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Monarchy
Monarchy is a form of government in which all political power is vested in a monarch, usually a king or a queen. The monarch rules the nation, and acts as the head of state until his/her death or abdication.
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How long did the first king rule for in england?
The first king of England is generally identified as Aethelstan, the grandson of Alfred the Great. He was crowned king of England at Kingston-upon-Thames in September 925. He died in October 939. He ruled for 14 years and six weeks.
James II, his brother (Charles had no legitimate children).
What happened to Catherine of Aragon before her marriage with King Henry VII?
Catherine Howard (c1520 - 1542) was Henry VIII's fifth wife, and a great deal younger than Henry (1491 - 1547). Henry and Catherine were married on 28 July 1540. Catherine was a cousin of the ill fated Anne Boleyn (Henry's second wife) and a niece of the Duke of Norfolk. Henry was extremely happy with her, but Catherine made the terrible mistake of having an affair with a cousin of her mother's, Thomas Culpepper, which was a treasonable offence. Catherine was apprehended and was placed into custody on 12 November 1541. After she was found to be guilty of the charges, Catherine was eventually taken to the Tower of London by barge on 10 February 1542. On 13th February 1542 she went to her execution and her body was placed in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula at the Tower, to join that of her cousin Anne Boleyn.
Henry VIII married the twice widowed, and infinitely more sensible lady, Katherine Parr, his last wife, on 12 July 1543. Henry died on 28 January 1547, and Katherine outlived him.
Why didn't people want king Charles 1 to get executed?
Its not right to kill a king,
as a king he should have an ultimate power in making decisions,
it was partly parliaments fault for the wars because they could have not responded to his wish,
Killing him was too extreme + he could have been put in prison instead,
according to beliefs he was chosen to be king by God.
oilver cromwell framed Charles the 1 st
Why did lord macartney give a letter from king George 3 to Qian long?
Answer: He was sent by King George III to improve trade relations with China. However he did not impress the Chinese and the Emperor wrote a vicious letter of rejection back to the King.
Who have been the kings and queens of England since Henry VIII?
the Monarchs of England in order were:
House of Mercia:King Offa Born circa 747 Reigned 774-796 Died 26 or 29 July 796, Was King of Mercia from 757 claimed to be King of Angles in 774 House of Wessex:King Egbert Born circa 775 Reigned 829-839 Died 4 February 839King Æthelwulf Born 795 Reigned 839-856 Died 13 January 858
King Æthelbald Born circa 834 Reigned 856-860 Died 20 December 860
King Æthelberht Born circa 835 Reigned 860-865 Died 865
King Æthelred Born circa 837 Reigned 865-871 Died 23 April 871
King Alfred the Great Born circa 849 Reigned 871-899 Died 26 October 899
King Edward the Elder Born circa 871-877 Reigned 899-924 Died 17 July 924
King Athelstan the Glorious Born 895 Reigned 924-939 Died 27 October 939
King Edmund the Magnificent Born circa 921 Reigned 939-946 Died 26 May 946
King Eadred Born circa 923 Reigned 946-955 Died 23 November 955
King Eadwig Born circa 940 Reigned 955-959 Died 1 October 959
King Edgar the Peaceable Born circa 943 Reigned 959-975 Died 8 July 975
King Saint Edward the Martyr Born circa 962 Reigned 975-978 Died 18 March 978 Canonized 1001
King Æthelred the Unready Born circa 968 Reigned 978-1013 Died 23 April 1016
House of Denmark(Also the Kings of Denmark):King Sweyn Forkbeard Born circa 960 Reigned 1013-1014 Died 3 February 1014 House of Wessex(restored):King Æthelred the Unready Born circa 968 Reigned 1014-1016 Died 23 April 1016King Edmund Ironside Born circa 993 Reigned 1016 Died 30 November 1016
House of Denmark(restored):King Canute Born circa 995 Reigned 1016-1035 Died 12 November 1035King Harold Harefoot Born circa 1016/7 Reigned 1035-1040 Died 17 March 1040
