The English response to Absolutism

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The English response to Absolutism
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The House of Lancaster vs The House of York
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Henry Tudor

• Defeated Richard III-
• Battle of Bosworth Field
• Ruled as Henry VII 1485-1509
• gt Suppressed private armies
• gt Bureaucracy of Gentry
• gt Circuit Judges

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Henry VIII1509-1547

• gt The Henrican Reformation England became a
  Protestant nation
• gt lived within his means
• - sold church lands
• - no standing army

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• Anne Boleyn Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I1558-1603

• Shared power with various regional councils
  Parliament
• Promoted Protestantism
• The Elizabethan Age
• England became a world power

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The StuartsJames I1603-1625

• Divine Rights Theory
• Clashed with Parliament
• Pro-Catholic foreign policy
• King James Bible

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Charles I1625-1649

• gt Petition of Right
• gt Divine Rights vs Parliament/Puritans
• gt 1640 Scot Invasion
• gt 1642- 1649
• Civil War aka The Puritan Revolution

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Roundheads vs Cavaliers
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Oliver Cromwell1649-1658

• The Model Army
• The Commonwealth 1649-1654
• The Protectorate 1653-1660
• Purely Puritanical!

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The Restoration1660Charles II1660-1685

• The most comfortable chair in the world

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James II 1685-1688

• Divine Rights...again!
• 2nd wife - Catholic Princess
• Their son to be raised Catholic

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Mary and William of Orange invited by
Parliament...
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The Glorious RevolutionWilliam III 1689-1702

• gtThe English Bill of Rights
• gtConstitutional Monarchy
• gtTriennial Act 1694