

  1. John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-22
  2. Lady Jane Grey Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-22

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.