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Murder and sudden death

Fear. The law it tested: the slayer rule and simultaneous death.

328 storiesFearThe slayer rule and simultaneous death
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The Death of Caesartitle QS:P1476,en:"The Death of Caesar"label QS:Len,"The Death of Caesar"label QS:Lfr,"La Mort de Cés. Jean-Léon Gérôme, between 1859 and 1867date QS:P. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

What did these cases decide about the slayer rule and simultaneous death?

When the heirs of an intestate estate hold it through a family corporation, a board majority can vote to sell heirlooms over another heir's objection. An estate that carries large debts and several lawsuits can be insolvent before the children reach adulthood. A family with no estate to fight over can still hold power after a death through the rights the law gives victims.

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328
Years
2950 BCE to 2026
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Ghosts and legends, Literature and art, Egypt and Africa
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Europe, North America, Middle East
Updated
30 October 2026

Every case in this gallery, best-known first

Best-known first: cases from 1900 on, then the United States, then Europe, and the people most read about on English Wikipedia each month. Fiction, scripture and legend come last.

Maurizio Gucci: Maurizio Gucci matrimonio1995 · Via Palestro 20, MilanMaurizio Gucci was shot dead in Milan in 1995 on the order of his ex-wife Patrizia ReggianiIn 1982 Paolo Gucci fell out with his father Aldo and sued him and the company over control of the firm. The suit exposed a tax scheme.UPI and 12 moreMartin Luther King Jr.: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Johnson (cropped)1968 · Memphis, Tennessee, USAMartin Luther King Jr.'s estate sued his daughter in 2014 to take his Nobel medal and Bible for sale, and a judge locked both in a bank boxMartin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on 4 April 1968. He left no will, and his estate passed to his widow, Coretta Scott King, and their 4 children.law.resource.org and 12 moreJayne Mansfield: Jayne Mansfield (Kiss Them For Me) - Color1967 · U.S. Highway 90 near the Rigolets Bridge, LouisianaJayne Mansfield's estate was appraised at $600,000 in 1967; by 1977 her children found about $500,000 in debts and the estate insolventJayne Mansfield was killed at about 2:25 a.m. on 29 June 1967 when the car carrying her, her attorney and partner Sam Brody, driver Ronald Harrison and three of her children hit the rear of a tractor-trailer. The children survived.The New York Times and 2 moreSharon Tate: Sharon Tate Valley of the Dolls 1967 - Restoration1969 · 10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los AngelesAfter Sharon Tate's murder her mother Doris backed California's 1982 Victims' Bill of Rights and became the first victim's relative to speak at a state parole hearingSharon Tate, 26, married to director Roman Polanski and eight and a half months pregnant, was murdered with four others by followers of Charles Manson at 10050 Cielo Drive on 9 August 1969.the-line-up.com and 4 moreThe Notorious B.I.G.: Image of the Notorious BIG in NY1997 · Los Angeles, CaliforniaThe Notorious B.I.G.'s mother and widow co-owned his catalog; after the mother died, her trustee sued the widow and wonChristopher Wallace was shot dead in Los Angeles at 24. He left no will. His mother, Voletta Wallace, and his widow, Faith Evans, took charge of his legacy.thegrio.com and 5 moreAaron Hernandez2017 · Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, Lancaster, MassachusetAaron Hernandez's suicide wiped out his murder conviction, and two years later the state's top court put it backFormer Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was serving life for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd. Five days after he was acquitted of a separate double homicide, he was found hanged in his cell. He was 27.insurancejournal.com and 1 moreMarvin Gaye: Marvin Gaye in 19731984 · Los Angeles, CaliforniaMarvin Gaye was shot dead by his father, left no will and $9 million in debt, and his children won the "Blurred Lines" caseMarvin Gaye was shot by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., at the family home in Los Angeles the day before his 45th birthday. His father pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and received a suspended sentence and probation.investmentnews.com and 2 morePhil Hartman: Phil Hartman in character as Chick Hazard, Private Eye, circa 1978.1998 · Encino, CaliforniaPhil Hartman was shot dead by his wife in 1998; their wills left $1.23 million to two children, and a 1999 suit blamed ZoloftBrynn Hartman shot her sleeping husband three times at about 2:30 a.m. on 28 May 1998. About four hours later, with police in the house, she killed herself. Their children, Sean, nearly 10, and Birgen, 6, were in the home.spokesman.com and 2 moreBrandon Lee: Brandon lee (cropped)1993 · Wilmington, North CarolinaBrandon Lee was killed on the set of The Crow in 1993 by a bullet fragment fired from a prop gun, and his mother and fiancee settled with the producers for an undisclosed sumBrandon Lee, 28, son of Bruce Lee, was shot in the abdomen during a scene at Carolco Studios in Wilmington. The .44 Magnum was supposed to hold only blanks.history.com and 4 morePhil Spector: From Rock and Roll hall of Fame after party... March 6, 2000 N.Y.C. Copyright John Mathew Smith2021 · California prison hospitalPhil Spector died in prison serving a murder sentence; his daughter sued his ex-wife, alleging she posed as the daughter to sell his memorabiliaPhil Spector was convicted in 2009 of the second-degree murder of actress Lana Clarkson and sentenced to 19 years to life. He died in custody at 81; his daughter Nicole said the cause was Covid-19.theblast.com and 6 moreNipsey Hussle: Soundtrack Beat Battle Judging Panel March2011 (cropped)2019 · Los Angeles, California, USANipsey Hussle was shot dead outside his store, and his family took guardianship of his daughter from her motherNipsey Hussle, born Ermias Asghedom, was shot dead in the parking lot of his store in South Los Angeles. He left no will but had set up trusts for his two children, daughter Emani and son Kross.okayplayer.com and 3 moreSid Vicious: Sid Vicious 1978 (cropped)1979 · 63 Bank Street, Greenwich Village, New YorkSid Vicious asked to be buried beside Nancy Spungen; her mother said no, and his mother scattered his ashes on the grave anywaySid Vicious, born Simon John Ritchie, was charged with murdering his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who was found stabbed at the Chelsea Hotel in October 1978. Virgin Records paid his legal fees.The Independent and 3 moreO.J. Simpson 1990 · DN-ST-91-03444: NBC Sports commentator and former professional football player O. J. Simpson sits with a group of servicemen to watch a Thanksgiving Day footbal2024 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USAO.J. Simpson paid little of the $33.5 million judgment while alive, and in 2025 his executor accepted a $58 million claim from Ron Goldman's fatherO.J. Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of the 12 June 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. In 1997 a civil jury found him liable, and the families won a $33.5 million judgment.findlaw.com and 2 moreXXXTentacion: Xxxtentacion (cropped)2018 · Deerfield Beach, FloridaXXXTentacion was shot dead at 20, and his son was born seven months later outside his willJahseh Onfroy, the rapper XXXTentacion, was shot dead outside a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach, aged 20. The killers took $50,000 from him.nbcmiami.com and 2 moreDimebag Darrell: Dimebag at Monsters of Rock 19942004 · Columbus, OhioDimebag Darrell was shot dead on stage with no will; his girlfriend of two decades was left out, later took over his estate's trust, and lost most of its suit against Dean Guitars in 2026Darrell Abbott was shot on stage at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus during a Damageplan show. He left no will.blabbermouth.net and 4 moreLana Turner: Lana Turner 1940s publicity portrait1995 · Los Angeles, CaliforniaLana Turner left her daughter $50,000 and the rest of a $1.7 million trust to her maid of 45 yearsIn 1958 Lana Turner's 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed Turner's lover, Johnny Stompanato, to death in Turner's home. The killing was ruled justifiable homicide.Los Angeles Times and 1 moreRandy Rhoads: RandyRhoads19801982 · Leesburg, FloridaRandy Rhoads's mother gave filmmakers his photos for a documentary that never came out, and an appeals court let them publish a book insteadRandy Rhoads was killed at 25 when a small plane carrying him clipped Ozzy Osbourne's tour bus and crashed. His mother, Delores Rhoads, and siblings Kathryn Rhoads D'Argenzio and Kelle Rhoads controlled his estate.blabbermouth.net and 4 moreLenny Bruce: Lenny Bruce 19611966 · Hollywood Hills, Los AngelesLenny Bruce died broke in 1966 with an appeal pending, and New York pardoned him in 2003On 4 November 1964 a New York court found Lenny Bruce and club owner Howard Solomon guilty of obscenity. On 21 December 1964 he was sentenced to four months in a workhouse and freed on bail pending appeal.Internet Archive and 4 moreSuicide of Christine Chubbuck: Christine Chubbuck 1974 (HQ)1974 · Sarasota, FloridaChristine Chubbuck shot herself on live television in 1974, and her station's tape has been held privately sinceOn 15 July 1974 Christine Chubbuck, a reporter and host at WXLT-TV in Sarasota, spoke on camera about an attempted suicide after a film reel failed. She shot herself during Suncoast Digest.aol.com and 2 moreB. B. King: Bbking2015 · Las Vegas, NevadaB.B. King's daughters accused his manager and his assistant of poisoning him; the coroner found no poison and the manager kept control of the estateB.B. King had 15 children, four of whom had died. LaVerne Toney had managed his road show for 39 years and held his power of attorney.CBS News and 4 moreEl Chapo: Booking photo of Joaquin “El Chapo“ Guzman (front)2019 · Brooklyn, New York, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Culiacán, SEl Chapo was ordered to forfeit $12.6 billion, and two of the sons who inherited his cartel faction pleaded guilty in ChicagoJoaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán led the Sinaloa cartel. He was extradited to the United States in 2017.api-prod.gothamist.com and 2 moreDoris Duke: Doris Duke 1951 (cropped)1993 · Falcon Lair, Beverly HillsDoris Duke left $1.2 billion with her butler as executor, and a court-appointed lawyer said her doctor hastened her deathDoris Duke was the heiress to a tobacco and power fortune. On 7 October 1966, at her Newport estate, Rough Point, she was driving the car that killed her friend Eduardo Tirella at the gate.Cornell Law School, LII and 3 moreWhitey Bulger: Whitey Bulger US Marshals Service Mug12018 · Santa Monica, California, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; HWhitey Bulger hid $822,000 in the walls of his Santa Monica flat, and the Marshals sold his belongings for his victims' familiesJames "Whitey" Bulger fled Boston in 1994 after his FBI handler tipped him that he was about to be indicted. He was on the run for more than 16 years.CBS News and 3 moreAI illustration: The front steps and iron gate of Casa Casuarina on Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, 19971997 · Casa Casuarina, Miami Beach, FloridaGianni Versace was shot dead in Miami and left half his fashion house to his 11-year-old nieceOn 15 July 1997 Andrew Cunanan shot Gianni Versace outside his Miami Beach mansion. Cunanan killed himself on a houseboat eight days later. Versace's will left his 50 percent of Gianni Versace S.p.A.sec.gov and 5 moreRobert Maxwell: Robert Maxwell 1989 (3x4 cropped 2)1991 · Atlantic Ocean, off the Canary IslandsPublisher Robert Maxwell went overboard from his yacht, and his sons inherited companies that had used the staff pension fundsMaxwell was last in contact with the crew of his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, at 4:25 a.m. He was reported missing that morning, and his naked body was recovered from the sea.The New York Times and 4 moreLucy Maud Montgomery: LMM signed photo1942 · Toronto, OntarioL.M. Montgomery's death certificate said coronary thrombosis; her granddaughter wrote in 2008 that she took her own lifeL.M. Montgomery died in Toronto on 24 April 1942. Her death certificate listed coronary thrombosis as the primary cause.cbc.ca and 3 moreAmityville house: The house featured by the movie The Amityville Horror, built circa 1924, at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York, United States. By the time this photograph was1974 · 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, Long Island, New York, USAThe Amityville house sold for $80,000 after six murders; the family that fled sued, and a judge called their story largely fictionKind 1. On 13 November 1974 Ronald DeFeo Jr., 23, shot his parents and four siblings as they slept at 112 Ocean Avenue.psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk and 2 moreLizzie Borden House (Bed Breakfast) (3535957840): Erected in 1845, the home was originally a two family and was later made into a single family by Andrew J. Borden. Andrew J. Borde1892 · Fall River, Massachusetts, USALizzie Borden was acquitted of killing her father and stepmother, inherited his fortune with her sister, and wrote her sister out of her willAndrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, were killed with a hatchet in their Fall River house on 4 August 1892. His estate was valued at $300,000.us-data.org and 1 moreAristotle Onassis: Aristotle Onassis 1967cr1988 · Athens and Skorpios, Greece, and SwitzerlandAristotle Onassis's only granddaughter inherited half his fortune at 18, after her father and the trustees fought for yearsAristotle Onassis's son Alexander was killed in a plane crash in 1973. Onassis died two years later. His will named four trustees as executors. The Alexander S.UPI and 2 moreMay 27, 1936 10-10 A.M. VIEW FROM SOUTHEAST. - Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's County: Ogle, Samuel; Tasker, Benjamin; Tasker, Benjamin; Franklin1955 · Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USAAnn Woodward shot her husband, the owner of Nashua, a grand jury cleared her in 30 minutes, and both her sons later killed themselvesWilliam Woodward Jr. inherited Belair, the Maryland estate and stud farm, and the racehorse Nashua when his father died in 1953. He asked his wife, Ann, for a divorce in 1947, and she refused.biography.com and 2 moreJerzy Kosiński: Jerzy Kosiński (by Eric Koch, 1969)1991 · New York CityJerzy Kosiński was accused of plagiarism and ghostwriting in 1982 and killed himself in 1991 with a plastic bag over his headKosiński's The Painted Bird (1965) was banned in Poland until 1989.Encyclopaedia Britannica and 3 moreChe Guevara: Ernesto Guevara. Retrato. ca.19451967 · La Higuera and Vallegrande, BoliviaBolivian officers cut off Che Guevara's hands in 1967, a minister had them smuggled toward Cuba in a jar, and his body was found under an airstrip 30 years laterErnesto "Che" Guevara was captured in Bolivia and killed at La Higuera on 9 October 1967. President René Barrientos wanted proof of identity and asked Argentina for experts to compare fingerprints with police records.pagina12.com.ar and 3 moreZdzisław Beksiński: Zdzisław Beksiński i Piotr Dmochowski (28.06.2003) (cropped)2005 · Warsaw, PolandZdzisław Beksiński was stabbed to death in his Warsaw flat in February 2005 by the 19-year-old son of his aide, after refusing a loanZdzisław Beksiński, 75, was found dead in his Warsaw apartment on 22 February 2005. He had been stabbed repeatedly in the head and chest; secondary sources count 17 wounds, two fatal.krakowpost.com and 4 moreHarry Kendall Thaw on trial - sketch: Harry Kendall Thaw watching the faces of the men in the jury box1947 · Miami Beach, Florida, USAHarry Thaw's mother spent the family fortune to free him after he shot Stanford White, and his will left Evelyn Nesbit $10,000Harry Kendall Thaw was heir to his father William Thaw's coal and railroad fortune. The father limited his allowance; after the father died, his mother raised it.encyclopedia.com and 4 moreIsabella Blow: 2005 Stuckist Turner demo (1) Ausschnitt Isabella Blow2007 · Gloucestershire, UKIsabella Blow's father left her £5,000, and after her death her estate put her McQueen wardrobe up for auctionIsabella Blow was born a Delves Broughton. Her grandfather, Sir Jock Delves Broughton, sold most of the family's estate, held for about 600 years, to pay gambling debts.timeout.com and 3 moreErnest Hemingway's home in Havana, Cuba LCCN2010638847: Title: Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, Cuba Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color. Notes: Heming1961 · San Francisco de Paula, Havana, CubaErnest Hemingway's widow gave his Cuban house to Castro's government in 1961 and shipped his papers and paintings out on a shrimp boatHemingway rented Finca Vigía outside Havana from 1939 and bought it in December 1940 for 12,500 dollars. He wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea there.Smithsonian Magazine and 3 moreZhang Xueliang: Chang Shueliang2001 · HonoluluZhang Xueliang inherited his murdered father's Manchurian army in 1928 and spent more than 50 years in detentionOn 4 June 1928 a bomb planted by Col. Komoto Daisaku of Japan's Kwantung Army hit warlord Zhang Zuolin's train at Huanggutun near Shenyang. Zhang died a few hours later, and his death was kept secret for more than two weeks.library.columbia.edu and 4 moreAI illustration: Fire engines below a burning penthouse in Monaco, December 19991999 · MonacoBanker Edmond Safra died in a fire his nurse set in Monaco while his bank was being sold to HSBCEdmond Safra built Republic National Bank of New York. In May 1999 HSBC agreed to buy his banking group for $10.3 billion in cash. Safra was 67 and had Parkinson's disease.CBS News and 8 moreErwin Rommel: Erwin-Rommel-19411944 · In a car between Herrlingen and Wippingen, WürttembergRommel took poison on 14 October 1944 in exchange for a state funeral and pensions for his familyFrom October 1943 Erwin Rommel's family lived at Wippinger Steige 13 in Herrlingen. Until 1939 the house had belonged to a Jewish boarding school run by Hugo Rosenthal.ifz-muenchen.de and 3 moreFederico García Lorca: Lorca (1914)1936 · Alfacar, near Granada, SpainFederico García Lorca was shot with three other men in August 1936, and a 2009 dig at the supposed grave in Alfacar found no remainsFederico García Lorca was 38 when he was shot at dawn on 18 August 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War.foroporlamemoria.info and 4 moreMaxim Gorky: Black and white film copy negative of Maxim Gorky, half-length portrait, facing front by Herman Mishkin, N.Y.1936 · Gorki-10, near MoscowThe 1938 Moscow trial charged Yagoda and doctors with murdering Maxim Gorky and his son; 18 defendants were sentenced to be shotMaxim Gorky died on 18 June 1936 at his dacha near Moscow. The official cause was pneumonia after a long illness.marxists.org and 3 moreEvalyn Walsh McLean: Evalyn Walsh McLean cph.3b188351947 · Washington, D.C., USAEvalyn Walsh McLean wore the Hope Diamond through a son's death, a husband's insanity and the Lindbergh hoax, and her estate sold itEvalyn Walsh was the daughter of Thomas Walsh, a miner who struck gold. In 1908 she married Ned McLean, heir to the Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer fortune.the-cartiers.com and 2 moreThe Shooting of Judge Terry - National Police Gazette 1889-08-31: The Shooting of Judge Terry. Scenes in and about the Lathrop, Cal., depot where Marshal Nagle killed the famous hu1885 · San Francisco, California, USASarah Althea Hill produced a marriage contract and a will from San Francisco's richest man, federal judges ruled them forged, and her husband was shot dead attacking a Supreme Court justiceWilliam Sharon was a US senator and the richest man in San Francisco. He owned the Palace Hotel and the Grand Hotel. In 1880 he began an affair with Sarah Althea Hill, paid her $500 a month and gave her a room at the Grand.Cornell Law School, LII and 2 moreMap of New York, marked on the globe1995 · New York, New York, USASeymour Durst passed over his eldest son, the family bought Robert out for about $65 million, and Robert died a convicted murdererRobert Durst, Seymour Durst's eldest son, was originally designated to manage the family's wealth, held in trusts that own extensive Manhattan real estate.pressdemocrat.com and 2 moreAI illustration: Lower Belgrave Street, London, at night, November 19741974 · Last seen at Uckfield, East SussexLord Lucan vanished the night his children's nanny was killed in 1974, and the High Court declared him dead in 2016John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, inherited a reputed £250,000 in 1964 and drew about £12,000 a year from family trusts. He lost an estimated £20,000 fighting his wife Veronica for custody of their children.legislation.gov.uk and 5 moreSergei Yesenin: Esenin Moscow 19221925 · Hotel Angleterre, Leningrad, USSRSergei Yesenin was found hanged in the Hotel Angleterre in 1925, his heirs went to court for three years, and his secretary died at his graveSergei Yesenin, 30, was found hanged in his room at the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad on 28 December 1925.calend.ru and 5 moreFelix Yusupov: Prince Felix Yusupov1967 · ParisPrince Felix Yusupov sold two Rembrandts to Joseph Widener with a buy-back option, raised the money, and lost them in courtFelix Yusupov became heir in 1908 to one of the largest fortunes in Russia. In December 1916 he and others killed Grigori Rasputin in the family's Moika Palace in Petrograd.Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School and 5 moreSidhu Moose Wala: Sidhu Moose Wala during the shooting of his film Moosa Jatt (cropped)2022 · Mansa district, Punjab, IndiaSidhu Moose Wala's parents won his song copyright in court, had a son by IVF at 58, and were questioned by the state over the babyShubhdeep Singh Sidhu, known as Sidhu Moose Wala, was shot dead in Mansa district at 28. Media reports said the killers acted for Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar and jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.LiveLaw and 4 moreColuche: Press conference with French humorist Coluche about the Restos du Coeur in Strasbourg on 20 February 19861986 · Opio, Alpes-Maritimes, FranceColuche left 6.1 million francs of debt in 1986, his ex-wife refused the estate, and his sons spent 28 years suing over his sketchesMichel Colucci, known as Coluche, died at 41 on 19 June 1986 when his Honda motorcycle hit a truck on the road near Opio. A 2006 book alleges he was murdered, and the official finding was an accident.lefigaro.fr and 3 moreMap of California, marked on the globe2025 · Brentwood, Los Angeles, CaliforniaNick Reiner, charged with killing Rob and Michele Reiner, sues for his $1.5 million trust fundRob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, died of knife wounds in their Brentwood home on December 14, 2025. Their son Nick, 32, was arrested that night and charged with two counts of first-degree murder.Deadline and 5 moreRobert Blake (actor): Robert Blake Baretta 19772023 · Los Angeles, CaliforniaRobert Blake was acquitted of murdering his wife, then ordered to pay her children $30 millionRobert Blake starred in "In Cold Blood" and won an Emmy for "Baretta." In May 2001 his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, was shot dead in his car outside his favorite Italian restaurant in Studio City.CNN and 2 moreTakeoff: Rapper Takeoff performing on stage in in Toronto in 2017. Photo by Charito Yap.2022 · 810 Billiards & Bowling, Houston, TexasTakeoff of Migos was shot dead with no will; his mother and father are fighting over the money the bowling alley paid for his deathKirsnick Khari Ball, known as Takeoff, was shot dead at 28 at a private party at a Houston bowling alley. He left no will. One report put his estate at $26 million.complex.com and 4 moreClaus von Bülow: Claus von Bülow on After Dark on 13 September 19972008 · Newport, Rhode Island, and New York, New York, USAClaus von Bülow was acquitted of trying to kill his wife, then gave up her fortune to settle her children's $56 million suitMartha "Sunny" von Bülow had two children, Annie Laurie and Alexander von Auersperg, by her first husband, Prince Alfred von Auersperg, and a daughter, Cosima, by her second, Claus von Bülow.UPI and 2 moreSelena: Selena Quintanilla 19861995 · Corpus Christi, TexasSelena was shot by her fan club president; her father later sued her widower to stop a TV show about herSelena Quintanilla-Pérez, 23, was shot at a Corpus Christi motel by Yolanda Saldívar, the founder of her fan club. Saldívar was convicted of murder on 23 October 1995 and sentenced to 30 years to life.ksat.com and 2 moreVic Morrow: Cropped screenshot showing Vic Morrow, from movie trailer of 1955 film Blackboard Jungle1982 · Indian Dunes, Valencia, CaliforniaA helicopter killed Vic Morrow and two child actors on the Twilight Zone set in 1982, and director John Landis and four others were tried for manslaughter and acquitted in 1987On 23 July 1982, the last scheduled shooting day, a low-flying helicopter lost control after special-effects explosions during the Vietnam battle scene of Twilight Zone: The Movie.vice.com and 1 moreAI illustration: The beach at Golden Beach, Florida, on a rough day, 19791979 · Golden Beach, FloridaRams owner Carroll Rosenbloom drowned, his widow inherited 70 percent of the team, fired his son and moved the team to St. LouisCarroll Rosenbloom drowned while swimming in the ocean near his Florida home. To use the estate-tax marital deduction, his will gave 70 percent of the Rams to his wife, Georgia, and split 30 percent among his five children.Tampa Bay Times and 3 moreNelson Mandela: From Wash D.C. Longworth building October 4, 1994. Mandela's first trip to the United States.2013 · Qunu and Mvezo, Eastern Cape, South AfricaNelson Mandela's grandson moved three of Mandela's children's graves to his own village, and 16 relatives won a court order to return them to Qunu in 2013Three of Nelson Mandela's children were buried in the family graveyard at Qunu, his childhood village in the Eastern Cape: his daughter Makaziwe, who died as an infant in 1948; his son Madiba Thembekile, killed in a car accident in 1969; and his eldest son Makgatho, who died in 2005.mg.co.za and 4 moreAI illustration: Police cars at night outside Greystone, the Doheny mansion in Beverly Hills, February 19291929 · Greystone, Beverly Hills, CaliforniaThe oil heir who carried $100,000 to the Interior Secretary was shot dead in his new mansion five months after moving inOilman Edward L. Doheny gave his son Ned 12.58 acres in Beverly Hills in 1926. The estate cost $3,166,578.12, of which the mansion, Greystone, cost $1,238,378.76.fjc.gov and 4 moreGlensheen1977 · Glensheen, Duluth, MinnesotaAn heiress and her nurse were killed inside Glensheen, and the adopted daughter who stood to inherit $8 million was acquittedGlensheen is the Lake Superior estate of the Congdon family, whose fortune came from iron mining. In 1968 the heirs gave it to the University of Minnesota.Internet Archive and 4 moreAI illustration: Ives Street in Chelsea, London, brick terraces on a summer afternoon, 19871987 · LondonPalestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali was shot in London in 1987, Britain expelled Israeli officials after a Mossad double agent was jailed, and no one has been charged with the murderOn 22 July 1987 a gunman shot Naji al-Ali in the back of the neck as he walked from his car to the London office of the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, Ives Street, Knightsbridge. He died in hospital on 29 August 1987, aged 51.Al Jazeera and 2 moreJane Stanford: Portrait of Jane Stanford1905 · Moana Hotel, Honolulu, HawaiiJane Stanford, sole funder of Stanford University, died of strychnine in 1905 and the university president said it was natural causesLeland and Jane Stanford founded the university in 1885 in memory of their only child.Internet Archive and 2 moreAnton Webern: Anton Webern in Stettin, October 19121945 · Mittersill, AustriaAnton Webern was shot dead by a US Army cook in Mittersill on 15 September 1945, and the record shows no trialAnton Webern, 61, had left Vienna for Mittersill, where his daughter and son-in-law, Benno Mattel, lived. On the evening of 15 September 1945, US soldiers posing as black-market buyers arrested Mattel for illegal dealing.theamericanscholar.org and 2 moreCastelvetrano, Chiesa Madre: Castelvetrano, Chiesa Madre2023 · Palermo, Castelvetrano and L'Aquila, ItalyMatteo Messina Denaro owned nothing on paper when he was caught after 30 years on the run, and gave his surname to his daughter weeks before he diedMatteo Messina Denaro, son of a Mafia boss from Castelvetrano in Sicily, headed the town's Cosa Nostra clan. He played a role in the 1993 bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan that killed 10 people. He spent 30 years on the run.open.online and 2 moreSheikh Hasina: Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina attended the first meeting of the "Business Advisory Committee" of the 12th Jatiya Sangsad in the permanent comm2025 · Dhaka, BangladeshA mob demolished the house where Sheikh Hasina's father was killed, and a tribunal sentenced her to death in absentia and ordered her assets confiscatedSheikh Hasina is the daughter of Bangladesh's founding leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He and most of his family were killed at their house, Dhanmondi 32 in Dhaka, in a military coup on 15 August 1975.newsonair.gov.in and 2 moreJumbo: Jumbo and his keeper Matthew Scott1885 · St. Thomas, OntarioJumbo the elephant was killed by a train in 1885; his skeleton, hide, heart and ashes went to four different ownersIn 1882 the London Zoo's superintendent, Abraham Bartlett, sold Jumbo to P.T. Barnum for 2,000 pounds (US$10,000). A lawsuit claimed the sale broke zoo bylaws, the zoo tried to back out, and the court upheld the sale.tufts.edu and 3 moreAI illustration: A closed account ledger on the counter of a Zurich bank, 19981943 · Credit Suisse, GenevaCredit Suisse demanded a death certificate for a banker killed at Majdanek; his daughter waited until 1998 for his accountJózef Sapir was a Jewish banker. Before the war he deposited family money with Credit Suisse in Geneva and named other Swiss banks to his daughter Estelle. She put the sum at $82,000 in 1940s value.jweekly.com and 6 morePancho Villa: General Francisco Villa (cropped)1923 · Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, MexicoPancho Villa's grave was opened in 1926 and his head taken, and his widows' court fight ended with the government seizing his haciendaIn the 1920 Sabinas agreement Francisco "Pancho" Villa laid down arms in return for the Canutillo hacienda in Durango, given to him in full ownership, and an escort of 50 men.revistabicentenario.com.mx and 2 moreBruno Schulz: Drohobycz bruno schulz tablica 20081942 · Drohobych (then in German-occupied Poland, now Ukraine)Bruno Schulz was shot in the street in Drohobych in November 1942 in a feud between two SS men; in 2001 Yad Vashem cut his murals from a pantry wall and flew them to IsraelBruno Schulz, born in 1892, was a Jewish writer and artist in Drohobych. SS officer Felix Landau, who liked his drawings, got him out of the ghetto and commissioned murals for his house.newrepublic.com and 3 moreReynolda House south facade 1919: Thomas Warren Sears photonegative of the south face of the Reynolda House in 1919, showing the official entrance and porte-cochere.1932 · Reynolda, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USAA tobacco heir was shot at Reynolda, his pregnant widow was indicted for murder, and their son was paid $6.25 millionZachary Smith Reynolds was the youngest child of R. J. and Katharine Reynolds.dncr.nc.gov and 4 moreLillian Leitzel: Lillian Leitzel (1931)1931 · Copenhagen, Denmark; Long Beach, CaliforniaLillian Leitzel fell to her death in 1931, and her widower Alfredo Codona shot his third wife and himself in 1937 during a property splitLillian Leitzel, a Ringling Bros. aerialist, fell on 13 February 1931 at the Valencia Music Hall in Copenhagen when the swivel holding her rope broke. She died two days later, aged 39.circusringoffame.org and 3 moreHarry Houdini: Harry Houdini1926 · Detroit, MichiganHoudini's great-nephew and two authors announced a 2007 plan to exhume his body to test for poisonHarry Houdini died at 52 on 31 October 1926. The accepted account is that a punch to the stomach in Montreal on 22 October ruptured his appendix, causing peritonitis. No autopsy was performed.wildabouthoudini.com and 2 moreGriffith J. Griffith: Griffith Jenkins Griffith1919 · Los Angeles, California, USAGriffith J. Griffith gave Los Angeles a 3,015-acre park, shot his wife and went to prison, and used his will to build the Griffith ObservatoryGriffith J. Griffith, a Welsh-born mining expert, bought about 4,000 acres of Rancho Los Feliz in 1882. In 1887 he married Tina Mesmer; her property was transferred to him before the wedding.cdcr.ca.gov and 3 moreHawley Harvey Crippen: Dr crippen1910 · Hilldrop Crescent, London, UKDr Crippen was hanged for killing his wife, and the court refused to let his mistress take the wife's estate through his willCora Crippen was last seen at about 1 a.m. on 1 February 1910, after a dinner party at the house in Hilldrop Crescent, London, that she shared with her husband, Hawley Harvey Crippen.The National Archives, Find Case Law and 3 moreFaisal of Saudi Arabia: King Faisal bin Abdulaziz (cropped)(b)1975 · Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaSaudi King Faisal was shot by his nephew during an audience, and the nephew was beheaded in a Riyadh squareKing Faisal had ruled Saudi Arabia since 1964 and led the 1973 Arab oil embargo.Wikipedia (English) and 1 moreAI illustration: Soldiers storm the Lubiri palace walls in Mengo, Kampala, 19661969 · London, EnglandThe Kabaka of Buganda climbed his palace wall to escape the army, and died in a London flat three years laterSir Edward Mutesa II, Kabaka (king) of Buganda, was also the first President of Uganda from 1963. In 1966 Prime Minister Milton Obote suspended the constitution.Wikipedia (English) and 1 moreTaiMeiTuk LungMeiVillage Sign: 龍尾村路牌2023 · Lung Mei village, Tai Po, Hong Kong, ChinaAbby Choi's former husband and his father and brother are on trial for her murder over a flat she had put in her father-in-law's nameAbby Choi was a 28-year-old Hong Kong model and influencer. She had two children with her former husband, Alex Kwong. Prosecutors say she was wealthy and the Kwong family was not.thestar.com.my and 2 moreWindow in the Roper Chapel of St. Dunstan's Church, Canterbury - geograph.org.uk - 3072341: Window in the Roper Chapel of St. Dunstan's Church, Canterbury1535 · Tower Hill, London; St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury, EnHenry VIII beheaded Thomas More and took the family's property, and his daughter bribed a man for his head, which a Canterbury parish voted in 2025 to dig upThomas More, Henry VIII's former Lord Chancellor, refused the oaths required by the Acts of Succession and Supremacy of 1534. He was convicted of treason and beheaded on 6 July 1535.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk and 4 moreEmiliano Zapata: Emiliano Zapata41919 · Anenecuilco, Morelos, MexicoAnenecuilco gave Zapata its colonial land titles in 1909; the man he left them to was killed in a land fight with Zapata's sonIn 1909 the elders of Anenecuilco elected Emiliano Zapata, then 30, president of the village council. The village kept colonial-era papers on its land to use against the sugar haciendas.inehrm.gob.mx and 2 moreJames Cook: Captain James Cook, 1728-79 title QS:P1476,en:"Captain James Cook, 1728-79 "label QS:Len,"Captain James Cook, 1728-79 "1779 · Kealakekua Bay, HawaiiCaptain Cook's body was returned in pieces, and his widow outlived all six children and destroyed his letters before she died in 1835James Cook married Elizabeth Batts on 21 December 1762. In 17 years of marriage they lived together about four years. Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay on 14 February 1779.register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk and 6 moreRice University - William Marsh Rice statue1900 · New York CityA lawyer and a valet killed William Marsh Rice in 1900 to take the fortune he left to found Rice InstituteRice made his money in Texas land, cotton, lumber and railroads. The 1860 census valued his property at $750,000 and ranked him the richest man in Houston. From 1882 his wills directed most of his estate to an institute in Houston.