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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]
Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife, is a character and the heroic main protagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c.1603–1607) that is loosely based on history. Macduff, a legendary hero, plays a pivotal role in the play: he suspects Macbeth of regicide and eventually kills Macbeth in the final act.
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.
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Baron of Macduff is a title of nobility in the Baronage of Scotland. The current baron is The Much Honoured Eric Cotton Dexter, 9th Baron of MacDuff. [1] The title originates in Macduf contained mostly within the boundaries of the Town of Macduff, in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [2]
A regicide is the purposeful killing of a monarch or sovereign of a polity, or the person who does such. Regicide may also refer to: "Regicide", a playing card game devised by Badgers From Mars
Tried, found guilty of participating in the regicide; hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in October 1660. [99] Andrew Broughton: Clerk of the Court Alive Escaped to Switzerland in 1663. Died 1687. [100] John Cook: Solicitor-General Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide; hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross in October 1660 [101 ...