REGICIDES

rĕjˈĭsīdz [Lat., =king-killers], in English history, name given to those judges and court officers responsible for the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649. After the Restoration (1660) of the monarchy they were excepted from the general pardon granted by the Act of Indemnity. At that time 41 of the 59 signers of the king's death warrant were still alive. Fifteen of them fled: William Goffe, John Dixwell, and Edward Whalley went to New England; several went to Germany and Holland; and Edmund Ludlow and four others went to Switzerland. Some were able to convince Charles II that they had had little to do with his father's trial and that they were loyal to the monarchy, and they were reprieved. Nine of those who signed the warrant and four others closely connected with the trial were hanged. Six others, who were deemed less politically dangerous, were imprisoned for life; some were later reprieved.

See C. V. Wedgwood, A Coffin for King Charles (1964); N. H. Mayfield, Puritans and Regicide (1988).

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The United Colonies of New England, 1643-90
Book by Harry M. Ward; Vantage Press, 1961
Subjects: New England--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
...warrant for the arrest of these regicides, but this haughty Puritan was...gave time for the friends of the regicides to hide them. The two young men...with the duty of apprehending the regicides, a merchant and a shipmaster from...
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Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War
Book by D. Alan Orr; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: Treason--England--History--17th Century, Trials (Treason)--England--History--17th Century--Case Studies
...Marten and Challoner were regicides, with Sidney absenting himself...conclusion than the more oligarchic regicides. 33 Thomas Hobbes, an intellectual...active resistance, let alone regicide. As Johann P. Sommerville...and redeployed, provide the regicides with a vocabulary for redescribing...
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The Two French Revolutions, 1789-1796
Book by Guglielmo Ferrero, Luc Monnier, Samuel J. Hurwitz; Basic Books, 1968
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
...oppose the Revolution? The aristocracy of regicides had no illusions. Though the enemies and victims of the Revolution had aided the regicides during the bloody despotism of the Jacobins...the state, they would not forgive the regicides for their vote against the king, or...
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Reappraisals in History
Book by J. H. Hexter; Northwestern University Press, 1961
Subjects: Great Britain--History, Historiography
...Presbyterians will turn out to be regicides and rumpers. If this is the case, the regicides and rumpers, that is to...although thirty-nine regicide and rumper members of Parliament...list counties who were not regicides or rumpers but who belonged...
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Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799 - Vol. 2
Book by Samuel F. Scott, Barry Rothaus; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Dictionaries
...and was soundly defeated. Among the victorious regicides were some who showed Parisian-type bloodlust...only were the future Montagnards virtually all regicides, but also the regicides were eventually very largely Montagnard. Moreover...
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"Treacherous Memories" of Regicide: The Calves-Head Club in the Age of Anne
Journal article by Michelle Orihel; The Historian, Vol. 73, 2011
Subjects: Anne, Queen of England--Domestic policy, British history, 1688-1714--Political aspects, Charles I, King of England--Death of, Queens--Domestic policy, Regicide--History, Regicides--History
...the anniversary of the regicide of 1649, to celebrate...to stage a symbolic regicide in which they decapitated...Cromwell and the other regicides, singing republican...historical memory of the regicide intersected with the...murdered, but those regicides were largely private...
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Un Regicide Au Nom De Dieu: L'assassinat d'Henri III, 1er Aout 1589
Journal article by Lawrence M. Bryant; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Un regicide au nom de Dieu: L'assassinat d'Henri III, 1er aout 1589 (Book)--Book reviews
Un Regicide Au Nom De Dieu: Lassassinat dHenri III...Lawrence M. Bryant Nicolas Le Roux. Un regicide au nom de Dieu: Lassassinat dHenri III...resulted in a crisis of legitimacy--a "regicide symbolique" (161)--and a reconfiguration...
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Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793-1796
Journal article by Michael Scrivener; Criticism, Vol. 44, 2002
Subjects: Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793-1796 (Book)
...Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793-1796 by Michael Scrivener by John...Barrells new book. Framed by the actual regicide of Louis in France and the sedition trials...psychoanalytic richness of the ever-present regicide theme, but he leaves these interpretive...
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Making the King Divine: A Case Study in Ritual Regicide from Timor
Journal article by David Hicks; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 2, 1996
Subjects: East Timor--Social aspects, Regicides--Analysis
...king divine: a case study in ritual regicide from Timor. by David Hicks Nous avons...is restored to life in the ritual of regicide. After being revitalized, the deity...and buffalo killed during the ritual of regicide be female, thereby confirming the femininity...
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John Barrell. Imagining the King's Death. Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796
Journal article by Kenneth R. Johnston; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 47, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796 (Book)--Book reviews
...Imagining the Kings Death. Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796. by Kenneth R. Johnston John Barrell. Imagining the Kings Death. Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000...
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What the Regicides Did for Us: Far from Being the Bogeymen of History, Geoffrey Robertson QC Says That the English Regicides Were Men of Principle Who Established Our Modern Freedoms
Magazine article by Geoffrey Robertson; History Today, Vol. 55, October 2005
Subjects: British history, 1066-1688, Charles I, King of England--Cases, Cooke, John--Behavior, Kings and rulers--Cases, Kings--Cases, Magna Carta (Historic document), Regicide--History, Regicides--History
