What Did Cromwell Do to Deserve This?

Oliver Cromwell lost his head but only after he died in his bed.  Support our team and the production of these videos through PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY I Wrote Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books Face Your Mortality: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath PRODUCTION CREDITS Host & Writer: Caitlin Doughty (@thegooddeath) Researcher & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Andy Windak Production Coordinator: Sarah Chavez Thumbnail: Landis Blair (@LandisBlair) Outro Songs: performed by DARRENCORP (@darrencorp) SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING Fitzgibbons, Jonathan. CROMWELL'S HEAD. Bloomsbury Academic, 2008.  "Cromwell's Death and Funeral Order" https://www.british-history.ac.uk/burton-diaries/vol2/pp516-530 "The Trial of Charles I" https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trial-charles-i/ "The Execution of Charles I" https://www.hrp.org.uk/banqueting-house/history-and-stories/the-execution-of-charles-i/#gs.eckadk "Cromwell's Dust" https://erenow.org/biographies/cromwellourchiefofmen/27.php "Cromwell's Body" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/cromwells-body/ "What happened to Cromwell's body after his death?" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/what-happened-to-cromwell-after-his-death/ "Cromwell in Ireland" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/ireland/ "The Strange Saga of Oliver Cromwell's Head" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/585591/oliver-cromwells-head-history "Flagellum, or, The life and death, birth and burial of Oliver Cromwel faithfully described in an exact account of his policies and successes, not heretofore published or discovered / by S.T., Gent." https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A43211.0001.001/1:4?rgn=div1;view=fulltext "George Bate–Cromwell's Devious Physician" https://www.reformation.org/dr-george-bate.html "Oliver Cromwell and Family" https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/oliver-cromwell-and-family/