Overthrown in 1461, he remained in play until 1471, when, having been briefly restored to the throne in a Lancastrian coup, his army was defeated and he was captured and promptly murdered. Overthrown in a military revolt led by Henry Bolingbroke (who became Henry IV), he was deposed and then secretly murdered in Pontefract Castle.Ī religious obsessive dominated by his queen, Margaret of Anjou, Henry was unable to prevent England’s descent into the protracted internecine conflict now known as ‘the Wars of the Roses’.
Like Edward II, Richard was bored by government responsibility and addicted to pleasure and extravagance. Edward was then murdered while imprisoned in Berkeley Castle by having a red-hot poker thrust by his backside. Estranged from his wife (the king preferred male lovers), he was overthrown in a conspiracy led by the queen herself. The English army crashed to defeat at Bannockburn in 1314. His attempt to renege on commitments made at the signing of Magna Carta in 1215 led to civil war and the occupation of London by a foreign usurper invited in by John’s rebellious subjectsĪ weak-willed playboy dominated by favourites, Edward was an ineffective and unpopular king.
Some suspected foul play.Īt loggerheads with the barons for much of his reign, John was a fugitive king at the time of his death. This was to be his downfall: he was killed by a stray arrow in the New Forest.
Red-faced and hot-tempered, William ‘Rufus’ filled his court with undeserving favourites and spent too much time out hunting. Victorious at Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire, Harold was defeated and killed at the Battle of Hastings. The last of the Anglo-Saxon kings reigned for less than a year and spent it fighting to retain power against a co-ordinated double invasion by Vikings in the north and Normans in the south. Taken from the MHM34 feature, here are 9 deposed monarchs, some of whom were quite gruesomely dethroned.
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