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov and 2 moreMax Liebermann: Hilsdorf, Jacob - Max Liebermann (Zeno Fotografie)1935 · BerlinMax Liebermann's widow Martha killed herself in March 1943 as police came to deport her, and in 2025 a Dutch committee advised returning a Liebermann drawing from the Rijksmuseum to her heirsMax Liebermann left his studio and collection to his wife Martha. In December 1938 she surrendered silver and jewellery and was barred from the family house on Pariser Platz.Dutch Restitutions Committee and 3 moreNina Kandinsky: Portrait de Nina Kandinsky, Hugo Erfurth, 19241980 · Gstaad, SwitzerlandNina Kandinsky was strangled at her Gstaad chalet in 1980, about $2 million of her jewellery was stolen, and no one has been chargedWassily Kandinsky died in 1944. His widow Nina sold works to major museums and consigned a large group to the dealer Karl Nierendorf. In January 1980 she gave the Centre Pompidou all his works then in her possession.scene4.com and 1 moreLemp Mansion 2012: Lemp Mansion in 20121904 · Lemp Mansion, 3322 South 13th Street, St. Louis, Missouri, UThree Lemps shot themselves in the family mansion, Prohibition closed the brewery, and the house now sells haunted toursKind 1 and kind 2. Johann Adam Lemp arrived in St. Louis from Germany in 1838 and began brewing. His son William J. Lemp moved the brewery to its present site in 1864, and by the mid-1870s it was the largest in the city.stlouis-mo.gov and 4 moreAldrich Ames Drop Site Mailbox: USPS mail collection box used to communicate meeting requests between Soviet intelligence handlers and U.S. Government employee Aldrich Ames. This F2026 · Arlington, Virginia, USA; federal prison, Maryland, USACIA officer Aldrich Ames paid cash for a $540,000 house on a salary under $70,000; he and his wife forfeited the proceeds, and she went to prison while their son lived in BogotáAldrich Ames worked in CIA counterintelligence against the Soviet Union. From 1985 he gave the KGB the names of Western agents. By 1 May 1989 the KGB had paid him more than $1.8 million and set aside another $900,000.irp.fas.org and 3 moreWalterboro - Colleton County Court House 01: Photomechanical print (postcard) : halftone, colored Divided back2021 · Moselle, Colleton County, South Carolina, USAAlex Murdaugh renounced his murdered wife's estate, the family estate sold for $3.9 million, and in 2026 South Carolina's top court threw out his murder convictionMaggie Murdaugh and her younger son, Paul, were shot dead at the family's Moselle estate in June 2021. Her will left everything to her husband, Alex, a lawyer from a prominent local family.digital-release.wsav.com and 3 moreAI illustration: A house on Old Colony Road, Toronto, in winter, 20172017 · Toronto, CanadaBillionaire Barry Sherman and his wife were found strangled at their pool; police first called it murder-suicide, and the case is unsolvedBarry Sherman founded Apotex, the generic-drug company, and Forbes put his fortune at US$3.2 billion. On 15 December 2017, real estate agents found him and his wife, Honey, dead in the basement by their lap pool.thestar.com and 4 moreVincent Gallo: Vincent Gallo-1-22007 · Modesto, CaliforniaThe Gallo brothers raised their younger brother after their parents' murder-suicide, then sued him for using the family nameOn June 21, 1933, Joseph Gallo Sr. shot his wife Susie and then himself on their California farm. Their sons Ernest and Julio founded E. & J. Gallo Winery that year and became guardians of their 13-year-old brother Joseph.law.resource.org and 2 moreAI illustration: The Linnaeusstraat in Amsterdam on a grey November morning, 2004, a bicycle lying on its side in the empty street2004 · Amsterdam, NetherlandsTheo van Gogh was killed on an Amsterdam street on 2 November 2004, and Mohammed Bouyeri was sentenced to life without parole as a terroristTheo van Gogh was cycling to work in Amsterdam on 2 November 2004 when Mohammed Bouyeri attacked him. Van Gogh had directed Submission, a short film on the treatment of women in Islam.Al Jazeera and 3 moreAI illustration: Orange-and-white rental trucks lined up in a Phoenix, Arizona, lot1999 · Phoenix, Arizona, and Telluride, ColoradoU-Haul's founder lost his company to his sons, a daughter-in-law was shot dead, and a jury awarded his side $1.47 billionL.S. Shoen founded U-Haul in 1945 and gave most of his shares to his 13 children. By 1988 the children had split into two camps.phoenixnewtimes.com and 2 morePalden Thondup Namgyal: Palden Thondup Namgyal, 12th and last Chogyal (king) of Sikkim.1982 · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA; GangtIndian troops disarmed Sikkim's palace guard in 1975; the last king died in New York, his heir died on a mountain road, and a federal committee was still deciding which palace property the family ownsPalden Thondup Namgyal was born in 1923, the second son of Sikkim's ruler.hcs.gov.in and 3 moreAI illustration: An old car parked on a Chicago street, 1970s1974 · Chicago, IllinoisA court had ordered Sherman Gordon to support his daughter, but Illinois gave his only asset, a $2,500 car, to his parents and siblingsSherman Gordon lived in Chicago with Jessie Trimble and their daughter, Deta Mona, from 1970. On 2 January 1973 an Illinois circuit court found him to be Deta Mona's father and ordered him to pay $15 a week in support.Cornell Law School, LIIRichard Wright: Portrait of Richard Wright1960 · Eugene Gibez clinic, ParisRichard Wright died in a Paris clinic in 1960; his daughter and friends said the US government may have had him killedRichard Wright, 52, went to the Eugene Gibez clinic in Paris with stomach pain and amoebic dysentery and died that night, 28 November 1960. The recorded cause was a heart attack. He had no known heart trouble.fbeyes.wustl.edu and 3 moreMap of New York, marked on the globe1953 · Hotel Statler, New York City, USAThe CIA gave Army scientist Frank Olson LSD without telling him, he fell from a New York hotel nine days later, and the $750,000 his family accepted later blocked their murder suitFrank Olson was a bioweapons scientist at Fort Detrick, Maryland. At a cabin at Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland, CIA officers served him a liqueur spiked with LSD without his knowledge.ABA Journal and 2 moreGhassan Kanafani: Historical portrait photograph of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.1972 · Beirut, LebanonA car bomb killed Ghassan Kanafani and his 17-year-old niece in Beirut on 8 July 1972, and Mossad is reported to have claimed responsibilityGhassan Kanafani, a Palestinian novelist and spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was 36 when a bomb in his Austin 1100 exploded as he turned on the ignition in Beirut on 8 July 1972.middleeasteye.net and 2 moreAI illustration: A bedsit room in Pimlico, London, 19761976 · London (Pimlico)The 7th Duke of Leinster sold his future inheritance to a moneylender and died in a London bedsitLord Edward FitzGerald was the third son of the 5th Duke of Leinster, Ireland's senior peer. He was not expected to inherit.Internet Archive and 5 moreAI illustration: The Croisette at Cannes at night, 20042004 · Cannes, FranceThe 10th Earl of Shaftesbury was strangled by his wife's brother in Cannes, and his heir died six months laterAnthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, owned more than 9,000 acres in Dorset, the family seat of St Giles House and the bed of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland.france24.com and 4 moreAI illustration: A police cordon on a Madrid street at dawn, 19861986 · Madrid, SpainETA killed the 17th Duke of Veragua, a descendant of Columbus and a Spanish vice admiral, in Madrid in 1986Cristóbal Colón de Carvajal y Maroto was born in Madrid on 29 January 1925.diariodecuyo.com.ar and 3 moreIlia Chavchavadze: Ilia Tchavtchavadze1907 · Road from Tbilisi to Saguramo, near Mtskheta, GeorgiaIlia Chavchavadze was shot dead on the road to his Saguramo estate in 1907, and the Georgian church made him a saint in 1987Chavchavadze, a Georgian poet and public figure, was killed on the road from Tbilisi to his estate at Saguramo. Wikipedia and OrthodoxWiki date the killing to 28 August 1907; the Orthodox Church in America says 30 August.oca.org and 3 moreArmsmear (Hartford, CT): Photograph of 'Armsmear' (Samuel Colt's House) — in Hartford, Connecticut. This is an oblique view of the front facade. 1967 photo from the HABS—Historic A1862 · Hartford, Connecticut, USASamuel Colt left $15 million, and the "nephew" in his will was the son of his brother, who died in his cell on his execution daySamuel Colt's revolver factory in Hartford made him one of the richest men in America. In 1841 his brother John C. Colt killed the printer Samuel Adams. John was convicted and sentenced to hang on 18 November 1842.American Heritage and 3 moreChristopher Marlowe: Unknown 21-year old man, supposed to be Christopher Marlowe title QS:P1476,en:"Unknown 21-year old man, supposed to be C1593 · Deptford, EnglandChristopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford house on 30 May 1593 by a man later pardoned in 28 days, and the inquest record was found in 1925Christopher Marlowe, 29, died on 30 May 1593 in a room hired at the house of Dame Eleanor Bull in Deptford. With him were Ingram Frizer, Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley, all tied to the secret service or to Thomas Walsingham.archive.spectator.co.uk and 3 moreFranz Kafka: Franz Kafka, 19231924 · Kierling, Austria; Tel AvivKafka told Max Brod to burn his papers; Brod saved them, and the fight over them ended in a Swiss bank vault in 2019Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis of the larynx in a sanatorium at Kierling, Austria, aged 40. He had already burned much of his work.historynewsnetwork.org and 3 moreErnest Burkhart and his wife Mollie Kyle: Ernest Burkhart and his wife Mollie née Kyle.1921 · Fairfax, Osage County, Oklahoma, USAOil made each Osage headright worth a fortune, at least 24 Osage were killed in the early 1920s, and Congress stopped non-Osage from inheriting headrights in 1925Under the Osage Allotment Act of 1906 the tribe owned the minerals under its land in common. Each allottee held an equal share of the oil royalties, called a headright, and a headright passed to the holder's heirs.osagenation-nsn.gov and 2 moreTalaat Pasha: Mehmed talat1915 · Ottoman Empire (Turkey); Los Angeles, California, USATalaat asked the US ambassador for the list of Armenians insured by American companies, and 89 years later New York Life paid $20 million to their heirsBefore 1915 New York Life sold life policies to Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.Project Gutenberg and 3 moreGENERAL VIEW, ca. 1874 (Photocopy made in 1966 from original view in Hawaii State Archives) - Lunalilo's Tomb, Punchbowl: GENERAL VIEW, ca. 1874 (Photocopy made in 1966 from origin1874 · Honolulu, Hawaii, USATwo Hawaiian kings died without naming heirs, the 1874 election ended in a riot that killed a legislator, and King Lunalilo left his lands to a home for poor HawaiiansKamehameha V died on 11 December 1872 without naming a successor.blog.bishopmuseum.org and 3 morePablo Neruda, escritor y poeta entregando papeles a un hombre1973 · Santiago, ChileChile dug up Pablo Neruda 40 years after the 1973 coup, and scientists found botulism bacteria in his toothNeruda died in a Santiago clinic 12 days after the military coup. The regime's version was prostate cancer. His family and Chile's Communist Party said he was killed by state agents.jurist.org and 3 moreAI illustration: Police cars at night outside an apartment building on Via Puccini, Rome, 19701970 · Via Puccini 9, RomeMarquis Casati Stampa shot his wife, her lover and himself; his daughter inherited at 19 and sold Arcore to Berlusconi for unlisted sharesOn 30 August 1970 Marquis Camillo Casati Stampa di Soncino shot his wife, Anna Fallarino, and her lover, the student Massimo Minorenti, in their Rome flat, then shot himself.cinquantamila.it and 7 moreBundesverfassungsgericht - Karlsruhe: Bundesverfassungsgericht - Karlsruhe1994 · Cologne court district, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyA German mother disinherited the son who attacked her, he killed her a month later, and two courts still awarded him his compulsory shareA widow had two sons. In 1982 her will named one of them sole heir. The other son had a schizophrenic psychosis and lived with her in her house. He attacked her repeatedly.servat.unibe.ch and 3 morePatrice Lumumba, 1960: Portrait of Patrice Lumumba1961 · Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Brussels, BelgiumA Belgian police officer kept Lumumba's tooth after dissolving his body in acid; Belgium returned it in 2022, and the last suspect died before trial in 2026Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of independent Congo. In January 1961 he was killed in Katanga by a Belgian-backed secessionist group, with his allies Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito.NBC News and 6 moreAI illustration: Opened and emptied safe-deposit boxes in a Budapest bank vault, 19451958 · Lausanne, SwitzerlandBaron Ferenc Hatvany came out of hiding in 1945 to find his Budapest bank vaults emptied, and a British panel recommended a looted Constable be returned to his heirsFerenc Hatvany, born in Budapest in 1881, built a collection of French and Hungarian paintings. After Allied bombing began in 1942 he put most of it in Budapest bank vaults.assets.publishing.service.gov.uk and 4 moreHauser Kreul: Kaspar Hauser1833 · Ansbach, Bavaria, GermanyA rumour said Kaspar Hauser was the stolen heir to the throne of Baden; he was stabbed to death in 1833, and a 2024 DNA study ruled out the Baden lineKaspar Hauser is a claimed lost heir whose claim was never proven. On 26 May 1828 a teenager appeared in Nuremberg carrying two letters, later judged to be in one hand. He said he had grown up in a dungeon.bath.ac.uk and 2 moreRafiq Hariri: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (left) escorts Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri into the Pentagon on April 25, 2001. Rumsfeld and Hariri will meet to disc2005 · Beirut, LebanonRafik Hariri was killed in 2005; his family chose the second son as political heir, the other brothers sold him their shares of Saudi Oger, and the company closed in 2017On 14 February 2005 a bomb in central Beirut killed former prime minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others and injured 226.news.un.org and 4 moreJulius Caesar: Retrato de Julio César (26724093101) (cropped)44 BCE · Curia of Pompey, RomeJulius Caesar's will, opened after his murder, made Octavian his son and gave every Roman 300 sestercesCaesar was stabbed 23 times in the Curia of Pompey. The physician Antistius judged that only one wound, the second, in the breast, was fatal.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 morePope Alexander VI: Italian: Ritratto di Alessandro VI (Borgia, 1492-1503) Portrait of Alexander VI (Borgia, 1492-1503)title QS:P1476,it:"Ri1503 · Rome, ItalyPope Alexander VI built a state in central Italy for his son Cesare Borgia, and Cesare lost it after his father's deathCesare Borgia was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. He was made a cardinal when his father became pope. After his brother Giovanni was murdered in 1497, he resigned the cardinalate in 1498.Project Gutenberg and 4 moreGrave of Vlad III the Impaler: Interior view of the Snagov monastery, where Vlad III the Impaler is supposed to be graved. The monastery is located in an island of the Lake Snagov,1476 · Snagov and Comana, RomaniaVlad III Dracula's head was sent to the sultan, and the grave at Snagov opened in 1933 held no bodyVlad III, called Țepeș, the Impaler, spent part of his childhood as a hostage at the Ottoman court with the future Mehmed II.research.library.kutztown.edu and 5 moreChâteau de Chambord LCCN20176597811883 · Château de Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, FranceFrance seized Chambord in 1915 because its owner served Austria, while his half-brothers, who fought for the Allies, sued him for a bigger shareIn 1821 a national subscription bought Chambord for the infant Duke of Bordeaux, born months after his father, the Duc de Berry, was assassinated.chambord.org and 6 moreAli Pasha of Yanina: Portrait of Ali Pasha1822 · Pandeleimon Monastery, IoanninaThe Ottoman state killed Ali Pasha of Ioannina in 1822 and confiscated more than 950 farmsAli Pasha ruled Ioannina and much of Epirus for decades. The Ottoman government declared him a rebel in 1820.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr and 2 moreFriedrich Gutmann: Friedrich Bernhard Eugen Gutmann met zoon Bernhard1944 · TheresienstadtBanker Fritz Gutmann was killed at Theresienstadt, and his heirs sued an American collector to get back his DegasFritz Gutmann was a son of Eugen Gutmann, co-founder of Dresdner Bank. He moved to the Netherlands after the First World War and became Dutch in 1924.Dutch Restitutions Committee and 6 moreDame Fanny Lucy Houston (née Radmall) when Lady Byron: Dame Fanny Lucy Houston (née Radmall) photogravure, published 19091926 · aboard the yacht Liberty, off JerseyA shipowner's widow reportedly tore up a will leaving her £1 million, inherited about £5.5 million, and died without a will of her ownFanny Lucy Radmall married Sir Robert Houston, a director of the Houston shipping lines, on 12 December 1924. Wikipedia reports that when he showed her his will, she tore it up, saying £1 million was not enough.Time and 2 moreHerero chained: Herero chained during the 1904 rebellion.1904 · Shark Island, Lüderitz, Namibia, and Berlin, GermanyGermany sent the heads of Herero and Nama prisoners to Berlin for race research, and the Charité returned 20 skulls to Namibia in 2011Between 1904 and 1908 German forces put down a Herero and Nama uprising in German South West Africa. About 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama were killed. Prisoners were held in a camp on Shark Island, off the coast.thenationalnews.com and 2 moreAI illustration: A burned-out car on a street in Asunción, Paraguay, 19801980 · Asunción, ParaguayNicaragua's Decree 3 confiscated Somoza family property in 1979, and Somoza was killed in Asunción in 1980Anastasio Somoza Debayle was the third Somoza to rule Nicaragua in a family line that lasted 43 years. When he fled on 17 July 1979 he personally controlled 22 percent of the country's farmland.nicaragua.justia.com and 4 moreBuenos Aires Puerto Madero Porteño 1999-05-01: A 1999 photo of the abandoned grain storage, elevator, and mill complex "El Porteño" in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires. It was renovated1974 · Buenos Aires, ArgentinaMontoneros kidnapped the Born brothers, heirs to Bunge y Born, and freed them after nine months for a reported $60 millionJorge and Juan Born were heirs to the grain trading group Bunge y Born. On 19 September 1974 the Montoneros guerrilla group ambushed Jorge and Juan Born in Buenos Aires.noticias.perfil.com and 3 moreEugenio Garza Sada (cropped): The Eugenio Garza Sada Memorial at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.1973 · Monterrey, Nuevo León, MexicoGuerrillas killed Eugenio Garza Sada in a kidnapping attempt in 1973, and his family split the Monterrey Group into fourEugenio Garza Sada led the Monterrey Group, the industrial holdings of the extended Garza Sada family, and founded the Tecnológico de Monterrey in 1943.excelsior.com.mx and 2 moreRikidōzan: Rikidōzan1963 · Tokyo, JapanRikidōzan hid that he was Korean, died of a yakuza stab wound, and left his 22-year-old widow president of five companies and a reported 3 billion yen of debtRikidōzan was born Kim Sin-rak in 1924 in South Hamgyong, now in North Korea. He entered sumo in Japan in 1940, took a Japanese name and kept his Korean birth secret.Korea JoongAng Daily and 3 moreCourt of Appeals (NYPL b11708223-G91F099 037ZB): * Includes views by R. E. Churchill, Aaron Veeder, Jeffers & McDonnald and other photographers and publishers. Robert Dennis Co1882 · rural northern New York, USA; New York Court of AppealsA 16-year-old poisoned his grandfather to stop him changing his will, and New York's highest court took the farm from him in 1889On 13 August 1880 Francis B. Palmer, a widowed farmer, signed his will. He left small legacies to his daughters, Mrs Riggs and Mrs Preston. The rest of his farm and personal property went to his grandson, Elmer E.Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School and 2 moreCaptain jack 1873: Captain Jack (Kintpuash), a Modoc subchief, executed October 3, 1873; bust-length, full-face. Photographed by Louis Heller, 1873. American Indian Select List num1873 · Fort Klamath, Oregon, USAThe Army hanged Captain Jack, shipped his head to Washington in a barrel marked "specimens of natural history," and exiled his people to OklahomaKintpuash, called Captain Jack, led a Modoc band that left the Klamath Reservation, set up under an 1864 treaty, and returned to their Lost River homeland.ou.edu and 3 moreDemasduit: Description: Demasduit (1819)DESCRIPTION: Portrait of Demasduit (Mary March) 1819 watercolour on ivory USE/REPRODUCTION: Copyright: Expired Credit: Library and Archives 1820 · Red Indian Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaSettlers seized Demasduit to recover stolen property and killed her husband; their remains sat in Edinburgh until 2020In 1818 Beothuk took property belonging to John Peyton Jr. at the mouth of the Exploits River. Governor Sir Charles Hamilton authorized an expedition to recover it and to make friendly contact.Dictionary of Canadian Biography and 2 moreEmpress Dowager Cixi: The Ci-Xi Imperial Dowager Empress (9.2)1875 · Beijing and Jizhou (Tianjin), ChinaCixi made her sister's son emperor, an official killed himself to object to the adoption, and the emperor died of arsenic in 1908The Tongzhi Emperor died in the twelfth month of the lunar year in early 1875 with no son. The empresses dowager Ci'an and Cixi chose Zaitian, aged three, son of Prince Chun and of Cixi's younger sister.zh.wikisource.org and 4 moreTrotsky Memorial in Garden - Leon Trotsky Museum - Coyoacan - Mexico City - Mexico (15333660737): Trotsky Memorial in Garden - Leon Trotsky Museum - Coyoacan - Mexico City - Mexico1940 · Coyoacán, Mexico City, MexicoStalin's agents killed Trotsky and members of his family; he sealed his exile papers at Harvard until 1980, and the grandson who survived kept his house as a museumLeon Trotsky lived in exile from 1929 and was granted asylum in Mexico in 1937. Stalin's purge reached his family. His son Sergei Sedov, an engineer, was arrested in 1935 and is believed to have been shot on 29 October 1937.guides.library.harvard.edu and 5 moreGlamis Castle - geograph.org.uk - 637303: Glamis Castle1537 · Castle Hill, Edinburgh; Glamis Castle, Angus, ScotlandJames V burned Lady Glamis in 1537, took Glamis Castle and its silver, and the legend says she still kneels in the chapelKind 1 and kind 2. Janet Douglas was the widow of John Lyon, 6th Lord Glamis, who died in 1528, and the sister of the Earl of Angus, whom James V had driven out of Scotland. In 1532 she was indicted for poisoning her late husband.Internet Archive and 4 moreFrancisco Pizarro: French: François Pizarre, conquistador (1475-1541) Francisco Pizarro, conqueror (1475–1541)title QS:P1476,fr:"François P1541 · Lima, PeruPizarro's daughter and heir married her imprisoned uncle, his skull was found in a lead box in 1977, and Spain reissued his marquisate in 2019Charles V made Francisco Pizarro a marquis on 10 October 1537. In 1538 his brother Hernando executed Pizarro's former partner, Diego de Almagro, at Cuzco.Boletín Oficial del Estado and 5 moreMontecristo-80: isola di Montecristo - Autore: Ambrogio VolpiFiction · 1844 · Château d'If, Marseille, France, and the island of MontIn The Count of Monte Cristo, a cardinal poisoned for his money left his heir only a breviary, and the will hidden in it passed to a prisonerThe Count of Monte Cristo is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, written with Auguste Maquet and serialised in the Journal des Débats from 1844 to 1846.Project Gutenberg and 3 moreLower Kabete road: Lower Kabete road from lower kabete to UON in kapenguria rd junction2019 · Lower Kabete (Kitisuru), Nairobi, KenyaTob Cohen's body was found in the septic tank of his Nairobi home, and his widow is on trial for his murder while his will leaves the estate to his sisterTob Cohen was a Dutch businessman who lived in Kenya for more than 30 years and ran Philips East Africa. He was last seen alive on 19 July 2019. His wife, Sarah Wairimu, was taken into custody on 28 August 2019.standardmedia.co.ke and 4 moreAI illustration: A blood sample vial beside a tied bundle of plain court files in a New Delhi courtroom, 2012, unlabelled2018 · New Delhi, IndiaA Delhi court forced a former chief minister to give blood for a paternity test; his son won, and was killed a year after the father diedNarayan Dutt Tiwari was chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and later of Uttarakhand. In 2008 Rohit Shekhar filed a suit in the Delhi High Court saying Tiwari was his biological father; his mother was Ujjwala Sharma. Tiwari resisted.indiatoday.in and 4 moreAI illustration: The coast at Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan2018 · Tanabe, Wakayama, JapanJapan's "Don Juan of Kishu" left his fortune to his town; his widow was acquitted of killing him and may still inherit halfKosuke Nozaki, a Wakayama businessman who called himself the "Don Juan of Kishu," died in 2018 at 77, a few months after marrying Saki Sudo, who was more than 50 years younger. He died of acute methamphetamine poisoning.Internet Archive and 3 more20260722 Former residence of Kim Jong-Nam: Former residence of Kim Jong-Nam2017 · Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia; Pyongyang, NorNorth Korea's leader's half-brother was killed with VX at Kuala Lumpur airport, and Malaysia traded his body for nine of its citizens held in PyongyangKim Jong-nam was the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. He lived in exile in Macau with his wife and children.foxnews.com and 3 moreHamdard Dawakhana (Lal Kunwan, Delhi): Building Hamdard Dawakhana (Lal Kunwan, Delhi)2015 · Delhi, India, and Karachi, PakistanHamdard split at Partition, its Pakistani founder was shot dead in Karachi, and the Delhi heirs' fight over the waqf took Rooh Afza off Indian shelvesHakim Hafiz Abdul Majid founded Hamdard in Delhi in 1906. After his death in 1922 his widow and two sons ran it. In 1948 the family signed a waqf deed. A trustee who died was to be replaced by his eldest son.livelawbiz.com and 3 moreNarayanhiti Palace Museum, where the story took place2001 · Narayanhiti Palace, Kathmandu, NepalNepal's crown prince shot dead the king, the queen and seven relatives, and was king for three days while in a comaOn 1 June 2001, at a Friday family dinner in the Tribhuvan Sadan wing of Narayanhiti Palace, Crown Prince Dipendra opened fire with automatic weapons.BBC News and 3 moreBus Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa (5927206987): 9 July 2011. Ten feet high, steel sculpture of a Nigerian Bus parked behind the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Tottenham. It's a memorial to 1995 · Port Harcourt, Rivers State, NigeriaNigeria hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni activists over oil-region protests, buried them without their families, and pardoned them 30 years laterKen Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were convicted by a military tribunal of murdering four Ogoni chiefs. They maintained their innocence.Al Jazeera and 2 moreStamp of Abu Dhabi - 1964 - Colnect 197383 - Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan: Perforation varieties · Perf 13 x 13½ (Mi 3C, Sn 3a, Sg 3a): See variants · Overprints · "20 Fils1989 · Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThree Abu Dhabi rulers were killed in family feuds in six years; the survivors swore to their mother never to do it again, and in 1966 one brother removed another without bloodshedIn 1922 Sultan bin Zayed murdered his brother Hamdan, the ruler, and found the treasury almost empty. In 1926 another brother, Saqr, shot Sultan after a family dinner. In 1928 Saqr was hunted down and killed.christopherdavidson.net and 4 moreMap of Japan, marked on the globe1986 · Niigata, Sendai, Sapporo, Fukuoka and Tokyo, JapanJapanese courts cancelled auction sales of houses where owners had died by suicide, and in 2021 the state set a three-year disclosure ruleKind 1. Japan calls a property where someone died by suicide or murder a jiko bukken. When courts sell seized homes at auction, buyers have asked to cancel sales of such houses, and courts have ruled both ways.mc-law.jp and 2 moreSiriraj Bimuksthan Museum 2023: ด้านหน้าของพิพิธภัณฑ์ศิริราชพิมุขสถานและอดีตที่ตั้งของสถานีรถไฟธนบุรี ในปี 20231959 · Bangkok and Nonthaburi, ThailandThailand executed Si Quey in 1959 and a hospital museum displayed his embalmed body as a "cannibal" for 60 years before he was crematedSi Quey was a Chinese migrant who settled in Thailand in 1946. He was arrested in Rayong in 1958 and convicted of killing seven children. Reports said he confessed to eating organs. He was shot by firing squad in 1959, aged 32.nationthailand.com and 2 moreAl-Rehab Palace, where the story took place1958 · Rihab Palace, Baghdad, IraqIraq's 23-year-old king and his family were shot in the palace courtyard, and the regent's body was dragged through BaghdadFaisal II became King of Iraq at three, after his father King Ghazi died in a car crash in 1939. His uncle Abd al-Ilah ruled as regent until 1953. In July 1958 Faisal was 23 and engaged to an Egyptian princess.Wikipedia (English) and 2 moreBeatrice Cenci: Beatrice Cenci1598 · Petrella Salto and Rome, ItalyBeatrice Cenci and her family killed her father at his castle, Rome beheaded them, and most of the Cenci fortune went to the pope's nephewBeatrice Cenci was born in Rome on 6 February 1577, the daughter of Count Francesco Cenci and Ersilia Santacroce.ebsco.com and 2 moreAureus Didius Iulianus: Didius Julianus, 193, Aureus, Rome, AV 7.25 g. IMP CAES M DID – IVLIAN AVG Laureate head r. Rev. RECTOR – ORBIS Julianus standing l., holding globe and roll193 · Rome, ItalyThe Praetorian Guard sold the Roman Empire to Didius Julianus for 25,000 sesterces a soldier, and he lasted 66 daysThe emperor Pertinax had divided his own property among his children and placed them with their grandfather rather than raise them in the palace. On 28 March 193 the Praetorian Guard murdered him.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreRudolf, Crown Prince of Austria: Rudolf Crown Prince of Austria LOC1889 · Mayerling hunting lodge, Lower AustriaAustria's crown prince shot his 17-year-old lover and himself at Mayerling, and the throne passed to the man killed at SarajevoCrown Prince Rudolf, 30, only son of Emperor Franz Joseph, was found dead at his hunting lodge beside Baroness Mary Vetsera, 17. Rudolf had shot her and then himself. The court first announced heart failure.Wikipedia (English) and 1 moreGlenveagh Castle: Glenveagh Castle - geograph.org.uk - 515171885 · Glenveagh, County Donegal, IrelandGlenveagh's builder evicted 244 people in three days, a later owner vanished in a storm, and the last owner gave the castle to IrelandJohn George Adair, a land speculator, began buying land in Donegal in 1857 and by 1859 held Glenveagh and Gartan, about 28,000 acres. In 1860 his steward, James Murray, was found murdered on a mountain on the estate.nationalparks.ie and 5 moreJuan Manuel de Rosas: Juan Manuel de Rosas by Norris1877 · Southampton, EnglandArgentina confiscated Rosas's property and sentenced him to death; he died a tenant farmer in England and was reburied in 1989Juan Manuel de Rosas governed Buenos Aires and led the Argentine Confederation until Justo José de Urquiza defeated him at Caseros on 3 February 1852. He sheltered in the British legation and sailed to England.infobae.com and 3 moreThe Soviet Union 1971 CPA 4069 stamp (Shah Diamond, 16th Century): USSR stamp: The Shah Diamond, 16th Century. Series: Diamond Fund1829 · Tehran, Iran; St Petersburg and Moscow, RussiaA Tehran mob killed Russia's envoy in 1829, and the Shah paid for it with a diamond carved with the names of three kingsThe Shah Diamond weighs 88.7 carats.gemdat.org and 3 moreArrest of the Queen of Georgia (Geoffroy, 1845)-1: Arrest of Maria, Queen of Georgia, in 1801 (Geoffroy, 1845)1800 · Tbilisi, GeorgiaGeorgia's last king asked Russia for protection, Russia abolished his dynasty, and his heirs were suing each other over the royal name in 2019In September 1799 King George XII of Kartli-Kakheti asked Emperor Paul I to take his kingdom under Russian protection. He hoped to keep his royal rank and reign as his ancestors had. George died in 1800.acgs.ug.edu.ge and 5 morePalais-des-Papes-Avignon-June-2012: View of the Palais des Papes in Avignon, France in June 20121343 · Avignon, France; Naples and Aversa, ItalyKing Robert's will left Naples to Joanna, her husband was strangled, and she sold the city of Avignon to the pope while the murder was examinedRobert of Anjou, king of Naples and count of Provence, signed his will on 16 January 1343 and died on 20 January.Treccani and 3 moreJean-Marie Leclair: JMLeclair1764 · Rue Carême-Prenant, Le Marais, ParisJean-Marie Leclair was found stabbed three times at his Paris door in October 1764, and his ex-wife sold his belongings and unpublished musicJean-Marie Leclair, 66, was found dead early on 23 October 1764 in the vestibule of his house on the Rue Carême-Prenant. He had three stab wounds. Wikipedia gives 22 October as the date of death.interlude.hk and 2 moreThe ahu ula (feathered cloak) of Kalaniopuu: The ahu ula (feathered cloak) that chief Kalaniopuu gave to captain James Cook, on long-term loan from Te Papa Tongarewa (the national 1779 · Kealakekua Bay, Hawaiʻi Island, USA; London, England; WellinHawaiʻi's ruling chief put his feather cloak on Captain Cook in 1779, and it took 237 years and a New Zealand museum to bring it homeIn January 1779 Kalaniʻōpuʻu, ruling chief of Hawaiʻi Island, gave Captain James Cook the ʻahu ʻula (feather cloak) and mahiole (feather helmet) he was wearing at Kealakekua Bay.Smithsonian Magazine and 2 moreKingPhilip 1827 BenjaminChurch SamuelDrake04264001: Description according to the metadata delivered with the image by the John Carter Brown Library: Portrait of King Philip or Meta1676 · Mount Hope (Bristol), Rhode Island, USAPlymouth put Metacom's head on a pole for about 20 years and sold his wife and nine-year-old son into slaveryMassasoit, sachem of the Wampanoag, signed a treaty with Plymouth Colony in 1621 and died in 1661.apps.lib.umich.edu and 3 moreRose Hall (Jamaica): Rose Hall, the estate house of a former sugar plantation, in Jamaica.1827 · Rose Hall, near Montego Bay, St James, JamaicaRose Hall's heir died in debt, his widow sold her rights for £200, and a novel later made her the "White Witch" who killed three husbandsKind 2, with the record. Rosa Kelly married four times. Her fourth husband, John Palmer, owned the neighbouring Palmyra estate. Rose Hall great house was finished in the 1770s. Rosa died in 1790 and left the property to Palmer.jamaicanfamilysearch.com and 2 moreEliza Lynch mausoleum: Eliza Lynch mausoleum in Recoleta cemetery, Asunción, Paraguay.1870 · Cerro Corá, ParaguayEliza Lynch buried Paraguay's dictator and their son in 1870, was expelled when she came back for his lands, and Paraguay voted in 2025 to move her bones to its Pantheon of HeroesEliza Alicia Lynch was born in Cork on 19 November 1833. She met Francisco Solano López, son of Paraguay's ruler, in Paris in 1854 and went with him to Asunción.portalguarani.com and 6 moreTipu's Tiger front view 2006AH4173: Tippoo's Tiger1799 · Seringapatam (Srirangapatna), Karnataka, IndiaThe British army broke up Tipu Sultan's gold throne to divide as prize money; his sword sold for £14 million in 2023 while descendants pulled rickshawsOn 4 May 1799 the East India Company's army stormed Seringapatam. Tipu Sultan was killed, and his body was found near the Water Gate.nam.ac.uk and 6 moreRichard III of England: Richard III portrait1485 · Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, EnglandRichard III's bones were found under a car park, and his distant relatives sued the government over where to bury himRichard III was killed at Bosworth in 1485, the last English king to die in battle, and buried in the Greyfriars church in Leicester. The church was demolished after the Reformation.le.ac.uk and 1 moreBruges. Eglise Notre-Dame. Tombeau de Marie de Bourgogne (1495) - Brugge. O.-L.-Vrouwkerk. Graf van Maria van Bourgondië: TitleBruges. Eglise Notre-Dame. Tombeau de Marie de Bourgo1477 · Ghent and Bruges, BelgiumCharles the Bold died at Nancy, the King of France seized Burgundy from his 19-year-old heiress, and her marriage gave the Netherlands to the HabsburgsCharles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, was killed at the battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477. His only child, Mary, born 13 February 1457, inherited his lands. Louis XI of France seized the duchy of Burgundy and other territories.deutsche-biographie.de and 2 moreYahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din: Drawing showing Imam Yahya of Yemen (Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin, 1869–1948), who succeeded his father as imam in 1904, on the frontispiece page of Ameen1948 · near Sanaa, YemenYemen's Imam Yahya groomed his son to inherit an office meant to go to the most able; rebels killed him in 1948, and the tribes that won the throne back for the son looted SanaaYahya ruled Yemen as Zaydi imam from 1904. Zaydi doctrine says the imamate goes to the most capable candidate, not the eldest son.gulfnews.com and 3 moreNader Shah: Contemporary portrait of Nader Shah. Artist unknown, created in ca. 1740 in Iran (cropped)1747 · Mashhad and Tehran, IranNader Shah's Indian jewels cost his blind grandson his life under torture, and a deposed shah took them into the Russian legationIn 1739 Nader Shah defeated the Mughal emperor and took Delhi. The Abbé de Claustre wrote that 5,000 chests were filled with gold rupees and 8,000 with silver, besides chests of diamonds and pearls.iranicaonline.org and 2 moreCock Lane ghost: Cock Lane as seen in MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds, 18521760 · Cock Lane, Smithfield, London, EnglandKent inherited his dead lover's money, and her "ghost" accused him of poisoning her; a London jury convicted the ghost's handlers in 1762Kind 1. William Kent, a Norfolk innkeeper and moneylender, married Elizabeth Lynes, who died in childbirth. Canon law barred him from marrying her sister Fanny because Elizabeth had borne him a living child.Project Gutenberg and 2 moreHis Excellency General Sir Jang Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1817–1877), Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of Nepal: H.E. General Sir Jang Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1817-77), Prime Minister1877 · Kathmandu, NepalNepal's Rana prime ministers passed the office brother to brother by a roll; in 1934 the ruler struck off the sons of low-caste mothers, and their sons joined the party that opposed itJung Bahadur Kunwar seized power after the Kot massacre on the night of 14 September 1846.countrystudies.us and 4 moreBronzePlaque-EdictOfSecondEmperor-Qin-ROM-May8-08: Small bronze plaque containing an edict from the second emperor of the Qin dynasty. 209 BC. Cat # 931.13.195 Bishop C. White Coll210 BCE · Shaqiu (Guangzong, Hebei), ChinaThe Shiji says the First Emperor's chancellor and his seal-keeper forged his last letter, and his eldest son killed himself on the forged orderThe Shiji, completed by Sima Qian about a century later, gives this account. The First Emperor had more than 20 sons. His eldest, Fusu, had criticised him and was sent north to the army of the general Meng Tian.zh.wikisource.org and 4 moreMehmed III: Sultan and 92. Caliph of Islam,Mehmet III of the Ottoman Empire (1566–1603)1595 · Topkapı Palace, IstanbulOttoman Sultan Mehmed III had his 19 brothers strangled on the day he took the throneOttoman succession had no rule of primogeniture. Any son of a sultan could claim the throne. Mehmed II's law code in the 15th century allowed a new sultan to put his brothers to death "for the order of the world".Wikipedia (English) and 1 moreHamlet Q1 Frontispiece 1603: Frontispiece to the First Quarto (1603) of William Shakespeare's HamletFiction · 1599 · Denmark (setting)In Shakespeare's Hamlet, an uncle kills the king, marries the widow and is chosen king over the son, and the crown ends with a foreign princeHamlet is a play by William Shakespeare, written between about 1599 and 1601 and first printed in 1603. It comes from the legend of Amleth in Saxo Grammaticus's Latin history of the Danes, retold in French by Belleforest in 1570.Project Gutenberg and 3 moreCleopatra: Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin140 · Rome, Italy; kingdom of Mauretania (Algeria and Morocco)Cleopatra's grandson Ptolemy inherited Mauretania from his father Juba, and Caligula summoned him to Rome and had him killedCleopatra VII's daughter Cleopatra Selene married Juba II, and the couple received the kingdom of Mauretania. Their son Ptolemy became co-ruler by AD 21 and sole king when Juba died in AD 23 or 24.