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Escaped to Germany after being condemned as a regicide. Died in 1661. [59] 40 Simon Mayne: Alive Tried and sentenced to death, he died in the Tower of London in 1661 before his appeal could be heard. [60] 41 Thomas Horton: Dead Died of dysentery in 1649 while serving with Cromwell during the conquest of Ireland [61] 42 John Jones Maesygarnedd ...
A well-known controversy in historiography is the 1793 Execution of Louis XVI: Legitimists might say it was a "regicide" of the legitimate "King Louis XVI" by "the rabble", but French Revolutionaries could have regarded it as the "lawful execution" of "citizen Louis Capet" after a "fair trial" that had found him guilty. [1]
Regicide is the purposeful killing of a monarch or sovereign of a polity and is often associated with the usurpation of power. A regicide can also be the person responsible for the killing. The word comes from the Latin roots of regis and cida (cidium), meaning "of monarch" and "killer" respectively. The Execution of Lady Jane Grey Delaroche detail
Fiction about regicide (4 C, 55 P) M. Mahabharata (8 C, 88 P) Pages in category "Regicides" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total.
William Walker was a parliamentarian soldier who, according to local tradition, had confessed to the regicide several times. [63] Bigg was a clerk of the regicide Simon Mayne and later hermit who, according to local tradition, became a hermit shortly after the Restoration out of fear for being tried as the executioner. [64]
Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby (c. 1623 – 1657), was an elected Member of Parliament for Leicester during the English Long Parliament, an active member of the Parliamentary party and a regicide. He was the eldest son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford , using his father's as his own courtesy title , and Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil ...
On the 15 January 1793 the Convention, composed of 721 deputies, voted out the verdict. 693 voted guilty, and none voted for acquittal. The next day, a voting roll-call was carried out in order to decide upon the fate of the king, and the result was, for such a dramatic decision, uncomfortably close. 288 deputies voted against death and for some other alternative, mainly some means of ...
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