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Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.
The following day, 30 January, Charles I was beheaded outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall; [2] [4] Charles II went into exile. [2] The English monarchy was replaced with, at first, the Commonwealth of England (1649–1653) and then the Protectorate (1653–1659) under Cromwell's personal rule.
News of the execution of Charles I travelled slowly to the colonies; on 26 May Roger Williams of Rhode Island reported that "the King and many great Lords and Parliament men are beheaded," and on 3 June Adam Winthrop reported from Boston that "heer is now a London shipp come in, that bringeth the newes that the King is beheaded." However, the ...
King Charles IV (Emperor Charles I of Austria) was deposed in 1918 when a republic was established. Following the restoration of the Hungarian monarchy in 1920, he was refused permission to "assume residency and constitutional functions" in the Kingdom by the Regent Miklós Horthy. Charles IV died in exile in 1922.
King of Portugal: 15 November 1477 Afonso V: Catherine Cornaro: Kingdom of Cyprus: Queen of Cyprus: 26 February 1489 Island annexed by the Republic of Venice: Bayezid II Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Sultan: 25 April 1512 Selim I: Charles I [a] Kingdom of Spain: King of Spain: 16 January 1556 Philip II: Charles V [a] Holy Roman Empire: Holy Roman ...
In a 2005 biography of Cook, Geoffrey Robertson argued that Cook was a highly original and progressive lawyer: while representing John Lilburne he established the right to silence and was the first to advocate many radical reforms in law, including the cab-rank rule of advocacy, the abolition of imprisonment for debt, the abolition of the use of courtroom Latin, the fusion of law and equity ...
A plate depicting the trial of Charles I in January 1649, from John Nalson's "Record of the Trial of Charles I, 1688" in the British Museum. In 1649, the Rump Parliament established an ad hoc High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland.
In 1625, shortly before the opening of the new parliament, Charles was married by proxy to Princess Henrietta Maria of France, the Catholic daughter of King Henri IV.In diplomatic terms this implied alliance with France in preparation for war against Spain, but Puritan MPs openly claimed that Charles was preparing to restrict the recusancy laws and even to grant Catholic Emancipation.