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 morePazzi conspiracy: Nella stessa famiglia anche lo zio di Francesco, Jacopo fu tra i principali responsabili, e i congiurati si servirono della parentela di Guglielmo de' Medici, fra1478 · Florence, ItalyFlorence seized the Pazzi bank's property the day after the cathedral murder and ordered the family's name and arms erased foreverJacopo de' Pazzi inherited his father Andrea's bank and became head of the family in 1464. In the 1457 tax survey he was one of only eight Florentines taxed between 50 and 100 florins.Treccani and 2 moreMound 72 - Cahokia: Photo of Mound 72 at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site taken in May 20241050 · Cahokia, near Collinsville, Illinois, USAAt Cahokia a man and woman were buried on 10,000 shell beads, and the same mound held 53 young women who had been strangledMound 72 lies about 850 metres south of Monks Mound at Cahokia. Melvin Fowler began excavating it in 1967 and recorded about 270 bodies buried in episodes over roughly a century, between about 1000 and 1200.news.illinois.edu and 1 moreDingane - 'Bulalani abathakathi' - 1897: Dingane got up and yelled "Bulalani abathakathi" ("kill the magicians") and the warrior immediately killed the Boer representatives. In rea1828 · KwaDukuza (Stanger), KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaDingane and Mhlangana killed their half-brother Shaka in 1828, and their brother Mpande took the Zulu throne with Boer help in 1840Shaka ruled the Zulu kingdom. In September 1828, while his armies were away, his bodyguard Mbopha and his half-brothers Dingane and Mhlangana stabbed him near his barracks at Dukuza. His body was buried in a grain pit.Internet Archive and 5 moreHp inka12: Hp_inka12.jpg1527 · Cuzco, PeruAtahualpa's captains hanged Huáscar's wives and children on the Cuzco road, burned a dead king's mummy, and killed Huáscar so Pizarro could not free himHuayna Capac died of smallpox near Quito in 1527. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa records that Cuzco raised his son Huáscar as Inca. Another son, Atahualpa, stayed in the north and said his father had left him poor and dishonoured.Internet Archive and 3 moreTvorozhnikov: Vasily Mirovich Standing over the Body of Ivan VI at Schlusselburg Fortress1764 · Shlisselburg Fortress (Oreshek), Leningrad Oblast, RussiaRussia's infant emperor Ivan VI was deposed at 15 months, held prisoner for 23 years, and killed by his guards under standing orders in 1764Empress Anna of Russia named her great-nephew Ivan Antonovich her heir by manifesto in October 1740, when he was about eight weeks old. She died days later and the baby was proclaimed emperor, with Duke Biron as regent.Wikisource (primary text) and 3 moreDilston Castle: Dilston Castle (grid reference NY97566328) is a ruined 15th century towerhouse situated at Dilston, near Corbridge, Northumberland.1716 · Tower Hill, London; Dilston, Northumberland, EnglandThe Earl of Derwentwater was beheaded in 1716, Parliament gave his estates to Greenwich Hospital, and in 1868 a woman calling herself his heir moved into the ruined castleJames Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, grew up at the exiled Stuart court at Saint-Germain. He joined the 1715 Jacobite rising, was defeated at Preston and pleaded guilty.northumberlandarchives.com and 4 moreSamuel Oppenheimer1703 · ViennaThe Habsburg state owed Samuel Oppenheimer millions when he died in 1703; it declared his firm bankrupt and his estate was auctioned in 1763Samuel Oppenheimer was born in 1630, probably in the Palatinate. He moved to Vienna in 1674 and became imperial war commissary in 1679, supplying the armies that fought the Ottomans and France. In 1701 he became chief war factor.deutsche-biographie.de and 4 moreAI illustration: The House of Lords chamber at Westminster hears a peerage claim, 17th century1632 · LondonThe House of Lords ruled the Earl of Banbury's sons were not his, and the Knollys family lost the earldom after 152 years of claimsWilliam Knollys, later 1st Earl of Banbury, married Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk, on 23 December 1605. He was about 58 and she was 19. Their son Edward was born on 10 April 1627, when the Earl was about 80.Internet Archive and 2 moreБегство Кучума из города Кашлык: The conquest of Siberia by Yermak (1580—1585). The miniature depicts the fall of Qashliq to Yermak, and the flight of Khan Kuchum (23-25 October 151605 · Irmen River on the Ob, near Novosibirsk, RussiaSiberia's last khan lost his capital to Cossacks in 1582 and his family to Moscow in 1598; his descendants served the tsars as Princes SibirskyKuchum, a Shaybanid descendant of Genghis Khan, took the throne of the khanate of Sibir in 1563 from Yadegar, a vassal of Moscow. In October 1582 the Cossack Yermak captured his capital, Qashliq.sipec.aoyama.ac.jp and 2 moreTsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (1552–1553): Facial Chronicle - b.21, p. 5051591 · Uglich, Yaroslavl Oblast, RussiaTsarevich Dmitry died at Uglich in 1591, a man using his name took the throne in 1605, and Moscow hanged his widow's small son in 1614Dmitry, son of Ivan IV and Maria Nagaya, was born on 19 October 1582. After Ivan's death he and his mother were sent to Uglich on 24 May 1584. He died there on 15 May 1591, aged 8.Wikisource (primary text) and 5 moreThe meeting of Grace O'Malley and Queen Elizabeth I: The meeting of Grace O'Malley and Queen Elizabeth I1583 · Rockfleet (Carraigahowley), County Mayo, IrelandGaelic law gave Gráinne O'Malley nothing from two husbands, so she sailed to Elizabeth I and won a pension from her sons' landsIn 1546 Gráinne O'Malley married Dónal O'Flaherty, heir to his lordship. He was killed in a fight with the Joyces around 1564. Under Gaelic law she could not inherit O'Flaherty land.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk and 2 moreShane O'Neill meets Elizabeth: Shane O'Neill of Tyrone meets Queen Elizabeth of England1558 · Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UKEngland made Conn O'Neill's son by a blacksmith's wife his heir, and Conn's son Shane had the heir killedGaelic Irish lordships passed by tanistry: the successor was chosen from male kin descended from a common great-grandfather, the eldest and most worthy, not the eldest son.libraryireland.com and 4 moreMusterung-Welser-Armada: Gouverneur de:Georg Hohermuth von Speyer (rechts) und de:Philipp von Hutten (Mitte) anläßlich der Musterung der Welser-Armada in Sanlúcar de Barrameda vor 1546 · El Tocuyo, Venezuela, and Augsburg, GermanyCharles V gave the Welser bank Venezuela for its loans, and a Spanish governor had the head of the firm's son killed there in 1546Bartholomäus Welser (1484 to 1561) led the Augsburg trading house from 1518. The Welsers were among the largest creditors of Charles V.deutsche-biographie.de and 4 moreJáchymov 2016 a: View over Jáchymov1526 · Jáchymov (Joachimsthal), Karlovy Vary Region, Czech RepublicCount Stephan Schlick minted the first thalers from his silver mine, vanished at Mohács in 1526, and the new king took the mint from his familySilver was found in the Ore Mountains of Bohemia in 1512. In 1516 Count Stephan Schlick founded a mining town there, Joachimsthal, now Jáchymov. Regular minting began in 1520.machogalleries.com and 2 moreBoris Gleb astride: Saints Boris and Gleb astride.1015 · Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast, UkraineThe Primary Chronicle says Sviatopolk had his brothers Borys and Hlib killed in 1015, and Yaroslav buried them as saints after taking KyivVolodymyr the Great had 11 sons by five wives and set them over the lands of Rus' to govern and collect tribute. Late in his reign his sons Sviatopolk of Turiv and Yaroslav of Novgorod defied him.encyclopediaofukraine.com and 6 moreMap of New York, marked on the globe1142 · Onondaga, New York, USAThe Haudenosaunee Great Law vests the chiefs' titles in the women of each family, who can take back the antlersThe Great Law, in the version Arthur C. Parker published in 1916, tells that the Onondaga chief Adodarhoh was a cannibal and sorcerer whose body was bent in seven places and whose hair was full of living serpents.Internet Archive and 2 moreŞehzade Bayezid: Sultan Suleiman the Magnicifient (d. 1566) and he son Bayezid (d. 1561) a miniature.1562 · Qazvin, IranSüleyman paid the Shah of Persia to hand back his son Bayezid, who was strangled in Qazvin with his four sonsAfter Mustafa's death and their mother Hürrem's death on 15 April 1558, two sons were left: Selim and Bayezid. Bayezid feared the clause in Mehmed II's law code that let a new sultan kill his brothers.Encyclopaedia Britannica and 2 moreBarney Barnato00: Portrait of Barney Barnato (1852-1897)1897 · at sea near Madeira; Johannesburg, South AfricaDiamond magnate Barney Barnato went overboard from a mail steamer in 1897, a blackmailer shot his nephew Woolf Joel dead the next year, and his son inherited at twoBarnett Isaacs was born in London on 5 July 1852. He reached Kimberley in 1873 with about £50 and took the surname his brother Harry used there, Barnato. The brothers started the diamond firm Barnato Brothers in 1874.jewishencyclopedia.com and 4 moreKoxinga: The Portrait of Koxinga鄭成功畫像1662 · Tainan, TaiwanKoxinga ordered his heir and his own wife killed over a child born to a wet nurse, and died before his generals obeyedKoxinga, a Ming loyalist commander, took Taiwan from the Dutch in 1662. His eldest son, Zheng Jing, held Xiamen. Lian Heng's General History of Taiwan (1920) says Zheng Jing, 19, had a son with his younger brother's wet nurse.zh.wikisource.org and 3 moreSchaedel mit Nagel: Schaedel, Vitaliebruder (?), Hanse1401 · Hamburg, GermanyHamburg beheaded the pirate Störtebeker, legend put his gold in a church spire, and a skull said to be his was stolen from the city museum in 2010Klaus Störtebeker is remembered as a leader of the Victual Brothers, who seized merchant ships in the Baltic and North Seas. A Hamburg fleet under Hermann Langhe and Nikolaus Schoke sailed for Heligoland in August 1400.historynewsnetwork.org and 2 moreHouse of Jagat Seth, Nashipur, Murshidabad, West Bengal 01: House of Jagat Seth, Nashipur, Murshidabad, West Bengal1763 · Murshidabad, West Bengal; Munger Fort, Bihar, IndiaThe Jagat Seths financed the British at Plassey; six years later the Nawab had the two heads of the bank killed and their bodies thrown from a fortHiranand Shah, an Oswal merchant from Nagaur in Rajasthan, settled in Patna in 1652.en.banglapedia.org and 2 morePtolemy VIII Physcon: Head of Ptolemy VIII130 BCE · Alexandria, Egypt, and CyprusPtolemy VIII married his sister Cleopatra II and then her daughter, and when his sister held Alexandria against him he sent her their son's head, hands and feetIn 145 BC Ptolemy VIII returned to Alexandria after his brother Ptolemy VI died and married his brother's widow, their sister Cleopatra II.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreArsinoe II: ArsinoeII269 BCE · Cassandreia (Kassandreia, Greece) and Alexandria, EgyptArsinoe II married her half-brother Ptolemy Keraunos to protect her sons, he had two of them killed in her arms, and she then married her full brotherPtolemy I passed over his eldest son, Ptolemy Keraunos, son of Eurydice, and around 285 BC made the younger Ptolemy II, son of Berenice, his heir. Keraunos left Egypt.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 moreElisabetta Sirani: Self-portrait1665 · Bologna, Papal StatesElisabetta Sirani died at 27 in Bologna in 1665; her father charged the maid with poisoning her and then withdrew the chargeElisabetta Sirani ran her father's Bologna workshop from about 1654, after gout disabled Giovanni Andrea Sirani. Her portraits and teaching supported the household. She died in August 1665, aged 27, after severe stomach pain.theflorentine.net and 3 moreNagarakretagama of Indonesian 14th century Majapahit manuscript: Nagarakretagama of Indonesian 14th century Majapahit manuscript1895 · Cakranegara, Lombok, IndonesiaDutch troops took a quarter tonne of gold from the Lombok palace in 1894, and with it the only manuscript of Majapahit's royal chronicleA Balinese dynasty from Karangasem ruled Lombok from the palace at Cakranegara and grew rich on the rents of the island's Sasak people. In 1894 the Netherlands East Indies sent an army.amsterdam.wereldmuseum.nl and 4 moreAn lang: Điện Long Ân, An Lăng, nơi thờ cúng vua Dục Đức, Thành Thái và Duy Tân1883 · Huế, VietnamEmperor Tự Đức's will called his heir unfit, and his regents crowned four emperors in just over a year and poisoned twoTự Đức ruled Vietnam from 1848. He had no children and adopted three nephews.vi.wikisource.org and 5 moreLetter of Kenesary-sultan: Письмо Кенесары Касымова Оренбургскому военному губернатору. 22 февраля 1841 г. Подлинник. ЦГА РК. Ф. 4.1847 · Keklik-Sengir valley, KyrgyzstanKenesary Khan was beheaded in 1847 and his skull sent to Omsk as a trophy; in 2021 Putin promised to return itKenesary Kasymov was a grandson of Ablai Khan and a descendant of Genghis Khan. After 1821 the Russian empire abolished the khan's government on the steppe.rferl.org and 2 moreNapoleon: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries label QS:Len,"The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries"labe1821 · Longwood, Saint HelenaNapoleon's will left 10,000 francs to the man who tried to shoot the Duke of WellingtonNapoleon died a British prisoner at Longwood on Saint Helena.napoleon.org and 3 moreStanding Portrait of Emperor Tang Taizong (I): This depicts Emperor Taizong of Tang (唐太宗).626 · Xuanwu Gate, Chang'an (Xi'an), Shaanxi, ChinaLi Shimin killed his two brothers at the Xuanwu Gate, executed their ten sons and had the throne from his father within two monthsLi Yuan founded the Tang dynasty in 618 as Emperor Gaozu. His eldest son, Li Jiancheng, was crown prince. His second son, Li Shimin, Prince of Qin, had led the main campaigns.zh.wikisource.org and 2 morePartida de casamiento de José Gabriel Túpac Amaru y Micaela Bastidas: Registro parroquial que contiene la partida de matrimonio de José Gabriel Túpac Amaru y Micaela Bastidas. Ubic1781 · Cuzco, PeruA Cuzco chief sued for four years to be recognised as the last Inca's heir, then led the 1780 rebellion with the case still undecidedThe Marquisate of Oropesa was created in 1614 for Ana María Lorenza de Loyola, heir of the Inca Sayri Túpac, after she won a lawsuit against the Crown. It covered Yucay, Huayllabamba, Urubamba and Maras.revistas.pucp.edu.pe and 3 moreJapanese: 『市川團十郎（初代）の竹抜き五郎』Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjūrō I in the role of Takenuki Gorō (Soga no Gorō).title QS:P1476,ja: This is likely one of the most famous early Torii school i1704 · Ichimura-za theatre, Edo (Tokyo), JapanDanjūrō I was stabbed to death in his dressing room by a rival actor, and his 15-year-old son took the name that is now in its 13th generationIchikawa Danjūrō I was born in Edo in 1660 and founded the aragoto acting style of kabuki in 1673.kabuki21.com and 3 moreMatrimonio de Martín de Loyola con doña Beatriz Ñusta, y de Don Juan Borja con Lorenza Ñusta: Matrimonio de Martín García Óñez de Loyola con la princesa inca Beatriz y de Juan de E1560 · Yucay, Cuzco, PeruAn Inca princess was married to the captain who captured her uncle, their daughter got a Spanish marquisate with the Inca estate of Yucay, and Inca claimants fought for it after the line died outSayri Túpac, Inca of Vilcabamba, left his mountain state in 1557 after the viceroy agreed to give him 17,000 castellanos of rent and the valley of Yucay. He died at Yucay in 1560.Boletín Oficial del Estado and 4 moreAI illustration: Rebels led by Pedrarias's grandsons land on the shore at Panama, 15501550 · near PanamaPedrarias's grandsons killed the bishop of Nicaragua and raided Panama in 1550 to recover their father's lost wealthMaría de Peñalosa was Pedrarias's daughter and Balboa's proxy bride. In 1524 she married Rodrigo de Contreras, and Pedrarias died in León, Nicaragua, on 6 March 1531. Contreras governed Nicaragua from 1535 to 1544.Project Gutenberg and 3 moreDiego Velázquez de Cuéllar: DiegoVelazquezCuellar1538 · Cuzco, PeruDiego de Almagro willed his governorship of New Toledo to his mestizo son, Pizarro ignored the will, and the son's followers killed PizarroDiego de Almagro was Francisco Pizarro's partner in the conquest of Peru. In May 1534 the Crown granted him the right to conquer and settle the lands 200 leagues south of Pizarro's territory, the governorship of New Toledo.revista.agn.gob.pe and 2 more51. Morte di Marino Faliero, 17 Aprile 1355: The Execution of Doge en:Marino Faliero1355 · Venice, ItalyVenice beheaded Doge Marino Faliero in 1355, seized his palace, painted a black shroud over his portrait, and later voided his widow's willMarino Faliero came from one of Venice's oldest patrician families. On 11 September 1354, aged about 80, he was elected doge while on a mission to the pope at Avignon.historywalksvenice.com and 3 moreCleopatra: Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin130 BCE · Alexandria, EgyptMark Antony gave Cleopatra's children kingdoms in 34 BC, and after 30 BC Octavian killed Caesarion and gave the others to his sister to raiseIn autumn 34 BC Mark Antony filled the gymnasium at Alexandria and set two golden thrones on a silver platform, with lower thrones for the children.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 5 moreHasan-i Sabbah: Asabah21124 · Alamut Castle, Qazvin province, IranHasan-i Sabbah had both his sons executed and left Alamut to a lieutenant from another castleHasan-i Sabbah took the fortress of Alamut in 1090 by infiltration. He had entered it under another name, and he gave its castellan a draft for 3,000 dinars payable by the governor of Damghan.iis.ac.uk and 2 moreKhizr Khan and Devaldi enthroned. Duval Rani Khizr Khan of Amir Khusrau Dihvali. Scribe, Sultan Bayazid ibn Nizam Mughal: Khizr Khan and Devaldi enthroned. Duval Rani Khizr Khan of1316 · Siri, Delhi, India; Gwalior FortMalik Kafur read out a will that made a six-year-old sultan of Delhi, blinded the heirs, and was beheaded 35 days laterMalik Kafur, a eunuch, commanded Sultan Alauddin Khalji's armies in the Deccan. Amir Khusrau's account says Kafur persuaded the dying sultan to confine his heir, Khizr Khan, in Gwalior Fort, under an oath not to take his life.Internet Archive and 1 moreCharles VII of France: KarlVII1456 · Bourges, FranceJacques Coeur financed Charles VII's war, then the king charged him with poisoning the royal mistress and confiscated everythingJacques Coeur traded with Damascus by 1432, became master of the royal mint in 1436 and steward of royal spending by 1441, and was ennobled with his family.Wikisource (primary text) and 2 moreLe cadavre de Jean de Montagu détaché de la potence par son fils. G: Auteur(s): Langlois, Philibert, graveur Marck, dessinateur Autre titre: De 1226 à 1469 / De l'avènement de St L1409 · Paris and Marcoussis, Essonne, FranceFrance's grand master was beheaded and hung at Montfaucon; his son won back his name and body, then died at AgincourtJean de Montaigu rose from royal secretary to grand master of the royal household under Charles VI of France. From the income of his offices he built a fortune.herodote.net and 4 moreErfurter Schatz, jüdischer Hochzeitsring: Jüdischer Hochzeitsring aus dem sog. "Erfurter Schatz", aufbewahrt im Keller der Alten Synagoge in Erfurt1349 · Michaelisstraße 43, Erfurt, GermanyA Jewish moneylender's silver lay under his Erfurt cellar from the 1349 massacre until archaeologists found it in 1998Erfurt's medieval Jewish community was one of the most prominent of its time. On 21 March 1349, as the plague spread, a mob attacked the Jewish quarter on the false claim that Jews had poisoned the wells.juedisches-leben.erfurt.de and 3 moreKonradin: Codex Manesse, fol. 7r, Konradin von Hohenstaufen ("König Konradin der Jüngere") bei der Jagd mit Falken.1268 · Naples, Campania, ItalyConradin, the last legitimate Staufer, willed his lands to his Bavarian uncles and was beheaded in Naples at 16Conradin was born on 25 March 1252 at Wolfstein near Landshut, the son of King Conrad IV, who died in 1254. He grew up under the guardianship of his uncle, Duke Ludwig of Bavaria.de.wikisource.org and 2 moreMargarete von Babenberg: Margarete von Babenberg, auch Margareta von Österreich, tschechisch Markéta Babenberská, (* 1204 oder 1205; † 29. Oktober 1266 auf der Burg Krumau am Kamp)1246 · Vienna and Hainburg an der Donau, AustriaThe