At Ninna-ji Temple, where Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa had gone, he pleaded for clemency, but the Imperial Court did not pardon Nobuyori as ringleader of insurrection and he was beheaded at the Rokujo-gawara execution grounds.
仁和寺にいた後白河院にすがり助命を嘆願するが、朝廷は信頼を謀反の張本人として許さず、六条河原で斬首された。