Thomas Earl de Lancaster led a la ejecución. - Ilustración de stock

Vintage colour lithograph from 1864 showing Thomas Earl of Lancaster being led to Execution. One of the leaders of the baronial opposition to Edward II of England. He was defeated at the Battle of Boroughbridge, and taken prisoner. Lancaster was tried by a tribunal he was not allowed to speak in his own defence, nor was he allowed to have anyone to speak for him. Because of their kinship and Lancaster's royal blood, the King commuted the sentence to mere beheading (as opposed to being drawn, quartered, and beheaded) and Lancaster was convicted of treason and executed near Pontefract Castle.