BreezeCauthon

In the late 1380s, Khan Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde launched attacks into the Timurid Empire. Tamerlane (a corruption of Timur the Lame, so called because of crippling injuries to his right leg and hand), leader of the Timurids, was outraged, and before retaliating, conducted an investigation of his own troops to see how they had responded to the attacks.

Most were exonerated, but one soldier was found guilty of cowardice. As a punishment, the soldier was forced to shave his beard, dress in drag, and run barefoot through the city of Samarkand. You gotta hand it to Tamerlane for creativity.

Honestly, the dude got off pretty light considering that cowardice has often been considered a crime worthy of execution (and Tamerlane was hardly a merciful ruler).

Incidentally, Tokhtamysh's distantly removed great-great...-great uncle was the fabulously named Great Khan Monke.