for treason. She was 28 years old. Five of her chief supporters were executed alongside her: Edward Bocking, Benedictine monk of Christ Church, Canterbury John Dering, Benedictine monk Henry Gold, priest Hugh Rich, Franciscan friar Richard Risby, Franciscan friar Barton was buried at Greyfriars Church in Newgate, but her head was put on a spike on London Bridge. She is the only woman in history to receive that dishonour. Legacy Churches such as the Anglican Catholic Church of St Augustine of Canterbury continue to venerate Barton. Popular culture Barton's case is dealt with in the 2009 historical novel Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, and in its television adaptation, where she is played by Aimee-Ffion Edwards. Barton and her prophecies are also mentioned in Philippa Gregory's 2014 novel The King's Curse; the sixth and final book in The Cousins' War series. Barton is personally interrogated by Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cranmer and Nicòla Frescobaldi in Shaking the Throne by author Caroline Angus. In the play A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt, Barton is referenced during the interrogation of Thomas More as having been executed (she was executed about 15 months before More). References Bibliography . . . . External links . 1500s births 1534 deaths 16th-century English nuns 16th-century Roman Catholic martyrs Executed English women People executed by the Kingdom of England by hanging People executed under Henry VIII People executed under the Tudors for treason against England People executed at Tyburn