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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.
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]
Found guilty of regicide at the same trial as Daniel Axtell, but not executed with him. [105] Cornelius Holland: Member of Council of State Alive Escaped to Lausanne, Switzerland at Restoration. Died in 1671. [100] Hercules Huncks: Officer of the Guard Alive Refused to sign the order to the executioners, which Francis Hacker did in his place.
Colonel Robert Phaire, (1619?–1682), was an officer in the Irish Protestant and then the New Model armies and one of the regicide of Charles I of England.He was one of the three officers to whom the warrant for the execution of Charles I was addressed, but he escaped severe punishment at the Restoration by having married the daughter of Sir Thomas Herbert (1606–1682).
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In a 2005 biography of Cook, Geoffrey Robertson argued that Cook was a highly original and progressive lawyer: while representing John Lilburne he established the right to silence and was the first to advocate many radical reforms in law, including the cab-rank rule of advocacy, the abolition of imprisonment for debt, the abolition of the use of courtroom Latin, the fusion of law and equity ...
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)
Very little is known of Hewson's life prior to 1642, other than that he worked as a shoemaker in Westminster during the late 1620s and 1630s. [2] [b] In February 1628, he is recorded as having sold eight pairs of shoes to the Massachusetts Bay Company; [4] this suggests he was born prior to 1604, since doing so required him to be a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, and at least ...