regicides
Royal assassination crimes
Regicides are people who kill kings, or the acts of killing kings themselves.
The word covers both the person and the deed.
Historically, it often refers specifically to those who signed the death warrant of Charles I in 1649: The regicides were hunted down after the Restoration.
Any assassination of a monarch qualifies: The conspirators planned the regicide for months.
Murder of a prominent figure
- executionCompleting a planned task
- murderDeliberate unlawful killing
- killingCausing death deliberately
- slayingAct of killing
beheading · stabbing · poisoning · deicide · parricide · homicide · premeditated · conspiracy
Organized resistance to power
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
mutiny · overthrow · sedition · treason · dissent · resistance · republicanism · anti-monarchist
Stuart king beheaded 1649
- French RevolutionLate-1700s republican upheaval
- Oliver CromwellEnglish republican dictator
- Tsar Nicholas IIFinal Romanov ruler
- BrutusRoman who killed Caesar
Louis XVI · Marie Antoinette · Caesar · Commonwealth · Restoration · Protectorate · Roundheads · Puritanism
Paid murderer of targets
- conspiratorOne planning in secret
- executionerOne who kills condemned
- killerOne who causes death
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
plotter · Cromwell · Brutus · Cassius · Booth · traitor · patriot · liberator
assassination
Murder of a prominent figure
- executionCompleting a planned task
- murderDeliberate unlawful killing
- killingCausing death deliberately
slaying · beheading · stabbing · poisoning · deicide · parricide · homicide · premeditated · conspiracy · plot
uprising
Organized resistance to power
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
revolt · mutiny · overthrow · sedition · treason · dissent · resistance · republicanism · anti-monarchist · insurgency
Charles I
Stuart king beheaded 1649
- French RevolutionLate-1700s republican upheaval
- Oliver CromwellEnglish republican dictator
- Tsar Nicholas IIFinal Romanov ruler
Louis XVI · Marie Antoinette · Brutus · Caesar · Commonwealth · Restoration · Protectorate · Roundheads · Puritanism · Jacobins
assassin
Paid murderer of targets
- conspiratorOne planning in secret
- executionerOne who kills condemned
- killerOne who causes death
revolutionary · plotter · Cromwell · Brutus · Cassius · Booth · traitor · patriot · liberator · martyr
king
Male crowned ruler
dynasty · royal · succession · heir · usurper · pretender · abdication · deposed · dethroned · coronation
- Political Groupsfaction, Republican Party, caucus, Democratic Party, wing
- InterregnumOliver Cromwell, Cromwell, Protectorate, Commonwealth
regicidescoronations
Sovereign installation rites
enthronements · restorations · accessions · abdications · anointings
regicidesroyalists
Supporters of hereditary rule
monarchists · loyalists · king's men · royal guards · cavaliers