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Personal data Karel I. van Engeland 

• He was born on November 18, 1600 in Dunfermline.
• He died on January 30, 1649 in London, he was 48 years old.

  Oorzaak: onthoofd

• He is buried in Gruft von Henry dem VII. in der St. George's Kapelle in Windsor.
• A child of Jacobus I. van Engeland and Anna van Oldenburg

Household of Karel I. van Engeland

He is married to Henrietta Maria van Frankrijk.

They got married on May 11, 1625 at Canterbury (GB), he was 24 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Karel Jacobus Stuart  1629-1629
2. Karel II. van Engeland  1630-1685 
3. Maria Henriëtta Stuart  1631-1660 
4. Jacobus II. van Engeland  1633-1701 
5. Elizabeth Stuart  1635-1650
6. Anne Stuart  1637-1640
7. Catharina Stuart  1639-1639
8. Hendrik Stuart  1639-1660
9. Henriette Anne van Engeland  1644-1670 

Notes about Karel I. van Engeland

Karel I uit het Huis Stuart was koning van Schotland, Engeland en Ierland. Hij is de enige Britse vorst ooit die werd afgezet en onthoofd. Hij was een zoon van Jacobus I. Karel I werd geboren in het paleis in het Schotse Dunfermline. Zijn vader was op dat moment koning van Schotland, maar nog niet van Engeland

 

In December 1648, in an episode that became known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride%27s_Purge">Pride's Purge, a troop of soldiers headed by Colonel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pride">Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Parliament">Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandee_(New_Model_Army)">Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents. Thus weakened, the remaining body of MPs, known as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_Parliament">Rump Parliament, agreed that Charles should be tried on a charge of treason. Cromwell was still in the north of England, dealing with Royalist resistance, when these events took place, but then returned to London. On the day after Pride's Purge, he became a determined supporter of those pushing for the King's trial and execution, believing that killing Charles was the only way to end the civil wars. Cromwell approved Thomas Brook's address to the House of Commons, which justified the trial and execution of the King on the basis of the Book of Numbers, chapter 35 and particularly verse 33 ("The land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.").

The death warrant for Charles was eventually signed by 59 of the trying court's members, including Cromwell (who was the third to sign it). Though it was not unprecedented, execution of the King, or "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regicide">regicide", was controversial, if for no other reason due to the doctrine of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings">divine right of kings. Thus, even after a trial, it was difficult to get ordinary men to go along with it: "None of the officers charged with supervising the execution wanted to sign the order for the actual beheading, so they brought their dispute to Cromwell...Oliver seized a pen and scribbled out the order, and handed the pen to the second officer, Colonel Hacker who stooped to sign it. The execution could now proceed." Although Fairfax conspicuously refused to sign, Charles I was executed on 30 January 1649

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