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Absolutism and hispanic dominance - Coggle Diagram
Absolutism and hispanic dominance
Absolutism
17th century
Authoritarian monarchies of some kingdoms
Developed into absolute monarchies
Supported the belief that the kingdom held power
Main proponents of absolutism
Jacques Bossuet
Thomas Hobbes.
Bossuet
Believed that kingshad a divine right to power.
Hobbes
Believed that absolutism was the result of a social pact.
Between subjects and a monarchy
In order to guarantee peace and stability.
Absolute monarchies
Ideology defending the king's supremacy over all others
Growing centralisation political and administrative decisions.
In the royal courts and the monarchy's governmental bodies
A permanent army of professional soldiers
A royal treasury able to raise revenue
Marginalisation of courts and parliaments of estates of realm
The courts and parliaments of kingdoms
As representatives of their political communities
Were sometimes resistant to the absolutist tendencies
Were sometimes resulted in submitting to a pact
Because od the limitations of the power of each side.
Sometimes il led to confrontations.
When a dispute ended favourable for the monarchy
It was considered a victory for absolutism.
Most representative example of an absolute monarchy
Is Louis XIV of France.
At the beginning of his reign, the Fronde took place.
Was a series of civil wars, with the nobility
Cities.
And provinces with their parliaments fighting on one side
And also the king and his supporters on the other.
The parliamentary system in england
There were other terrirories
Where the monarch's power was controlled by courts
And also parliaments.
This was the case in Venice and the Dutch Republic
In England, this control was to protect
Against the absolutist pretensions of the monarchy.
The Stuart dynasty tried to disassociate itself from Parliament.
And also establish an absolute monarchy, causing English CW.
After the victory of the Parliamentarian army
That was led by Oliver Cromwell, Charles I was executed.
And a republic was declared under Cromwell's dictatorial.
When Cromwell died, the House of Stuart returned to the throne.
James II became king and again tried to impose absolutism.
This led to a new confrontation with the Parliament.
James II was overthown, and the Parliament chose Mary II
And her husband, William III of Orange as the new monarchs
They were selected on the condition that they would sign.
The Bill of Right
Limited the monarch's power and recognised the right of individua
This les to establishment of a constitutional
Or parliamentary monarchy