last Babenberg duke died without sons in 1246, his widowed sister of about 47 married a 19-year-old Ottokar and handed him her title deeds, and he divorced herDuke Frederick II of Austria, the last Babenberg duke, was killed in battle at the Leitha on 15 June 1246 and left no heir. His sister Margarete, born about 1204, was the widow of Henry (VII), King of the Romans.deutsche-biographie.de and 3 moreRaymond VI of Toulouse: Raimond6Toulouse1222 · Toulouse, FranceThe Church gave Raymond VI's county to the crusade leader and refused his body burial, and his granddaughter's childless marriage handed Toulouse to FranceThe papal legate Pierre de Castelnau excommunicated Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, in 1207, and the Council of Avignon excommunicated him again. The crusade against the Cathars took his lands.newadvent.org and 4 moreArtur of Brittany Alienor of Brittany: Artuš Bretaňský se sestrou Eleonorou1199 · Rouen, FranceRichard I's nephew Arthur disappeared in his uncle King John's prison, and Arthur's sister was held for 39 years until she diedArthur, duke of Brittany, was the son of Geoffrey, an elder brother of John. Geoffrey died before Arthur was born in 1187. In 1190 Richard I named Arthur his heir presumptive. When Richard died in 1199 he named John instead.british-history.ac.uk and 4 moreArco de Elvira Granada: Esta es una fotografía, tomada con mi propio móvil en la que se puede ver el Arco de Elvira desde tres perspectivas diferentes; de frente ,por detrás ,y des1066 · Granada, SpainJoseph ibn Naghrela inherited his father's place as vizier of Granada and was killed in the massacre of 1066Samuel ibn Naghrela fled Córdoba when it was sacked in 1012 and became vizier to King Habbus of Granada.fordham.edu and 3 moreYaropolk murder: Murder of Yaropolk972 · Kyiv and Ovruch, Ukraine; Novgorod, RussiaSviatoslav split Rus' among three sons, and within eight years one had died in battle with his brother and another was killed on the third brother's ordersYaropolk, son of Sviatoslav I, ruled Kyiv from 970. His brother Oleh held the Derevlian land and his half-brother Volodymyr held Novgorod. Sviatoslav died in 972, and Yaropolk became ruler of all Rus'.encyclopediaofukraine.com and 3 moreClovis I: Saint Remy baptise Clovis détail524 · Paris, FranceClovis's sons sent their mother scissors and a sword, then killed two of their dead brother's sons and split his kingdomClovis, king of the Franks, died in 511. Gregory of Tours writes that his four sons "received his kingdom and divided it among them in equal parts." Chlodomer, king at Orléans, was killed at Vézeronce in June 524.sourcebooks.fordham.edu and 4 moreSeptimius Severus: Septimius Severus busto-Musei Capitolini211 · Eboracum (York), England; Palatine, Rome, ItalySeverus left Rome to two sons, their mother stopped them dividing the empire, and Caracalla had his brother killed in her armsThe emperor Septimius Severus died in Britain on 4 February 211. Cassius Dio says his illness carried him off "not without some help, they say," from his elder son Antoninus, known as Caracalla.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreAureus Didius Iulianus: Didius Julianus, 193, Aureus, Rome, AV 7.25 g. IMP CAES M DID – IVLIAN AVG Laureate head r. Rev. RECTOR – ORBIS Julianus standing l., holding globe and roll193 · Praetorian camp, Rome, ItalyThe praetorian guard killed the emperor Pertinax and sold the empire to the highest bidder for 25,000 sesterces a soldierIn AD 193 the praetorian guard killed the emperor Pertinax. Herodian says the guards then announced from their camp walls that the empire was for sale.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreDecebal suicide: The suicide of the Dacian King Decebal on the Trajan Column106 · Sarmizegetusa Regia, Hunedoara County, RomaniaCassius Dio says Dacia's king buried his gold under a diverted river and killed the diggers, and a companion told the Romans where it wasDecebalus was king of Dacia. Rome under Trajan fought two wars against him and took his capital and his land. Cassius Dio writes that when Decebalus was about to be captured he killed himself, and his head was taken to Rome.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreGalba: Gold Aureus of Galba (MANTIS)69 · Rome, ItalyA senator was accused of biting the severed head of Galba's heir, and years later he swore on his son's life to get into the heir's widow's willIn AD 69 the emperor Galba adopted Piso Licinianus as his heir. Both were murdered.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 1 moreClaudius: Claudius crop54 · Palatine, Rome, ItalyClaudius's will was never read in public, and Nero poisoned Claudius's son Britannicus four months after taking the throneThe emperor Claudius had a son, Britannicus, born on the 22nd day of his reign. He later married Agrippina and adopted her son Nero. Suetonius says that late in life Claudius regretted the marriage and the adoption.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 morePliny the Younger: 'Pliny the Younger and His Mother at Miseno'54 · Rome, Italy; Africa Proconsularis (Tunisia)Pliny says six men owned half of Roman Africa when Nero had them killed, and Suetonius says Nero seized the estates of anyone whose will left him too littlePliny the Elder wrote that great estates had ruined Italy. He added that six proprietors held half of the province of Africa when Nero had them put to death. Suetonius lists Nero's methods for raising money.perseus.tufts.edu and 3 moreHorti Lamiani (2006-2009): Planietria ricostruttiva degli Horti Lamiani41 · Horti Lamiani, Esquiline Hill, Rome, ItalySuetonius says Caligula ignored Tiberius's will, killed his co-heir, and haunted the gardens he inherited until his sisters reburied himKind 2: what Suetonius says. Tiberius's will named Caligula and his other grandson, the boy Tiberius Gemellus, as joint heirs. When Caligula entered Rome, the Senate and the crowd gave him full power and the will was set aside.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreValles típicos de Obejo, Sierra Morena: valles típicos de Sierra Morena. Obejo33 · Rome, Italy; mines in Hispania (Spain)Tacitus says Tiberius had Spain's richest man thrown from the Tarpeian Rock and kept his gold and copper mines for himselfSextus Marius owned gold and copper mines in Spain under the emperor Tiberius. Tacitus calls him the richest man in Spain. He survived an accusation in AD 25.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 moreSuetonius: Suetonius etching (cropped)25 · Rome, ItalySuetonius says Tiberius frightened a man worth 400 million sesterces into suicide to inherit, and Caligula sent poisoned sweets to men who named him heirSeneca says Gnaeus Lentulus the Augur was thought to be worth 400 million sesterces, owed his rise to Augustus, and was as barren in intellect as in spirit.Project Gutenberg and 5 moreHortensia (orator): Woodcut illustration of Hortensia pleading her case before the triumvirs - Penn Provenance Project43 BCE · Rome, ItalyRome's triumvirs ordered the 1,400 richest women to value their property for a war tax, and Hortensia's speech cut the list to 400After Caesar's murder, Antony, Octavian and Lepidus ruled Rome as triumvirs and needed money for war.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreBust of Cicero (1st-cent. BC) - Palazzo Nuovo - Musei Capitolini - Rome 2016: Palazzo Nuovo - Capitoline Museums - Rome43 BCE · near Formiae (Formia), ItalyOctavian traded Cicero to Antony for the proscription list, and Antony's wife pierced the dead orator's tongue with her hairpinsCicero was Rome's most famous orator. He backed the young Octavian for the consulship. Octavian then joined Antony and Lepidus, and the three drew up a list of men to be killed and their property taken.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreLaudatio Turiae col2 Terme: So-called “Laudatio Turiæ”, col.2 (2.2a to 2.11a). Latin inscription: “[varia et ampla subsi]dia fugae meae praestitisti ornamentis / [me instruxisti] c49 BCE · Rome, ItalyA Roman husband's funeral inscription says relatives tried to void his wife's father's will after her parents were murdered, and she stopped themThe Laudatio Turiae is a long funeral eulogy carved in stone by a Roman husband for his wife, dated about 8 to 2 BC. Neither is named in the surviving text. It is catalogued as CIL VI 1527.droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr and 2 moreM. Tullius Cicero, Capitoline Museum, Rome: Bust of Cicero, Musei Capitolini, Rome, Half of 1st century AD81 BCE · Rome and Ameria (Amelia, Umbria), ItalySulla's freedman bought a murdered man's estate of 6 million sesterces for 2,000, and the son was charged with killing his fatherCicero's defence speech is the main source. Sextus Roscius of Ameria was killed at Rome near the Palatine baths as he walked home from dinner. A freedman of his kinsman Titus Roscius rode 56 miles overnight to Ameria with the news.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreKings Agis and Cleomenes: Engraving which accompanied Plutarch's Lives of Agis IV and Cleomenes III, in volume 4 of the John Dryden edition published 1711. The speech scroll in the241 BCE · Sparta, Laconia, GreeceSpartan king Agis IV gave his estate and 600 talents to a land division, and was strangled with his mother and grandmother before any land was dividedPlutarch says an ephor named Epitadeus, angry with his son, passed a law that let a man give or bequeath his estate to anyone he chose. Land gathered into a few hands.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreAlexander Pope: Alexander Pope title QS:P1476,en:"Alexander Pope "label QS:Len,"Alexander Pope "335 BCE · Thebes (Thiva), GreeceAlexander razed Thebes and sold its people into slavery, but spared the house and descendants of the poet PindarPindar was a lyric poet of Thebes. In 335 BC Thebes revolted against Alexander. Alexander stormed the city. Plutarch says more than 6,000 Thebans were killed and more than 30,000 sold as slaves.livingpoets.awh.durham.ac.uk and 2 moreNicias: Nicias, p 105 (World's Famous Orations Vol 1)413 BCE · Syracuse, Sicily, Italy; Athens, GreeceNicias rented 1,000 slaves into Athens's silver mines, Syracuse executed him, the Thirty killed his son, and his nephew went to court to keep the family landNicias son of Niceratus inherited a large fortune and was one of the largest lessees at the Laurion silver mines south of Athens.perseus.tufts.edu and 5 morePythagoras: Pythagoras in the Roman Forumlabel QS:Len,"Pythagoras in the Roman Forum"label QS:Lhu,"Püthagorasz a római Fórumon"490 BCE · Croton and Metapontum, ItalyPythagoras's daughter Damo would not sell his writings for any price, and Plato is said to have paid 100 minae for Pythagorean booksPythagoras lived from about 570 to about 490 BC. Timaeus says his followers put all their possessions into one common stock.Wikisource (primary text) and 2 morePeriander Pio-Clementino Inv276: Bust of Periander bearing the inscription “Periander, son of Cypselus, Corinthian”. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from the 4th century.587 BCE · Corinth, Greece; Corcyra (Corfu), GreeceHerodotus says Periander killed his wife, lost his heir over it, and stripped the women of Corinth to get her ghost to say where a deposit wasKind 2: what Herodotus says, written about 150 years later. Periander ruled Corinth from about 627 to 587 BC after his father Cypselus. He killed his wife Melissa.Project Gutenberg and 2 moreMap of Germany, marked on the globe2600 BCE · Eulau, Saxony-Anhalt, GermanyAt Eulau a mother, father and two sons killed in a raid were buried facing each other, the oldest family proven by DNAIn 2005 archaeologists at Eulau found four graves, dug at the same time, holding 13 people: children from newborns to about 10 and adults of 30 or more. No teenagers or young adults were among them.bristol.ac.uk and 2 moreGlobular amphora burial 1: Globular Amphora culture tomb - stone cist grave2776 BCE · Koszyce, southern PolandFifteen members of one family were killed with blows to the head at Koszyce, and the fathers who were missing from the grave appear to have buried themIn 2011 archaeologists near the village of Koszyce in southern Poland excavated a grave holding 15 people: women, children and young men. Every one had been killed by blows to the head, possibly in a raid on their settlement.europepmc.org and 2 moreJustinian II: Justinian ii (2, cropped and askew)711 · Constantinople (Istanbul), TurkeyJustinian II lost his throne and his nose in 695, took Constantinople back in 705, and was killed with his son in 711Justinian II became emperor in 685 at 16, after his father Constantine IV died. In 695 the general Leontios overthrew him, slit his nose and tongue, and exiled him to Cherson in Crimea.Wikisource (primary text) and 3 moreTaira no Masakado Kubizuka: 将門塚正面。940 · Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan (mound); Kanto region, JapanMasakado fought his uncles for land, called himself the new emperor, and his head mound in Tokyo moved the Finance MinistryKind 1 and kind 2. Taira no Masakado was the son of Taira no Yoshimochi. The Konjaku monogatarishu says his uncles seized lands he was due to inherit from his father. Other accounts give a quarrel over a woman.pinktentacle.com and 2 more“吕不韦”铜戈-战国晚期秦王政九年（前238）-青川县文物管理所藏 2024-10-31: ​“吕不韦”铜戈-战国晚期秦王政九年（前238）-青川县文物管理所藏235 BCE · Handan, Hebei, and Xianyang, Shaanxi, ChinaSima Qian writes that a merchant bought a hostage prince the throne of Qin, then drank poison when the new king turned on himSima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), a Han-dynasty history, gives this account. Lü Buwei, a merchant of Yangdi, bought cheap, sold dear and piled up thousands in gold.zh.wikisource.org and 3 moreGold dinar of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, AH 391: Dinar de ouro do califa fatímida Aláqueme Bimar Alá1021 · Muqattam hills, Cairo, EgyptSitt al-Mulk set aside the Fatimid heir after the caliph al-Hakim disappeared in 1021 and put his son al-Zahir on the throneIn 1013 the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim named his cousin Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas, governor of Damascus, as heir, passing over his own son Ali. His half-sister Sitt al-Mulk, daughter of the previous caliph al-Aziz, backed Ali.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr and 3 moreImperial State Crown of Queen Victoria (2): Imperial State Crown of Queen Victoria, the state crown used by British monarchs from 1838 to 1937Legend · 1362 · Tablada, near Seville, Spain; London, EnglandTradition says Pedro the Cruel took the "Black Prince's Ruby" from a Granadan sultan he killed with his own lance; it is a spinel in the front of Britain's crownThe stone called the Black Prince's Ruby is a red spinel of about 170 carats, not a ruby. Muhammad VI of Granada, known to the Castilians as Abu Said, fled to Seville in April 1362 with most of Granada's royal treasury.gia.edu and 4 moreHusayn Mosque, Karbala, Iraq 1765: A drawing of the Imam Husayn Mosque by German explorer Carsten Niebuhr during his travels to the Middle East. He drew this illustration of the Im680 · Karbala, IraqMu'awiya made his son Yazid heir to the caliphate; Muhammad's grandson al-Husayn refused to swear and was killed at Karbala with most of his family's menAl-Husayn was the son of Ali and of Muhammad's daughter Fatima (story 22). The caliph Mu'awiya, founder of the Umayyad dynasty, had made the people swear that his son Yazid would be his heir.Internet Archive and 2 moreZoe Porphyrogenita: Zoe mosaic Hagia Sophia1041 · Constantinople (Istanbul), TurkeyEmpress Zoe adopted Michael V as her heir, he exiled her, and the people of Constantinople had him blinded in 1042Zoe was a daughter of Emperor Constantine VIII of the Macedonian dynasty. Her first husband, Romanos III, drowned in his bath in 1034 after she had plotted with her lover Michael, who then married her and became Michael IV.sourcebooks.fordham.edu and 2 moreMap of Turkey, marked on the globe41 BCE · Ephesus (near Selçuk, Turkey)Cleopatra's sister Arsinoe IV fought Caesar, walked in chains in his triumph and was killed at a temple on Antony's orders, and the skeleton said to be hers was a boy'sIn 48 BC, while Julius Caesar was besieged in Alexandria, Cleopatra's younger sister Arsinoe escaped the palace with her tutor, the eunuch Ganymedes, and proclaimed herself queen.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 5 moreMausoleum of Shajar al-Durr DSCF2771: Mausoleum of Shajar al-Durr in al-Khalifa neighbourhood, Cairo1249 · al-Mansura, EgyptShajar al-Durr hid the death of Sultan al-Salih Ayyub in 1249, became sultan after his heir was killed, and was beaten to death in 1257Sultan al-Salih Ayyub died at al-Mansura on 22 November 1249 while the crusader army of Louis IX of France was in the Nile Delta. His widow Shajar al-Durr, the emir Fakhr al-Din and the chief eunuch kept the death secret.engelsbergideas.com and 3 moreThe full album is known as Gathering Gems of Beauty (畫麗珠萃秀).: This painting depicts Cai Wenji (蔡文姬).192 · Chang'an (Xi'an), ChinaThe Hou Han Shu says Cai Yong begged to be mutilated so he could finish his history, died in prison, and his ransomed daughter rewrote 400 of his 4,000 books from memoryCai Yong was a scholar and official of the late Han. The Hou Han Shu records that when the warlord Dong Zhuo was killed in 192, Cai Yong sighed in front of the minister Wang Yun. Wang Yun had him arrested.zh.wikisource.org and 2 moreThai King Tomb Pagoda, Amarapura: Utumphon's tomb pagoda in Amarapura Township, Myanmar1796 · Lin Zin Gon cemetery, Amarapura, Mandalay, MyanmarBurma took Ayutthaya's former king prisoner in 1767, and in 2013 a Thai team dug up the tomb said to hold his ashesUthumphon became king of Ayutthaya in 1758 and gave up the throne after about two months to his elder brother, who reigned as King Ekathat. Uthumphon became a monk at Wat Pradu.thesiamsociety.org and 2 moreThe entrance of Shaniwar Wada.: This is a photo of ASI monument number1773 · Shaniwar Wada, Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaRaghunathrao's men killed the 17-year-old Peshwa in his palace, his widow bore a son who took the throne back, and Pune says the boy still cries for his uncleKind 1 and kind 2. The Peshwa Madhavrao I died of tuberculosis in 1772 and was succeeded by his brother Narayanrao, aged 17. Their uncle Raghunathrao, next in line, had been held in confinement.livehistoryindia.com and 2 moreHimeji Castle Okiku Well: Himeji Castle Okiku Well1741 · Himeji Castle, Hyogo, Japan; Bancho, Edo (Tokyo), JapanOkiku broke one of ten heirloom dishes, was killed and thrown into a well, and Himeji Castle still shows the wellKind 2: what the plays and storytellers say. The first staged version, a puppet play at Osaka's Toyotakeza in 1741, is set at Himeji. Aoyama Tessan, a retainer, plots to take the castle from his lords, the Kotera.edizionicafoscari.it and 2 moreThe Votive Portrait of Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu with Cyrillic inscription at Horezu Monastery (1709): Tabloul votiv din catoliconul Mănăstirii Hurezi: Constantin Brâncoveanu, 1714 · Istanbul (Constantinople), TurkeyThe Ottomans beheaded Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu and his four sons in Istanbul in 1714 after four months of torture over his fortuneConstantin Brâncoveanu ruled Wallachia, an Ottoman vassal state, from 1688 to 1714. Venetian reports put his fortune at over 2 million guruș.adevarul.ro and 4 moreAI illustration: Shah Jahan, imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb, looks from Agra Fort at the Taj Mahal1666 · Agra Fort and Delhi, IndiaMughal prince Aurangzeb jailed his father for eight years and executed his brother to take the throneIn 1657 Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, fell ill. His four sons each had an army. The eldest, Dara Shikoh, was his chosen heir.Wikipedia (English) and 1 moreIbrahim I: Ibrahim I of the Ottomans1648 · Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, TurkeyThe last male of the Ottoman house would not leave his room when told he was sultan, and eight years later his mother agreed to his depositionIbrahim, born in 1615, was the last of Ahmed I's sons to reach the throne.