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Há 5 dias · Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France. After Charles I's execution at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War, the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649.
Há 1 dia · Born in 1609, Henrietta Maria was the youngest daughter of Henry IV, the legendary King of France. Her father‘s assassination when she was just an infant thrust the family into a period of upheaval, foreshadowing the turmoil that would mark much of her own life. As a young princess, Henrietta initially caught the eye of England‘s Charles ...
Há 3 dias · While neither Anne or Henrietta Maria have the equivalent of a ‘let them eat cake’ anecdote attached to them, the mother and wife of the king executed as part of the Civil Wars in 1649 have certainly suffered in the popular, and indeed scholarly, consciousness.
Há 3 dias · James VII and II (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) [a] was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII [4] from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Há 2 dias · In March 1625, Charles I became king and married Henrietta Maria soon afterward. When his first Parliament met in June, trouble immediately arose because of the general distrust of Buckingham, who had retained his ascendancy over the new king.
- Charles I was the king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1625 to 1649. Like his father, James I, and grandmother Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles I ru...
- Charles I was born in 1600 to James VI of Scotland (who later became James I) and Anne of Denmark. He was a sickly child and was devoted to his bro...
- When his brother, Henry, died in 1612, Charles became heir to the throne. He formed an alliance with the duke of Buckingham. In the last 18 months...
- From the beginning of his reign, Charles I demonstrated a distrust of the House of Commons. Parliament was critical of his government, condemning h...
- On January 20, 1649, Charles I was brought before a specially constituted court and charged with high treason and “other high crimes against the re...
Há 3 dias · Early Stuart foreign policy remains a relatively neglected topic, despite mounting evidence for the importance of international religious conflicts in British political culture and the strains imposed by the demands of war on the British state.
Há 14 horas · A Survivor's Warning. From Jan Greenhawk at The Easton Gazette: Every parent of a high school or college student should give this book to their child and require them to read it. Many of us who know history often comment about how it seems our country is rapidly sliding down the slope from freedom to Marxist Communism that rivals that of the ...
