⌂ Atlas ☰ Read as a page The thread: How did the crown that joined three kingdoms in 1603 end on the scaffold in 1649, and come back in 1660?
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Key

The Crown and its servants Parliament, its army and the Commonwealth Scotland's Covenanters Irish lords and Confederates Spain bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Treaty of Mellifont, 30 March 1603: O'Neill submits to Mountjoy, unaware the queen is dead — source
  2. Siege of Kinsale, 1601: the Spanish landing and the Irish defeat of 24 December — source
  3. Flight of the Earls (1607) and the Plantation of Ulster (from 1609) — source
  4. Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen: the Palatine marriage, Bohemia and the White Mountain — source
  5. The Spanish Match and the journey to Madrid, 1623 — source
  6. Petition of Right, 1628: Coke's committee, the four grievances, royal assent 7 June — source
  7. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford: the North, Ireland, impeachment and attainder — source
  8. Bishops' Wars: the Prayer Book, the Covenant, Newburn and the Treaty of Ripon — source
  9. Irish Rebellion of 1641 and Confederate Ireland — source
  10. Pride's Purge and the trial of Charles I, 1648–49 — source
  11. Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, 1649–1653 — source
  12. Declaration of Breda and the Restoration, 1660 — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Stuart Britain, 1600–1660

How did the crown that joined three kingdoms in 1603 end on the scaffold in 1649, and come back in 1660?
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