I attended Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. The three major intersecting streets there are Dixwell, Whaley, and Goff Streets. The names of the three signatories of the King’s death sentence, who, upon the return of Charles II to the throne, quickly escaped to this Puritan stronghold in America. There they were protected by being hidden in caves above the city.
Perhaps apocryphally One of the regicides William Goffe hid in Hadley Massachusetts and came to the rescue of the town during “King Phillips war “in 1675
Perhaps the most paint on this day is the one that was painted by the man who was the first to make the first impression on the King and his wife of a few days ago and then he had to be there and do a few more. Just something to think about. Cheers
And thank you for being a real human voice. The deep fake voices have gotten very life like and are cropping up a lot on RUclips. Even the best of them are hard to listen to for more than a couple of minutes, as they have no real connection to the meaning of the content.
@@deimonslagg1187 I agree, the channels that use AI for scripts and for narration are irritating, there’s no life a humour in them. I do all my own research, scripts, narration, and editing. It is hard work and I produce less content that way, but I think the result is more valuable and appealing.
@@allanbarton And your content is listened to. When I get sucked into clicking on a fake voice vid, I use the don't suggest channel option. A lot of otherwise interesting content is ruined by fake voice. Keep up the good work. I'm not anti-ai, but it will be a very long time before a machine can match the quality of what you do. That quality is a clear differentiator.
This video was excellent. You always bring forth such interesting side lines and particulars. It is a serious business going after a king. Great food for thought.
Excellent, thanks! I often drive past the church 'Charles King and Martyr' in Peak Forest; including today - but I didn't realise it was the anniversary of his death until watching this video. I also seem to recall a suggestion that his somewhat less dapper appearance in the portraits painted during his captivity was due to a distrust of the barbers employed by his captors!
2:55 “Isle of Wait”… 17th C satire about the King’s wait on the Isle of Wight, or the 17th C spelling of it? Great video as usual! I showed a visitor around Whitehall the other day and pointed out the black mark on the clock above the entrance to Horse Guards. A fascinating period of our history.
Thank you for a beautifully presented account of this blot on our history. I'm not a great Royalist, and am somewhat puritan in outlook, but killing a King in this way when he was doing what his forefathers had always done was appalling. I'm just reading Samuel Pepys on the Restoration, and there seems no doubt that the general population was delighted to have a King again.
Presently going through Samuel Pepys website diary and reading through the day to day where there is a wealth of information in his writings which paint a world that becomes familiar and human. Thinking about the 17th century, there is usually so little to help breath life into that period outside of old block prints and embellished books focusing on historical summaries. Leading up to the restoration in Samuel's diary there is a sense that everything is in limbo where positions of power change hands and people are almost listless outside of food and drink. Business as usual within a near headless state with a paranoid Richard Cromwell just out of sight.
It's a story of pride and arrogance. The king probably truly believed that his power was god-given but every English king after John should have known that power can be taken away. Wiser to live to fight another day, but wisdom wasn't his strong suit.
Wonderful video as always Allan. I was wondering if you could do a video about the regalia of William and Mary I was interested in Mary as her orb was on Queen Victorias coffin but I tried to research myself and couldn’t find a great deal. I’m sure you can work your magic to find out some amazing things.
That could easily be on my list, I’ve done the work already for that. Yes it was on Queen Victoria’s coffin along with Mary of Modena’s coronation crown, which Mary II also wore.
I've heard it said that when the king was beheaded, an almighty groan rose up from the crowd. I womder, did any of the men who took part in his execution worry about their immortal souls after that day?
Great video on a somber subject. I can't help thinking that Charles I and his fight with Parliament actually saved the monarchy in the UK by forcing it into a less "divine right of Kings" model a century and a half before the French monarchy imploded.
yes the execution of charles the 1st and the *model of the divine right of kings* also the glorious revolution under william 3rd & mary II... certainly was different to the french , russian revolution or the events across europe in 1848, where absolute monarchies had turmoil.. charles I was no matyr or saint, neither was cromwell , in the complex period of parliment V the monarch... bible, magna carta were all used as evidence and props...
The inspiration for the revolution was directly this event and the creation of liberalism as a justification for parliamentary supremacy that was to follow. The English civil war was caused by the reformation and it caused the enlightenment and all the terrors and political turmoil to follow.
“Nothing in his life became him as his leaving it.” A dignified death. And compared with the carnage of the French Reign of Terror executions, restrained. However I have read that many, despite Charles’s flaws, were deeply troubled by the execution of an anointed king.
