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can the British monarchy be sued for the martyrdom of my great grandfather?
My great grandfather was burned at the stake by Queen Mary...
His name was Dr.Rowland Taylor
14 Answers
- Anonymous2 years ago
The last person to be burned at the stake anywhere in Europe was in the early 1600s. I somehow doubt that your family produced a long line of superbeings with extremely extended longevity.
- Anonymous2 years ago
He could not have been your great grandfather, mary tudor burnt people in the 1550's!!!
- 2 years ago
That’s impossible. He wouldn’t have been alive. Even if a direct patrilineal ancestor of yours was burned, it would have been violating the law...most likely heresy. Heresy was a law and people took that sort off f thing very seriously then compared to how they view it currently. Most people today would not view dr Taylor as a martyr anyway
- StephenWeinsteinLv 72 years ago
Not now. The time to sue for something that happened that long ago has expired.
- ?Lv 72 years ago
Yes. But Prince Harry will come round and light up your fat a** with an Apache helicopter. It will hurt like shi*t.
- Anonymous2 years ago
The last martyrdom was before your great grandfather was born. At east get the dates right before
you post a fake story.
- Anonymous2 years ago
Stop trolling when you already know the answer.
- tentofieldLv 72 years ago
The last Queen Mary was Mary II who reigned from 1689 to 1694. As the last burning at the stake in Britain was in 1612 under James I, it couldn't have been Mary II. Mary I reigned from 1553 to 1558 and burned a couple of hundred people at the stake. If your great grandfather was Dr Taylor who was burned in 1555, his youngest child, who would be your grandmother, was 13 at the time. If she were still alive today she would be 477. I think you have lost a few "greats" in the telling.
No you cannot sue the British royal family for a legal execution carried out in 1555.
- Anonymous2 years ago
The late Queen Mary (born May of Teck) never had anybody burned at the stake. And there is no other Queen Mary in recent enough British history that they could have lived at the same time as the great-grandfather of anybody now living, let alone had them burned at the stake. Death by burning for heresy was formally abolished by King Charles II in 1676.