John Felton (assassin)
John Felton (born around 1595 ; † October 28, 1628 in Tyburn ) was an English Puritan and former officer in the English Navy , who murdered the Duke of Buckingham , the leading minister in the government of King Charles I , in Portsmouth in 1628 . There was and is speculation about the reasons for the assassination attempt: religious zeal or personal insults during the defeat at La Rochelle in 1627/28 are cited as the most frequent motives. Felton was sentenced to death that same year and hanged on October 28, 1628 in Tyburn .
Alexandre Dumas takes up his act in the novel " The Three Musketeers ".
literature
- Alastair Bellany: "John Felton", in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Alastair Bellany: Libels in Action: Ritual, Subversion and the English Literary Underground, 1603–42. In: Tim Harris (Ed.): The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850. Palgrave, Basingstoke et al. 2001, ISBN 0-333-72224-8 , pp. 99-124, doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4039-4030-8_4 , (includes a section on the public response to the assassination).
- Monuments at Portsmouth Cathedral: The Duke of Buckingham ( 13 May 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Isaac Disraeli : "Felton, the Political Killer" , Curiosities in Literature . (in English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Felton, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English puritan and assassin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1595 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1628 |
| Place of death | Tyburn |