Charles died in 1498 after accidentally striking his head on the lintel of a door at the Château d'Amboise, his place of birth. Since he had no male heir, he was succeeded by his second cousin once removed and brother-in-law at the time, Louis XII from the Orléans cadet branch of the House of Valois.
Louis III died on 5 August 882, aged around 17, at Saint-Denis in the centre of his realm. He was chasing after a girl, who was retreating to her father's house, when he hit his head on the lintel of a low door and later died.
In his bedchamber, lying on a camp bed surrounded by a crowd of doctors and health specialists quarrelling over the diagnosis and treatment to apply, the first blood-letting was carried out on the morning of the 29th. By 10.30 am, however, there was no longer any doubt: the king had smallpox.
Louis III, (born 863—died Aug. 5, 882, Saint-Denis, Fr.), king of France (i.e., Francia Occidentalis, the West Frankish kingdom) from 879 to 882, whose decisive victory over the Northmen in August 881, at Saucourt, Ponthieu, briefly stemmed the incursions of the Scandinavian invaders into northern France.
In November 1792, a secret cupboard containing proof of Louis' counter-revolutionary beliefs and correspondence with foreign powers was discovered in Tuileries Palace. He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793.
Louis XIV (1638-1715): Probably the most famous of all French monarchs, the Sun King, as he liked to call himself, marked the history of France by instituting an absolute monarchy of the divine right, thereby eliminating the remnants of feudalism.
On 22 August, 1485, at the Battle of Bosworth, Richard III led a mounted cavalry charge against Henry Tudor in an attempt to kill him and end the conflict. During the ensuing fighting Richard III was surrounded by Tudor's supporters who cut him down.
It was the circumstances around the death of William II that led to the quick accession of King Henry I. William died from an arrow to the chest. The details of his demise are recorded by the contemporary chronicler William of Malmesbury.
The largest boar caught was 138.9 kilograms, by Josh Allan, while the largest pig caught by a woman weighed 110.7kg, taken by Reanna Mason.
"The king is dead, long live the king!" is a traditional proclamation made following the accession of a new monarch in various countries. The seemingly contradictory phrase simultaneously announces the death of the previous monarch and asserts continuity by saluting the new monarch.
The inscription reads: 'His majesty King Charles I passed through this hall and out of a window nearly over this tablet to the scaffold in Whitehall where he was beheaded on 30th January 1649'.
On June 30, 1559, Henry II of France participated in a jousting tournament to celebrate two royal weddings. In the third match, Gabriel de Montgomery struck Henry on the right shoulder and the lance splintered, sending wooden shards into his face and right orbit.
Marie Antoinette was born November 2, 1755 in Vienna, Austria and was executed on October 16, 1793 at the Place de la Concorde, Paris, France. While the Chapelle Expiatoire in Paris is dedicated to her and to her husband, King Louis XVI, she is buried at the Basilica Cathedral of Saint Denis, France.
Louis IV died in his early thirties on September 10th, 954, as a result of a fall from his horse. A denier from the reign of Louis IV, minted at ChinonThe life and reign of Louis d'Outremer were part of the slow dying of the Carolingian monarchy in what is now France.
Charles VI (3 December 1368 – 21 October 1422), nicknamed the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé) and later the Mad (French: le Fol or le Fou), was King of France from 1380 until his death in 1422. He is known for his mental illness and psychotic episodes that plagued him throughout his life.
Oliver and his team are able to gather the resources to try and oppose the Monitor's predicted destruction, but Oliver is eventually killed in the opening hour of the Crisis when he sacrifices himself to help the residents of Earth-38 evacuate by protecting a tower that is holding back the anti-matter destruction.
Made only a few years after 1066, the Bayeux Tapestry is often considered the earliest and most convincing evidence that Harold was killed by an arrow to the eye. In the final battle scene the inscription reads: 'Here King Harold is killed' (Hic Harold rex interfectus est).
Robert and Oliver were both lost at sea when his yacht, the Queen's Gambit, was sabotaged by Malcolm. Robert committed suicide to save his son, Oliver's life and increase his chances of survival; so Oliver could return home to Starling City and right his wrongs.
Ashoka, also known as Chand-Ashoka (Cruel Ashoka), killed his brothers as punishment for the king's (his father) death and quarrel for the kingdom (war of succession).
Sultan Qutbuddin Aibak died in a fall from his horse while playing chowgan (a game similar to polo), in 1210.
Ibrahim Lodi was the only king of Delhi saltant who died on the battlefield. He died in the first battle of Panipat.
#1: Louis XIV of France
Called the “Sun King” in life, his legacy casts a long, dark shadow, making him the most famous and notorious king in history.
Son of the Duke of Burgundy and Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, and great-grandson of Louis XIV, Louis XV became heir apparent upon the death of his father in 1712. He then became king in 1715 at just five years of age upon the death of Louis XIV.