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The Regicides of Charles I were the people responsible for the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649. The term generally refers to the fifty-nine commissioners who signed the execution warrant. This followed his conviction for treason by the High Court of Justice.
[6] [7] These publications had such an effect on the public perception that—despite the regicide going against nearly every conception of social order in the period—the regicides of Charles felt safe in their positions soon after. [79]
928, Pope John X of the Papal States, killed by Guy of Tuscany either by smothering him with a pillow or by poor prison conditions; 935 Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia killed by his younger brother Boleslaus the Cruel; 964 Pope John XII of the Papal States, allegedly murdered by a man whose wife he had committed adultery with.
Sverre Bagge counts 20 cases of regicide between 1200 and 1800, which means that 6% of monarchs were killed by their subjects. [1] He counts 94 cases of regicide between 600 and 1200, which means that 21.8% of monarchs were killed by their subjects. [1]
One member of the family, Roger Downes, a friend of the notorious libertine Lord Rochester, was killed in a London brawl, with his head apparently being sent to the family home at Wardley Hall. The Hall is supposed to be haunted by his ghost. They acquired Wardley Hall through marriage to a Worsley heiress.
William Goffe, c. 1613/1618 - 1679/1680, was a religious radical from London who fought for Parliament during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.Nicknamed “Praying William” by contemporaries, he approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649, but escaped prosecution as a regicide by fleeing to the New England Colonies.
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The phrase is occasionally used as metonym or synecdoche for the tribunal of men (also called regicides) who ordered the king's execution. Another regicide of Charles I who fled separately to New Haven Colony , John Dixwell , is sometimes included in the phrase (as in "Goffe, Whalley, and Dixwell").