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en-wikipedia-org-7675		Regicide - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2829	311	71	Before the Tudor period, English kings had been murdered while imprisoned (for example Edward II and Edward V) or killed in battle by their subjects (for example Richard III), but none of these deaths are usually referred to as regicide. The regicide of Charles I of England[edit] Charles was then escorted through the Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall to a scaffold where he would be beheaded.[6] He forgave those who had passed sentence on him and gave instructions to his enemies that they should learn to "know their duty to God, the King that is, my successors and the people".[7] He then gave a brief speech outlining his unchanged views of the relationship between the monarchy and the monarch's subjects, ending with the words "I am the martyr of the people".[8] His head was severed from his body with one blow. Regicides as murders[edit]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7675.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7675.txt