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Charles I, the king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was executed on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 [b] outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution, carried out by beheading the king, was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in England during the English Civil War ...
Charles I, (born Nov. 19, 1600, Dunfermline Palace, Fife, Scot.—died Jan. 30, 1649, London, Eng.), King of Great Britain and Ireland (1625–49). Son of James I, he acquired from his father a belief in the divine right of kings, and his earliest surviving letters reveal a distrust of the House of Commons. He became king in 1625 and soon after ...
House / Dynasty: House of Stuart. Charles II (born May 29, 1630, London—died February 6, 1685, London) was the king of Great Britain and Ireland (1660–85), who was restored to the throne after years of exile during the Puritan Commonwealth. The years of his reign are known in English history as the Restoration period.
Anglican. Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649), [1] was the king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. [2] He was a son of James VI and I. He was married to Henrietta Maria of France. He was executed during the English Civil War .
On 30th January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded outside Banqueting House in Whitehall, ushering in a republic and a new tyrant, Oliver Cromwell…. Never before, or since, has a king met such an untimely end like Charles I. He was proclaimed king in 1625 upon his father’s death and spent the entirety of his reign in conflict with his ...
February 7, 1649. St George's, England. Charles I (November 19, 1600 – January 30, 1649) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from March 27, 1625 until his execution in 1649. He famously engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England. As he was an advocate of the Divine Right of Kings, many in England ...
United Kingdom - Charles I, Civil War, Restoration: Father and son could hardly be more different than were James and Charles. Charles was shy and physically deformed. He had a speech defect that made his pronouncements painful for him and his audiences alike. Charles had not been raised to rule. His childhood had been spent in the shadow of his brother, Prince Henry, who had died in 1612, and ...
