21 Historical Figures Who Had the Biggest Falls From Grace

As a certain blonde dragon tamer once observed, power in society is like a wheel: One moment, you’re on top, but the next thing you know, you can be crushed beneath it. For some people, their loss of power isn’t their fault. Their business goes under, their fortune is squandered by a degenerate family or the economy fails and the voting public is convinced that’s somehow your fault and declines to reelect you. If you’re a woman, maybe you aged.

Others, however, totally earned their falls from grace. They committed unspeakable crimes or betrayed the public, acts would often be discreetly forgiven in the past, but they had the bad luck of actually being held accountable for their actions. In at least one case, the consequences included dick rot. Could the justice be any more poetic?

We found out when user owenthevirgin asked r/AskReddit, “Who had the biggest fall from grace in history?”