King Charles IIi By Mark Bartlett

The Life of Charlemagne is an edited version from the original book Two Lives of Charlemagne. The author of the original biography is Einhard, who was his close friend and younger contemporary. He wrote this biography, after his death in 814 CE to honor Charlemagne and his contributions to the Frankish dynasty. In the historical context Charlemagne is believed to have contributed largely in flourishing the Carolingian Empire. In the book, The Life of Charlemagne, Einhard describes Charlemagne’s personal life rather than the actual historical legacies. The biography seems to have many personal bias opinions which makes the source hard to trust. One example from the text itself is when he describes King Charlemagne’s physical appearance, “His neck was short and rather thick, and his stomach a trifle too heavy, but the proportions of the rest of the body prevented from noticing these blemishes (Brophy, 250).” Even Though, the author describes the king with great details, he is positive throughout each text and avoids giving any flawed comments.

Henry V, written by William Shakespeare, is by far one of his more historically accurate plays. This play is the life of young King Henry V, who ascended to the throne after his father, Henry IV's death. These times were much different for England, as Henry V was a noble lord whom everyone loved, whereas angry factions haunted his father's reign. Shakespeare portrays a fairly accurate account of the historical Henry V, but certain parts are either

After the end of the civil war, officers of the New Model Army, formed by Cromwell, decided to put Charles on trial. Parliament voted to negotiate with the King in order to come to a peace agreement, but that was met with a fierce rebuke from Cromwell and his army. In order to kill any hope for the King and to prevent any kind of compromise between the King and Parliament, one hundred and eighty members of Parliament were excluded, and forty five were imprisoned for showing resistance. This act of purging was described simply as a coup d'état. (23 Laughland) If the king is truly guilty and hated by his people, Cromwell wouldn’t have needed to perform this despicable action of arresting and barring Parliament members from their seats. At this point, the authority of Parliament that was supported by the Roundheads, over the King’s, has lost all its legality. Parliament became a military tool in the hand of Cromwell and his army. In addition to this, Cromwell’s son-in-law, Henry Ireton, was the one who submitted a request to prosecute the King, which was naturally accepted by the one third of the Parliament left. A court with the name of ‘High Court of Justice’ was formed to be responsible for the King’s trial. (103-104 TURCHETTI)

King Charles I’s reign was unsuccessful, because he was unprepared to take on Scotland, England, and Ireland, each with its own political and legal structures. He was under the influence of bishops, priests, and friends who pulled him different directions in regards to war, religion, and economy. King Charles I’s was foolish and failed to rule England with an absolute monarchy, because he formed poor relations with the Protestant majority of Parliament, he raised and created new taxes, and he lost support of Scottish nobility.

Charlemagne is described by Janet Nelson as being a role model for Einhard. Einhard himself writes in the first paragraph of The Life of Charlemagne, “After I decided to write about the life, character and no small part of the accomplishments of my lord and foster father, Charles, that most excellent and deservedly famous king, I determined to do so with as much brevity as I could.” I feel that these are sincere words about the man who cared for Einhard. I feel that Einhard’s purpose for writing The Life of Charlemagne is to praise the works of his “foster-father” and create a historical document that would describe the great deeds of Charlemagne so that he would not be forgotten throughout time as a great leader and man.

“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States”(The Declaration of Independence). The American Colonies wanted to break away from Britain and they did this by using a waging war. The colonists thought of the King of Britain as an unfit ruler who made poor decisions.

England. King Charles II. RULES AND ORDERS. N.p.: n.p., 1666. The National Archives. Web. 10 Nov. 2015. This document is helpful to use for our research because it is a list of orders the King of England published in 1666. The list included strict rules and orders intended to be followed for the prevention of the infectious bubonic plague.

Mclntosh, Neil. Charles I (1600 - 1649). BBC.co.uk. United Kingdom. 2014.

