{"slug": "death-by-burning", "label": "Death by burning", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q468455", "qid": "Q468455", "description": "execution method", "entries": 13, "years": 13, "span": [687, 1898], "span_label": ["687 CE", "1898 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 7}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Burned at the stake", "Execution by burning"], "related": [{"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-isles", "label": "British Isles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palestine-region", "label": "Palestine (region)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fatimid-caliphate", "label": "Fatimid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nikephoros-ii-phokas", "label": "Nikephoros II Phokas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greek-orthodox-patriarch-of-jerusalem", "label": "Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hungary", "label": "Hungary", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-kent", "label": "Kingdom of Kent", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cdwalla", "label": "Cædwalla", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "knights-templar", "label": "Knights Templar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "philip-iv-of-france", "label": "Philip IV of France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seine", "label": "Seine", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 687, "year_label": "687 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Mul of Kent and 12 companions are burnt to death, during a Kentish uprising. His brother, King Cædwalla of Wessex, ravages the kingdom in revenge.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806293#Britain", "title": "687", "revid": 1340806293, "section": "Events › By place › Europe › Britain"}}, {"year": 966, "year_label": "966 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "John VII, patriarch of Jerusalem, is burned at the stake by a Muslim mob after writing to Emperor Nikephoros II, pleading him to intervene in Palestine and retake it from the Fatimid Caliphate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341513206#Religion", "title": "966", "revid": 1341513206, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1298, "year_label": "1298 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 20", "text": "April 20 – Rintfleisch massacres: The Jews of Röttingen are burned en masse. \"Lord Boels von Rindtfleisch\" (also referred to as a carnifex, i.e. butcher or executioner) goes from town to town and kills all the Jews that fall under his control. He destroys the Jewish communities at Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Würzburg, Bamberg, Dinkelsbühl, Nördlingen and Forchheim. In the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, the Jews seek refuge in the Nuremberg Castle, assisted by Christian citizens, but Rintfleisch overcomes the defenders and massacres the Jews on August 1. Spreading from Franconia to Bavaria and Austria, Rintfleisch and his followers destroy 146 communities, and between 20,000 and 100,000 Jews are killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363071319#Europe", "title": "1298", "revid": 1363071319, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1300, "year_label": "1300 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18 – Gerard Segarelli, Italian founder of the Apostolic Brethren, is burned at the stake in Parma during a brutal repression of the Apostolics.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363832742#July_–_September", "title": "1300", "revid": 1363832742, "section": "July – September"}}, {"year": 1314, "year_label": "1314 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar and Geoffroi de Charney, are, by orders of King Philip IV of France (\"Philip the Fair\"), burned at the stake in front of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on the Île de la Cité in the Seine. Jacques declares his innocence and that the Templar Order is also innocent of all the charges of heresy. It is said that Jacques correctly predicts the deaths of both Philip and Pope Clement V within the year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373434387#January_–_March", "title": "1314", "revid": 1373434387, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1402, "year_label": "1402 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – The \"False Olaf\", a Bohemian immigrant who bore a resemblance to the late King Olaf of Denmark and Norway and impersonated the late monarch earlier in the year, is burned at the stake as punishment.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371594109#October–December", "title": "1402", "revid": 1371594109, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1612, "year_label": "1612 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – In Lichfield, Edward Wightman, a radical Anabaptist, becomes the last person to be burned at the stake in England as punishment for heresy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366306597#April–June", "title": "1612", "revid": 1366306597, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1621, "year_label": "1621 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January", "text": "January–April – The first Vardø witch trials, in which eleven women were executed by burning at the stake.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331437335#Events", "title": "1621 in Norway", "revid": 1331437335, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September", "text": "September – Lisbet Nypan was executed by burning at the stake, while her husband Ole Nypan was beheaded, both in Trondheim.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1262024883#Events", "title": "1670 in Norway", "revid": 1262024883, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1727, "year_label": "1727 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "An old woman known as Janet (Jenny) Horne of Loth, Sutherland becomes the last alleged witch in the British Isles to be executed, when she is burned at the stake in Dornoch, Scotland. (Some sources give the date as June 1722.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360176234#Date_unknown", "title": "1727", "revid": 1360176234, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1728, "year_label": "1728 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – At the conclusion of the Szeged witch trials in the city of the same name in Hungary, six men and six women are burned at the stake on the island of Boszorkány Sziget (Hungarian for \"Witch Island\").", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363462071#July–September", "title": "1728", "revid": 1363462071, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1730, "year_label": "1730 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – Enslaved woman Sally Basset is put on trial for murder in Bermuda; she will eventually be convicted and burned at the stake.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560881#April–June", "title": "1730", "revid": 1369560881, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1898, "year_label": "1898 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 8", "text": "January 8 – Seminole burning: Lynching by burning of two Seminole boys near Maud, Oklahoma; 6 of the lynch mob are convicted and imprisoned, the first successful prosecution of lynching in the Southwest.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365817309#January–March", "title": "1898 in the United States", "revid": 1365817309, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}