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The royalist were called cavaliers and they were people who supported king Charles 1st when they declared war on Parliament when Parliament set war on them because Charles french wife Henrietta maria a catholic made Charles more Catholic when he was supposed to be protestant so Parliament was afraid of king Charles making England a Catholic country witch were called the roundheads.

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