The most intriguing story is about the Barber of King Charles I. I think he was the one coordinating the communications, escape attempts, and alignment of the restoration of the monarch. Cromwell captured the barber but he never made it trial because 2 of his sons broke him out of jail before he could be tried and executed. The barber and 2 of his sons were smuggled out of the country to America. Just what I heard. Cool story, would make a great movie.
The rest of the story is that The Barber returned as soon as Cromwell died and lived out his remaining year of life with his wife. He was buried at St. Martin in the Fields in London. The 2 sons remained in the colony of Virginia and have many descendants throughout modern day America.
I haven't visited it, but my friend recently has and went into the room that Charles I stayed in. Wonderful space with original wallpaintings. I'm not far away so I will go and visit!
Charles I seems to me to have been a good man. But, not such a great King. He just could not accept that times were changing. And that The Monarchy had to change with them.
History is not inevitable, he very nearly destroyed parliament in the early battles of the civil war, if he had people would be talking about the inevitability of high Anglicanism and centralised monarchy.
@@vorynrosethorn903 I don't know about that. I think that even if Charles had been victorious. He, or perhaps a successor would have had to face those same sociopolitical forces that were pushing against absolutism in the protestant world at the time. I never implied anything about history being inevitable. Just that Charles failed to recognize, what was happening before his very eyes.
I made sure to read the propers and all three collects for this day. My prayer book has an engraving of Charles I, and a celebration of the ascendancy of Charles II, also with an image.
Lets be honest, Charles the 1st was an awful person but paled compared to Oliver Cromwell and his set of goons. Just imagine what it must be like to be so powerful that you are answerable only to God and not to the people you are abusing. Of course, to date it's the story of all humanity and I don't see a big change coming anytime soon. I love this channel, thank you for sharing the videos.
I kind of take a middle stance of Charles I. No, I do not believe that Parliament had either the right or the moral authority to execute him - it was, as were the killings of many sovereigns over the years - very much a cowardly play by a mob (who could then shovel blame onto a few individuals, as happened after the restoration). No one man had the fortitude to take on the responsibility of the act himself. On the other hand, I think Charles misplayed his hand throughout the first English Civil War, and the events following his capture. Had he been even slightly willing to work with Parliament on some lessening of his prerogative, I think he would have survived the affair. And, since Charles II DID agree to essentially those same reductions, his father's death was somewhat pointless - Charles I took a personal stand that cost him his life, but what he stood for died with him.
Enjoyed how this was presented. Concise, no sensationalism, but the emotion of the subject comes through well. I think it's ridiculous that this isn't covered in US history--the English Civil War, the execution of CR, and the 11-ish year English Republic all had a rather foundational effect on the US and are all as much US history as Jamestown is!
While it's true that there was little chance of Charles being exonerated, the commissioners required a substantial cajoling from Cromwell to reach the death sentence. Histories of Republican England are also just as devoid of nuance as histories of Charles I.
Interestingly Geoffrey Robertson in The Tyrannicide Brief makes it clear that the depiction of the scaffold in most contemporary engravings etc such as at 12:35 and 13:13 were done without depicting the railing lined with black crepe which blocked the public’s view of the beheading. I imagine they were drawn like this to show all the participants on the scaffold. The drawing at 15:50 seems to show the black crepe.
"THE World turn'd upside down: OR, A briefe description of the ridiculous Fashions of these distracted Times." As timely today (sadly) as it was in 1647.
James VI and I’s descendants hold the throne to this day as they have since 1625. In truth while James and Charles agreed on much the formers pacifism meant he could be cantankerous but never war mongering. While parliament wasn’t at all an innocent party I don’t think James I would have instigated the Bishops war which kicked off the whole war of the three kingdoms.
Neither a “man of blood” nor a martyr, but a man constitutionally incapable of meeting the unique challenges of his reign. In a different era, he would simply have been one more king, notable perhaps for his interest in the fine arts.
Until comparatively recently, I'd always thought that I would have been a sympathizer of Cromwell. All that "divine right of kings" stuff. But having witnessed Trump, Putin and even Johnson stirring up their countries for their own ends, I now see Cromwell's actions as outrageous. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Salazar...
The Cavaliers wore gay, flowing attire. Low flat, broad-brimed hats and small pointed beards. The Roundheads wore sombre, drab garments, tall conical hats and were clean-shaven. Under these circumstances, Civil War was inevitable. The Cavaliers were wrong but Wromantic. The Roundheads were wright but wrepulsive.
I think any nation that executes an anointed king, queen or otherwise head of state always pays a severe price. God does not overlook people "touching" his anointed. History tends to bear this out. Bad business.