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr and 1 moreAbbas III: Abbas III1629 · Mazandaran, IranShah Abbas had one son killed and two blinded, and died with no son able to ruleAbbas I nearly died as a boy: his uncle Esmail II murdered or blinded at least nine relatives and ordered Abbas killed, and only Esmail's own assassination in 1577 saved him.iranicaonline.org and 2 moreAbu'l-Hasan Asaf Khan: Portrait. Abu'l Ḥassán Aaṣaf Xán (cropped)1627 · Lahore, PakistanAsaf Khan crowned a Mughal prince to hold the throne for Shah Jahan, and Shah Jahan had him imprisoned and killedEmperor Jahangir died on the road from Kashmir on 28 Safar 1037 AH. His son Prince Khurram, later Shah Jahan, was far away in the Deccan. His wife Nur Jahan wanted her son-in-law, Prince Shahriyar, to succeed.Internet Archive and 1 more광해군묘: Tomb of Gwanghaegun of Joseon1608 · Ganghwa Island, Incheon, and Seoul, South KoreaKing Gwanghae's officials killed his eight-year-old half-brother in exile, and the boy's mother gave her name to the coup that deposed himKing Seonjo's heir was Gwanghaegun, his son by a concubine. In 1606, when Seonjo was 55, Queen Inmok bore him his only legitimate son, Grand Prince Yeongchang. The chief minister Yu Yeong-gyeong tried to have the infant made heir.encykorea.aks.ac.kr and 3 moreToyotomi Hideyoshi: Toyotomi Hideyoshi c1598 Kodai-ji Temple1595 · Mount Kōya (Kōyasan), Wakayama, Japan; Sanjō riverbank, KyotHideyoshi's adopted heir was forced to kill himself after a son was born, and 39 of his wives, children and servants were beheaded in KyotoToyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan. In 1591, after his heir died, he made his nephew Hidetsugu his successor and Imperial Regent. In 1593 Hideyoshi had a son, Hideyori, and relations with Hidetsugu broke down.kyohaku.go.jp and 3 moreBursa Şehzade Mustafa Türbesi 5970: Sehzade Mustafa’s tomb contains several other members of the family, Ahmed (son of Bayezit II, died 1513) and Orhan (son of Sehzade Mustafa), as1553 · Aktepe camp near Ereğli, Konya, TurkeySüleyman had his eldest son Mustafa strangled in the imperial tent in 1553 after his grand vizier produced a letter in the prince's name to the ShahMustafa, born in Manisa in 1515 to Süleyman's first favourite Mahidevran, was the eldest surviving son and popular with the Janissaries. Hürrem Sultan's sons grew up behind him.Encyclopaedia Britannica and 2 moreChamber of the Holy Mantle - Hirka-i Saâdet Dairesi: Chamber of the Holy Mantle - Hirka-i Saâdet Dairesi1517 · Cairo, Egypt; Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, TurkeyThe Prophet's mantle and relics passed from dynasty to dynasty as proof of title, and the Ottomans shipped them from Cairo to Istanbul in 1517Possession of the Prophet's belongings became a sign of the right to rule. TDV records that the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya paid 20,000 dirhams for the Prophet's mantle.Encyclopaedia Britannica and 2 moreSeqenenre Tao-mummy-head: Mummified head of Seqenenre Tao1555 BCE · Thebes (Luxor), EgyptKing Seqenenre Tao died with his hands tied and his skull broken by Hyksos weapons, and his sons finished his warSeqenenre Tao ruled southern Egypt from Thebes while the Hyksos, a dynasty of Asian origin, held the north. A later tale, The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenre, describes tension with the Hyksos king Apepi.frontiersin.org and 3 moreAditya Chola II: Aditya Chola II969 · Udaiyargudi (Kattumannarkoil), Tamil Nadu, IndiaThe Chola heir Aditya Karikala was murdered, and his brother Rajaraja seized the killers' lands and their relatives' lands years laterAditya II, called Aditya Karikala, was crown prince and co-regent of the Chola king Parantaka II. He had defeated the Pandya king Vira Pandya and taken his head.Internet Archive and 2 moreNezahualcoyotl Codex Ixtlilxochitl: Nezahualcoyotl Codex Ixtlilxochitl facsimile 115-1301472 · Texcoco, State of Mexico, MexicoThe chronicles say Nezahualcóyotl had his bride's betrothed killed in battle, executed their son for treason, and named a 7-year-old heir on his deathbedThis is the account of the 17th-century chroniclers Alva Ixtlilxóchitl and Torquemada, as assembled by José Luis Martínez. Nezahualcóyotl ruled Texcoco from 1431.docs.enriquedussel.com and 2 moreTezozomoc funeral: The funeral for the Tepanec ruler Tezozomoc.1426 · Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, MexicoTezozómoc named one son heir; another son took the throne and killed him, and the cities he had ruled destroyed AzcapotzalcoThis follows the Codex Xolotl and the colonial chronicles. Tezozómoc ruled Azcapotzalco for more than 50 years and made the lake cities pay tribute.isabelbueno.es and 2 moreCodex Zouche-Nuttall - Lord 8 Deer captures Lord 4 Wind of Huachino: Lord 8 Deer captures Lord 4 Wind of Huachino1115 · Tilantongo, Oaxaca, MexicoThe Mixtec codices record that Lord Eight Deer killed his wife's father to take Tilantongo, and that the boy he spared later killed him and married his daughterThe Mixtec painted books are genealogies and histories of royal houses, and they tell the same events from rival sides.famsi.org and 2 morePuabi: Queen Puabi with attendants2550 BCE · Royal Cemetery, Ur (Tell el-Muqayyar), Dhi Qar, IraqQueen Puabi of Ur was buried in gold, and the attendants Woolley said drank poison were killed with blows to the headFrom 1922 Leonard Woolley dug about 2,000 burials at Ur for the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. In tomb PG 800 lay a woman of about 40.almanac.upenn.edu and 4 moreDeckel einer Truhe aus Elfenbein: Deckel einer Truhe aus Elfenbein1327 BCE · Thebes (Luxor), Egypt, and Hattusa (Boğazkale), TurkeyThe Deeds of Suppiluliuma say a widowed Egyptian queen asked the Hittite king for a son to marry, and the prince Zannanza died on the wayThe Deeds of Suppiluliuma, written by his son Mursili II, say that an Egyptian queen, named Dakhamunzu in the Hittite text, wrote after her husband died: "My husband died.worldhistory.org and 5 moreMerneith stele: Detail of one of the two stelae erected in front of the tomb of Queen Mer-Neith at Abydos, Umm el Qaab, tomb Y (Tomb of Queen Mer-Neith). Now in the Egyptian Museum2950 BCE · Umm el-Qa'ab, Abydos, EgyptMerneith ruled for her young son Den, was buried at Abydos in a king's tomb ringed by servants' graves, and later king lists left her outMerneith held the titles King's Mother and Foremost of Women. Her probable husband was King Djet. When Djet died, their son Den was probably too young to rule, and she most likely governed for him.penn.museum and 3 moreBerenice IV of Egypt: Berenice IV, phraraoh of Egypt55 BCE · Alexandria, EgyptBerenice IV took her father's throne, had one husband strangled within days, and was executed when Rome restored her father for 10,000 talentsIn 58 BC Rome annexed Cyprus, and its king, Ptolemy XII's brother, killed himself. The Alexandrians, angry, drove Ptolemy XII out, and he went to Rome. They made his eldest legitimate daughter, Berenice IV, queen.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 morePtolemy VI Philometor: Ring with the engraved portrait of Ptolemy VI Philometor.204 BCE · Alexandria, EgyptCourtiers hid Ptolemy IV's death, killed his queen, read out a will naming themselves regents, and the Alexandrian crowd killed them and their familyPolybius writes that Ptolemy IV Philopator began his reign by killing his brother Magas and then neglected government for "his shameful amours and senseless and constant drunkenness." He married his sister Arsinoe III.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 moreDomenichino: Portrait de Domenichino (1581-1641)Legend · 1641 · NaplesLegend: Domenichino died in Naples in April 1641 and was said to have been poisoned by rival painters; the one early biographer cited blames his relativesDomenichino worked in Naples in his last years. Art historians link him to the Cabal of Naples, local painters said to have tried to drive out outside artists.Artnet News and 3 moreLiloa and Lonoikamakahiki: The two kāʻai (also written kaai): woven sennit burial caskets said to contain the iwi (bones) of the Hawaiʻi island rulers Līloa (left) and LonoikamakahLegend · 1500 · Waipiʻo Valley, Hawaii, USAHawaiian tradition says Līloa left the kingdom to his son Hākau and the gods to his low-born son ʻUmi, and ʻUmi killed Hākau and took the islandThe legends collected by Abraham Fornander say that Līloa, ruling chief of Hawaiʻi Island, kept his court at Waipiʻo. His wife bore him a son, Hākau.Internet Archive and 2 moreEgypt and Nubia: Volume III - No. 8, Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo: Egypt and Nubia: Volume III - No. 8, Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo1361 · Cairo, EgyptPlague estates paid for Sultan Hasan's Cairo mosque, a minaret fell and killed about 300, and the sultan was murdered and never buried in his tombAl-Nasir Hasan became Mamluk sultan of Egypt at 13 in 1347 or 1348. The plague of 1348 killed many of Cairo's rich. Emirs arrested Hasan in 1351 and held him for about three years before he returned to power.madainproject.com and 2 moreEmpiezan las historias(Popol vuh): Title page of oldest known Popol Vuh manuscriptLegend · 1554 · Chichicastenango, Guatemala (where the book was kept)The Popol Vuh says twin boys found their dead father's ballgame gear hidden in the roof, and it led them to the lords of the underworld who had killed himThe Popol Vuh is the sacred book of the K'iche' Maya. Allen Christenson dates it to 1554 to 1558. The original is lost; the text survives in a copy made by the Dominican Francisco Ximénez in Chichicastenango in the early 1700s.mesoweb.com and 1 moreQueen Didda coin: Coins of Queen Didda (979 – 1003 AD). The Queen is depicted sitting cross legged on one side and standing on the other.1003 · Srinagar, Kashmir, IndiaKalhana's chronicle says Queen Didda of Kashmir killed three grandsons on the throne and chose her heir with a heap of applesDidda, a princess of Lohara, married King Kshemagupta of Kashmir. He died in 958, and she ruled as regent for their son Abhimanyu. When rebels besieged her palace, she executed the captured rebels and exterminated their families.Internet Archive and 2 moreGerman: Hagen versenkt den Nibelungenhort.title QS:P1476,de:"Hagen versenkt den Nibelungenhort."label QS:Lde,"Hagen vers: German: Hagen versenkt den Nibelungenhort.title QS:P1476,dLegend · 1200 · Worms, Germany, and the court of Etzel (setting)The Nibelungenlied says Hagen sank a widow's bridal treasure in the Rhine, and she had her brother beheaded trying to learn whereThe Nibelungenlied is a Middle High German epic written down about 1200, probably at the court of Bishop Wolfger von Erla of Passau.Project Gutenberg and 3 moreWat ratchaburana March 2025 24: Wat Ratchaburana is an ancient Buddhist temple founded in 1424. It is located in Ayutthaya Historical Park, Ayutthaya, Thailand.1424 · Than Forest Bridge (Saphan Pa Than), Ayutthaya, ThailandTwo princes of Ayutthaya killed each other on elephants in 1424, and looters robbed their crypt in 1957The Luang Prasoet version of the Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya records that in 786 of the Chula era, 1424 AD, King Intharacha fell ill and died.vajirayana.org and 2 moreTay Do castle South gate: Cổng Nam thành Tây Đô (thành nhà Hồ), Thanh Hóa, Việt Nam1407 · Thăng Long (Hanoi) and Tây Đô, Thanh Hóa, Vietnam; Nanjing, A royal in-law took Vietnam's throne from his own grandson in 1400, and China invaded claiming to restore the true heirHồ Quý Ly was born Lê Quý Ly. His family had married into the Trần royal house since the reign of Trần Minh Tông, and two Trần emperors were his cousins.zh.wikisource.org and 3 moreMap of Indonesia, marked on the globe1406 · Majapahit (Trowulan) and Blambangan, East Java, IndonesiaTwo heirs of Majapahit went to war, 170 Ming soldiers died in the crossfire, and China billed the winner 60,000 liang of goldHayam Wuruk, king of Majapahit, died in 1389. His nephew and son-in-law Wikramawardhana took the throne at the western palace. Bhre Wirabhumi, Hayam Wuruk's son by a secondary wife, ruled from the eastern palace.jv.wikisource.org and 5 moreTankiziyya, before 1920: Tankiziyya, before 19201340 · Alexandria, Egypt; Damascus, SyriaThe sultan had his viceroy of Syria arrested, killed and stripped of his fortune; three years later the viceroy's grandson was sultan and his body came home to DamascusTankiz was a mamluk, a slave soldier, who served Sultan an-Nasir Muhammad from 1299. In 1312 the sultan made him viceroy of Syria, based in Damascus.sussex.ac.uk and 2 moreHulaguInBagdad: The Mongol ruler Hulagu in Baghdad interns the Caliph of Baghdad among his treasures.1258 · Baghdad, Iraq; Cairo, EgyptHulagu took Baghdad and killed the last Abbasid caliph in 1258, chroniclers gave seven different deaths, and a surviving kinsman was made caliph in CairoIn 1258 the Mongol prince Hulagu took Baghdad, and the Abbasid caliph al-Musta'sim died on or about 20 February. Nassima Neggaz's 2020 study in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society lists the accounts of his death.cambridge.org and 3 moreAlamut Castle, Qazvin - 1: Alamut Castle, Qazvin Province1256 · Alamut and Maymun-Diz, Qazvin province, Iran; MongoliaThe last lord of Alamut surrendered to the Mongols in 1256, the Persian historian Juvayni burned the castle's library, and the imam was killed on his way home from the KhanRukn al-Din Khurshah succeeded his murdered father as Nizari imam in 1255. In 1256 Hulegu's army reached his castles. Khurshah began taking down towers to show submission.iis.ac.uk and 3 morePrajnaparamita Java Side Detail: Bodhisattvadevi (female bodhisattva) Prajnaparamita; the buddhist goddess of transcendental wisdom, personified in a statue from 13th century Singh1247 · Tumapel (Singhasari), Malang, East Java, IndonesiaThe Pararaton says a smith cursed the kris that killed him, and that it killed three rulers of Singhasari in turnThe Pararaton is a Javanese chronicle whose surviving manuscript was written after 1481; scholars treat its account of Ken Angrok (Ken Arok) as legend.Internet Archive and 3 moreMinamoto no Sanetomo: Minamoto no Sanetomo(源 実朝, 1192 –1219) was the third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate and the last head of the Minamoto clan of Japan. This picture has drawn 1219 · Tsurugaoka Hachimangū, Kamakura, Kanagawa, JapanThe shogun's nephew killed him on the shrine steps in 1219 to avenge his father, and the Minamoto line of shoguns ended that nightMinamoto no Yoritomo founded the Kamakura shogunate and died in 1199. His elder son Yoriie inherited the house and became shogun, but his mother's family, the Hōjō, limited his powers through a council.kotobank.jp and 3 more230728 Chusonji Hiraizumi Iwate pref Japan01s3: Chūson-ji Konjiki-dō in Hiraizumi, Iwate prefecture, Japan1189 · Hiraizumi, Iwate, JapanThe Ōshū Fujiwara grew rich on northern gold, the fourth lord turned on the fugitive his father told him to protect, his own vassal beheaded him, and his head lies in the family's gold hallThe Ōshū Fujiwara ruled northern Japan from Hiraizumi for four generations. A 2021 study in PLoS ONE says the region exported horses and gold, and its lords used gold to buy influence in the capital.ebi.ac.uk and 2 moreSoga Brothers Surprising Suketsune, 1890: Dramatic kabuki scene from the famous tale of the Soga Brothers, whose lifelong quest was to avenge the death of their father at the hands1176 · Itō estate, Izu, and the Fuji hunting grounds, Shizuoka, JapThe Tale of the Soga Brothers says a guardian took his ward's estate, the ward killed the guardian's son, and the son's boys killed him 17 years laterThe Soga revenge is recorded history wrapped in legend. The killing in 1193 is in the chronicle Azuma Kagami; the estate quarrel behind it comes mainly from the Manabon text of the Soga monogatari.kotobank.jp and 3 moreTomb of Yue Fei, 1907: 岳飛墓 (浙江 杭州)1142 · Lin'an (Hangzhou), Zhejiang, ChinaSong China killed its leading general on a charge its chancellor admitted might not exist, held his family 20 years, then restored his name and reburied himYue Fei, born in 1103, was the leading Southern Song general against the Jurchen Jin. The chancellor, Qin Hui, wanted a peace treaty. Two other generals accepted bribes to support it, and Yue Fei refused.ehangzhou.gov.cn and 3 moreMausoleum of Queen Arwa, Jibla (13082096983): Yemen1138 · Dhu Jibla, YemenYemen's Queen Arwa ruled for half a century and left her jewels by will to a boy imam who had vanished in CairoArwa, also called al-Sayyida al-Hurra, was born in 1048 or 1052 and raised at the Sulayhid court by her future mother-in-law, Asma. She married Ahmad al-Mukarram in 1066.iis.ac.uk and 2 moreMahmud of Ghazni: Mahmud of Ghazni, Ghaznavid ruler, conquering Qasdar (modern Khuzdar) in India, miniature from the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh of 1030 · Ghazni, AfghanistanMahmud of Ghazni left his throne to one son; the other blinded him, and the blind brother's son later killed the victorSultan Mahmud of Ghazni ruled from Afghanistan to the Punjab. Baizawi's chronicle says his will gave his son Mas'ud Khurasan, Iraq and Persia, and his second son Muhammad Ghazni and India.Internet Archive and 2 moreThe Blackstone: A close up of the Blackstone on the corner of the Kaba944 · Mecca, Saudi Arabia; Hajar (al-Ahsa), Saudi ArabiaQarmatian raiders took the Black Stone from Mecca in 930 and held it for about 20 years before dropping it in a mosque in KufaOn 11 January 930, during the pilgrimage, Qarmatian forces from eastern Arabia under Abu Tahir al-Jannabi attacked Mecca. Many pilgrims were killed and left unburied, and some bodies were thrown into the Zamzam well.madainproject.com and 3 moreAnonymous-The King of Dongdan Goes Forth: The King of Dongdan Goes Forth (東丹王出行圖), scroll, light colors on silk. 146.8 x 77.3 cm. National Palace Museum, Taibei (國立故宮博物院). The pain926 · Zuzhou (Bairin Left Banner, Inner Mongolia), ChinaThe Liao History says Abaoji's widow cut off her right hand and put it in his coffin instead of following him into deathAbaoji founded the Khitan state that became the Liao dynasty.zh.wikisource.org and 2 moreCheonghaejin jangdo: It is also called Janggun Island and is where the main camp of Cheonghaejin, established by Master Jang Bogo during the Unified Silla Dynasty, was located841 · Cheonghaejin, Wando, South KoreaJang Bogo ruled the seas between China, Korea and Japan, tried to make his daughter a queen, and was stabbed over wine by an envoy who said he had fled the courtJang Bogo was born, probably in 788, to a modest family on Wando off Silla's southwest coast. He served as an officer in the Tang army.worldhistory.org and 2 moreA member of the Barmakid family offering gifts to the Caliph, From the Akhbar-i Barmakyan, India, Mughal, circa 1595-160: A member of the Barmakid family offering gifts to the Cali803 · al-Anbar, Iraq; Baghdad, Iraq; Raqqa, SyriaHarun al-Rashid had his vizier Ja'far killed in one night in 803, hung his body in Baghdad, and took the Barmakid fortuneThe Barmakids came from Balkh, where their ancestors led a Buddhist monastery. They ran the Abbasid government for Harun al-Rashid. Yahya ibn Khalid was his vizier, and from about 798 Yahya's son Ja'far held the post.Wikisource (primary text) and 4 moreIrukaansatsuzu: Depiction of the assassination of Soga no Iruka from the Tōnomine Engi Scroll, painted during the Edo period (17-19th century).645 · Asuka Itabuki Palace, Asuka, Nara, JapanPrince Naka no Ōe cut down Soga no Iruka at court in 645, Iruka's father burned the court histories as he died, and a 646 edict abolished private estatesThe main line of the Soga clan dominated the Yamato court for generations.kotobank.jp and 3 moreTaq Kasra - 1934: Taq Kasra - 1934628 · Ctesiphon, IraqPersia's crown prince overthrew his father to stop a half-brother's succession, executed him, killed his brothers, and died of plague within monthsKhosrow II ruled Persia from 590; he had come to power after his own father was deposed and blinded in a palace revolt led by Khosrow's uncles.iranicaonline.org and 2 moreIsidor Rabi: II Rabi625 · Uhud, Medina, Saudi ArabiaSa'd ibn al-Rabi' was killed at Uhud and his brother took everything; his widow brought their two daughters to Muhammad, and the Koran's inheritance verse followedThe hadith collections of al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah record the case. Sa'd ibn al-Rabi' was killed at Uhud. His widow brought their two daughters to Muhammad.ihadis.com and 3 more001125-TaqKasra-Iraq-IMG 7914-2: Taq Kasra, Madain, Iraq - February 2022 - Photo by: Safa Daneshvar طاق کسری، مدائن،‌عراق - بهمن ۱۴۰۰ - عکس از صفا دانشور520 · Mahoza, near Ctesiphon, IraqThe exilarch Mar Zutra II ruled a Jewish state at Mahoza for seven years and was crucified on its bridge; his son was born the same dayThe exilarchs, heads of the Jews of Babylonia, claimed descent from King David and passed the office from father to son. Mar Zutra II was the son of the exilarch Huna, who was killed in the persecutions of the Persian king Firuz.encyclopedia.com and 2 moreAntoninian Vaballathus Augustus: Vabalathus. Usurper, AD 272. Antoninianus 3.82 g. Antioch. March-May AD 272. IM C VHABALATHVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. VENVS267 · Emesa (Homs), SyriaPalmyra's ruler and his heir were murdered in 267, and his widow Zenobia ruled for her own son; one Roman history says she was in on the plotOdaenathus of Palmyra defended Rome's eastern frontier. The Historia Augusta, a Roman collection of imperial lives, says he was killed by his cousin Maeonius together with his eldest son, Herodes, the child of an earlier wife.