If the occupant was a king, it was probably either Saebert or Sigeberht ( murdered AD 653 ).

Regardless of what really happened, the king was reviled as a treacherous fiend who murdered his own nephews to gain the throne.

The Wars of Religion culminated in the War of the Three Henrys ( 1584 – 1598 ) in which the royalist King Henry III of France assassinated Henry de Guise, leader of the Spanish-backed Catholic league and the king was murdered in return, followed by the ascension of the Huguenot Henry of Navarre to the French throne.

Conrad was unanimously elected king in April 1192, but was murdered by the Hashshashin only days later.

She drove along the Cyprian street, where the king had been murdered, and turned towards the Orbian Hill, in the direction of the Esquiline Hill.

Máel Coluim appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred.

Incidentally, Telemachus learns the fate of Menelaus ’ brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks at Troy: he was murdered on his return home by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

Omri was " commander of the army " of king Elah when Zimri murdered Elah and made himself king.

In 1143, when Rhys was eleven, Anarawd was murdered by the bodyguard of Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd, brother of Owain Gwynedd, king of Gwynedd.

Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan and wife of John Comyn, 3rd Earl of Buchan ( a cousin of the murdered John Comyn ), who claimed the right of her family, the MacDuff Earl of Fife, to crown the Scottish king for her brother, Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife – who was not yet of age, and in English hands – arrived the next day, too late for the coronation, so a second coronation was held and once more the crown was placed on the brow of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Annandale, King of the Scots.

* Hermanafrid, king of the Thuringii ( murdered )

* December 25 – King Sverker the Elder is murdered on his way to church and is soon succeeded as king of Sweden by his rival Eric Jedvardsson.

** Sverker the Elder, king of Sweden since 1130 ( murdered on his way to church )

He engaged in conflict with Henry II of England over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral.

Penda was succeeded first by his son Peada ( who converted to Christianity at Repton in 653 ), and who was set up by Oswiu as an under king, but in the spring of 656 he was murdered and Oswiu assumed direct control of the whole of Mercia.

The bulk of the nation headed by the House of Garai was with him ; but in the southern provinces between the Sava and the Drava, the Horvathys with the support of King Tvrtko I of Bosnia, Mary's maternal uncle, proclaimed as their king Ladislaus, king of Naples, son of the murdered Charles II of Hungary.

* Eric Jedvardsson's murderer Magnus Henriksen is himself murdered by Karl Sverkersson, who then becomes king of Sweden.

* April 12 – Karl Sverkersson is murdered by Knut Eriksson ( son of Eric Jedvardsson ), who proclaims himself king of Sweden.

* May 18 – Erik Jedvardsson is murdered, after which his murderer Magnus Henriksen proclaims himself king of Sweden.

The situation changed again on 10 February 1306, when Robert the Bruce murdered his rival John Comyn and a few weeks later, on 25 March, had himself crowned king of Scotland by Isobel, sister of the Earl of Buchan.

According to a later continuation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica ( written anonymously after Bede's death ) the king was " treacherously murdered at night by his own bodyguards ", though the reason why is unrecorded.

-- The 15-year-old adopted son of a Washington attorney and his wife, who were murdered early today in their Chesapeake Bay-front home, has been sent to Spring Grove State Hospital for detention.

After a long war Ishbaal is murdered hoping for reward from David, but David has them killed for killing God's anointed.

Later, Macbeth in his lust for power sees Banquo as a threat and has him murdered ; Banquo's son, Fleance, escapes.

Thus he has him murdered.

There is no evidence that Claudius had a direct hand in the assassination, although it has been argued that he knew about the plot — particularly since he left the scene of the crime shortly before his nephew was murdered.

The Preacher and Leto return to the capital to confront Alia who has the Preacher murdered, revealing his true identity.

Grammer's personal life has been affected by several tragedies: in 1968, his estranged father, whom he had seen only twice since his parents ' divorce, was shot dead ; in 1975, his younger sister, Karen, was abducted, raped, and murdered by spree killer Freddie Glenn ; in 1980, his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident ; and David Angell, close friend and producer of Frasier, died in the 9 / 11 attacks.

Tradition has it that Alfonso of Aragon was an illegitimate son of the King of Naples and that her brother Cesare may have had him murdered after his political value waned.

Macbeth's announcement that he has " murdered sleep " is figuratively mirrored in Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking.

Following a theory proposed by a contemporary biblical critic, Freud believed that Moses was murdered in the wilderness, producing a collective sense of patricidal guilt that has been at the heart of Judaism ever since.

In fact, as a previous scene has shown, they have been murdered by looters, one of whom is himself shot by soldiers who chance upon the gang leaving the house.

* May 15 – Donna Payant is murdered by serial killer Lemuel Smith, the first time a female prison officer has been killed on-duty in the United States.

Each of these characters has murdered at least one person during their life, although for most it was substantially more.

Many believe he has been murdered by his rival, Boris Godunov, who becomes tsar.

Terry meets and is smitten by the murdered Joey Doyle's sister, Edie ( Eva Marie Saint ), who has shamed " waterfront priest " Father Barry ( Karl Malden ) into fomenting action against the mob-controlled union.

Friendly has been spying on the situation, so he has Charley murdered, his body hanged in an alley as bait to get at Terry.

After 28 days, Ursicinus arrives from Rome and has Silvanus murdered.

David Rollason has drawn attention to the increased importance of the cults of other murdered royal saints in this period.

The conventional 20th-century view has been that Edward did die at Berkeley Castle, either murdered on Isabella's orders or of ill-health brought on by his captivity, and that subsequent accounts of his survival were simply rumours, similar to those that surrounded Joan of Arc and other near contemporaries after their deaths.

The exact fate of the so-called Princes in the Tower has been long debated ; whether they died, disappeared, or were murdered is still unknown.

Shortly afterward, the Baron has Yueh murdered.

Sometimes they denied his death altogether, even though the bulk of the traditions about him make it clear that he has been murdered.

* 191 BC – Arsaces II, King of Parthia, who has reigned from about 211 BC ( murdered )