Charles I of England

1 week ago - Re-imprisoned on the Isle of Wight, he forged an alliance with Scotland, but by the end of 1648, the New Model Army had consolidated its control over England. Charles was tried, convicted, and executed for high treason in January 1649. The monarchy was abolished and the Commonwealth of England ...

The trial of Charles I was one of the most momentous events ever to have taken place in Westminster Hall. Kings have been deposed and murdered, but never before had one been tried and condemned to death whilst still King.

May 9, 2025 - Seven years of fighting between Charles’ supporters and Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarians claimed the lives of thousands, and ultimately, of the King himself. Charles was convicted of treason and executed on 30 January 1649 outside the ...

Yet just seven days later, the ... the said Charles Stuart, as a Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer and Public Enemy to the good people of this Nation, [and] shall be put to death, by the severing of his head from his body’...

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King Charles I was executed for high treason in 1649, after a civil war pitting his supporters against Parliament for control of the country.

4 weeks ago - Some viewed it as the martyrdom of an innocent man; the contemporaneous historian Edward Hyde described "a year of reproach and infamy above all years which had passed before it; a year of the highest dissimulation and hypocrisy, of the deepest villainy and most bloody treasons that any nation was ever cursed with"; and the later Tory writer Isaac D'Israeli wrote of Charles as "having received the axe with the same collectedness of thought and died with the majesty with which he had lived", dying a "civil and political" martyr to Britain.

July 28, 1999 - On January 20, 1649, Charles I was brought before a specially constituted court and charged with high treason and “other high crimes against the realm of England.” He refused to recognize the legality of the court because, he said, “a ...

June 3, 2025 - The court was presided over by ... charges against Charles included high treason, specifically waging war against the realm and betraying the trust of the people....

On January 20, 1649, Charles I was brought before a specially constituted court and charged with high treason and “other high crimes against the realm of England.” He refused to recognize the legality of the court because, he said, “a ...

April 22, 2024 - For raising the standard against ... the 1640s, Charles was found ‘guilty of High Treason and of the murders, rapines, burnings, spoils, defilations, damages, and mischiefs to this nation’....

October 18, 2025 - This followed his conviction for treason by the High Court of Justice. After the 1660 Stuart Restoration, the fifty-nine signatories were among a total of 104 individuals accused of direct involvement in the sentencing and execution.

King Charles I was brought to Westminster Hall to stand trial on January 20, 1649. He was tried four times, and refused to recognize the court. In the end, he was found guilty of tyranny and treason, and he was sentenced to death on January 27.

Charles was tried in the House ... of the monarchy in 1660, the Death Warrant was used to identify the commissioners who had signed it (the 'regicides') and prosecute them for treason....

October 25, 2023 - In 1649, King Charles I was put on trial for treason.

November 11, 2021 - The intent of many of the depositions, as both contemporaries and historians have noted, was to show that Charles had personally initiated the conflict—many of the statements reported seeing him at the raising of the royal standard at Nottingham—and that he had been present in arms (‘sword in hand’, as the report of the French ambassador put it) at the major battles of the civil war.79 As Alan Orr has argued, these accounts served to substantiate the reconfiguring of treason as the crime of waging war against a sovereign people, rather than against a sovereign king. Charles’s actions

On 30 January 1649, King Charles I was executed for treason, for levying war against and causing the bloodshed of his own subjects during the civil wars of the 1640s.

Now Charles was to be held personally responsible for inviting the Scots to invade, and causing the deaths of thousands of people. He was to be tried for treason against England. Charles believed wholeheartedly in the divine right of kings that the king was responsible to God alone and that ...

June 27, 2025 - King Charles I’s disagreements with Parliament triggered the English Civil War. Charles I was executed for treason.