How many British monarchs have been killed while they were king or queen?
– King Edmund I was killed in 946 during a feast at Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, by an outlawed robber. – King Edward The Martyr was murdered by members of Aethelred’s household at Corfe Castle in 978 – King Edmund II Ironside was assassinated in London in 1016 – King Harold II was killed by an arrow in his eye at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. – King William I The Conqueror suffered a fatal internal injury in 1087 after being thrown against the pommel of his saddle near Nantes in France. – King William II Rufus was killed in 1100 with an arrow while hunting in the New Forest. Supposedly an accident, it has been suggested that he was shot deliberately on the instructions of his brother Henry. – Richard I The Lion Heart was killed by a crossbow bolt while besieging Châlus-Chabrol in France in 1199. – Edward II was murdered in 1327 at Berkeley Castle on the orders of his wife, Isabella – Henry VI was murdered in the Tower of London in 1471. – Edward V and his younger brother were impr
