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King Charles I timeline

Speech Before Execution

Early years

Religion

Oliver Cromwell and His Relationship With Charles

  • Cromwell disagreed with Charles' views on religion. Where Cromwell believed in tolerance, Charles did not.
  • Charles levied heavy taxes, which Oliver did not like.
  • Charles chose to ignore the wishes of Cromwell and his supporters, leading to him being tried for treason.
  • From a young age, Charles was devoted to his religion.
  • He enjoyed the more ritualistic or High Anglican side of Catholicism.
  • Charles believed that kings were appointed by god and that it was there divine right to rule.
  • He was born on November 19, 1600.
  • Charles was named Duke of Albany at his baptism in December of 1600.
  • In 1605, he was named Duke of York.
  • During his childhood, Charles suffered from weak ankle joints that slowed his physical development.
  • Charles lived in the shadow of his brother Henry, until Henry died of Typhoid when Charles was eleven years old.
  • Despite his physical ailments, he was a devoted student who excelled at languages, rhetoric, and theology.
  • Charles was named prince of Wales in 1616.

"I shall be very little heard of anybody here...Indeed I could hold my peace very well, if I did not think that holding my peace would make some men think that I did submit to the guilt, as well as to the punishment; but I think it is my duty to God first, and to my country, for to clear myself both as an honest man, and a good King and a good Christian." - King Charles I directly prior to his execution.

  • Even in the end, Charles did not believe that he had done anything wrong; rather, he believed that he had done the work of god.

1640

1629

1649

1619

1600

1659

Problems with Parliament

Arrest, Conviction, and Execution

Rise to the Throne

  • Charles was arrested and convicted of treason due to the people's dissatisfaction with his rule, saying what he had done was tyrannical and unlawful.
  • Found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death by beheading on January 27, 1649, he remained defiant, believing that he had done nothing wrong.
  • He was executed on January 30, 1649.
  • In collaboration with Archbishop Laud, he insisted upon religious conformity across the Three Kingdoms.
  • Parliament impeached Laud and Strafford and condemned them to death, while Charles did little to save them.
  • By November 1641, news of Irish uprising had reached London
  • Succeeded as the second king of the Stuart dynasty in 1625.
  • Became king of the Stuart dynasty in 1625.
  • In 1628, Charles' opponents formulated the Petition of Right as a defense against the King's arbitrary use of his power.
  • Parliament attacked his religious policy in 1628.
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