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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]
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 ...
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
Suicide, intentionally causing one's own death. Altruistic suicide, suicide for the benefit of others. Autocide, suicide by automobile collision. Medicide, a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician. Murder-suicide, a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders. Self-immolation, suicide by fire, often as a form of protest.
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.
Henry Ireton (1661) – posthumously beheaded at Tyburn by order of Charles II as a regicide. John Bradshaw (1661) – posthumously beheaded at Tyburn by order of Charles II as a regicide. Sir Henry Vane the Younger (1662) – executed at Tower Hill by order of Charles II for the death of his father Charles I [19]
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 Hammond (regicide) Sir James Harington, 3rd Baronet; Edmund Harvey; William Heveningham; William Hewlett (regicide) John Hewson (regicide) Cornelius Holland (regicide) Thomas Horton (soldier) Hercules Huncks; John Hutchinson (Roundhead)