1300 The Britton treatise prescribed that sodomites should burned alive in England. 1310 All French members of the Order of Templars are arrested and charged with sodomy, heresy and being in league with the Moslem' many are tortured and executed. King Phillip the Fair of France, who ordered this action is said to have benefited enormously from property confiscated as part of the arrests. The accuracy of the allegations is still debated by present-day scholars." 1327 King Edward II of England is sodomized to death with a red-hot poker. Edward II was a well-known homosexual; his lover's genitals were cut off before he was beheaded. Edward II had a history of conflict with the nobility, who repeatedly banished his former lover Piers Gaveston, the Earl of Cornwall. 1376 King Edward III was unsuccessfully petitioned to banish foreigners who were accused of introducing 'the too horrible vice which is not to be named'. 1376 King Edward III was unsuccessfully petitioned to banish foreigners who were accused of introducing 'the too horrible vice which is not to be named'.