Charles I was born in Fife Scotland on 19 November 1600, being the second son of James VI of Scotland and of Anne of Denmark. He became king because of the death of his brother, Prince Henry, in 1612. He was the second Stuart King of England, in 1625. Charles was reserved, self-righteous and, had a residual stammer. As king he believed in the divine right. He was a linguist and spent a lot on the arts. He had a great collection of Van Dyck's, Rubenss, Raphael's, and Titian's. His expenditure on his court and his picture collection greatly increased the crown's debts. Indeed, crippling lack of money was a key problem for both the early Stuart monarchs. Charles was very religious. He he was of the Anglican branch, but many of his people, mostly in Scotland, wanted plainer forms. Charles promised Parliament in 1624 that there would be no advantages for people that did not go to te Church of England, but he married a Roman Catholic, French insisted to remove all laws against Roman Catholics. Charles's secretly added to the marriage treaty, despite his promise to Parliament. Charles had failed two attacks on France. One was led by Buckingham, a royal favorite who gained political and military power. He was impeached by Parliament in 1628, was murdered by a fanatic before the second attack on France. This caused a power struggle because it was the king's right to choose his ministers, but Parliament has to approve of them. Sir John Eliot was Charles biggest opponent until 1629. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London he died in 1632. Fights between the King and Parliament were manly about money. Which were very low because of the many wars. Charles dismissed Parliament in March 1629 and tax how he wanted. His enemies called... ... middle of paper ... ...corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be." He said a silent prayer to GOD and then signaled the executioner. With one clean chop the head of a king rolled on the cold hard ground. Charles burial caused a little disorder so to prevent this the Parliament barried him on 9 February at Windsor, rather than Westminster Abbey. After his barrial, Parliament passed an act forbidding any other monarch abolishing the office of King so that Charles II could not assume the throne. On 27 January outside Banqueting House in Whitehall Charles every year people who believed him as a martyr for the realm of England remember his death in wrath. The believers send themselves to execution site face down. Charles pride and stubbornness lead him to not negotiate and work with the parliament. This lead to his death as a lesson to all not to become like him.
Throughout Charles I’s Personal Rule, otherwise known as the ‘Eleven Year Tyranny’, he suffered many problems which all contributed to the failure of his Personal Rule. There are different approaches about the failure of Personal Rule and when it actually ended, especially because by April 1640 Short Parliament was in session. However, because it only lasted 3 weeks, historians tend to use November 1640 as the correct end of the Personal Rule when Long Parliament was called. There was much debate about whether the Personal Rule could have continued as it was, instead people generally believed that it would crumble when the King lost his supporters.
The first of these is Religion. Charles came under attack from, in simple terms, the Protestants and the Catholics. He had this attack on him for many different reasons. He was resented by the Catholics, because he was a protestant. To be more precise, he was an Arminian, which was a sector from the protestant side of Christianity. On the other side of the spectrum, he is resented by the puritans, as they see him as too close in his religious views to Catholicism. Furthermore, he is disliked by the puritans as he put restrictions on their preaching and themselves. The puritans were a well organised opposition to Personal rule. The top puritans, linked through family and friends, organised a network of potential opposition to the king and his personal rule. This ‘Godly party’ as they became known, was made up of gentry, traders, lawyers and even lords. This group of powerful and extremely influential people was the most well organised opposition to Charles’ personal rule.
When Charles X came to power after the death of Louis XVIII, the leader of the ultraroyalist faction came to power. Charles X first began compensating aristocrats who had lost their land during the revolution ...
The father and son relationship is one of the most important aspects through the youth of a young man. In Shakespeare’s play Henry IV, he portrays the concept of having "two fathers". King Henry is Hal’s natural father, and Falstaff is Hal’s moral father. Hal must weigh the pros and cons of each father to decide which model he will emulate. Falstaff, who is actually Hal’s close friend, attempts to pull Hal into the life of crime, but he refuses.
Due to King James making the Catholic laws more strict, gave Guy Fawkes his plan to rebel. With the survival of King James, today, Britons still celebrate the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot. November 5 is celebrated as Guy Fawkes Day, and has became a time to get together with friends and family, set off fireworks, light bonfires, attend parades and burn effigies, or stuffed dolls, of Fawkes. Children wheeled around their effigies, begging for a “penny for the Guy” (a similar custom to Halloween trick-or-treating) and imploring crowds to 'remember, remember the fifth of November'.
In the seventeenth century there were different types of leaders in Europe. The classic monarchial rule was giving way to absolutist rule. Absolute kings claimed to be ruling directly from God, therefore having divine rule that could not be interfered with. In 1643 Louis XIV began his reign over France as an absolute king.
George III inherited more than just the throne. He also had the royal hereditary disease
Charles the Bold reigned over Burgundy from 1467-77. He was the last heir of the dukes of Burgundy. His only child, Mary, became valuable as Europe's most marriageable heiress. Charles' surname (le Temeraine) really means "the Rash" and perhaps explains why he was a great antagonist of Louis XI. Although his Burgundian court surpassed that of monarchs of his time, he was lacking in the political realism of previous dukes. He was defeated and killed at the Battle of Nancy in 1477.
King Charles I left us with some of the most intriguing questions of his period. In January 1649 Charles I was put on trial and found guilty of being a tyrant, a traitor, a murderer and a public enemy of England. He was sentenced to death and was executed on the 9th of February 1649. It has subsequently been debated whether or not this harsh sentence was justifiable. This sentence was most likely an unfair decision as there was no rule that could be found in all of English history that dealt with the trial of a monarch. Only those loyal to Olivier Cromwell (The leader opposing Charles I) were allowed to participate in the trial of the king, and even then only 26 of the 46 men voted in favour of the execution. Charles was schooled from birth, in divine right of kings, believing he was chosen by God to be king, and handing power to the parliament would be betraying God. Debatably the most unjust part of his trial was the fact that he was never found guilty of any particular crimes, instead he was found guilty of the damage cause by the two civil wars.
French king Philip IV.The immediate cause of dispute was due to taxes imposed by King on
One of the key factors that led to the civil war was the contrasting beliefs of King Charles and the parliament. The monarchy believed in the divine rights of kings, explained by Fisher (1994, p335) as a biblically-based belief that the king or queen's authority comes directly from God and that he is not subjected to the demands of the people. On the other hand, the parliament had a strong democratic stance and though they respected and recognized the king's authority, they were constantly desiring and fighting for more rights to power. Although climaxing at the reign of King Charles, their antagonism stretched for centuries long before his birth and much of the power that once belonged to the monarchy had shifted over to the parliament by the time he came into power.
the monarchy as head of the Church of England, More refused. He could not alter the law, he
Over the course of Louis’ rein, he showed that he was a bad monarch because he abused his power. Ultimately, he made the citizens unhappy. Louis believed that Kings “are born to possess all and command all” and their power should not be questioned. This caused him to make impulsive decisions without thinking of the citizens opinions because they were not supposed to question him. If his power was questioned Louis was quickly able to say that God gave him the power to make decisions therefore they were right.
Winstanley said, “Cromwell was the English monster who tried to destroy our monarchy.” William Winstanley, a writer and diarist, was a strong Royalist. He was also known as “The Man Who Saved Christmas”.