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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.
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.
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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Robert Lilburne. Robert Lilburne (1613–1665) was an English Parliamentarian soldier, the older brother of John Lilburne, the well known Leveller.Unlike his brother, who severed his relationship with Oliver Cromwell, Robert Lilburne remained in the army.
Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis and quickly the Thane of Cawdor, is the title character and main protagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). The character is loosely based on the historical king Macbeth of Scotland and is derived largely from the account in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), a compilation of British history.
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 ...