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unusual facts about fratricide



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Battle of Delium

This was history's first documented incident of fratricide (Geoffrey Regan, Back Fire, Robson Books Ltd., London, 1995).

Kenneth of Scotland

Kenneth II of Scotland, nicknamed "The Fratricide", (before 954–995), King of Scotland

Sancho IV of Navarre

He was assassinated in Peñalén, whence his nickname, by a conspiracy headed by his brother Ramón (el Fratricida, the Fratricide) and his sister Ermesinda.

Sultan Yahya

Eventually, Yahya's two older brothers died, but in 1603, since Yahya had escaped the country to avoid fratricide, his younger brother Ahmed I (the fourth-born) became Ottoman sultan.


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