![]() Charles I believed in the 'divine right of kings' and ruled fairly autonomously, but much of Parliament believed that the king had a contractual obligation to the people to rule without tyranny. Parliament's power was growing, but before the Civil War, it was called and dissolved at the will of the monarch, and used mostly to issue taxes when the king needed money. In the seventeenth century, the Crown played a much greater role in the running of the country than it does today. But the most interesting were the ideological questions being raised about the nature of government and authority. There were many factors contributing to the tensions between the Crown and Parliament, including Charles' marriage to the Catholic princess, Henrietta-Maria of France, and his desire to be involved in European wars. ![]() A series of political and military conflicts, now known as the English Civil War or the English Revolution, was waged intermittently between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 to 1651. The mid seventeenth-century was a time of great social and cultural turmoil. ![]() ![]() Frontispiece portrait of Charles I, from Eikon Basilike (1649). ![]()
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