Elizabeth Barton was a 16th-century peasant who became a famous holy woman after experiencing visions of the future. At the age of 19, she started having visions that could predict people's deaths, which gained her massive fame and made her a prominent figure in the Catholic church. However, things took a turn when she had a bizarre vision about King Henry VII, who was known for having six wives and 600 lovers. She claimed that she had seen the place in hell where Henry would be staying if he were to ever get a divorce from his wife.
Henry VII was not pleased with this and started spreading rumors that Elizabeth was sleeping with priests and suffering from mental illness. He even tortured her until she confessed to having fraudulent visions. Eventually, Elizabeth was put on trial and sentenced to death. Her head was placed on a spike at London Bridge, making her the only nun to ever experience such a fate.