it was announced that Catherine "had forfeited her honour and should be proceeded against by law, and was henceforth to be named no longer Queen, but only Catherine Howard". On 1 December 1541, Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were arraigned at Guildhall for treason and each sentenced to a traitor's death. Both men petitioned Henry VIII to commute their death to beheading, but only Culpeper was successful in his petition. On 10 December 1541, Dereham died a traitor's death at Tyburn, being hanged, drawn and quartered. Culpeper also died at Tyburn, but as he had been favoured by the King before his affair with Catherine, his sentence was commuted to beheading. "Culpeper and Dereham were drawn from the Tower of London to Tyburn, and there Culpeper, after an exhortation made to the people to pray for him, he standing on the ground by the gallows, kneeled down and had his head stricken off; and then Dereham was hanged, membered, bowelled, headed, and quartered [and both] their heads set on London Bridge." Catherine and Lady Rochford were beheaded at the Tower of London on 13 February 1542. The Dowager Duchess was eventually released. Notes References Primary sources Accounts of the Chamber and the Great Wardrobe, PRO Correspondence Politique de MM. De Castillon et de Marillac, ambassadeurs de France en Angleterre, 1537-42 (ed Jean Kaulek, Paris, 1885) Calendars of State Papers: Spanish Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII Edward Hall, The Triumphant Reign of Henry the Eighth, London 1547, 2 vols, ed. Charles Whibley and (T C Jack, London, 1904) Nicander Nucius, The Second Book of the Travels (ed. J A Cramer, Camden Society, London, 1841) Secondary sources The visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563 By William Harvey, England. College of arms, Norfolk & Norwich Archeological Society Alison Weir, Henry VIII: King and Court, London, 2001 Alison Weir, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, London, 1991 External links National Archives People executed by Tudor England by hanging, drawing and quartering Dereham, Francis Dereham, Francis Dereham, Francis 16th-century English people People executed under Henry VIII People executed at Tyburn Catherine Howard