King Harthacanute Born 1018 Reigned 1040-1042 Died 8 June 1042
House of Wessex(second restoration):King Saint Edward the Confessor Born circa 1003 Reigned 1042-1066 Died 5 January 1066 Canonized 1161King Harold Godwinson Born circa 1020 Reigned 1066 Died 14 October 1066
King Edgar the Atheling Born circa 1053 Reigned 1066 Died circa 1125
House of Normandy(also the Dukes of Normandy):King William I The Conqueror Born circa 1028 Reigned 1066-1087 Died 9 September 1087King William II Rufus Born circa 1060 Reigned 1087-1100 Died 2 August 1100
King Henry I Beauclerc Born September 1068 Reigned 1100-1135 Died 1 December 1135
Henry I left the Crown to his daughter Matildahowever the Barons disliked how Henry I had underminded their powers and saw a Queen as a good way to take back power from the Crown thus backed a coup under Matilda's CousinStephen
King Stephen Born circa 1096 Reigned 1135-1141 Died 25 October 1154
Empress Matilda Born 7 February 1102 Reigned 1141 Died 10 September 1167
King Stephen Born circa 1096 Reigned 1141-1154 Died 25 October 1154
House of Plantagenet:King Henry II Curtmantle Born 5 March 1133 Reigned 1154-1189 Died 6 July 1189King Richard I the Lionheart Born 8 September 1157 Reigned 1189-1199 Died 6 April 1199
King John Lackland Born 24 December 1166 Reigned 1199-1216 Died 19 October 1216
King Henry III Born 1 October 1207 Reigned 1216-1272 Died 16 November 1272
King Edward I Longshanks Born 17 June 1239 Reigned 1272-1307 Died 7 July 1307
King Edward II Born 25 April 1284 Reigned 1307-1327 Died 21 September 1327
King Edward III Born 13 November 1312 Reigned 1327-1377 Died 21 June 1377
King Richard II Born 6 January 1367 Reigned 1377-1399 Died 14 February 1400
House of Lancaster:King Henry IV Bolingbroke Born 3 April 1366/7 Reigned 1399-1413 Died 20 March 1413King Henry V Born 9 August 1387 (or 16 September) Reigned 1413-1422 Died 31 August 1422
King Henry VI Born 6 December 1421 Reigned 1422-1461 Died 21 May 1471
House of York:King Edward IV Born 28 April 1442 Reigned 1461-1470 Died 9 April 1483 House of Lancaster(restored):King Henry VI Born 6 December 1421 Reigned 1470-1471 Died 21 May 1471 House of York(restored):King Edward IV Born 28 April 1442 Reigned 1471-1483 Died 9 April 1483King Edward V Born 2 November 1470 Reigned 1483 Died circa 1483
King Richard III Born 2 October 1452 Reigned 1483 - 1485 Died 22 August 1485
House of Tudor:King Henry VII Born 28 January 1457 Reigned 1485-1509 Died 21 April 1509King Henry VIII Born 28 June 1491 Reigned 1509-1547 Died 28 January 1547
King Edward VI Born 12 October 1537 Reigned 1547-1553 Died 6 July 1553
Fearing a Catholic Monarch leading Nobles lead a coup against Mary I and made Lady Jane Grey queen for 9 days
Lady Jane Grey Born October 1537 Reigned 1553 Died 12 February 1554
Queen Mary I Born 18 February 1516 Reigned 1553-1558 Died 17 November 1558
Queen Elizabeth I Born 7 September 1533 Reigned 1558-1603 Died 24 March 1603
House of Stuart(also Kings of Scotland):King James I Born 19 June 1566 Reigned 1603-1625 Died 27 March 1625King Saint Charles I The Martyr Born 19 November 1600 Reigned 1625-1649 Died 30 January 1649 Canonized 1660
the Monarchy was over thrown in 1649, starting in 1653 a monarch like position the Lord Protector was made
Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell Born 25 April 1599 Reigned 1653-1658 Died 3 September 1658
Lord Protector Richard Cromwell Born 4 October 1626 Reigned 1658-1659 Died 12 July 1712
House of Stuart(restored):King Charles II Born 29 May 1630 Reigned 1660-1685 Died 6 February 1685
King James II Born 14 October 1633 Reigned 1685-1688 Died 16 September 1701
King James II was over thrown in a anti-Catholic Coup by his Son-in-law and daughter William and Mary making them the first and only joint monarchs in British history
Queen Mary II Born 30 April 1662 Reigned 1689-1694 Died 28 December 1694
King William III Born 4 November 1650 Reigned 1689-1702 Died 8 March 1702
Queen Anne Born 6 February 1665 Reigned 1702-1707 Died 1 August 1714
on 1 May 1707 the Kingdoms of Scotland and England united into the Kingdom of Great Britain making Queen Anne that last Monarch of England.
