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 1600 - 1649 (48 years)
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| Name |
Charles I |
| Suffix |
King of England, Scotland and Ireland |
| Birth |
19 Nov 1600 |
Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
30 Jan 1649 |
Whitehall, Westminster, England [2] |
- Charles was tried, convicted, and executed for high treason (beheaded) in January 1649. The monarchy was abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England was declared. The monarchy was restored to Charles's son, Charles II, in 1660.
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| Burial |
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England [2] |
| Person ID |
I45577 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
18 Mar 2016 |
| Family |
Henrietta Maria of France |
| Marriage |
Y [2] |
| Children |
| | 1. James II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, b. 14 Oct 1633, St James's Palace, London, England d. 16 Sep 1701, Yvelines, Paris, France (Age 67 years) |
| | 2. Mary Henrietta Stuart, b. 4 Nov 1631, St James's Palace, London, England d. 24 Dec 1660, Whitehall Palace, Westminster, England (Age 29 years) |
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| Family ID |
F16635 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649)[a] was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1612. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Anna culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations. Two years later, he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France instead.
After his succession, Charles quarrelled with the Parliament of England, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. Charles believed in the divine right of kings and thought he could govern according to his own conscience. Many of his subjects opposed his policies, in particular the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent, and perceived his actions as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch. His religious policies, coupled with his marriage to a Roman Catholic, generated the antipathy and mistrust of Reformed groups such as the English Puritans and Scottish Covenanters, who thought his views were too Catholic. He supported high church Anglican ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to aid Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War. His attempts to force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices led to the Bishops' Wars, strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments and helped precipitate his own downfall.
From 1642, Charles fought the armies of the English and Scottish parliaments in the English Civil War. After his defeat in 1645, he surrendered to a Scottish force that eventually handed him over to the English Parliament. Charles refused to accept his captors' demands for a constitutional monarchy, and temporarily escaped captivity in November 1647. Re-imprisoned on the Isle of Wight, Charles forged an alliance with Scotland, but by the end of 1648 Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army had consolidated its control over England. Charles was tried, convicted, and executed for high treason in January 1649. The monarchy was abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England was declared. The monarchy was restored to Charles's son, Charles II, in 1660.
More biography & images ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England
end of biography [2]
- "Charles I: King and Collector", view his art & paintings collection; https://www.vogue.com/article/royal-academy-arts-charles-i-king-and-collector
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- "...James’s son, Charles I, although having been the soul of fidelity for the many years of his marriage to Henrietta Maria, ended up seeking physical solace in the arms of Jane Whorwood, a loyalist conspirator, during his imprisonment."
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| Sources |
- [S9249] "James VI and I", biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I, retrieved March 18, 2016 by David A. Hennesse.
- [S9250] "Charles I of England" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England, retrieved March 18, 2016 by David.
- [S12355] "Charles I: King and Collector", An article with images, link submitted by Martha Ann Millsaps, mam1280@gmail.com, Frida.
- [S13210] "12 facts about the Stuarts", from "History Extra", by Andrea Zuvich, https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/facts-a.
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