1. The Age of Absolutism

2. What is absolutism?
1.) 2.)

3. Why was it necessary?
1.)

4. SPAIN

5. Who were the key monarchs?
1.) Queen Isabella and Ferdinand:

6. Who were the key monarchs?
2.) Charles V:

7. Who were the key monarchs?
3.) Phillip II:
Controlled Spain, Netherlands, Southern Italy, and overseas colonies

8. France

9. Who were the key monarchs?
1.) Henry IV
1589 and was Huguenot

10. Who were the key monarchs?
Henry IV dies:
1624 Cardinal Armand Richelieu:

11. Louis XIV?
2.) Louis XIV:

12. Successes:
Increased Wealth
Versailles Palace
Failures:

13. ENGLAND

14. Who were the key monarchs?
1.) Henry VIII of England

15. Who were the key figures?
Henry VIII
Older bro Arthur dies @ 15 and married to:
Marriage connected:
Had to marry brother’s widow. Claims 1st marriage was not consummated
1509:

16. Who were the key figures?
Henry VIII (cont.)
1527:
Wanted:
Pope denied it:

17. Who were the key figures?
Henry VIII (cont.)
Persuaded by Anne:
1534 Act of Supremacy:
Appointed his own archbishop who annulled his marriage.
Was later excommunicated by the Church

18. Who were the key figures?
Henry VIII (cont.)
Married Anne Boleyn:
Grew tired of Anne:
Church:

19. Who were the key figures?
Henry VIII (cont.)
Jane Seymour

20. Who were the key figures?
Henry VIII (cont.)
Anne of Cleves

21. Who were the key figures?
Henry VIII (cont.)
Catherine Howard (Anne Boleyn’s cousin)

22. Who were the key figures?
Henry VIII (cont.)
Catherine Parr

23. Who were the key figures?
Edward VI

24. Who were the key figures?
Mary Tudor

25. Who were the key figures?
Elizabeth Tudor

26. Who were the key figures?
The Stuarts of Scotland
James I

27. Who were the key figures?
Charles I :
English Civil War ensued
Roundheads:
Cavaliers:
Roundheads ……