1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
From wikipedia:
Dafydd ap Gruffydd (or Dafydd ap Gruffudd) (11 July 1238 – 3 October 1283), was Prince of Wales from 11 December 1282 until his execution on 3 October 1283.
He was a Prince of Gwynedd, a younger son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and his wife, Senana, and thus grandson of Llywelyn the Great. In 1241 he is recorded as having been handed over to Henry III of England as a hostage together with his younger brother, Rhodri, as part of an agreement. He came of age under Welsh law on 11 July 1252, his fourteenth birthday, and was invested, in front of his mother Senana and the Bishop of Bangor, as Lord of the commote of Cymydmaen, at the outer reaches of the Llŷn Peninsula. In 1253 he was called upon to pay homage to King Henry III of England.
In 1255, he joined his brother Owain in a challenge to his other brother, Llywelyn, but Llywelyn defeated them at the Battle of Bryn Derwin. Dafydd was imprisoned, but Llywelyn released him the following year and restored him to favour. In 1263, he joined King Henry in an attack on his brother. After Llywelyn was acknowledged by King Henry as Prince of Wales in 1267, Dafydd was again restored to Llywelyn’s favour, but in 1274 he joined King Edward I of England to challenge Llywelyn once again.
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