Monarchy

Henry's favourite male courtier,whom she had initially desired on her arrival at court two years earlier. Their meetings were arranged by Lady Rochford(George Boleyns`widow).

YES. Louis XIV is usually held up as the quintessential example of an absolute monarchy. He weakened the power of the nobility, strengthened his direct power over locals, ran every aspect of the Kingdom of France, directed and controlled all religious activity in France, and finally, Louis XIV saw no distinction between his person and the Kingdom of France as a whole.

in the period between 1693 and 1697

There was no reigning monarch between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. Instead, from 1653 the Lords Protector had power, known as the Protectorate.

King James II had converted to Roman Catholicism. He then fathered a son, who would inherit the Crown. Fearful that the emnity between Protestant and Catholic would erupt again - particularly as there was unrest between the two in Ireland - Parliament resolved to put an end to the matter by forcing the King to renounce Catholicism.

This they failed to do, so they looked to the closest descendant of King Charles I to replace the king. Mary was married to William of Orange in Holland and fitted the bill. Thus William was invited to invade, usurp James, and restore Britain to the Church of England - reigning as joint monarch with his wife, Mary.

King James, faced with an invasion orchestrated by Parliament, fled to France where he hoped to build an army to regain his kingdom. Despite several attempts (noticeably by his grandson, Charles in 1745), it was not to be.

Tudor girls didn't go to school but some girls were taught by their mothers at home. It was mainly the very rich ones who where home tutored.

1. He killed the head of the Anglo Saxon royal family, Harold II, in battle and sent the rest into exile. An Anglo Saxon monarch never reigned again.

2. He became the owner of England with the right to lease out parts to whom he wished. All previous owners were ignored.

3. In return for the right to occupy an area of land his subjects provided him with soldiers, weapons, money and food. The right to marry or to inherit was purchased from him. The Anglo Saxons based their armies on family loyalty.

4. He introduced a property tax. Domesday Book records the property of individuals.

5. He gave the majority of the larger landholdings to Frenchmen, Normans, Spaniards, Bretons and none to Anglo Saxons.

6. He made an Italian, Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Norman ,Archbishop of York.

7. He built numerous fortifications at strategic points, including some of stone (eg Dover and the Tower of London).

8. He opened England up to the wider world. Using English soldiers in his battles in France and sending some on the First Crusade to Jerusalem.

9. If anyone objected he didn't hesitate to use the harshest measures, as happened in the North of England. He fought his eldest son Robert for control of lands in France.

!0. Through his two younger sons and granddaughter the rule of this French- speaking, aggressive, yet fair, Norman princeling, over England, then Wales and Ireland, continued until Henry II, Plantagenet, chose a different direction.

Her grandmother, Mary Tudor, also known as Bloody Mary, ruled.

The Tudor Rose badge is a red rose with a white rose inside it. Red for the House of Lancaster, and white for the House of York.

He was mainly the person who changed the The Netherlands into New York and changed the name of the capital from Fort Orange to Albany, but their is much more that if i decided to list it all, it would look like an essay.

Jane Seymour, who was Henry VIII's 3rd wife, gave birth to a boy named Edward VI. He only ruled for 6 years. Edward was 9 when he ruled England and since he was an ill boy, he died at the age of 15.

The Glorious revolution.

One of the benefits of being King is you have access to several royal residences. However, he seemed to prefer living in Windsor. During WWII, the royal family would "live" in Buckingham Palace (in London) during the day, but spend the night at Windsor Castle.

Because he Died of Tuberculosis before his Father (the king)Died.

He was known as William "the Bastard" (because he was illegitimate) the Duke of Normandy. His father was a tanner but he was adopted by the previous duke. The Normans were "northmen" from Norway who had conquered this part of northern France a century before. Over that time they had stopped speaking Norse and began speaking French.

He was a Protestant. His wife was Catholic. Many people accused him of being a catholic because he wore extravagant clothing and Catholics were known to like extravagant things.

As far as my research tells me, in the Hampden trial, a court case in which Charles I was attempting to impeach John Hampden for refusing to pay Ship Tax (a hated and actually illegal tax that was originally introduced to pay for ship building in times of naval emergency), 5 judges actually found for John Hampden, meaning that they voted against the king.

Charles was furious and had had enough of parliament so he stormed into parliament with a fair few soldiers and tried to arrest the 5 MPs who had voted against him but they had already been told and had left through a rear exit.

yes his first wife died by the birth of her child Edward., but i don't remember how Dorthea Dandbridge.

The "short" answer to this is that it was King John who caved into the demands of the Barons of England and signed the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta was a document that installed limits on the power of the Monarchy. With the King in check, another "order" of authority had to arise, and this arguably marked the beginning of what we consider contemporary democratic government. A link can be found below to gather more information and to begin an investigation of the "big picture" here.

The reason why King Charles was executed was because Parliament disliked all his money making ways and religious changes. Parliament had a vote, to see whether the King should be executed and it was aid that he was going to be!

He still tried to impress the crowd that had assembled on the day he was going to die, because he put on two layers of clothing since it was a bitter day, he did not want people thinking that he was shivering out of fear, if he was shivering from the cold.

An emperor (from the Latin "imperator") is a (male) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the female equivalent. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor (empress consort) or a woman who rules in her own right (empress regnant). Emperors and empresses are generally recognized to be above kings and queens in honour and rank.

lady Jane grey was the queen who ruled for the shortest amount of time in the Tudor period. (only 9 days) and i think Richard 3rd was the king who ruled for the shortest amount of time in the Tudor period(2 years).

Yes, but only to an extent. The reason for this is because he was put into power at a young age, so he didn't learn how to maintain a kingdom until late in his rule. What made him bad was his extreme love for food, and tinkering which made him completely unaware of what had been going on outside of his palace. This is proved during the storming of the Bastille; while people were raiding the symbol of opposition he had no account of what happened on that day. So overall was he a bad monarch? Not necessarily, it was the poor timing that got to him.

The dissolution of monasteries after the break with Rome in Henry's reign led to the dissolving of many abbeys including Neath abbey which was dissolved in 1539. Abbeys all over the country were dissolved to provide the crown with vast amounts of land, property and goods. After Neath was dissolved it was given to Sir Richard Williams who converted much of the south-eastern wing of the abbey to create a grand mansion, which was essential for aspiring nobles at the time.

I do not know if this applies specifically to Neath but many abbeys were destroyed after being dissolved as the crown or noble who gained the abbey would often tear it apart to get building materials which they could then use on other projects. This may have happened at Neath and that in a sense is vandalising the abbey, particularly as many of the abbeys were buildings of great beauty.