Notable figures: Identify and State the Significance Flashcards
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George I
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- Begins the Hanoverian Dynasty
- Ends the Stuart Period
- Ensures Protestant rule
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Thomas More
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- Refused to pledge to Henry VIII in the Act of Supremacy
- Executed as a result
- Canonized in the Catholic Church
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Philip II of Spain
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- Husband of Mary I
- The Epitome of why people didn’t want a Spanish king consort
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James II
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- Tried to bring back Catholicism
- This sparked the Glorious Revolution
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Martin Luther
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- Lead the protestant reformation, challenged the Catholic Church
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Anne Boleyn
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- Mother of Elizabeth I
- Beheaded by Henry VIII
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Louis XIV
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- Moral enemy of King William
- Set on expanding French power in Europe
- Set on dominating the Dutch Republic
- Symbol of Absolutist rule
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James I
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- Father of Charles I
- Successor to Elizabeth I
- Started the Stuart line
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Henry VII
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- Started the Tudor Dynasty
- Secured peace and stability after the Wars of the Roses
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Mary I
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- Catholic queen of England
- Prosecuted non-Catholic dissenters
- Known as Bloody Mary by her opponents
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William Laud
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- Imposed the Common Book of Prayer in England and Scotland
- Epitome of Arminianism
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George Villiers
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- AKA Duke of Buckingham
- Charles I best friend
- Admiral of the Navy during the Cadiz disaster
- Assasinated by John Felton
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Catherine of Aragon
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- First wife of Henry VIII
- Previously married to Arthur Tudor
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Mary II
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- Wife of William I
- Co-ruled with William I
- Protestant
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Anne I
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- Last Stuart monarch
- She supported the Act of Union 1707
- Very poor health, obese, and dies relatively young
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Charles II
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- Restores the Stuart Monarchy in 1660
- Patron of the arts
- Coverts to Catholicism on his deathbed
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Charles Montagu
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- Pioneered the Financial Revolution
- Created Funded National Debt and the Bank of England
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Cardinal Wolseley
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- Royal almoner and advisor to Henry VIII
- Made his way up from nothing
- Ultimately stripped of all land by Henry for failing to secure him a marriage annulment with Catherine of Aragon
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Thomas Cromwell
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- Chief minister to Henry VIII
- Spearheaded the English Reformation
- Secured Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn
- Anne Boleyn HATED him
- Ultimately executed for treason by Henry for the Anne of Cleves debacle
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John Lilburne
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- Most prominent Leveller
- Wrote “A Free Man’s Freedom Vindicated”
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Carlos II
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- Last Habsburg Spanish Monarch
- Willed the Spanish throne to Phillipe d’Anjou ONLY if Phillipe renounces his claim to the French throne
- Carlos’ death precipitates the Spanish War of Succession