10 Medieval Criminals So Brutal They Became Legends

These are ten medieval criminals whose real crimes were so extreme that legend swallowed them whole. Vlad the Impaler, whose battlefield of stakes gave the world Dracula. Perkin Warbeck, the cloth trader who almost took Henry VII's crown by claiming to be a dead prince. Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny, the moneylender at the centre of the first witchcraft conviction in Ireland. Eustace the Monk, who left a monastery to become the most feared pirate in the English Channel. The Folville gang, respectable Leicestershire gentry who murdered a royal official and were half-celebrated for it. The Assassins of Alamut, whose name still means what it means. The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a nursery rhyme built on a town's real missing children. Fra Dolcino, hunted through the mountains and burned by the Church. The four knights who cut down Thomas Becket in his own cathedral. And Gilles de Rais, who fought beside Joan of Arc before his trial revealed something no chronicle wanted to record.
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