They rebelled and tried to attack. Charles was partly to blame for religious reasons like the one above, and some other reasons as well. He made William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury and he tried to make England a Catholic country. Also, he married a woman named Henrietta Maria. She was a Catholic, so naturally Parliament were concerned that England was going to return to Catholicism.
This was because the war had been fought on German soil, causing them to lose money in agriculture; also the trade routes had shifted. In 1648, they found peace, although the Holy Roman Empire was still marred. Another cause that attributed to the fall of the Holy Roman Empire was the religious reformations and religious wars. In the 16th century, calls for reformation began because criticism of the church was so widespread. In 1517 when Martin Luther posted the “Ninety-Five-Theses,” he started a chain reaction.
To What Extent Were Religious Reasons Responsible for The Outbreak of Civil War in 1642? In 1642, Civil War broke out in England, soon to be one of the greatest wars in English history. A civil war is when two opposing sides from the same country fight. In this case, it was between King Charles I (called the Royalists or Roundheads) against his own Parliament (known as the Parliamentarians or Cavaliers.) There were many reasons and causes leading up to the civil war, and can usually be divided into two categories: long term reasons and short term reasons.
Henry wanted a divorce from Catherine of Aragon because she could not produce a son. Henry wanted a son to become king after him. He wanted a son in particular because boys are said to be better leaders, and better rulers than girls. Therefore Henry was desperate for a boy. Primarily Henry got rid of the monasteries because they were Catholic and the Catholics disapproved of his divorce from Catharine of Aragon.
Suggested Essay Plan • Land and religious issues triggered action in Scotland in 1639. There had been a long building of antagonism. From 1625 onwards, Scots landowners were incensed by the attempts of the English government to use the Act of Revocation to renegotiate the terms of leases on secularised Church lands. Calvinist nobles, already seething at the 1618 ‘Black Articles of Perth’ (which reintroduced the office of Bishop into Scotland), joined a rapidly growing reaction to the 1637 edict to use the Church of England prayerbook. Riots spread.
Elizabeth was strict. It is extremely debateable whether Elizabeth the 1st was a ‘great’ queen or not. Looking back to this important era of history [1558-1603], makes you think about the religion, money, the marriage, the social life, and the Spanish armada. Not only those other things, but Mary Stuart Queen of Scots was a very big problem to Elizabeth during the time she was on the throne. The Roman Catholics in those days thought Elizabeth 1st was the heretic queen in their eyes; however, for the protestant, she was their hero.
The Victorian period, up until the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, was therefore a time of religious confusion, but also, as we will see, of great charity, as well as of birth of new beliefs. What role did religion play in the lives of citizens of this period and their society? The Victorian era was marked by the immense influence of the Church of England in religion, of course, but also in politics- being linked to the government meant it had its hand in certain social decisions, such as the oppression of dissenters. This naturally caused friction amongst people of other faith, especially the Catholics who had previously been stripped of many of their civil rights, which were only returned to them in 1827 by Parliament. They had a long wait until 1840 to see the tax-supported status of the Anglican Church be removed, making them equal once again.
Parliament would eventually go on to create the New Model Army in response to events that surrounded Charles I, personal rule and his marriage to a catholic Queen Henrietta Maria, the daughter of Henry IV of France. (1600-1649). (Visual Sources Book), Plate 10.1a, (p.52). (online britroyals). However, the trigger for unrest and the Civil War was brought about by the king’s demand for money through taxation.
The events in Scotland began with Charles introducing the English bible into Scotland, from there a religious protest developed and ultimately the National Covenant was set up. Charles wanted to base the Scottish Church on an English model (Hughes, 1998; p35) much to their disgust, and he declared the covenanters traitors, this united the movement early on. Importantly Charles knew that while the covenant existed he had no power in Scotland (Hughes, 1998; p37). The events led to the First Bishops War, which is the reason that Charles called the Short Parliament. He believed he had the support of the English Parliament.
It is as true today as it was three hundred and sixty-seven years ago. While there were several contributing factors to the English civil war in 1641, (economics, personalities, political unrest) religion, and the fact that Charles I married Henrietta Maria a Roman Catholic French Princess, certainly provided the spark. [2] To understand the events leading up to the civil war and the eventual beheading of the sovereign king, Charles I in 1649, we need to take look at the events leading up to his reign. In other words, what did James I do, or not do, that contributed to the tensions in England at the time Charles took the reins? [3] When James called his first Parliament into session, he had nothing but good intensions.