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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]
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.
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.
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
The two moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where John Dixwell, also condemned as a regicide, was living under the assumed name of James Davids. [8] [9] Arriving on 7 March 1661, they lodged with John Davenport, the local minister. [6] News of the orders for their arrest arrived in New Haven, so Whalley and Goffe used a subterfuge to throw off any ...
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a turn-based strategy chess-like video game developed by Hammerfall Publishing for Microsoft Windows, iOS and Android, [1] [2] set in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe. The game was released in an early-access form via Steam on May 5, 2015. [3] The game was fully released on September 8, 2015. [4]
James Temple (c. 1606–1680) was a puritan and English Civil War soldier who was convicted of the regicide of Charles I. [1] Born in Rochester, Kent, to a well-connected gentry family, he was the second of two sons of Sir Alexander Temple, although his elder brother died in 1627.