The way the King was described at trial is almost exactly describing Trump's behavior and declarations (ie. that he's immune to prosecution). Wonder if King Charles I was Trump in a past life! If so, apparently he didn't learn anything from his experience!😅
I attended Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. The three major intersecting streets there are Dixwell, Whaley, and Goff Streets. The names of the three signatories of the King’s death sentence, who, upon the return of Charles II to the throne, quickly escaped to this Puritan stronghold in America. There they were protected by being hidden in caves above the city.
Perhaps apocryphally One of the regicides William Goffe hid in Hadley Massachusetts and came to the rescue of the town during “King Phillips war “in 1675
And the same Puritanism infects america still and regrettably spreads across the world.
Perhaps the most paint on this day is the one that was painted by the man who was the first to make the first impression on the King and his wife of a few days ago and then he had to be there and do a few more. Just something to think about. Cheers
Gosh, that was spine tingling. How brave was The King and that stained undershirt - ghostly. Looking forward to the next installment. ❤
As an American, I’ve never heard a lot of the details of CR’s imprisonment. I laughed at hearing him getting stuck in a window. Thanks!
Your content is best on you tube. Thank you so much for providing not only entertaining but so much history and information. ❤😊
My pleasure Jill.
And thank you for being a real human voice. The deep fake voices have gotten very life like and are cropping up a lot on RUclips. Even the best of them are hard to listen to for more than a couple of minutes, as they have no real connection to the meaning of the content.
@@deimonslagg1187 I agree, the channels that use AI for scripts and for narration are irritating, there’s no life a humour in them. I do all my own research, scripts, narration, and editing. It is hard work and I produce less content that way, but I think the result is more valuable and appealing.
@@allanbarton And your content is listened to. When I get sucked into clicking on a fake voice vid, I use the don't suggest channel option. A lot of otherwise interesting content is ruined by fake voice. Keep up the good work. I'm not anti-ai, but it will be a very long time before a machine can match the quality of what you do. That quality is a clear differentiator.
@@deimonslagg1187 Please tell me how to find the ‘don’t suggest channel option” on a you tube video. I have been fooled also. Thank you.
This video was excellent. You always bring forth such interesting side lines and particulars. It is a serious business going after a king. Great food for thought.
Can’t wait to hear the rest of the story in the next video!
For further enlightenment I am extremely grateful. And I anticipate the next video very much. Thank you, Allan!
The more I learn about Parliament in this affair the more distasteful and dishonourable I find them. A grasping bunch of ideologues.
Excellent, thanks! I often drive past the church 'Charles King and Martyr' in Peak Forest; including today - but I didn't realise it was the anniversary of his death until watching this video. I also seem to recall a suggestion that his somewhat less dapper appearance in the portraits painted during his captivity was due to a distrust of the barbers employed by his captors!
Brilliantly explained! Thank you, I love your channel. Regards from Vienna 🇦🇹
Thanks for watching!
Thank you. Brilliantly done.
Thanks for yet another super informative and interesting video, Dr. Barton! ❤ Sending appreciation from Las Vegas, US.
Thank you Allan, fantastic piece of work. I visited Carisbrooke Castle the other week.
This was EXCELLENT, Allan!! I can't wait for Part 2!! 💞❤👍🤴
2:55 “Isle of Wait”… 17th C satire about the King’s wait on the Isle of Wight, or the 17th C spelling of it? Great video as usual! I showed a visitor around Whitehall the other day and pointed out the black mark on the clock above the entrance to Horse Guards. A fascinating period of our history.
I recommend watching HistoriaCivilis' video "The Trial of Charles I" for a detailed breakdown of the trial... interesting stuff
Thank you for a beautifully presented account of this blot on our history. I'm not a great Royalist, and am somewhat puritan in outlook, but killing a King in this way when he was doing what his forefathers had always done was appalling. I'm just reading Samuel Pepys on the Restoration, and there seems no doubt that the general population was delighted to have a King again.
Presently going through Samuel Pepys website diary and reading through the day to day where there is a wealth of information in his writings which paint a world that becomes familiar and human. Thinking about the 17th century, there is usually so little to help breath life into that period outside of old block prints and embellished books focusing on historical summaries.
Leading up to the restoration in Samuel's diary there is a sense that everything is in limbo where positions of power change hands and people are almost listless outside of food and drink. Business as usual within a near headless state with a paranoid Richard Cromwell just out of sight.
As ever, Allan, a fine video and the best examination of Charles I have seen.
