17^th C. France, England and the effects of Absolutism

1. Definition of absolutism: Divine right of kings
2. England: Post Elizabethan settlements and wars: The Stuart Kings

1. James I (James VI of Scotland à James I of Eng, heir to Elizabeth) 1603-25

1. Absolutist, anti-parliamentarian

2. Financial support? Tonnages, poundages, impositions

3. Why people hated him.

1. Charles I (1625-49)

1. Dissolution of Parliament.

2. 1637 civil war of Book of Common Prayer on Scotland

3. Short Parliament

4. Long Parliament

5. Grand Remonstration

1. Oliver Cromwell and the Roundheads (1649-1660) -- The Interregnum
2. Point for your consideration: How do you think the rest of Europe might have reacted?
3. Charles II (1660-85)
4. James II (1685-88) [sort of] -- brother of Charles II, Catholic
5. Mary and William of Orange - later King William III

1. France and Absolutism -- France Ascendant

1. Henry IV - Edict of Nantes -- Absolutist
2. What you need for establishing Absolutist rule?
3. Nobility of the Sword and Nobility of the Robe
4. Murdered 1610.
5. Louis 13^th, Marie de Medici, and the father of the modern state, Armand-Jean de Plessis,

Better known as Cardinal Richelieu ('til 1642)

IV: Louis 14^th "The Sun King": The Pinnacle of Absolutism: "L'etat c'est moi"

A. Mazarin, the Fronde

B. Divided bureaucracy: Council of State, Dispatches, Finance

C. Life in Versailles

1. Revocation of Edict of Nantes 1685
2. Louis fights Europe: "J'ai aimé troppo la guerre"

1. Wars against Netherlands in several stages

2. 9 years war/King William's War -- two separate issues, simultaneous 1689-97

a) Peace of Ryswick

3. War of Spanish Successions/12 years war

a. Treaty of Utrecht 1712

b. Treaty of Rastadt 1714

G. Louis dies in 1715.