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Charles Iwas king of England, Ireland, and Scotland in 1640. Charles was the second of the Stewart kings of England, his father James I having taken the English throne following the death of Queen Elizabeth I. Charles, like his father James, believed in the absolute power and divine right of kings, seeing himself as a god on Earth. Following this b...

Following Preston, the question became what to do with Charles I. Some voices in Parliament, including New Model Army leader Thomas Fairfax, supported returning Charles to the throne, believing the monarch would now leave behind his beliefs in the divine right of kings and rule in conjunction with Parliament. Other members, however, disagreed, Crom...

In September 1658, Oliver Cromwell became ill with fever and a urinary tract infection that led to his death. He was given a state funeral, modeled on that of King James I, and buried in Westminster Abbey. His son Richard became the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, but it soon became clear that the republic had been held together by the characte...

Oliver Cromwell lived during a turbulent time in British history. Little is known about his early years, only that he was born to upper-class parents in Huntingdon, he was a distant relation of Henry VIII's chief minister Thomas Cromwell, and he had a powerful religious awakening after moving to a farm sometime in the 1630s, becoming a Puritan, whi...