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Dozsa György : They made him sit on a throne, and put a crown, of burning iron on his head

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Dozsa György They made him sit on a throne, and put a crown, of burning iron on his head. After this, he was forced to watch his brother get cut in 3 and his pieces hung up. Then, his soldiers, who guided him during the uprising, were forced to rip him up and eat him, starting at the legs György Dózsa (or György Székely,[note 1] Romanian: Gheorghe Doja; 1470 – 20 July 1514) was a Székely man-at-arms (and by some accounts, a nobleman) from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary who led a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility. He was eventually caught, tortured, and executed along with his followers, and remembered as both a Christian martyr and a dangerous criminal. During the reign of king Vladislaus II of Hungary (1490–1516), royal power declined in favour of the magnates, who used their power to curtail the peasants' freedom In the course of the summer, Dózsa seized the fortresses of Arad, Lippa (today Lipova), and Világos (now Şiria), and provided himse...