Quartering by horses
 
Execution of Poltrot de Méré for the murder of François de Guise
 (1563)
 
This method of execution was reserved for people who had commited a murder or attempted murder upon the person of the king or another nobleman . Throughout the history, quartering doesn't seem to have occured very often,  each excution has been related in every scary detail by the chroniclers of that period  .
 
 
 
 

 

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