Bibliograph

Killers of the King, The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I, Charles Spencer

Type

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Killers of the King, The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I, Charles Spencer

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Killers of the King

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

897388385

Responsibility statement

Charles Spencer

Sub title

The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I

Summary

January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain's history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I and now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender?Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings and hold Charles I to account for the appalling suffering and slaughter endured by his people. A tribunal of 135 men was hastily gathered in London, and although Charles refused to acknowledge the power of his subjects to try him, the death sentence was unanimously passed. On an icy winter's day on a scaffold outside Whitehall, in an event unique in English history, the King of England was executed.When the dead king's son, Charles II, was restored to the throne, he set about enacting a deadly wave of retribution against all those⁰

Target audience

adult

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Contributor