Why was King Charles 1 a bad king?

Answer 1

That is a very debatable question: Cromwell & others took the view that Parliament had a say in government while Charles thought he had a divine right. Charles, while ostensibly a Protestant, also had Catholic sympathies. It would be a braver man than I to try to substantiate the rule of King Charles I, but there is just something about the Puritan ethic which I cannot stomach. While, with the horrific examples of Drogheda & Wexford apart, I admire Cromwells' Generalship, the 'Holier than thou' position these folk represent is just not to my taste ! I'm not saying the Monarchist position is necessarily correct I just don't get the option of Republicanism. Electing a Head of State just does not provide a better choice: Bush being an obvious example ! (Sorry to my US cousins, but it needs saying !) So I do not accept that Parliament had the right to commit Regicide: Yes, they had the power to limit the excesses of the Monarch, but to remove him from power in the way they did was, in my opinion, wrong.

Answer 2

As far as! barbary corsairs were plundering villages in Devon and Cornwall taking their inhabitants as slaves! In Ireland the town of Baltimore was sacked and large numbers of citizens were taken as slaves to North Africa. To make up for what Parliament wouldn't pay Charles had to resort to extra legal methods. He used laws which were out of date and in his desire to make the seas around England safe, he determined to call in the Ship Money tax. This was usually collected only in Coastal Counties, but in emergencies all counties had to pay! Eventually he had enough income to pursue his peaceful policies , but another war brought him down and he had task Parliament for more money! His political policies failed and he said he was sorry, but there had been no choices! He took the calvinists in to his Council.

But nothing had changed. They were not interested in good government, or in English and Irish people being taken in to slavery, or in the fact that Charles had kept them out of a war for some eleven years. They were interested only in securing control of the Anglican Church. Charles however believed as Eliza had done that religion was the province of the Bishops of the Church in England.

When Anglicans sought to protect their church through parliament, their spokesman were jailed and the Calvinists said anyone else with a petition would be jailed also.

This is what started Civil War an attempt on the Anglican Church and the fear that the Romanists would be persecuted.

Charles was not a bad man, he was kind and thoughtful. He was not however a good politician and his opponents were.

Answer 3

king Charles I had many bad points but some good .he was very short of money so he asked the government for more but they refused so he got billions of cash by illegally getting some money .

Answer 4

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Charles I was mainly unpopular for his fiscal policies; in 1625, he levied a forced loan on landowners without the consent of the Parliament. He also ordered the imprisonment of people without trial. He convoked the Parliaments three times in four years and dissolved each one of them; he refused to rule with the cooperation of the Parliament and established an absolute monarchy. The Parliament, exhausted and angered, finally decided to create the Petition of Right in 1628 which protected civil rights and liberties against the monarch.

I hope my answer was satisfactory :)

Answer 5

because He was cruel, yet just, he was deceitful, yet triumphant. One thing that can be said is that he was most certainly the strongest king of his time. Longshanks (as he was called because of his abnormally long legs) possessed a considerably stronger character than his father, Henry III; his grandfather, King John; and his son, Edward II, and undoubtedly reminded contemporaries and historians alike to his grandfather, Henry II, and his great-uncle, Richard I. The first impression one gains of Prince Edward, while still in his youth, is a negative one.

Answer 6

He got the Scottish to attack the English because parliament was going to sent Charles to a different place i cant remember where and lots more

Answer 7

King charles was so unpopular because he went against parliment and tried to start a second civil war in england after he lost the first one.