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An early-adopter of artillery, James was killed when a cannon exploded while attacking one of the last Scottish castles still held by the English after the Wars of Independence. Richard III: House of York (England) 2 October 1452 1483–1485 22 August 1485 Killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Last English king to be killed in battle. James III
French prisoners of war executed during the battle by troops under the command of Henry V of England: Siege of Caen (1417) 4 September 1417: Caen 1,800–2,000 English forces Between 1,800 and 2,000 civilians rounded up in the town marketplace and killed by troops led by Henry V of England, despite his orders against doing so Paris massacres ...
King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1649) Cuauhtémoc (1525) Daskalogiannis (1771) György Dózsa (1514) Jean-Michel Duroy (1795) Madame Elisabeth (1793) Matija Gubec (1573) Kryštof Harant (1621) Wijard Jelckama (1523) Matthew Keogh (1798) Jan Sladký Kozina (1695) King Louis XVI of France (1793) Jacques Vincent Ogé (1791) Johan ...
Louis XIV of France, the 'Sun King' Louis XV of France (died 1774), called the Louis the Beloved; Louis XVI of France (died 1793) executed in the revolution; Louis XVII of France (died 1795), died in prison, never anointed as king; Louis XVIII of France (died 1824), Louis XIX of France (died 1844), nominally king for less than an hour; Louis ...
Refused to convert to Catholicism before his death. Lady Jane Grey: 12 February 1554 Former de facto Queen of England and Ireland. Executed for high treason at Tower Hill under the Third Succession Act and the Treason Act 1547 establishing Queen Mary as the legitimate heir to the throne. Guilford Dudley: Former de facto king consort of England ...
In 1016 Cnut the Great, a Dane, was the first to call himself "King of England". In the Norman period "King of the English" remained standard, with occasional use of "King of England" or Rex Anglie. From John's reign onwards all other titles were eschewed in favour of "King" or "Queen of England".
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]
A. Abba Rebu; Abel, King of Denmark; Acrotatus (king of Sparta) Adarnase II of Iberia; Adolf, King of the Romans; Áed mac Colggen; Aeddan ap Blegywryd; Ælfwine of Deira