According to a note in the memoirs (French, natch) kept by Le Puy master tanner Antoine Jacmon, “the portrait and effigie of the noble Jean de Mourgues” was publicly beheaded in place of the flesh of the noble Jean de Mourgues, as penalty for the latter’s attempt to murder his own uncle.
According to the author’s note, this punishment had so little effect that Jean de Mourgues successfully carried out the assassination in a hail of gunfire two years later.
On this day..
- 1992: Sukhdev Singh Sukha and Harjinder Singh Jinda, Operation Blue Star avengers
- 1732: Edward Dalton, brotherly hate
- 1685: Rebecca Fowler, Chesapeake witch
- 1601: Nikolaus Krell, Saxon chancellor and Crypto-Calvinist
- 1938: Ivan Stepanovich Razukhin
- 1796: Thirty Jacobins for the Affaire du camp de Grenelle
- 1968: Pierre Mulele, hoodwinked
- 1569: Vladimir of Staritsa, royal cousin
- Feast Day of Saint Denis, cephalophore
- 1401: Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan, an army marching on his stomach
- 2002: Aileen Wuornos, Monster
- 1967: Ernesto "Che" Guevara