Has there ever been a revolution backed by a royal or a noble against their own family?
Upvote:0
Prince Souphanouvong (a minor member of the Laotian royal family) headed the Pathet Lao faction during the Laotian civil war and later became president of the communist republic after the overthrow of the monarchy
Prince Daoud Khan (a minor member of the Afghani royal family) was involved in overthrowing his cousin, King Mohammed Zahir Shah, and rather than declare himself King, proclaimed a republic
Prince (and former, and later, King - its complicated) Norodom Sihanouk was involved in the overthrow of the US-backed Khmer republic by the communist Khmer Rouge and was later Head of State of the communist Democratic Kampuchea during the first year of its existence
Upvote:1
In 1822, Dom Pedro I led a revolution of Brazil against its mother country, Portugal, that was (nominally) headed by his father.
Upvote:1
The Glorious Revolution in England, where Mary II (although mostly by her husband William of Orange, later William III) deposed her brother, James II & VII.
I'm not entirely sure if it fulfils your criteria, there was not much more than a skirmish during the actual revolution, but it did result in the Jacobite uprising in Scotland and the Williamite war in Ireland. James being a Catholic meant he had more support in both Scotland and Ireland than his Protestant successors.
Upvote:26
Louis Philippe II the Duke of Orléans, who avidly supported the French Revolution - arguably, the quintessential revolution of the modern era. As First Prince of the Blood, he was one of the most senior members of the ruling Bourbon dynasty. In fact his son would assume the French throne in 1830. I think he qualifies both as a royal and member of the high nobility.
Despite his lofty birth, Louis Philippe believed in the ideals of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and championed the cause of enlightenment and liberalism. He was a vocal critic of the monarchy in the Assembly of Notables and led a defection of a few nobles to join the Third Estate. He even voted to execute his own cousin, the King of France, in early 1793.
Ironically, Louis Philippe himself was guillotined under the Reign of Terror before the year was out. Given that he sought to abolish the nobility (i.e. by extension, his own privileges) and lost his head when the revolution was "successful", I'd argue he fits the no-personal-gain criterion.
More post
- 📝 When did Silesia become a part of the Holy Roman Empire?
- 📝 What were the differences between mortars and other artilleries in world war I?
- 📝 What symbolism is incorporated in this illustration for a book by Riccati?
- 📝 Where and when did the legend that the Auld Alliance dates back to 809 AD begin?
- 📝 Did the chronicler William of Malmesbury write that William Adelin threatened to make Anglo-Saxons 'draw a plow like cattle' when he became king?
- 📝 What is the race of Iranians?
- 📝 Why were Japanese submarines not able to defend in the Battle of the Philippine Sea?
- 📝 Does any library hold the archives of the Russian-American Company?
- 📝 History of the Changes and Developments in Types of Urban Renewal Projects
- 📝 Why did William Wallace lose while Robert Bruce won?
- 📝 Did women suffer from alcoholism as much as men in 19th century America?
- 📝 How did people dress at the Jesuit missions to the Hurons?
- 📝 How did the early settlers of Australia settle the continent?
- 📝 Since the inception of the United States, has the term "America" ever referred to something more than simply "the United States"?
- 📝 Did Russian winter seriously contribute to German defeat on the Eastern Front in WWII?
- 📝 Is the Lebanese town of Nabatieh related in any way to the ancient Nabatean Civilization?
- 📝 Was Black Death a weaponised disease?
- 📝 Did an American soldier stop riots in Iraq by banning food trucks?
- 📝 What motivated Germanic tribes to accept Christianity?
- 📝 Was the Vistula delta inhabited by Slavic tribes or Baltic tribes?
- 📝 Why is Hungary geographically important to travel between Europe and the Middle East?
- 📝 Did the Red Army and German Army clash in Poland in 1939?
- 📝 Symbol on utility pole in photograph from 1906
- 📝 Did a submarine ever torpedo and sink a destroyer?
- 📝 Date of Transatlantic crossing postcard
- 📝 Historical and biblical names for bottles of wine
- 📝 Why did the Queen of Hawai'i surrender, when two thirds of the registered voters were in favour of signing the new constitution in 1893?
- 📝 When was the "New Kingdom" of Egypt first called that?
- 📝 What are the occurences of total war in the Native Americans?
- 📝 Who was the Irish interpreter in Monterey in 1822?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Has there ever been a revolution backed by a royal or a noble against their own family?
- 📝 Has there ever been a war where 2 parties who were at war with each other cooperated on a strike against a third party?
- 📝 Has there ever been a truly multi-sided war?
- 📝 Has there ever been a non-rectangular banknote?
- 📝 Has there ever been a case when a traitorous military commander took command again for the side he betrayed?
- 📝 Has anyone ever named a war after their own country or faction?
- 📝 Has there ever been an instance of an active nuclear power plant within or near a war zone?
- 📝 Has there ever been a cold war other than between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.?
- 📝 Has there ever been a peaceful overthrow of a dictator or monarch?
- 📝 Has there ever been a battle with only a single survivor?
- 📝 Has there ever been a major migration from the New World to the Old World? If not, why?
- 📝 Has there ever been anything like the oil boom we see today?
- 📝 Has there ever been a true kidnapped princess from anywhere in the world?
- 📝 Has there ever been an archbishop or bishop younger than the 16-year-old James of Nicosia?
- 📝 Has any U.S. Vice President cast a tie-breaking vote against their own administration?
- 📝 Has there ever been a serious effort to reform the US Electoral College system?
- 📝 Has there ever been a truly bilingual country prior to the contemporary period?
- 📝 Has there ever been a mass migration of factories comparable to the USSR's in WW2?
- 📝 In the United States government, has there been cases that electoral colleges don't vote for the candidate the majority of their state voted for?
- 📝 Has there ever been a successful "Anarchy"?
- 📝 Has there ever been a US election that flipped as many state seats as the 2010 midterm elections?
- 📝 Has there ever been an attempted military takeover of a democracy in the western world?
- 📝 Has there ever been a month with 32 days?
- 📝 Has there ever been litigation over a salvaged shipwreck between a European country and a former ex-colony?
- 📝 Has there ever been a war between members of a personal union?
- 📝 Has there ever been an election where the two biggest parties form a coalition to govern?
- 📝 Has there ever been a direct clash between NATO and Russia?
- 📝 Has there ever been a situation where the "motherland" treated its colonies well anywhere in the world?
- 📝 Has there ever been a society that viewed prostitution as a prestigious vocation?
- 📝 Has there ever been any assassination so that another assassination could happen during the first one's funeral?
