Charles the first
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About Charles
Charles the first was born on November 30, 1600 in Dunfermline, Scottland. He died at age 50 on January 30, 1649 in London England. Charles was known as the King of Great Briton & Ireland. He started a horrific war in England
Getting to know the King
Second Stuart king of England; reigned 1625 to 1649; second son of James VI of Scotland (became James I of England, 1603) and Anne of Denmark; b. 1600, in Dunfermline, Scotland; executed, Jan. 30, 1649, in Whitehall, London, England. Charles was the younger of James's two sons, and became heir apparent to the thrones of Scotland and England when his older brother Henry died of typhus in November 1612.
England
This is the map of England, it shows where Charles Ruled England and declared war.
Catholic Church
Charles was Catholic, he believe in the catholic rules and followed them.
Charles & his wife Henrietta Maria
Charles married Henrietta Maria. She is the daughter of the King of France. She and Charles agreed on As part of the marriage pact, he secretly agreed to allow English Catholics to worship at the queen's private chapel and to raise his children as Catholics until they were at least 13.
Charles achieved goals
He turned up at parliament and imprisoned seven men and eventually caused a civil war - the parliamentarians V the royalists. Charles was reserved (he had a residual stammer), self-righteous and had a high concept of royal authority, believing in the divine right of kings. Charles found other ways of raising money. Another scheme involved selling monopoly rights to businessmen.
Governing & Policies
The problem was that this approach was fundamentally at odds with an English political tradition based on bargain and compromise. Charles's preference for a world in which power was confined to the king, a virtuous elite of court nobles and the bishops in the church was not shared by his subjects; however, this was not something which overly concerned him.