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Charles I - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Attempted impeachment of Buckingham, causing Charles to close Parliament
  - - - Charles needs money so calls Parliament
        
        Parliament wanted their grievances (Charles and Arminian bishops) to be addressed before they granted taxation)
        
        Charles thus attempts to imprison MPs but dissolves parliament instead to save Buckingham, getting no money.
  - - - Over 70 members of the gentry refuse to pay
        
        The 5 knights challenge this but judge rules in Charles' favour
        
        Buckingham declares war against Spain and France but his expedition fails in its attempt to support French protestant rebels in La Rochelle.
  - - - Promise to grant King money if he addresses their grievances
        
        5 knights case was reversed, meaning the King broke the law, breaking the magna carta
        
        No more forced loans, no imprisonment without trial, soldiers could not use civilian households, no use of martial law.
        
        This was an act of Parliament, breaking it would break the magna carta
        
        August 1628 Buckingham is assassinated
  - - - Uses the Petition of Right to claim the illegality of Charles' use of customs.
        
        Charles attempts to halt parliament, speaker is held down in his chair.
        
        Door of Commons shut, led by Sir John Elliot, they put forward 3 resolutions to the House
        
        Anyone furthering popery or Arminianism is an enemy to the kingdom
        
        Anyone advising the King to collect customs without Parliament's consent is a capital enemy
        
        Anyone paying these duties was an enemy to the liberties of England.
        
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- - - - Charles more of an intellectual, enjoying art and being a linguist
        
        Religiously he was protestant but a less hard-line subsect called arminianism
        
        Did not believe in pre-destination, meant good deeds were testimony of faith
        
        Had an arranged marriage with the Spanish Henrietta Maria, angering protestant parliament.
- - - - Intimate relations with James I
        
        Pushed for and aided in the marriage with French Catholic Henrietta Maria after having also aided in the attempts for a Spanish marriage.
        
        Gave relatives positions of power, alienating the nobility.
        
        Militarily incompetent - expeditions sent to Cadiz were so poorly organised and equipped they disintegrated before storming the city.
        
        Attempted impeachment by Parliament in May 1626, Charles closes parliament to save him