Queen Anne Born 6 February 1665 Reigned 1707-1714 Died 1 August 1714
House of Hanover(also rulers of Hanover):King George I Born 28 May 1660 Reigned 1714-1727 Died 11 June 1727
King George II Born 30 October 1683 Reigned 1727-1760 Died 25 October 1760
King George III Born 4 June 1738 Reigned 1760-1820 Died 29 January 1820
King George IV Born 12 August 1762 Reigned 1820-1830 Died 26 June 1830
King William IV Born 21 August 1765 Reigned 1830-1837 Died 20 June 1837
Queen Victoria Born 24 May 1819 Reigned 1837-1901 Died 22 January 1901
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha:King Edward VII Born 9 November 1841 Reigned 1901-1910 Died 6 May 1910
King George V Born 3 June 1865 Reigned 1910-1936 Died 20 January 1936
the royal house changed it's name to Windsor in 1917 due to Anti-German feeling
House of Windsor:King George V Born 3 June 1865 Reigned 1910-1936 Died 20 January 1936
King Edward VIII Born 23 June 1894 Reigned 1936 Died 28 May 1972
King George VI Born 14 December 1895 Reigned 1936-1952 Died 6 February 1952
Queen Elizabeth II Born 21 April 1926 Reigning 1952-present
What is the name of the battle Henry the seventh won in 1485 to become the king of England?
King Henry v11 defeated King Richard 111 at Bosworth Battlefield
Why was King James II removed from the throne?
James wasn't "dismissed" from Parliament, as the King is not a member of Parliament. James and Parliament were in conflict over many different things.
The most important source of conflict was James's Catholic faith. James sought to pass laws that would make it legal for Catholics to hold public office in England and access other civil rights, but the English Protestant establishment strongly rejected these because they feared James was about to impose Catholicism by force. When Parliament and the population began to turn against him, the Protestant William of Orange, third in line to the English throne and also married to James's Protestant daughter Mary, used the opportunity to invade England. When it became clear that the army would not support him, James fled to Ireland, leaving the Parliament to declare that James had abdicated and William and Mary were joint monarchs of England.
He was a Stuart
There are two James I's:
James I of England: Was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots and her second husband, Lord Darnley. Mary was deposed in 1567 and Darnley murdered. Mary then fled to England where she was imprisoned and later executed by Elizabeth I.
James, who was only 9 months old when Mary was deposed, was raised a protestant, and at the age of 13 was finally crowned King James VI of Scotland at Stirling. Most of his childhood was dominated by nobles competing for control over the boy king. His tutor, George Buchanan, was a strict and forceful master who taught James to hate his mother. James himself grew into a shrewd and canny monarch but also a deeply disturbed one. Famous for having male mistresses and 'relieving himself' without going to the toilet, he has been described at various times and by various people as:
"The wisest fool in christendom"
"many virtues ... it must be owned, he was possessed of, but no one of them pure, or free from the contagion of the neighbouring vices."
"the most effective ruler Scotland ever had "
A very mixed bad indeed. The latter is known as he was able to unite many different warring factions during his reign. This would be important as his great-grandfather, James IV, had married Margaret, the daughter of England's Henry VII, and when Elizabeth I died in 1603, James was the nearest surviving relative, and he was duely crowned, once more, but now as James I of England. These two fueding nations would take all of his strength to unite.
A firm believer in the Divine Right of Kings, James brooked no disloyalty and considered Parliament in both England and Scotland to be a rubber stamp. This laid the seeds of the Great Rebellion against his son, Charles I. James was able to divert the anger of the manner of his authoritarian rule, but Charles was not so fortunate.
After moving to England, James returned to Scotland only once, in 1617 and the latter part of his reign saw him lost touch with Scottish affairs. In 1618 he tried to enforce religious uniformity with England, but produced such opposition that he never carried through the edict.
He died in Whitehall Palace on the 27th of March 1625.
James I of Scotland: The second son of the weak and ineffective Robert III, his uncle, the Forceful Duke of Albany had had James' older brother David killed in 1402. Fearing for the safety of James, Robert III evacuated him to France, but he was captured instead by the English and held for ransom.
