The Byzantines beheaded their monarch Justinian, just like 1000 years later the the French beheaded Louis XVI, and the English beheaded Charles I. Did the Byzantines start to question the divine right of kings, the way the French and English did?
by /u/meme_teen in /r/AskHistorians
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