Charles I

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WHAT WERE THEIR MAIN POLITICAL GOALS?

• his religious policy, coupled with his marriage to a roman catholic, generated the antipathy and mistrust of the reformed groups such as the puritans and the colvinists who thought his views were too catholic. he supported high church ecclesiastics, such as richard montagu and william laud.

what was charles l political goals?

• the masques offer valuable evidence of how Charles thought political power operated
• '' Charles's preference for a world in which power was confined to the king, was not shared by his subjects''
• he was in the ideology of divine right kingship, he often seems to have believed that order could not be achieved by the king acting out a role and laying down patterns for his people to observe and copy.
• also his goal was to increase his power.

legacy

• 1625 - Crowned King of England and Scotland 1625 - Appointed Duke Buckingham 1628 - Signed Petition of Rights 1629 - Dismissed 3rd parliament, arrested opponents, and declared his intention of ruling alone. 1630 - Peace with Spain and France 1633 - Appointed William Laud 1635 - Stable Finances 1637 - Bishops Wars, attempts to force religious conformity onto Scotland 1640 -Recalls Parliament 1641 - Scottish uprisings 1642 - Attempts to incarcerate opponents in parliament and evacuates London 1645 - 1646 - Royalists defeated 1646 - Surrenders to Scotland 1647 - Charles escapes custody from the Hampton Court and he flees to Isle of Wight 1647 - Charles is turned over to the Scots by Colonel Hammond 1649 - Parliament ridden of royalist sympathizers and high court of justice appointed 1649 - Convicted of high treason and sentenced to death January 30th 1649 - Publicly beheaded 1660 - Canonized Kind Charles the Martyr

what was their foreign policy?

• charle's foreign policy was an undecided balance of agreements with France and the Dutch in turns. IN 1670, Charles signed the secret treaty of Dover under which Charles would announce himself a Board and England would side with France against the Dutch.
• His foreign policy, however, was not successful

conclusion

• Charles I made common mistakes of the Stuart Kings. “When Charles I was executed, and he started the decline of the Stuart rule. His tendencies seemed to pass to his descendants”. He was destined to fall because his people had a great dislike for him and his way of ruling. This Stuart King was tactless, stubborn, easily influenced, and very narrow minded. His downfall was caused by the people he kept company with and his very nature. Charles I’s upbringings lead him to overcorrect himself as an adult.