Charles I of Austria

the reformation had not gone far enough and that the church still had Catholic influence and was corrupt. They felt as if the church’s doctrine was incorrect and not what God wanted. As the Puritans tried to ask for more reforms to be made, King James I was becoming increasingly repressive. Because of this, the Puritans traveled to the New World where they would escape the impurities of the Church of England and live by their religion of Puritanism. As the Puritans created their first model…

As it happens in most countries, England’s system of ruling evolved in many way from the death of Elizabeth I in 1603 to the Glorious Revolution in 1688-1689. Before the Glorious Revolution, where James II is replaced by Mary II and William III, most rulers in England ruled in an absolute monarchy. In this system of government, these rulers believed by the Divine Right of Kings, a belief that the ruler can only be judged by God. Also before the Glorious Revolution, most rulers had some…

The main political causes of the English Civil Wars were due to Charles I ignoring the parliament. Charles I continuous acts of ignoring the Parliamentarian rules were the cause of most of the troubles of the English Civil Wars. After Charles was out of money after his spending and on the Scottish Rebellion he asked Parliament. The Parliament which was angered by Charles I decisions refused to lend money to the King after opposing the idea of an invasion of Scotland. This opposition of whether…

Selfishness in the New Land “Pride grows with the decrease of other sins and thrives on their decay. Satan is subtle. He will make us proud of our very graces. He will make us proud that we are not proud,” said by Thomas Brooke, an English lawyer. The Puritans were an extremely religious group of people; they believed God would be happy with them if they obeyed Him. This may be true, but the Puritans did not portray an strong and perfect christian group. The Puritans were a selfish group of…

From the readings in the text book “Western Civilization Volume II: Since 1500” I found out that Oliver Cromwell was a strong leader with also strong religious beliefs. He was also mentioned to have been a Puritan who formed the New model Army and defeated the forces supporting King Charles the first, thus ending the first phase of the Civil war with his capture. Even after all of Cromwell’s victories and the new model army, which was made mostly of serious Patrons known as the Independents, who…

didn't stop several kings from acting like they were absolute monarchy. This type of rule in the seventeenth century was a system where all governmental authority was concentrated in the hands of a monarch ruling by divine right. Such as King James I that secured confessions through torture, then imprisoned people without a trial. The monarch justified his authority by saying that God had created the society and set up monarchs to rule. As Kings claimed to receive authority straight from God,…

Absolutism was prominent in Europe and the king practically said and did whatever they wanted. This caused problems when King Charles I came into power in 1625 after his father’s death. The problems came from the fact that he struggled to control Parliament and would thus defy them by doing things such as taxing the people without consulting them first. It was because of King Charles I’s behavior that Parliament became very angry with him and the people wanted to revolt. All of these actions…

It impacted England greatly, and started after a conflict between the monarch, King Charles I, and the Parliament (The government of England). This led to the two sides of the English Civil Wars: The Parliamentarians and the Royalists. The death toll in England after the English Civil Wars was estimated to be about 200,000, which ended after King Charles I’s defeat. On January 30, 1649, King Charles I was executed by decapitation, and after that England was no longer a Complete Monarchy: The…

Charles II: The Merry Monarch How Far Do the Events in his Reign Reflect This Nickname? Charles II’s title of the ‘Merry Monarch’ proves controversial among many historians in regards to its accuracy. One of Charles’s recent academic biographers, Ronald Hutton, has admitted that he ended up disliking Charles intensely and found the whole process of working on such a man ‘genuinely depressing’. This essay will attempt to prove that he was ‘Merry’-in other words; ‘interested in only self and…

how truthful was what was being said of him? These are the questions we have to ask if they were extreme in executing King Charles. Not many people if any could accuse King Charles of being an evil or corrupt man. King Charles set an example of moral uprightness and required that his court follow the same high principles and values that he lived by. The manner with which Charles led the British government is a little more difficult, but he still does not seem to be cruel or a lunatic. On the…