Monarchy And Div Right Flashcards
When did Charles become king
March 1625
Why was Charles insecure/ different
- he had a Scottish accent as as a child he was too sick to move to london
- he had been a sick and disabled child
- he had a bad stutter
- he had little character or agression like his predecessors
What we’re the effects of charleses different character
- he is as insecure about his voice so didn’t like to holding long political conversations in parliment or at court
- he had a very small inner circle who he relied on
Who were Charles’s closest in his inner circle
- his wife Henrietta Maria
- archbishop laud
- Duke of Buckingham
- Thomas wentworth
How was press/ news changing int eh Stuart era and why was this bad for Charles
- the printing press meant people were printing newspaper like ALMANACS
- Shakespeare pioneered a new era of literature and information
- charles quiet nature meant it seemed he did not seem to listen in contrast to a time of such huge spread information
What were Charlie’s key aims going into power
- maintain law and order: keep an effective justice system and employ gentries to make sure small scale issues eg famine in villages doesn’t become disorder
- defend kingdoms: effective foreign policy, military strength, promote kingdom strength
- good religious leadership: maintain order, defend true faith
- economic strength: collect income eg taxation, manage spending well
What was opposed to Charles’s aims in the country
- cost of defense for the 30 year war
- religious tensions
- his weak perpsnality
- him and jamses huge passion for the div right of kings and royal perogative
What was hoped of Henrietta Maria and chalrses marriage
- they would stay strong allies against the Spanish empire
- England was prevented from backing any rebel french Protestants
- the french hoped that Henrietta would protects and even bring back english Catholicism
Explain Henriettas stunted start in England
- she barely spoke any English
- her court of the french were ostracised by lord Buckingham
How did Henrietta Maria gain influence in English courts
- in 1628 Lord Buckingham was assassinated so she was not ostricized and could develop a relationship w charles
- she began to reproduce
- hee court were broight in especially the marquis de chanteneay who was a political professional trained to gain hee infleunce
- she formed a faction around her that included the Earl of Holland and Wat Montagu, and which provided a French balance to the pro-Spanish faction in the court around William Laud, Richard Weston and Francis Cottington.
- hee mother, Marie De Medici, orchestrated the turnaround in Henrietta Maria’s position
How Henrietta protected English Catholics
- freedom of worship for HM and her attendants is in their marriage treaty
- 1/5 of the english gentry who were Catholics felt political protection
- she freed arrested catholic priests in the early 30s
- she gathered a female court of Catholic women
How Henrietta Catholicised/ changed court entertainment
- she became a huge participant in the masques parties which many Protestants saw as sac-religious
How did Henrietta Maria infleunce art
- she was a huge patron of the arts that celebrated her and the Catholic icon in the Virgin Mary
- she liked to be associated with Mary
- she also patroned Catholic iconography to be used in court for example pearls and roses
What was court like in the Tudor and Stuart era
- the center was the inner sanctum where the king lived ate and consulted with his friends
- it was often arbitrary and unfair but was unfair for ALL so required wit and merit to get a place in the high court
- power was gained by proximity to the king or one of his patrons
How did Buckingham change court by the time charles inherited it
- he was charming, sexually fluid and good looking so dominated the patronage given by James due to their affair
- by the time charles inherited the court- Buckingham had so much patronage he had destroyed ‘inner sanctum’ of court as he now was the font of patronage and power rather than the king
- this meant the court was now immoral and corrupy