François Ravaillac, who stabbed Henry IV of France to death on May 14, 1610, was immediately taken into custody and transferred to the Hôtel de Retz for safekeeping. On May 27, after two weeks of repeated tortures, he was taken to the Place de Grève and pulled apart by four horses. His parents were exiled, and the remaining members of his family were ordered never again to use the name Revaillac.