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 morePhraataces and Musa: Coin of Phraataces and Musa from Parthia2 BCE · Parthian Empire (Iran and Iraq)A slave woman sent from Rome persuaded the Parthian king to send his four sons to Rome, then her son killed him and married herIn 20 BC Phraates IV of Parthia returned the Roman legionary standards to Augustus. In the same exchange he received an Italian slave woman, Musa. Josephus calls her Thermusa and says she was a gift of Julius Caesar.Wikisource (primary text) and 2 more2010-06-21 06-37-33 Israel Herodium JH (52775611124): Herodium - an ancient Jewish fortress and town author: Jan Helebrant location: West Bank, Israel <a href="http://www.juhele4 BCE · Jericho; buried at Herodium, West BankHerod the Great executed three sons, changed his will in his last days, and died five days after the last execution; Augustus split his kingdom among the survivorsJosephus says Herod had his sons Alexander and Aristobulus taken to Sebaste and strangled, and their bodies carried at night to the family tomb at Alexandrium. His son Antipater was later held in chains for plotting against him.perseus.tufts.edu and 6 moreMap of China, marked on the globe59 BCE · Haihun (Nanchang), Jiangxi, ChinaLiu He was emperor for 27 days, was removed for 1,127 offences, and his gold-filled tomb was found after tomb robbers dug into itEmperor Zhao of Han died in 74 BC with no son. The regent Huo Guang chose Liu He, King of Changyi, a grandson of Emperor Wu.zh.wikisource.org and 3 morePtolemy X Alexander Tetradrachm Sear7939: Egypt, Ptolemaiovské království (Alexandrie) AR Tetradrachm RY 20 (95/4 př. n. l.) - Ptolemaios X Alexander (106-88 př. n. l.)80 BCE · Alexandria, EgyptSulla sent Ptolemy XI to marry Queen Berenice III, he had her killed within three weeks, the Alexandrians killed him, and Rome produced a will leaving Egypt to RomeWhen Ptolemy IX died in 80 BC, his daughter Berenice III ruled alone. From 101 BC she had ruled with Ptolemy X, who in 89 BC took the gold coffin of Alexander the Great to pay his troops and was killed at sea in 88 BC.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 4 moreGou yi fu ren: portrait of Lady Gouyi (Zhao Jieyu) from the Qing dynasty book Bai mei xin yong87 BCE · Ganquan Palace (Yunyang, Shaanxi), ChinaEmperor Wu chose his youngest son as heir and had the boy's mother put to death, according to a supplement to the ShijiIn 91 BC the witchcraft affair destroyed Emperor Wu's heir. Crown Prince Liu Ju killed his accuser Jiang Chong, raised troops and lost.zh.wikisource.org and 2 moreAttalus III: Attalid portrait at the Antikensammlung Berlin133 BCE · Pergamon, Asia Minor (modern Turkey)King Attalus III left his kingdom to Rome in his will, and a man claiming to be a royal bastard fought Rome for itAttalus III, last king of Pergamon, died in 133 BC without children. His will left his kingdom and treasury to the Roman people.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreLi Shiji: Chinese: 《唐名臣像-李英公》label QS:Lzh,"唐名臣像-李英公"176 BCE · Chang'an (Xi'an), Shaanxi, ChinaThe Shiji says a physician with five daughters and no son was sentenced to mutilation, and his youngest daughter's petition ended the punishmentThe Shiji of Sima Qian puts two physicians in one chapter, and both stories turn on secret prescriptions passed outside the family.zh.wikisource.org and 2 moreBattle of Cunaxa: Battle of Cunaxa401 BCE · Cunaxa, near Babylon, IraqCyrus the Younger's mother argued he was born to a reigning king; his elder brother got the throne, killed him at Cunaxa and cut off his head and handHerodotus says that Darius I's sons quarrelled over the succession before his planned war on Egypt and Athens.perseus.tufts.edu and 4 moreCambyses II: Stela Cambyses Apis closeup522 BCE · Sikayauvatiš, Nisaya, Media, Iran; inscription at Behistun, Cambyses killed his brother Bardiya in secret; a man ruled Persia under the dead brother's name until Darius killed him and took the throneCyrus the Great left two sons, Cambyses and Bardiya, whom the Greeks called Smerdis. Darius's Behistun inscription says Cambyses killed Bardiya and the people did not know it.perseus.tufts.edu and 7 moreBelshazzar's Feast label QS:Lit,"Il festino di Baldassarre" label QS:Lfr,"Le Festin de Balthazar" label QS:Lpl,"Uczta Ba: Belshazzar's Feast label QS:Lit,"Il festino di Baldassarre539 BCE · Jerusalem; Babylon (near Hillah), IraqBabylon took the Temple vessels; Daniel says Belshazzar drank from them the night he was killed, and Ezra says Cyrus returned 5,400Second Kings says that in Nebuchadnezzar's 19th year his captain Nebuzaradan burned the Temple in Jerusalem, broke up its bronze pillars and carried the bronze, gold and silver vessels to Babylon.mechon-mamre.org and 4 moreZi Chan: Zi Chan (子產, 子产), also known as Gongsun Qiao (died 522 BC), was the most outstanding statesman of the State of Zheng in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period. 543 BCE · Xinzheng, capital of the state of Zheng, Henan, ChinaZheng's minister was killed in the sheep market, his rivals died on the days his ghost named, and Zichan gave his son office to stop the hauntingKind 2: what the Zuo zhuan says. Liang Xiao, called Bo You, was senior minister of Zheng; his family had held power for three generations. He drank through the night in an underground room.zh.wikisource.org and 2 moreSennacherib: Sanherib-tr-4271681 BCE · Nineveh (Mosul), IraqSennacherib named his younger son Esarhaddon heir; his elder sons killed him, and Esarhaddon then bound the empire by oath to his own chosen heirEsarhaddon's own inscription says he was the youngest of his older brothers.oracc.museum.upenn.edu and 5 moreDido building Carthage - JMW Turner: Dido building Carthage - JMW Turner (1815) oil painting814 BCE · Tyre, Lebanon, and Carthage, TunisiaKing Pygmalion of Tyre killed his sister's husband for his buried gold, and she sailed away with it after dumping sacks of sand into the seaJustin's epitome of Pompeius Trogus says a king of Tyre named his son Pygmalion and his daughter Elissa as joint heirs, but the people gave the throne to Pygmalion, then a boy.tertullian.org and 2 morePapyrus judicial Turin: The complete Judicial Papyrus of Turin, the main source for the events of the Harem conspiracy which led to the assassination of pharaoh Ramesses III of the1157 BCE · Thebes (Luxor), EgyptQueen Tiye plotted to put her son Pentawere on the throne of Ramesses III, and a 2012 CT scan found the king's throat had been cutRamesses III had appointed an heir, the future Ramesses IV. Tiye, a wife of the king, recruited officials of the royal household and harem to place her own son Pentawere on the throne instead.Internet Archive and 5 moreKV 13 Bay: Isometric, plan and elevation images of KV13 taken from a 3d model1192 BCE · Thebes (Luxor), EgyptChancellor Bay put a boy king on the throne and was given a tomb among the kings, and a potsherd records that the king had him killedBay began as a scribe and royal cupbearer under Seti II and was probably of Asian origin.ifao.egnet.net and 2 moreText of Law in Akkadian by King Niqmepa with dynastic seal Ras Shamra Louvre Museum: Text of Law in Akkadian by King Niqmepa with dynastic seal Ras Shamra Louvre Museum1250 BCE · Ugarit (Ras Shamra), SyriaA king of Ugarit divorced his Hittite-born queen, made their son choose between his mother and the throne, then had her killedThe tablets call her only "the daughter of the Great Lady." Her father was Bentesina, king of Amurru. Her mother was a daughter of the Hittite Great King Hattusili III.lockwoodonlinejournals.com and 3 moreBoğazköy panorama: Boğazköy panorama 20241500 BCE · Hattusa (Boğazkale), TurkeyAfter four reigns of Hittite princes killing each other, King Telipinu wrote the order of succession into law and spared the men who had plotted against himThe Proclamation of Telipinu sets out the history behind its own law. It says King Mursili destroyed Aleppo and Babylon and brought their captives and goods to Hattusa.Internet Archive and 2 moreItalian: Il Papiro dei Re The so-called “Turin King List”, with a list of kings written on the verso and an administrati: Italian: Il Papiro dei Re The so-called “Turin King List”,Legend · 2180 BCE · Memphis, EgyptHerodotus says Queen Nitocris drowned the men who killed her brother the king at a banquet, and a modern scholar argues she never existedHerodotus, writing in the fifth century BC, reports what Egyptian priests told him about their kings. He says one of them was a woman, Nitocris. The Egyptians killed her brother while he was king and gave the kingdom to her.Project Gutenberg and 2 moreRose Hall (Jamaica): Rose Hall, the estate house of a former sugar plantation, in Jamaica.Legend · 1827 · Rose Hall, near Montego Bay, JamaicaJamaican legend says the mistress of Rose Hall murdered her husbands; the records say her husband died in debt and she sold her claim for £200The White Witch of Rose Hall is a legend. It says Annie Palmer, trained in witchcraft, murdered three husbands and enslaved men and was killed by an enslaved man, Takoo. The records tell another story.jamaicagreathouses.com and 2 moreHylestad I, right (cropped): The right portal plank from Hylestad stave church, the so called "Hylestad I".Legend · 1250 · Iceland (where the saga was written)The Völsunga saga says Fafnir killed his father for a cursed gold hoard and refused his brother any shareThe Völsunga saga is a 13th-century Icelandic prose saga based largely on the poems of the Elder Edda. In chapter 14 the smith Regin tells the hero Sigurd how his family's fortune was made and lost.morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu and 3 moreNorwegian Bokmål: Leiv Eirikson oppdager Amerika Leiv Eirikson discovering Americatitle QS:P1476,nb:"Leiv Eirikson oppda: Norwegian Bokmål: Leiv Eirikson oppdager Amerika Leiv EiriLegend · 1011 · Vinland (Newfoundland, Canada, is the only confirmed Norse sThe saga says Freydís Eiríksdóttir had her partners killed in Vinland, axed their five women herself and sailed home in their larger shipThe Saga of the Greenlanders says Freydís, daughter of Erik the Red and sister of Leif, made a partnership with two Icelandic brothers, Helgi and Finnbogi.canadianmysteries.ca and 2 moreHere begynneth a gest of Robyn Hode: Beginn der Gest of Robyn HodeLegend · 1450 · St Mary's Abbey, York, and the greenwood, EnglandThe Gest of Robyn Hode says a knight pledged his lands to an abbot for £400 and Robin paid the debt; a 1598 play made Robin an earl robbed by his uncleRobin Hood is a legend, and the Gest is the longest early ballad about him. It was printed by Wynkyn de Worde and in Antwerp around 1500 and was probably compiled between 1450 and 1475.boldoutlaw.com and 4 moreHevron e Ma'arat HaMachpela (14524916927): סיור בחברון העתיקה ובמערת המכפלה Hevron e Ma'arat HaMachpelaScripture · 750 BCE · Cave of Machpelah, Hebron, West BankGenesis says Abraham paid 400 shekels for a family tomb at Hebron; the Talmud says Esau blocked Jacob's burial there and was killed at the caveGenesis 23 says that when Sarah died, Abraham bought the cave of Machpelah and its field from Ephron the Hittite. He weighed out 400 shekels of silver, "current money with the merchant," in the hearing of the sons of Heth.mechon-mamre.org and 4 moreThe Murder of Iraj: This folio from Walters manuscript W.602 illustrates the murder of Iraj.Legend · 1010 · Iran (the kingdom of Iran in the epic)The Shahnameh says King Faridun gave Iran to his youngest son, and the two elder sons killed him and sent his head to their fatherFerdowsi's Shahnameh, finished in 1010, tells this as legend; the king Faridun goes back to the Avestan hero Thraetaona. In Warner's 1905 translation, Faridun, worn with age, divides the world among three sons.Internet Archive and 4 moreUthman Koran Taschkent a: A qur'an from the 9th century. It is an alleged 7th century original of the edition of the third caliph Uthman (see en:Uthman Qur'an) but this is disputedLegend · 656 · Samarkand and Tashkent, Uzbekistan; St Petersburg, Russia; UTradition says Caliph Uthman was killed while reading this Quran; Russia took it as a trophy, and Lenin gave it backTradition holds that Caliph Uthman ordered the standard text of the Quran and was killed in 656 while reading one of the copies. UNESCO's register repeats this tradition.cambridge.org and 3 moreNumitor, after the Death of Amulius, is Restored to the Throne of Alba, pl.6 from the series The Story of Romulus and Re: Numitor, after the Death of Amulius, is Restored to the ThLegend · 753 BCE · Alba Longa (Alban Hills, near Rome), ItalyLivy says Amulius broke his father's will, took the throne of Alba Longa, and made his niece a Vestal virgin so his brother would have no heirsThe Roman historian Livy opens his history with the legend of Rome's founding. He says King Proca of Alba Longa left "the ancient throne of the Silvian house" to his elder son, Numitor. His younger son Amulius did not accept it.perseus.tufts.edu and 3 moreAntigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of Her Brother Polyniceslabel QS:Len,"Antigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of: Drawing; DrawingsLegend · 1250 BCE · Thebes (Thiva), GreeceThe plays say Oedipus's sons agreed to rule Thebes in alternate years, then killed each other, and the new king forbade burial of one of themThe tradition says that after Oedipus left Thebes, his sons Eteocles and Polynices divided the kingdom by time. The mythographer Apollodorus records that they agreed "that each should rule alternately" for a year.classics.mit.edu and 2 moreThemis Aigeus Antikensammlung Berlin F2538: Themis and Aegeus. Attic red-figure kylix, 440–430 BC. From Vulci.Legend · 1250 BCE · Athens, GreeceTheseus forgot to change his black sail, his father Aegeus threw himself down from the Acropolis, and Theseus became king of AthensGreek tradition, as Plutarch tells it, says King Aegeus of Athens had no recognised son, and his brother Pallas's fifty sons expected the throne.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 moreInca Mummy: Illustration from the book El primer nueva corónica y buen gobiernoLegend · 1438 · Cuzco and Caquia Xaquixahuana, PeruSarmiento records that Inca Viracocha named his illegitimate son Urco heir, fled the Chanca attack, and died stripped of his property after his other sons killed UrcoPedro Sarmiento de Gamboa's 1572 history, compiled from the sworn testimony of Inca lineages, records that the Inca Viracocha had four sons by his wife and two by another woman, Ccuri-chulpa.Internet Archive and 2 moreHorus and Seth crowning Ramesses III: Statue of Horus and Seth placing the crown of Upper Egypt on the head of Ramesses III. Twentieth Dynasty, early 12th century BC.Legend · 1147 BCE · Deir el-Medina, Thebes (Luxor), Egypt (where the papyrus wasAn Egyptian papyrus says the gods argued for 80 years over whether the dead king Osiris's throne went to his son Horus or his brother SethThe Contendings of Horus and Seth is a myth, not a record of events. It fills the first sixteen pages of Papyrus Chester Beatty I, copied around 1147 BC in the reign of Ramesses V and found in 1931.riull.ull.es and 3 morePortraits of Famous Men: Bao Zheng: Portraits of Famous Men: Bao ZhengFiction · 1300 · Kaifeng, Henan, China (court of Bao Zheng in the play)In the Yuan play The Chalk Circle, a wife poisons her husband and claims his concubine's son to take the fortune, and Judge Bao tests the two mothersThe Chalk Circle is a fictional zaju play from the Yuan dynasty, attributed to Li Xingdao (also given as Li Qianfu). Zhang Haitang is sold into prostitution after her father dies.www2.kansai-u.ac.jp and 2 moreSpencer Coll. Persian MS. 46 101v Yusha and Musa visit Khidr: Islamic depiction of Yusha (left) and Musa (middle) visiting Khidr (right) from a Persian 1580 manuscript.Scripture · 615 · Mecca, Saudi Arabia (where the surah was revealed); the sea The Koran says a servant of God holed a poor family's ship and rebuilt a stranger's wall for free, to save the ship from a king and two orphans' treasure from a townSurah 18 of the Koran says Moses travelled with "a servant from among Our servants," whom commentators name al-Khidr. They boarded a ship, and the servant made a hole in it. They met a boy, and he killed him.quran.com and 4 moreL'Orphelin de la Maison de Tchao: This is a page of Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare's L'Orphelin de la Maison de Tchao, as published in Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's Description GéographiLegend · 583 BCE · State of Jin, Shanxi, ChinaThe Zuo zhuan and the Shiji give two accounts of how Jin destroyed the Zhao clan and gave its lands back to the one surviving boyThe Orphan of Zhao is told in two histories that disagree, and later as a play. The older Zuo zhuan says Zhao Ying had an affair with Zhuang Ji of the Zhao household, and his brothers Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo exiled him to Qi.zh.wikisource.org and 3 moreNaboth in his Vineyard title QS:P1476,en:"Naboth in his Vineyard "label QS:Len,"Naboth in his Vineyard ": Naboth in his Vineyard title QS:P1476,en:"Naboth in his Vineyard "label QSScripture · 860 BCE · Jezreel, IsraelKings says Naboth refused to sell King Ahab "the inheritance of my fathers," and Queen Jezebel had him and his sons killed for itThe first book of Kings says Naboth owned a vineyard beside King Ahab's palace in Jezreel. Ahab offered him a better vineyard or its price in money.mechon-mamre.org and 2 more