Duke of Buckingham Assassinated
August 23, 1628
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, royal favorite and architect of Charles I's failed military adventures, was stabbed to death in a Portsmouth inn by a disgruntled army lieutenant named John Felton. London rejoiced; Charles wept. The king's most trusted and most hated councillor was gone, and Charles was left to govern without the companion who had shielded him from political reality.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.