1. Richard Brandon was the common executioner of London from 1639 to 1649, who inherited that role from his father Gregory Brandon and was sometimes known as Young Gregory.
11 Facts About Richard Brandon
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Richard Brandon is often named as the executioner of Charles I, though the executioner's identity is not definitively known.
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Gregory Richard Brandon had become executioner in 1611, and was then living with his family on Rosemary Lane, Whitechapel.
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Richard Brandon was rumoured to have decapitated stray cats and dogs, in training for his future position.
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The execution of Charles I was carried out expertly, with a single clean cut to Charles' neck, possibly suggesting that the executioner was experienced, and pointing towards someone like Richard Brandon who had much pride in his use of an axe.
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Richard Brandon had executed other royalists before Charles and after, including Thomas Wentworth, William Laud, and Lord Capel, indicating few moral qualms over executing political criminals.
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Three pamphlets of 1649, published shortly after Richard Brandon's death, claimed to reveal him as the executioner of Charles I, though their authenticity is disputable.
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The most notable of these tracts, The Confession of Richard Brandon, claimed to be a deathbed confession of Richard Brandon, but it is regarded as a forgery, and apparently received little attention in its time.
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Gregory Richard Brandon was said to be the illegitimate grandson or great grandson of Charles Richard Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, whose.
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Charles Richard Brandon died in 1551, eight years before Elizabeth I's accession to the throne, and therefore cannot be identical with the Charles Richard Brandon who was this Queen's jeweller.
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Richard Brandon succeeded Derrick, with whose name all readers of the "Fortunes of Nigel" will be familiar.