King Charles I

Standard Name: Charles I, King
Used Form: King Charles the First

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Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
During the English Civil War, DSCS had close relatives on both sides of the conflict. Her husband supported the royalist cause, fought, and ultimately died for it. He also gave Charles I a loan...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Halkett
Their wedding, if it occurred, must have come between the execution of Charles I and the last illness of Anne's brother Will. After this, Loftis believes, Bampfield heard that his wife was after all still...
Family and Intimate relationships Damaris Masham
Her mother, born Damaris Cradock, was a widow with several children from her first marriage (three sons and a daughter—who was also, confusingly, called Damaris) when she married DM 's father. From her second marriage...
Family and Intimate relationships Lucy Hutchinson
In the Civil War John Hutchinson (commissioned a colonel in January 1643) became commander of the parliamentary forces in Nottinghamshire, and of the stronghold of Nottingham Castle. In 1646 he became Member of...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Jane Cavendish
The then Earl of Newcastle offered hospitality at Welbeck to Charles I on his journey north to be crowned King of Scotland: probably the first taste of court life for the children Lady Jane and...
Fictionalization Ephelia
In 2007 Cheryl Sawyer , in a historical novel entitled The Winter Prince, presented a triangular relationship between the happily-married Duchess of Richmond (already a poet, identified as the future Ephelia), her husband ...
Intertextuality and Influence Joan Whitrow
This offers praise to God for the king's safe return from waging war in Holland, but deplores the money spent in official welcome celebrations, which would have been better given to the poor. By...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Eleanor Douglas
In the same year, in the poem To Sion most Belov'd I Sing, she compared Charles I to King Belshazzar in her favourite book of Daniel, whose feast was interrupted by the divine...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Eleanor Douglas
This two-part allegorical tract or prophecy, To the High Court (which repeats almost exactly a title LED had used in 1641) and Samsons Legacie, makes Charles I and Henrietta Maria modern avatars of the...
Leisure and Society Ephelia
From an early age, the personal beauty of Lady Mary Villiers and her prominence at court ensured that she was painted many times: by Van Dyck (especially), John Michael Wright , and possibly Lely ...
Literary responses Mary Ferrar
The hold exerted on T. S. Eliot 's imagination by Little Gidding seems to have been produced by the idea of the community, not by their texts. His poem Little Gidding gives little hint that...
Literary Setting Charlotte Charke
The Mercer is the tale of William Dennis in the reign of Charles I , who marries money and becomes a silk mercer in London's Cheapside, but who then ruins his own wealth and...
Literary Setting Caryl Churchill
The play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I 's defeat by Cromwell , when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible.
Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press, 1978.
prelims
Critics have recognised Churchill's debt to Christopher Hill
Literary Setting Cassandra Cooke
The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell 's usurpation,
Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn, 1799, 2 vols.
1: 1
among the Vesey family of Battleridge Castle (in the north of England, near one of the castles owned by Lady Anne Clifford
Literary Setting Anna Maria Mackenzie
The title-page bears a quotation from Shakespeare ; the dedication argues that the rebel Monmouth was wrong but deserving of pity. The story traces the fate of a family named Bruce; it opens with a...

Timeline

18 December 1640: William Laud, Charles I's unpopular High...

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18 December 1640

William Laud , Charles I 's unpopular High Church Archbishop of Canterbury, was arrested and charged with high treason. He was sent to the Tower of London in spring 1641.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
99, 373-4

12 May 1641: Charles I's favourite, the Earl of Strafford,...

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12 May 1641

Charles I 's favourite, the Earl of Strafford , was executed on Tower Hill, London.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
17
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
100
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
89, 117

23 October 1641: Many Protestants (but perhaps not so many...

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23 October 1641

Many Protestants (but perhaps not so many as reported) were killed in a Rebellion or massacre in Ulster.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
99, 107
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
314
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
109, 114

22 November 1641: Late at night John Pym's demand, the Grand...

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22 November 1641

Late at night John Pym 's demand, the Grand Remonstrance, passed through Parliament .
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
118-19

4 January 1642: Charles I entered the House of Commons with...

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4 January 1642

Charles I entered the House of Commons with the intention of arresting the five men he regarded as opposition ringleaders, including Pym and Hampden ; the result was a public-relations defeat for the monarchy.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
122-4, 126

23 February 1642: Queen Henrietta Maria parted from her husband,...

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23 February 1642

Queen Henrietta Maria parted from her husband, Charles I , and sailed from England to Holland, probably because her unpopularity was one of the problems he faced at home.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
248-9

20 August 1642: Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham...

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20 August 1642

Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham with the intention of reducing his rebellious people to subjection: thus began the English Civil War.
Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.
108
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
317

November 1642: After winning the first battle of Edgehill,...

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November 1642

After winning the first battle of Edgehill, Charles I 's forces marched on London, but instead of attacking the city's strong and still increasing fortifications they then retreated to Oxford.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
191-5, 275-6

30 March 1643: An altarpiece by Rubens in Henrietta Maria's...

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30 March 1643

An altarpiece by Rubens in Henrietta Maria 's Roman Catholic chapel in Somerset House, London (his only depiction of Christ on the cross), was destroyed by iconoclasts.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
244-6

10 January 1645: William Laud, Charles I's unpopular High...

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10 January 1645

William Laud , Charles I 's unpopular High Church Archbishop of Canterbury, impeached the previous autumn, was executed.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
121-2
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
374
Lady Eleanor Douglas had both prophesied this event and called for it to be done.

14 June 1645: Cromwell's New Model Army scored its first...

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14 June 1645

Cromwell 's New Model Army scored its first signal victory, at the battle of Naseby in Northamptonshire. This defeat for Charles I was a step towards his surrender in May 1646 and the end...

From Summer 1645: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army gradually...

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From Summer 1645

Oliver Cromwell 's New Model Army gradually prevailed against Charles I .
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
292
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Cromwell

5 May 1646: King Charles I surrendered to the Scots Covenanters,...

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5 May 1646

King Charles I surrendered to the Scots Covenanters , with whom he had been at war for seven years.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
3: 300

27 May 1647: Parliament ordered the New Model Army to...

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27 May 1647

Parliament ordered the New Model Army to disband: a tactical error which merely intensified the army's politicization.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
484-5

June to 11 November 1647: Charles I was held captive in his palace...

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June to 11 November 1647

Charles I was held captive in his palace at Hampton Court by Cromwell 's armies.
Cannon, John, editor. The Oxford Companion to British History. Revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2002.
189-90
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
459

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