Charles I, king of Scotland, England, and Ireland
1600–49
Succeeded his father, James VI and I, in 1625. Rebellions in Scotland and Ireland in 1640 and 1641, fears that he was a Catholic sympathiser, and disputes with parliament, led to civil war. Surrendered in 1646; tried and executed, 1649.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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