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it 😊
It's a story of pride and arrogance. The king probably truly believed that his power was god-given but every English king after John should have known that power can be taken away. Wiser to live to fight another day, but wisdom wasn't his strong suit.
he looks so dashing, particularly in those wonderful Van Dyke portraits - but was unfortunately a hopeless politician
Wonderful video as always Allan. I was wondering if you could do a video about the regalia of William and Mary I was interested in Mary as her orb was on Queen Victorias coffin but I tried to research myself and couldn’t find a great deal. I’m sure you can work your magic to find out some amazing things.
That could easily be on my list, I’ve done the work already for that. Yes it was on Queen Victoria’s coffin along with Mary of Modena’s coronation crown, which Mary II also wore.
@@allanbarton Did Queen Victoria ever use any of that regalia or Crown? Or was it a symbol for something else.
That story was well told, I felt like I was there.
Wow great vid sir, such a fascinating yet brutal history. Looking forward to the next part ✌🏻✌🏼✌🏽 🇬🇧
I always felt sorry for Charles 1st. Don't think he deserved what he got.Great video as usual, can't wait for the next installment.
Excellent and informative channel 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks very much, glad you're enjoying it!
I've heard it said that when the king was beheaded, an almighty groan rose up from the crowd. I womder, did any of the men who took part in his execution worry about their immortal souls after that day?
Great video on a somber subject. I can't help thinking that Charles I and his fight with Parliament actually saved the monarchy in the UK by forcing it into a less "divine right of Kings" model a century and a half before the French monarchy imploded.
yes the execution of charles the 1st and the *model of the divine right of kings*
also the glorious revolution under william 3rd & mary II...
certainly was different to the french , russian revolution
or the events across europe in 1848, where absolute monarchies had turmoil..
charles I was no matyr or saint, neither was cromwell , in the complex period of parliment V the monarch...
bible, magna carta were all used as evidence and props...
The dignity shown by the King, especially at such a dreadful hour, as with King Louis XVI showed them to far above their tormentors.@@jardon8636
The inspiration for the revolution was directly this event and the creation of liberalism as a justification for parliamentary supremacy that was to follow. The English civil war was caused by the reformation and it caused the enlightenment and all the terrors and political turmoil to follow.
Thank you Allan I Look forward to the second part of this , You are an amazing story teller.
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you again for this great history lesson. I like it so much Martha
At 14:07, all I could hear is the late Sir Alec Guinness' voice saying those words.
“Nothing in his life became him as his leaving it.” A dignified death. And compared with the carnage of the French Reign of Terror executions, restrained. However I have read that many, despite Charles’s flaws, were deeply troubled by the execution of an anointed king.
The most intriguing story is about the Barber of King Charles I. I think he was the one coordinating the communications, escape attempts, and alignment of the restoration of the monarch. Cromwell captured the barber but he never made it trial because 2 of his sons broke him out of jail before he could be tried and executed.
The barber and 2 of his sons were smuggled out of the country to America.
Just what I heard. Cool story, would make a great movie.
The rest of the story is that The Barber returned as soon as Cromwell died and lived out his remaining year of life with his wife. He was buried at St. Martin in the Fields in London.
The 2 sons remained in the colony of Virginia and have many descendants throughout modern day America.
Excellent video as always, and awesome to hear Southwell get a mention! Have you visited the Saracen's Head pub?
I haven't visited it, but my friend recently has and went into the room that Charles I stayed in. Wonderful space with original wallpaintings. I'm not far away so I will go and visit!
Interesting video. There is a church at Shelland nr Stowmarket dedicated to Charles the Martyr
Thank you 😊 , so very informative and well presented .
Glad you enjoyed it!
After first hearing about Charles I and Charles II I wondered why Elizabeth II named her heir Charles.
Hi Allan! An interesting but somber story indeed.
Too be fair he defended himself well , but it was a loaded court .
But when Charles 2 came to power , he got his revenge .
Excellent work. Thank you.
Charles I seems to me to have been a good man. But, not such a great King. He just could not accept that times were changing. And that The Monarchy had to change with them.
History is not inevitable, he very nearly destroyed parliament in the early battles of the civil war, if he had people would be talking about the inevitability of high Anglicanism and centralised monarchy.
@@vorynrosethorn903 I don't know about that. I think that even if Charles had been victorious. He, or perhaps a successor would have had to face those same sociopolitical forces that were pushing against absolutism in the protestant world at the time. I never implied anything about history being inevitable. Just that Charles failed to recognize, what was happening before his very eyes.
I made sure to read the propers and all three collects for this day. My prayer book has an engraving of Charles I, and a celebration of the ascendancy of Charles II, also with an image.
