Watch our video, immediately below, which explains this horrible chapter in the history of Shrewsbury town:
During the reign Edward I (1239 - 1307) who built the hall, now the Shrewsbury Castle Museum, in the Castle Grounds there were two further Welsh uprisings.
After the second, 1282, the Welsh King Llewelyn II was defeated and killed.
His severed head was impaled on a spike at the Tower of London.
Not long after that, his brother David was also captured and brought to Shrewsbury.
A parliament was called, and it met in the Chapter House of Shrewsbury Abbey.
Parliament condemned David to death.
He was hung, drawn and quartered at the High Cross in Castle-Gates.
Afterwards, his head was also sent to London and impaled next to his brother's.
Surely these are the most brutal Shrewsbury Beheadings you have ever heard of, including at anywhere else?
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