

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. 

Charles was the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the English, Irish, and Scottish thrones on the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1612. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Anna culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations. Two years later, he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France instead. 

After his succession, Charles quarrelled with the Parliament of England, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. Charles believed in the divine right of kings and thought he could govern according to his own conscience. Many of his subjects opposed his policies, in particular the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent, and perceived his actions as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch. His religious policies, coupled with his marriage to a Roman Catholic, generated the antipathy and mistrust of reformed groups such as the English Puritans and Scottish Covenanters, who thought his views too Catholic. He supported high church ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to aid Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War. His attempts to force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices led to the Bishops' Wars, strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments and helped precipitate his own downfall.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Who was Charles's father?
2. Was he an only child?
3. How many countries' thrones was Charles heir to?
4. What countries?
5. When did he become heir?
6. After the death of whom?
7. What was the brother's title?
8. What was his name?
9. Who did Charles marry?
10. OF what country?
11. And of what royal line?
12. True or False: Maria Anna was also a Bourbon.
13. Was Charles liked by Puritans?
14. Why not?
15. Who did he let down in the Thirty Years' War?
16. What conflict did Charles' actions lead to?
17. What did he try to do that caused the war?
18. Did the outcome of the conflict strengthen hid hold on the throne?
19. Who did it help instead?
20. What right did Charles believe in?
1. f King James VI
2. no
3. three
4. England, Ireland, and Scotland
5. 1612
6. his brother
7. Prince of Wales, in 1612
8. Henry Frederick
9. Henrietta Maria
10. France instead
11. Bourbon
12. False
13. no
14. because of his religious policies, coupled with his marriage to a Roman Catholic
15. Protestant forces
16. the Bishops' Wars
17. he attempted force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices
18. no
19. it strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments
20. he believed in the divine right of kings