1296834

Portrait of King Charles I, painted within #1296834

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Portrait of King Charles I, painted within #1296834
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Charles I was born in 1600, the second son of James I and Anne of Denmark. After several unsuccessful attempts at arranging a marriage, Charles married the 15 year-old daughter of France's King Henry IV, Henrietta Maria. Three years of coldness and indifference ensued, but the pair finally became devoted to each other, producing four sons (Charles [who died as a teenager], Charles [who became Charles II], James and Henry) and five daughters (Mary, Elizabeth, Anne, Catherine and Henrietta Anne). Charles I was executed for treason in 1649.

Charles ascended the throne at the age of 25; after a weak, sickly childhood, he became an excellent horseman and a strong-willed king. His strong will, however, proved to be his undoing: mismanagement of affairs (in the tradition of his father) forced a showdown with Parliament, which culminated in civil war and the king's execution.

Charles inherited the incessant financial problems of his father: the refusal of Parliament to grant funds to a king who refused to address the grievances of the nobility. George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (and homosexual friend of James I), exerted undue and unpopular influence over Charles in the first years of Charles' reign; Buckingham's assassination in August 1628 came amid shouts of joy from the nobility. Three times summoned and three times dissolved through 1625-1629, Parliament went the next 11 years without being summoned, as Charles financed his reign by selling commercial monopolies and extracting ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Overall good condition</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c1700</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:13.39</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:11.42</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of King Charles I, painted within</td></tr>

<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas </td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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