Course Description

THE TUDOR ROSE

• THE TUDOR ROSE

HENRY VIII

• HENRY VIII

HENRY VIII

• He separated the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church (papal authority) and established himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England.

• THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII

The Tudor Succession

• EDWARD VI
• (1547-1553)
• Son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
• Crowned at the age of 9
• England’s first Protestant ruler

QUEEN MARY (1553-1558)

• QUEEN MARY (1553-1558)
• Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
• She restored England to Roman Catholicism and had almost 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Mirian Persecutions (Bloody Mary)

QUEEN ELIZABETH (1558-1603)

• QUEEN ELIZABETH (1558-1603)
• Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
• She was proclaimed illegitimate after her mother was executed.
• Supported the re-establishment of an English Protestant Church, of which she became the Supreme Governor.

The Elizabethan Period is known as the ‘Golden Era’ famous above all for the flourishing of English drama led by playwrights such as Shakespeare, Marlowe etc.

THE STUARTS (1603-1714)

• JAMES I (1603-1625)
• CHARLES I (1625-1649)
• 1649-1660 COMMONWEALTH INTERREGNUM
• OLIVER CROMWELL (1653-8)
• RICHARD CROMWELL (1658-9)
• 1660-STUARTS RESTORED
• CHARLES II (1660-1685)

James I (1603-1649)

Charles I (1625-1649) -He engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England and advocated the Divine Rights of Kings. -He married a Catholic princess, Henrietta Maria of France, over the objections of the Parliament and public opinion. -Fought the forces of the English and Scottish Parliaments, and the Puritans. He was defeated in the First Civil War and the Second Civil War. As a result, he was executed, the monarchy was abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England was declared.