2008/11/13

--George Plantagenet, death in wine barrel--


Known like Duke Clarence, he was born in Dublin (1449). Son of Duke of York and Lady Cecily Neville.

He married with Isabelle Neville. It had to be made privily because the king was not in agreement with this connection.

He was imputed by a crime of high treason, by king Eduardo IV, his brother. The sentence was celebrated in private, the 18 of February of 1478, in the Tower of London.

Presumably one said that he was drowned in a sweet wine barrel of Madeira. Also it was rumored that it could have been a joke of the twigs, because his fame of alcoholic was well well-known.

Nevertheless time later, when being examined the body, were not indications that the corpse was beheaded, being this one the way by which they snatched lives then.