Despite being a prisoner, Henry IV of England ensured that James received a full education appropriate to a royal heir, and James, still only 11, took to King Henry as a surrogate father. When Robert III died in 1406, the Scottish Parliament acknowledged James as King and appointed Albany as his governor until James had become old enough. Knowing that Albany would become King himself if James died in captivity, Albany made no attempt whatsoever to gain James' release.
While still captive, James met Lady Joan Beaufort, a relative of England's Henry VI and they began courting. In 1423 (Albany now dead) James was finally released and they both travelled north, getting married in early 1424 and being crowned at Scone.
James' rule was marked by bitter disputes with the noblemen who had ruled Scotland in his absence and who had siphoned off royal weath to feed their own coffers. Most particularly, he systematically broke the power of the descendants of his father's siblings, including having Albany's son tortured to death.
In a bid to maintain law and order he founded the Court of Succession, which antagonised the nobility further as they had always run the judiciary as part of their feudal rights.
On 20th February 1437, James was assassinated in Perth by his uncle, the Duke of Atholl (one of the last survivors of his enemies), and buried in a nearby abbey. He was succeeded by his six year old son, James II.
Who was the youngest of Henry VIII's wives?
Kathryn Howard 1521 [BORN]
Anne of Cleves 1515 [BORN]
Katherine Parr 1512 [BORN]
Anne Boleyn 1507 or 1509 [BORN]
Jane Seymour 1509 {BORN}
Catherine of Aragon 1485 {BORN}
What King that gave up crown for wife?
Edward VIII. He abdicated the throne in order to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American divorcee.
Where did William and Mary rule?
William and Mary ruled from 1688 CE to 1702 CE. Mary died in 1694 and William ruled alone until his death in 1702.
Name the 3 children of Henry VIII to take the throne after him?
Henry VIII had only three legitimate children. The all came to the throne, in this order:
-Edward VI
-Mary I
-Elizabeth I
He had an illegitimate child by his mistress Bessie Blount named Henry Fitzroy. He became the 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset. There was talk of the king making him his heir before he had Edward by his third wife (Jane Seymour), but he died of consumption. He might have had other children, but these were the only four he publicly acknowledged.
Why was the monarchy abolished?
The French monarchy was executed because of their apparent lack of concern for its people reflected by the lavish lifestyles of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The peasants revolted against their monarchs to take control of France.
What problems did Edward VI face?
Edward faced the problems of Changing the churches from Catholic to Protestant, then after Edward died at the age of 15 his sister Mary I (bloody mary) Chnaged the churches from Protestant back to Catholic, When Mary died after just a small reign, Elizbeth I was a Protestant but didn't want to take the Catholic religion away so she was stuck with the decision of changing it to Cathoic or Protestant...... She then decided to split the churches to Protestant and Catholic so everybody was happy.
He also didn't marry to geet any allies or make an heir to the tthrone and didn't make much money
What charges were Charles I accused of?
After the first Civil War, the parliamentarians accepted the premise that the King, although wrong, had been able to justify his fight, and that he would still be entitled to limited powers as King under a new constitutional settlement. It was now felt that by provoking the second Civil War even while defeated and in captivity, Charles showed himself incorrigible, dishonourable, and responsible for unjustifiable bloodshed.
His trial on charges of high treason and 'other high crimes' began on 20 January 1649, but Charles refused to enter a plea, claiming that no court had jurisdiction over a monarch
How did shakespeare portray Richard III?
Not really. Shakespeare described Richard as hunchbacked, with a "withered arm". If the skeleton discovered under a carpark really is that of Richard III, as the people who discovered it claim, neither of those is true. The skeleton showed no weakness in either arm, and although the spine was twisted, it would not give a hunchbacked appearance. Likewise, portraits of Richard do not show him as hunchbacked, and there is nothing to indicate any abnormality in his arms. (Indeed, as Richard was universally acknowledged as a great warrior, it is unlikely that either his sword-arm or shield-arm would be crippled). So, the grotesque Quasimodo-like figure Shakespeare presents to us is a fictional figure of Tudor propaganda.
people in the Tudor times had their own opinion, some people thought Henry viii was a villain because he had a argument with the pope of the catholic church and took all the treasures for himself and his friends.
Others thought he was a hero bacause he made England a strong and powerful country and ruled very well.
