Name the monachs who have been assinated during the last 500 years

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Request for Question Clarification by mwalcoff-ga on 23 Jul 2002 19:46 PDT

Do you need to know every single monarch, or just ones from
better-known royal families, such as those of England, Russia,
Austria-Hungary, etc.? I ask because there are many tribal monarchies
without a written history that goes back that far.

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 23 Jul 2002 20:22 PDT

Do you want to include monarchs who were not technically
"assassinated" but otherwise murdered (e.g., Nicholas II of Russia)?

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Clarification of Question by mikerob-ga on 23 Jul 2002 21:28 PDT

Thank you - I only need the promenent monarch names who have been
assinated over the last 500 years. They need to be part of greater
Europe - Ie UK France, Germany etc.

Hello.

The following is a list of European royal assassinations that I could
find since 1500. I'm also including some monarchs who were executed by
successor governments.

Lord Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots: 
assassinated on February 10, 1567
For more information, visit Infoplease.com:
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0814682.html

King Henry III of France:
assassinated on August 1, 1589
For more information, visit xrefer.com:
http://www.xrefer.com/entry/252382

King Henry IV of France
assassinated on May 14, 1610
For more information, visit Bartleby.com:
http://www.bartleby.com/65/he/Henry4Fr.html

King Charles I of Great Britain:
executed on January 30, 1649
For more information, visit Britannia.com:
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon47.html

Czar Peter III of Russia:
assassinated on July 18, 1762
For more information, visit historydata.com:
http://www.historydata.com/chronologies/1760.html

Czar Ivan VI of Russia (infant emporer 1740-41)
murdered in prison on July 16, 1764
For more information, visit a web page of the University of Houston:
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Ivan-VI/Ivan-VI.html

King Gustavus III of Sweden:
shot on March 16, 1792; died from the injuries on March 29, 1792
For more information, visit 1911encyclopedia.com:
http://27.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GU/GUSTAVUS_III_.htm

King Louis XVI of France:
executed on January 21, 1793
For more information, visit ibiscom.com:
http://www.ibiscom.com/louis.htm

Queen Marie Antoinette of France:
executed on October 16, 1793
For more information, visit Newadvent.org:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09665a.htm

Czar Paul I of Russia
assassinated on March 12, 1801
For more information, see Napoleonguide.com:
http://www.napoleonguide.com/leaders_paul1.htm

Czar Alexander II of Russia:
assassinated on March 1, 1881
For more information, see the web site of the St. Petersburg Times:
http://www2.sptimes.com/Treasures/TC.2.3.17.html

Empress Elizabeth of Austria:
assassinated on September 10, 1898
For more information, see Austrianmint.com:
http://www.austrian-mint.com/e/sisihist.html

King Umberto I of Italy:
assassinated July 29, 1900
For more information, see this page on the web site of eskimo.com:
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/BresciGaetano.htm

King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia:
assasinated on June 10, 1903
For more information, see this page from Mt Holyoke college:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos73.htm

King Carlos I of Portugal (and son):
assassinated on February 1, 1908
For more information, see this Infoplease biography:
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0811449.html

King George I of Greece:
assassinated on March 18, 1913
For more information, see Bartleby.com:
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ge/Georg1Hel.html

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria:
assassinated on June 28, 1914
For more information, see this University of Kansas page:
http://www.ku.edu/~kansite/ww_one/bio/f/franzfrd.html

Grand Duke Michael of Russia:
executed in July 1918
See Russian Life Online for more information:
http://www.rispubs.com/article.cfm?Number=64 

Czar Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, children Olga, Tatiana, Maria,
Anastasia, and Alexis:
executed on July 16, 1918
For more information, see this biography from Wikipedia.com:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Nicholas+II+of+Russia

King Alexander of Yugoslavia:
assasinated on October 10, 1934
For more information, see this biography from Bartleby.com:
http://www.bartleby.com/65/al/AlexandYug.html

Prince Kyril of Bulgaria:
executed on February 1, 1945
For more information, see this page about Bulgarian royalty on
prodigy.net:
http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/bulgaria.html

Lord Mountbatten, uncle of Prince Philip of Great Britain:
assassinated on August 27, 1979
For more information, see this listing on xrefer.com:
http://www.xrefer.com/entry/171465

Search strategy: consulted paper sources such World Almanac 2000,
Pocket Factfinder, and World Book Encyclopedia for the histories of
various royal dynasties. Research was supplemented by Google searches
of for each assassinated royal's name and date of death.

I hope this helps. Good luck with your research.

thank you very much

You might want to have a look at the site below:

http://www.s9.com/biography/

The Biographical Dictionary

Result of search for king AND assassi* revealed 7 assassinations of
monarchs in the past millenium or so:

Alexander I Yugoslavian dictator and ruler; dictator and king of
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes 1921-1929; dictator and king of
Yugoslavia 1929-1934; assassinated; son of Peter I _1888-1934

Childeric II French ruler; king of Austrasia 662-675; king of Burgundy
and Neustria 673-675; last Merovingian ruler to attempt to exert real
power; assassinated; son of Clovis II _649-675

Khosru II (also Khosrau II, Chosroes II) Sassanid Persian conqueror
and ruler; king of Persia 590-628; assassinated _5XX-628

Nadir Shah the Conqueror (Tahmasp Kuli Khan) Turkish conqueror and
Persian ruler; king of Persia 1736-1747; assassinated _1688-1747

Philip II (Philip of Macedon) Macedonian general and ruler; king of
Macedonia 359b-336b; defeated Athens at battle of Coronea 338b;
assassinated; father of Alexander the Great _382b-336b

Wenceslaus (Good King Wenceslaus) Bohemian duke and saint;
assassinated _8XX-929

Xerxes I (Xerxes the Great; also Khsayarsha, Ahasuerus) Persian
conqueror and ruler; king of Persia 486b-465b; won battle of
Thermopylae 480b; lost battle of Salamis 480b; assassinated
_519b?-465b

This seems a rather small number but perhaps a more in-depth search
would reveal others.

Thank you very much - I'm very pleased with your answer