Monarchs killed in action

founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC)

King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)

Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death. He is regarded as a Christian hero in Romania due to his opposition to the Ottoman Empire and he is considered an important ruler in Wallachian history.

king of England from 1483 to 1485

Swedish king (regent 1611–1632) (1594–1632)

King of the Franks from 751 to 768

King of Sparta from c. 489 BC to 480 BC

The fifth and last emperor of Sweden (1697–1718)

third Ottoman sultan (1362–1389)

thumb|The Kingdom of Saul, according to the biblical account thumb|300px|David and Saul, by Julius Kronberg, 1885 thumb|upright=1.13|David Plays the Harp for Saul, by Rembrandt|Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1650 thumb|upright=1.3|Saul threatening David, by José Leonardo, c. 1640s Saul (; , ; ; , ) was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, the first king of the United Monarchy, a polity of uncertain historicity. His reign, traditionally placed in the late eleventh century BC, marked the transition of the Israelites from a scattered tribal society r

Harold Godwinson, also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. Harold reigned from 6 January 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the decisive battle of the Norman Conquest. He was succeeded by William the Conqueror, the victor at Hastings.

last Byzantine emperor, from 1449 to 1453

Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 to 1799

King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513

King of Norway from 1046 to 1066

King of West Francia from 922 to 923

Josiah (; ) or Yoshiyahu () was the 16th king of Judah (–609 BCE). Described as "one of Judah’s most important kings," his reign likely marked a turning point in the development of Yahwism.

King of Scotland from 1460 to 1488 (1451–1488)

Fourth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire

king of Assyria (722-705 B.C)

King of Scotland from 1040 to 1057

King of the Visigoths

Ahab (, ; ; ; ; ) was a king of Israel, the son and successor of King Omri, and the husband of Jezebel of Sidon, according to the Hebrew Bible. He is depicted in the Bible as a Baal worshipper and is criticized for causing moral decline in Israel, though modern scholars question this.

king of Bohemia

king of Poland and Hungary

Chlodomer, also spelled Clodomir or Clodomer (524), was the second of the four sons of Clovis I, King of the Franks.

King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1506–1526)

Macedonian general, founder of Antigonid dynasty (382–301 BC)

Totila, original name Baduila (died 1 July 552), was the penultimate King of the Ostrogoths, reigning from 541 to 552. A skilled military and political leader, Totila reversed the tide of the Gothic War, recovering by 543 almost all the territories in Italy that the Eastern Roman Empire had captured from his Kingdom in 540.

Egyptian pharaoh

King of Scotland from 1058 to 1093

King of Norway from 1015 to 1028

Last Umayyad Caliph (691-750) (r. 744-750)

King of the Visigoths Balti dynasty

Roderic (also spelled Ruderic, Roderik, Roderich, or Roderick; Spanish and , ; died July 711) was the Visigothic king in Hispania between 710 and 711. He is well known as "the last king of the Goths". He is an obscure figure about whom little can be said with certainty. He was the last Goth to rule from Toledo, but not the last Gothic king, a distinction which belongs to Ardo.

King of Bohemia (1253-1278)

king of Scots from 1034 to 1040

10th-century Norwegian ruler

King of Norway

Scottish king

7th-century King of Mercia

The 18th Sasanian Emperor (459–484)

King of Germany (1292-1298), count of Nassau (1276-1298)

King of Sicily from 1258 to 1266

King of Denmark

King of Hungary (1015-1060)

King of Norway

High King of Ireland

King of Norway

ruler of Parthian Empire from c. 213 to 224

Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate from 1517 to 1526

Phraortes, son of Deioces, was the second king of the Median kingdom.

Medieval Serbian ruler

Parthian emperor (132-128 BC)

King of Alba

King of Denmark

King of Scotland (971-997)

pharaoh from the Seventeenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt

Co-ruler of Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Tyrol, then sole ruler of Styria, Carinthia and Tyrol

Ildulb mac Causantín, anglicised as Indulf or Indulph, nicknamed An Ionsaighthigh, "the Aggressor" ( – 962) was king of Alba from 954 to 962. He was the son of Constantine II; his mother may have been a daughter of Earl Eadulf I of Bernicia, who was an exile in Scotland.