In both the François Ravaillac and the Damiens cases, court papers refer to the offenders as a patricide, rather than as regicide, which lets one deduce that, through divine right, the king was also regarded as " Father of the country ".

François Ravaillac (; 1578 – 27 May 1610 ) was a French factotum in the courts of Angoulême and a regicide.

His father Jean Ravaillac was a violent man whose many misdeeds were a public scandal and caused legal difficulties ; his mother Françoise Dubreuil ( sister of the canons ) was known for her Catholic piety.

On 14 May 1610, Ravaillac lay in wait in the Rue de la Ferronnerie in Paris ( now south of the Forum des Halles ); when the king passed, his carriage was halted by a blockage in the street, and Ravaillac stabbed Henry to death.

Pierre de l ' Estoile, the chronicler, stated of the king: His coach, entering from St Honoré to Ferronnerie Street, was blocked on one side by a cart filled with wine and on the other by a cart filled with hay ... Ravaillac climbed on the wheel of the above-named coach and with a knife trenchant on both sides stabbed him between the second and third ribs.

Ravaillac was immediately seized by police and taken to the Hôtel de Retz to avoid a mob lynching.

During interrogation, Ravaillac was frequently tortured to make him identify accomplices, but he denied that he had any and insisted that he acted alone.

Alistair Horne describes the torture Ravaillac suffered: " Before being drawn and quartered ... he was scalded with burning sulphur, molten lead and boiling oil and resin, his flesh then being torn by pincers.

" Following his execution, Ravaillac's parents were forced into exile, and the rest of his family was ordered never to use the name " Ravaillac " again.

In January 1611, Mme Jacqueline d ' Escoman, who had known Ravaillac, denounced the duc d ' Épernon as the one responsible for the death of Henry IV ; she was jailed for the rest of her life.

Also referred to as " disruption " or being " drawn and quartered ," it could be brought about by chaining four horses to the condemned's arms and legs, thus making them pull him apart, as was the case with the executions of François Ravaillac in 1610 and Robert-François Damiens in 1757.

* Jakub Sobieski about the Execution of Ravaillac and a French Cannibal at the Wilanów Palace Museum

* 1610 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France ( b. 1578 )

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** François Ravaillac, killer of Henry IV of France ( d. 1610 )

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* May 14 – Francois Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France.

* May 27 – Francois Ravaillac is executed by being pulled apart by horses in the Place de Grève.

The son Ravaillac began work as a servant, later becoming a school teacher.

In 1609, Ravaillac claimed to have experienced a vision instructing him to convince King Henry IV to convert the Huguenots to Catholicism.

Between Pentecost 1609 and May 1610, Ravaillac made three separate trips to Paris to tell his vision to the king, and lodged with Charlotte du Tillet, mistress of Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, duc d ' Épernon.

Unable to meet the king, Ravaillac interpreted Henry's decision to invade the Spanish Netherlands as the start of a war against the Pope.

Ravaillac seems to have learned of the plans ; in his tortured mind, " he had seen that the king wanted to make war on the pope, in order to transfer the Holy See to Paris.

At the start of the interrogation, Ravaillac said, " I know very well he is dead ; I saw the blood on my knife and the place where I hit him.

1999 ), reveals Épernon's association with Ravaillac through his mistress.

You would hang a man of no position like Ravaillac ; but if what one hears is true, then Elizabeth asked the gaoler to murder Mary, and William III.