Why was king James ll removed from the throne?

Answer 1

In this, I presume you mean James I of England. (Who was also James VI of Scotland) Please find a family tree enclosed at the following address: http://www.geocities.com/paul_j_hurley@btinternet.com/wikianswersimages/ tudor-stuart_lineage.jpg (That should all be on 1 line) * The "=" sign denotes a marriage * The Blue dates are for Kings of Scotland * The Red Dates are for England * The red line is the inheritance order for the English Throne Note that only relevant members of the royal families have been included. In short, James was Elizabeth nearest living relative through Margaret's marriage to James IV of Scotland

Answer 2

James II used religious tolerance after being opposed by Parliament due to his Catholicism and his close ties with France. The animosity between them reached a breaking point when James displaced his Protestant daughter heir, Mary with his new Catholic male heir.

Answer 3

James 2nd, became King of an Anglican Country! For 1600 yrs at least the Church had reigned supreme. The King a former Anglican Catholic converted to Romanism! A most unpopular move! Right away he began to persecute protestants not in a massive way, but enough to make people wonder what was coming next? The trouble was there had been ,for a 160years, serious trouble on the religious front. In England and the Continent, in France Louis 14th, had ended an Agreement with French Calvinists and started a horrific persecution which caused thousands to flee to Britain and other places on the Continent and as far off as South Africa. There were tales of hanging and shooting, men being sent to the Royal Galleys as slaves with children being taken from their parents and brought up as Romanists. Wives separated from their husbands, property confiscated and the list of occurences grew longer each post. There were in parts of France a civil war!

England itself had suffered similar outrages, on a similar scale some twenty five years earlier. Minds were fresh and sympathy for the French Calvinists boiled over.

So James's Romanism, his attitude to Protestants, caused folk to live very warily! James, after a few months changed tack and started allowing protestants free worship! A marvellous move on James's part seeing these same people had prevented both Anglican Catholics and Romanists from peaceably following their own religious paths.The Anglican Catholics, who had about a 96% following and were the dominant Church, made no protests, but ,'Toleration,' sat uneasy on Protestant backs, if they thought it would be extended to Romanists! James however, being a convert couldn't sit still and suffer everyone but Romans to worship freely!

He issued a Decree of Toleration ! Had he left it at that, he woulde have been wiser and a lot happier, he couldn't. He was like a child with a new toy, he was forever pushing the limits to see how far they would stretch? Trouble was he pushed the Anglicans. A mistake, they had endured some twenty years of intense persecution from 1640 to 1660. Their King, James's father had been executed for standing by the Anglican Faith, the Archbishop had been martyred and other bishops imprisoned. Priests had been turned out of their livings and their families left without shelter or sustenance.

James made a colossal blunder in ordering the Anglican Clergy to release and explain the new moves from their pulpits. Prime time t.v. in those days of massed congregations. The Church was up in armes and there was wholesale disobedience on the Clergy's part with the bishops leading it! Seven Bishops were tried in the Kings Courts, a move of prime folly, for treason and aquitted. James's army went wild with joy as did the rest of the nation, and then seemingly it was over! James's attempts to rule by decree were finished, the elderly King was shaken to the core, the Bishops were his friends and supporters, without them, he wondered where would he be? On June 10, a happy occurence, with Queen Mary Beatrice producing a son, turned sour with the protestants panicking further. James would die soon and his Anglican daughters would have been the heirs to the Crown, now England faced a Roman Catholic Dynasty! Whilst it was the Anglican Catholic Bishops who had spoiled James's attempts to push forward ,at least, the Roman Church, in the background were shadowy figures amongst the nobility and gentry, the remnants of those supporters of Cromwell and the Calvinist Parliament! A petition was sent to the King's nephew ,Prince William of Orange to save the Country from its Roman peril. William denied any knowledge, but in autumn an armada of ships with an army of protestant veterans, paid for in some cases by the papacy landed at Torbay!

James, astonished , at what the rest of the world knew, took off after William with the combined armies of the three kingdoms, a force, of some 30,000 men. Getting as far as Salisbury Plain, James, not in the best of health and under great pressure suffered a series of desertions not by the rank and file, but by his own friends, only a small number, including his daughter , the future Queen Ann. It broke his nerve and against the advice of his other officers he retreated to London. There were reports of small groups of dissidents appearing in arms in various places ; after that it was all down hill and after discharging or demobilising his well trained army James retreated to France with his wife and son!

This event could be considered a final move of the English Reformation because William of Orange was a Calvinist and the next King of England after William, was George of Hannover a Lutheran. Whist the Anglican Church was Catholic and to well placed o be dismissed easily, or to be forced to do what it didn't want to do. The Seven Bishops were manoeuvred out of their sees and a split engineered forcing a schism. But even worse the remaining clergy and the rump of the C.of E, became schismatics and were used as a Dept, of State by the Hannoverian Kings. It wasn't till 1788 that the split began to mend, but by this time the damage had been done and it never really healed! It was a triumph, not for the Calvinists mind you but for the Broad Church Party, the latitudinarians!

Interestingly, William of Orange kept an Army of Occupation of some 10,000 men in this country for many years.

Answer 4

He was overthrown because he attempted to re-impose a Roman Catholic system on Britain at a time when Catholicism had a bad name, and because he had just given birth to a son, which suggested he would pass his faith on and Britain would remain Catholic even after his death. During this period in history, the idea of allowing people in the same country to worship in different ways was not commonplace: and typically whoever was monarch, whether Catholic or Protestant, would impose their faith on the country.

Answer 5

Because he was a Catholic King at a time when Britain was extremely Protestant and anti-Catholic, so he was just generally hated.