Ravaillac, François, the assassin of Henry IV., born at Angoulême; a Roman Catholic fanatic, who regarded the king as the arch-enemy of the Church, and stabbed him to the heart as he sat in his carriage; was instantly seized, subjected to torture, and had his body torn by horses limb from limb (1578‒1640).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Raumer, Friedrich Ludwig Georg von * Ravana