Jul 31, 2021
13 February 1541 ✧ Katheryn Howard is executed at nine o’clock in the morning, within the Tower of London.
An eyewitness stated: “I see the Queen and the Lady Rochford suffer within the Tower. Whose souls be with God, for they made the most godly and Christian end… [Katheryn] uttered [her] lively faith in the blood of Christ only… [she] desired all Christian people to take regard unto [her] worthy and just punishment.” After the ‘customary words of edification and confession’ were spoken, Katheryn knelt at the block—which she had practiced on the night before—and was quickly beheaded.
