Killing Monarchs: Regicide in the Tudor and Stuart Age

Examines the violent deaths of European rulers from the seventh to eighteenth centuries.

Rulers (and would-be rulers) have always faced the possibility of a violent death. Between the seventh and eighteenth centuries over 20% of all British and European monarchs suffered such a fate. Some died in battle or in accidents but most of them were murdered or executed.

During the time of the Tudors and Stuarts some monarchs were the victims of lone assassins, some were killed after palace coups led ...