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unusual facts about King Charles I



Airlie Castle

During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms the Ogilvies supported King Charles I and the Royalist cause.

Alonso de Zuazo

In Santo Domingo, Zuazo wrote to Spanish King Charles I (Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) and William de Croÿ, Charles's chamberlain, to inform them of the hidden costs of slavery in the New World (January 22, 1518).

Anointing

For the coronation of King Charles I in 1626 the holy oil was made of a concoction of orange, jasmine, distilled roses, distilled cinnamon, oil of ben, extract of bensoint, ambergris, musk and civet.

Boston Manor

With the commanding view that the house provides to the south and south west, one can almost imagine a little over a hundred years before that, when the then King Charles I could have been pacing from window to window with his loyal supporter Sir Edward Spencer, watching Prince Rupert’s troops engaging with the Parliamentarians during the Battle of Brentford.

Covenanter

King Charles I and William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, met with a reverse in their efforts to impose a new liturgy on the Scots.

D'Ewes Coke

Coke's own family can be traced back to the 15th century and includes such notable figures as George Coke, a Bishop of Hereford just before the English Civil War, and Sir John Coke, Secretary of State to King Charles I.

Edward Major

Major was closely associated with Puritan settlers in the colony, and was elected Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1652, just after Virginia acceeded to the authority of Parliament following the execution of King Charles I.

Elizabeth Danvers

She was the mother of Sir Charles Danvers, executed in 1601 for his part in the rebellion of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and of Sir John Danvers, one of the commissioners who tried King Charles I and signed the King's death warrant.

Lord Mayor of Leeds

By charter from King Charles I in 1626, the leader of the governing body of the borough of Leeds was an alderman, the first holder being Sir John Savile.

Marston, Oxford

While the Royalist forces were besieged in the city, which had been used by King Charles I as his capital, the Parliamentary forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax had quarters in Marston, and used the church tower as a lookout post for viewing the enemy's artillery positions in what is now the University Parks.

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Archbishop William Laud, a favorite advisor of King Charles I and a dedicated Anglican, sought to suppress the religious practices of Puritans and other nonconforming beliefs in England.

Noah Bridges

He was in attendance on King Charles I in most of his restraints, particularly at Newcastle and the Isle of Wight (State Papers, Dom., Charles II, vol. xx. art. 126).

Oliver FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell

In 1645 he tried to get the Confederation of Kilkenny to support King Charles I in the English Civil War on the grounds that their Catholic demands would be met.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Veszprém

On 26 October 1313, King Charles I and Bishop Stephen Kéki concluded an agreement under which the Bishop ceded the tithe of Csepel Island to the King in exchange for the County of Veszprém.

Sherburn-in-Elmet

During the English Civil War, the village was garrisoned by the Royalists for King Charles I; it was close to their stronghold at Selby and the northern capital of York, and commanded the approaches from both the south and the west.

Stanmer Church

The oldest non-Pelham memorial dates from 1626, and commemorates Deborah Goffe, the mother of William Goffe (one of the judges at the trial of King Charles I).

The Harvey School

He named the school for Sir William Harvey (1578–1657), personal physician of King Charles I who is considered one of the fathers of modern medical science.

Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour

In 1632, after the death of his father George, (1579-1632), the first Lord Baltimore, and late loyal friend and Secretary of State, King Charles I renewed the grant originally made to his father, with the proprietorship of Maryland after an earlier unsuccessful colony of Avalon in Newfoundland.

Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg

Before the Civil War, Belasyse and his family had a long running confrontation with William Wentworth, a close advisor to King Charles I, primarily over local government issues in Yorkshire.


see also

Comunero

Revolt of the Comuneros, a rebellion in Castile against King Charles I (also known as Emperor Charles V) from 1520–1521.

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1st Duke of the Infantado

Apparently, this title was awarded again by king Charles I of Spain, a.k.a. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to Rodrigo Pacheco.

Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester

Sir Philip Warwick: Memoires of the Reigne of King Charles I, with a Continuation to the Happy Restauration of King Charles II.

Edward Morgan

Sir Edward Morgan, 1st Baronet (died 1653), Catholic supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War

John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor

Convinced of the more Calvinist doctrines of the Church of England, John became alarmed at the Arminian slant of King Charles I's religious policy and his increasingly autocratic rule; he believed the King had been misled by evil councillors.

John Tyler Linton

Linton's Ford was part of the land owned by a family of English "Cavaliers" (followers of King Charles I of England) who came to Virginia from Scotland just after the English Civil War and settled in Prince William County, Virginia.

Károly Szász

After the Declaration of Eckartsau (Emperor-King Charles I (IV) suspended his royal rights) Mihály Károlyi and Szász dissolved the House of Representatives and proclaimed the Republic on 16 November 1918.

Ladislaus Kórógyi

King Charles I even confiscated the fortresses of Kórógy (Korog, Croatia) and Mecseknádasd and the properties attached to them from the bishop's family.

Mary, Princess Royal

Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1631 - 1660), eldest daughter of King Charles I; wife of William II, Prince of Orange (1626 - 1650)

Oxford Cavaliers

The club's original crest was the blue and red royal standard of King Charles I who held court at Christchurch College in the city during the English Civil War.

Richard Pole

Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet (born 1938), present holder of the baronetcy granted to his ancestor by King Charles I in 1628

Slovenská Ľupča

Other monarchs who frequently resided in the castle were King Charles I, King Louis the Great, Emperor Sigismund, and King Matthias Corvinus.

William Monson

William Monson, 1st Viscount Monson (died ca. 1673), one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England