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The Regicides of Charles I were the men 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 .
The image of Charles's execution was central to the cult of St. Charles the Martyr, a major theme in English royalism of this period. Shortly after Charles's death, relics of Charles's execution were reported to perform miracles—with handkerchiefs of Charles's blood supposedly curing the King's Evil among peasants. [90]
The spiked heads of executed criminals once adorned the gatehouse of the medieval London Bridge. A liuely Representation of the manner how his late Majesty was beheaded uppon the Scaffold Ian 30: 1648; A representation of the execution of the King's Judges. In the top pane, Charles I is shown awaiting his execution. In the bottom pane, one ...
1649 Charles I of England executed following a trial set up by the Rump Parliament 1659 Ahmad al-Abbas , Sultan of Morocco, by his uncle, Abdul Karim Abu Bakr Al-Shabani 1664 Muhammad ibn Sharif , Sultan of Morocco, killed in battle by troops loyal to his half-brother Moulay Rashid , who succeeded him
A massive manhunt intensified Saturday for at least one killer responsible for the 'execution-style' murder of eight members of a family in rural Ohio.
George Fleetwood (1623–1672) was an English major-general and one of the regicides of King Charles I of England. [1]Fleetwood was one of the commissioners for the trial of Charles I, 1648–9; member of last Commonwealth Council of State and M.P. for Buckinghamshire, 1653; for Buckingham, 1654; member of Cromwell's Upper House, 1657; joined General George Monck, 1660, and though condemned to ...