Defenestration
In 1572, French King Charles IX's friend, the Huguenot leader Gaspard de Coligny, was killed on what is likely the orders of Charles's mother, Catherine de' Medici.  Charles ordered the murder of thousands of Protestants in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre after soldiers had attacked Coligny in his house, stabbed him, and thrown him out of the window.