Lets be honest, Charles the 1st was an awful person but paled compared to Oliver Cromwell and his set of goons. Just imagine what it must be like to be so powerful that you are answerable only to God and not to the people you are abusing. Of course, to date it's the story of all humanity and I don't see a big change coming anytime soon. I love this channel, thank you for sharing the videos.
I kind of take a middle stance of Charles I. No, I do not believe that Parliament had either the right or the moral authority to execute him - it was, as were the killings of many sovereigns over the years - very much a cowardly play by a mob (who could then shovel blame onto a few individuals, as happened after the restoration). No one man had the fortitude to take on the responsibility of the act himself.
On the other hand, I think Charles misplayed his hand throughout the first English Civil War, and the events following his capture. Had he been even slightly willing to work with Parliament on some lessening of his prerogative, I think he would have survived the affair. And, since Charles II DID agree to essentially those same reductions, his father's death was somewhat pointless - Charles I took a personal stand that cost him his life, but what he stood for died with him.
Great video, thanks
Glad you liked it!
Thank you,Allan
Enjoyed how this was presented. Concise, no sensationalism, but the emotion of the subject comes through well. I think it's ridiculous that this isn't covered in US history--the English Civil War, the execution of CR, and the 11-ish year English Republic all had a rather foundational effect on the US and are all as much US history as Jamestown is!
No one is above the law. That should include the monarchy and royal family......
Bravo 👏
While it's true that there was little chance of Charles being exonerated, the commissioners required a substantial cajoling from Cromwell to reach the death sentence. Histories of Republican England are also just as devoid of nuance as histories of Charles I.
Interestingly Geoffrey Robertson in The Tyrannicide Brief makes it clear that the depiction of the scaffold in most contemporary engravings etc such as at 12:35 and 13:13 were done without depicting the railing lined with black crepe which blocked the public’s view of the beheading. I imagine they were drawn like this to show all the participants on the scaffold. The drawing at 15:50 seems to show the black crepe.
I've often wondered why CI was so hated and then executed. Seemed so severe. Was he really as bad a king as that?
"THE World turn'd upside down: OR, A briefe description of the ridiculous Fashions of these distracted Times."
As timely today (sadly) as it was in 1647.
I agree. I can think of one person today who thinks like Charles I that the position held is above the law.
@@susanharris5926 Indeed!
James VI and I’s descendants hold the throne to this day as they have since 1625. In truth while James and Charles agreed on much the formers pacifism meant he could be cantankerous but never war mongering.
While parliament wasn’t at all an innocent party I don’t think James I would have instigated the Bishops war which kicked off the whole war of the three kingdoms.
Charles - "I wasn't executed - I was found guilty."
Great video ... I do have to wonder where bravery ends and absolute delusion begins. If you have conviction in a belief, you believe, I guess 🤷🏻♂️
That part of Charles, the first at the beginning was Charles the martyr
The opposition leader, Cromwell, was truly a monster and soured the rebellion quickly! Charles, simply a King.
He nothing common did or mean
Upon that memorable scene,
But with his keener eye
The axe's edge did try.
(Andrew Marvell)
Neither a “man of blood” nor a martyr, but a man constitutionally incapable of meeting the unique challenges of his reign. In a different era, he would simply have been one more king, notable perhaps for his interest in the fine arts.
Remember!
Until comparatively recently, I'd always thought that I would have been a sympathizer of Cromwell. All that "divine right of kings" stuff. But having witnessed Trump, Putin and even Johnson stirring up their countries for their own ends, I now see Cromwell's actions as outrageous. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Salazar...
Yes particularly because he was driven by democracy but by religious fundamentalism. Either you were his kind of Protestant or you were a catholic.
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Lowkey a sham trial lol
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No King Charles II
The Cavaliers wore gay, flowing attire. Low flat, broad-brimed hats and small pointed beards. The Roundheads wore sombre, drab garments, tall conical hats and were clean-shaven. Under these circumstances, Civil War was inevitable. The Cavaliers were wrong but Wromantic. The Roundheads were wright but wrepulsive.
Very sad that videos of such worth have so views.
May his soul rest in peace!
I think any nation that executes an anointed king, queen or otherwise head of state always pays a severe price. God does not overlook people "touching" his anointed. History tends to bear this out. Bad business.
My ancestor Col. Francis Hacker was one of the ones who signed his death warrant and personally escorted him to his Execution!
The way the King was described at trial is almost exactly describing Trump's behavior and declarations (ie. that he's immune to prosecution). Wonder if King Charles I was Trump in a past life! If so, apparently he didn't learn anything from his experience!😅
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