1-344-799 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, (c1850). The second Stuart monarch, Charles I (1600-1649) succeeded his father James I as King in 1625. His reign was dominated by a bitter dispute with Parliament over the extent of royal power, which culminated in 1642 in the English Civil War, and Charles' eventual execution for treason. Taken from the book Old England's Worthies, London, c1850.