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.
