Charles I
Beheaded English king
Charles I was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 until his execution in 1649.
His conflicts with Parliament over taxation and religious policy led to the English Civil War.
Defeated by Parliamentarian forces, he was tried for treason and beheaded—the first English monarch executed by his own government.
His death ushered in the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell.
- Book of Common PrayerAnglican official worship text
- Civil War battlefieldsHistoric military engagement locations
- English Civil War1640s British constitutional conflict
- James IFirst Stuart king
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
Louis XVI · Anglicanism · Whitehall · Puritanism · king · regicide · monarchy · execution · divine right · martyr · collar · treason · beheading · archbishop · Tower · absolutism · Stuart · restoration
- Stuart EraJames I, Oliver Cromwell, William III, Anne, Protectorate
- Stuart MonarchsJames I, William III, Anne
- British historyWilliam the Conqueror, Victorian era, Elizabethan era, English Civil War, Tudor era
- Famous Charles
- MonarchsAugustus, Charlemagne, Constantine, Elizabeth I, Genghis Khan
- Irish HistoryGreat Famine, Easter Rising, Irish nationalism, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Darwin
- Ray Charles
- Charles LindberghPioneer solo oceanic flyer
- Charles Manson
- Prince CharlesMonarch's eldest son