How far can the abdication of Charles I in 1555 be considered a key turning point in Spanish History 1474-1598? After the abdication of Charles I in 1555, his son Philip II became King of Spain, leaving a country that had experienced many difficulties through the last century. Events such as Civil rebellions, an uncertain monarchy and non-uniform religions had struck Spain, and various events had affected its history. However, while the abdication was an important turning point in Spanish history, there are various other events that also impacted it greatly.

Let's start with Protestants. The time period I’m going to be talking about was when King Charles V was in charge. King Charles V was the Holy Roman Emperor of Spain and many low countries. While he was ruling, in 1530, many German Princes joined Lutheranism and opposed him. Due to that he became controlling and many others join Lutheranism as well. Charles V waged war on Protestant Germany to try and get control back to the catholic church he did not do so great. But there are some other people who came up with new religions as well, like John Calvin who started Calvinism. Calvin also published a book in 1536 called “Institutes of the Christian Religion” . King Henry VIII came up with Englanism because he wanted to divorce his wife.Now to

Modern-day murderers smile to their prey with a knife behind their back, masquerading trust as the Grim Reaper. In Charles Spencer’s historical nonfiction novel, Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I published in 2014, a bloodhound prince chases eighty conspirators who commit regicide: murdering the king.

Whenever King James died, his son "Charles I" took over as king. Shortly after becoming king he was involved in a war with France. Therefore because of this monstrosity of a war he became really money hungry.

This theological message conveyed by the diptych was probably not hidden to Charles the Bald. In talking about the king’s patronage of the Church, Eriugena claims that his generous patron was able to see in the many ornaments the sacred symbols of the heavenly kingdom. Charles was accustomed to the praise and recommendations of his royal poet and it is possible that Eriugena himself alerted the king about the illuminations’ spiritual meaning. As noticed by Paul Dutton, six of the paschal poems commissioned by the king suggest the poet’s presence at their reading in front of his patron. It should not surprise if Eriugena was present at the manuscript’s presentation and invited his king to look at the two-page opening while offering him an explanation of its meaning. Rife with references

Charles V was the most powerful and influential monarch in European history. He was the son of Philip I from Castille, heir to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, which gives Charles V jurisdiction over the German nation (1519) and Habsburg Netherlands (1506). His mother Joana the Mad was the third child of the Catholic Monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand II, earning him the authority over the Spanish Empire (1516). Born in Ghent on September 24, 1500, he was exalted to royalty at at the young age of six. His vast kingdom extends from Spanish territories, across central, western, and southern Europe, through the Netherlands and up to Austria. But with this enormous supremacy comes the huge responsibility of governing geographically different domains, politically and spiritually diverse people, and aristocrats. Because of the enormity of his dominion, enemies were threatened that this will lead to a European hegemony. Hence, his authority was strewn with revolts and wars. His vision to unite Europe in a Christian Empire encountered oppositions from his people, especially to the Protestant Reformation. Although Charles V’s ruled the most extensive and powerful empire, he was both a success and a failure when implementing his ideas. This could be seen through the revolt of the Comunidades and Germanias, the Influence of Erasmus, and as well as Humanism in the court of Charles V.

William Shakespeare is known to be the “greatest English-speaking writer in history” and an England’s national poet, actor, and an extremely successful playwright. During Shakespeare’s acting career in London, he started writing all about “European geography, culture, and diverse personalities (History.com).” Willm Shakspere or William Shakspeare, as written by him, then went on to write plays. His first three plays were all created around or a little before 1592 and captured the core studied categories; tragedy (Titus Andronicus), comedy (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew), and history (Henry VI trilogy and Richard III). He wrote plays and sonnets for many theater companies, was one of the main playwrights for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, which was renamed the King’s Men when James I was in charge, and formed the Globe theater in 1599 with other partners. Shakespeare’s unique language, themes, verses, format, characters, and plots makes his writing universal to every culture and time period. Shakespeare is still taught in school nowadays due to its’ educational and transitional purposes. Shakespeare continues to influence modern-day life and I believe will for a long time to come.