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Historical person
1600–1649
Charles I was king of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 until his execution in 1649. His conflicts with Parliament over taxation, religion and royal authority led to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the temporary overthrow of monarchy in England.
Charles I of England also held the offices or ranks of Prince of Wales, Duke of York, monarch of England, and monarch of Scotland. Charles I of England belonged to the House of Stuart and operated within Kingdom of England. Charles I of England was born in Dunfermline Palace and died in Palace of Whitehall.
In G. A. Henty’s Friends Though Divided, Historical figures including Charles I of England and Oliver Cromwell connect the fictional action directly to the documented events. In Jean Plaidy’s Myself, My Enemy, the daughter of Henry IV of France, Princess Henrietta Maria, becomes a pawn in a political strategy to stabilize relations between two countries when her father marries her to Charles I of England. Additional non-fiction treatment of Charles I of England comes from Peter Ackroyd’s Civil War, John Miller’s Early Modern Britain, 1450–1750, Leanda de Lisle’s Henrietta Maria, Charles Spencer’s Prince Rupert, and Antonia Fraser’s The Weaker Vessel.
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The King’s Witch Trilogy follows the fictional healer and secret Catholic Frances Gorges from the final days of Elizabeth I into the unstable first two decades of James VI and I’s reign. Drawn from rural Hampshire into royal service, Frances survives accusations of witchcraft, religious persecution and a…
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The Civil War Chronicles follow Captain Innocent Stryker, a veteran of continental warfare who returns to England as conflict between Charles I and Parliament becomes open war. Stryker serves the Royalists through loyalty to his companions rather than unquestioning faith in the cause. His company is repeatedly used…
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The Damian Seeker series follows the feared intelligence officer who serves Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth and Protectorate. Beginning in London in 1654, Seeker investigates murders and conspiracies among soldiers, lawyers, religious radicals, Royalist exiles and government spies, using the authority of Cromwell’s guard while concealing his own…
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The Tradescant novels are a two-generation biographical family saga inspired by the gardeners and collectors John Tradescant the Elder and John Tradescant the Younger. Their work for royal and aristocratic patrons connects the development of English gardens and collections to travel, scientific curiosity, patronage and the growth of…
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The Morland Dynasty is a thirty-six-book family saga tracing the fictional Morlands of Yorkshire from 1434 to the approach of the Second World War. Beginning with the marriage of Robert Morland and Eleanor, a ward of the Beaufort family, the sequence follows successive generations as Morland Place grows…
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The Wakefield Dynasty follows two interconnected English families—the aristocratic Wakefields and the humbler Morgans—from the Reformation through the Napoleonic era. Their descendants encounter biblical translation, confessional persecution, civil war, revival religion and international conflict. The seven novels combine dynastic saga, court politics and Christian historical fiction. Historical rulers,…
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The Crowning Mercy novels follow the Lazender family through two periods of upheaval in European history. A Crowning Mercy is set amid the religious and political violence of the English Civil War, when a young woman’s inheritance draws her into a contest involving family loyalty, faith and royalist…
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The Alexander Seaton series follows a disgraced former minister who works first as a schoolmaster in Banff and later within the academic world of Aberdeen. Between 1626 and 1635, Seaton is drawn into murders involving poisoned bodies, family secrets, dangerous books, religious division and the recruitment of Scottish…
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The Bleeding Land novels follow the Rivers family as the English Civil War divides England and turns political allegiance into a private catastrophe. Sir Francis Rivers and his children are pulled towards opposing causes after Charles I raises his standard in 1642, while the women at Sheer House…
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The English Civil War novels follow Lucy Wentnor and blacksmith Jamie Hudson through the unsettled years from 1647 to 1649. Lucy rebuilds her life in London through the expanding trade in pamphlets and newsbooks, while Jamie’s military experience repeatedly draws him back into the conflict they both hoped…
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The Kit Faulkner Naval Adventures follow an orphan raised in the maritime world of Bristol who becomes a merchant captain as Stuart England moves towards civil war. Kit’s professional rise draws him into piracy, privateering, royal service and the struggle between Crown and Parliament. The trilogy carries Faulkner…
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The Queens of England novels dramatise the lives of royal women from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Queen Victoria. Each volume concentrates on a queen, consort or claimant whose marriages, loyalties and private ambitions were inseparable from dynastic politics, religious conflict and the exercise of monarchy.
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Written originally as Caroline Gray, the Helier L’Eree trilogy combines seventeenth-century warfare with witchcraft and gothic adventure. Helier’s mother is executed as a witch on Guernsey, and his attempt at revenge leads to service under Cardinal Richelieu and an assassination mission during the Thirty Years’ War. The sequels…
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The Sword of State trilogy fictionalises the career of George Monck, the soldier and naval commander whose shifting service helped carry England from civil war through the Commonwealth to the Restoration. The novels follow Monck from imprisonment and divided loyalty to campaigns in Ireland and Scotland, war with…
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The English Commonwealth Sequence follows connected lives across the upheavals that began with civil war and continued through the Restoration and the succession crisis of 1685. Silver Guard opens amid the First English Civil War, Grey Adventurer follows the consequences of the Stuart return in London and colonial…
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The Mandeville Series follows Sir Renold Mandeville and a recurring circle of servants, secretaries, performers and musicians through the political and cultural world of seventeenth-century England. Mandeville introduces the household during the reign of Charles I, while Saraband for Shadows returns to the characters after the civil wars…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
