Edward II suffered a gruesome demise due to his unpopularity.

Evidence

The end was a holocaust. In the furious rage which in those days led all who swayed the Government of England to a bloody fate the Despensers were seized and hanged. … His screams as his bowels were burnt out by red-hot irons passed into his body were heard outside the prison walls, and awoke grim echoes which were long unstilled. — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 490

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 490