...Most of those later dubbed regicides did not at first want to kill...it forced him and the other regicides to face the fact that the...such court (presided over by regicide John Lisle in 1659) even...elections on wider franchise. The regicides envisaged a moderately democratic...
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Charles I: Regicide and Republicanism
Magazine article by Sarah Barber; History Today, Vol. 46, January 1996
Subjects: Charles I, King of England--Crimes against, Kings and rulers--Crimes against, Regicides--Analysis
Charles I: regicide and republicanism by Sarah Barber The...the end of January 1649, was that of regicide -- king-killing. Charles Stuart...most straightforward definition of a regicide is one of the forty-one individuals...
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The King Is Dead, Long Live the Crown: On the Anniversary of the Regicide, Blair Worden Considers the Enduring and Sometimes Surprising Consequences of the Execution of Charles I
Magazine article by Blair Worden; History Today, Vol. 59, February 2009
Subjects: Charles I, King of England--History, Kings and rulers--History, Kings--History, Regicide--History, Regicides--History
...King Is Dead, Long Live the Crown: On the Anniversary of the Regicide, Blair Worden Considers the Enduring and Sometimes Surprising...could not have foreseen how lasting the condemnation of the regicide would be. Charless death in front of the Banqueting House...
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Nick Clegg Might Be Unpopular, but There Will Be No Regicide
Magazine article by Rafael Behr; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, September 5, 2011
Subjects: Clegg, Nick--Political activity, Political parties
Nick Clegg Might Be Unpopular, but There Will Be No Regicide. by Rafael Behr A turbulent summer has thrown established...agony, but that is coupled with recognition that a panicky regicide would guarantee the collapse that is already widely feared...
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Offering the Crown to Cromwell: King Oliver? Patrick Little Asks Why Parliament Offered the Infamous Regicide the Crown of England, to What Extent He Was Tempted to Take It-And Why He Finally Turned It Down
Magazine article by Patrick Little; History Today, Vol. 57, February 2007
Subjects: British history, 1066-1688--Analysis, Cromwell, Oliver--Evaluation, Heads of state--Evaluation, Protectorates--History
Offering the Crown to Cromwell: King Oliver? Patrick Little Asks Why Parliament Offered the Infamous Regicide the Crown of England, to What Extent He Was Tempted to Take It-And Why He Finally Turned It Down. by Patrick Little If his...
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Charlie's Avenging Angels
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 14, 2005
...execution of Charles I. By then, 18 of the regicides had died of natural causes. Several...At a special court, ten surviving regicides received a traitors death, being hung...Switzerland, in 1664. The last of the regicides, Edmund Ludlow, died in Vevey, Switzerland...
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Brown and Cameron Are like Drowning Men Locked in a Fatal Embrace. and They're Pulling Britain under the Waves
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 11, 2010
Subjects: Hewitt, Patricia Hope, Hoon, Geoff
...public that is driving the Labour plotters. With the Tories still not far enough ahead in the polls, Labours would-be regicides think that a new leader might well just tip the balance to make Labour the largest party in a hung parliament. With both...
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Nostalgia: War of Words over Being Sent to Coventry
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), January 28, 2006
...mentioned again. I SAY, I SAY, I SAY THERE have been other ideas put forward for the saying. From the 12th century attempted regicides, lords and rebels were "sent to Coventry" to be executed. No one ever spoke to them again. EX-CITY archaeologist Margaret...
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Blair Won't Budge Unless Brown Makes a Move
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 6, 2006
...his hand because he does not want to inherit a party convulsed by civil war. And maybe he knows that, in party politics, regicides rarely prosper. But perhaps there is some emotional conflict which stops him putting Blair out of his misery. As for all...
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Hysteria of Empire Man
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 15, 2000
Subjects: Kipling, Rudyard
...And his plea to Blumenfeld was: "I do hope that when they open their mouths you will jump down it. Could you call em The Regicides?" Unsurprisingly, Blumenfeld did not take up his advice. Kipling also had a phobia about China and the author of this...
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Regicides
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
REGICIDES rej isidz Lat., =king-killers, in English history, name given to...A Coffin for King Charles (1964); N. H. Mayfield, Puritans and Regicide (1988). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1649) he retired. At the Restoration (1660), Southampton became lord high treasurer. He counseled leniency toward the regicides. He disapproved of the immorality and ostentation of Charles II and his court and soon retired from active politics...
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Downing, Sir George
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ambassador to Holland. He made his peace with Charles II in 1660 and received (1663) a baronetcy after betraying three regicides to the government. He was again ambassador to Holland, where his aggressiveness was a factor in the outbreak (1664) of...
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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Restoration (1660) of Charles II . Made a privy councilor and Baron Ashley (1661), he assisted in the trial of the regicides but otherwise worked for a lenient settlement. The same year he became chancellor of the exchequer and gained royal favor...
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Charles II , King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Clarendon, who became first minister, acted immediately to secure passage of the Act of Indemnity, pardoning all except the regicides . Charles also favored religious toleration (largely because of his own leanings toward Roman Catholicism), but the strongly...
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