Charles I Stuart 
Charles I was born on November 19th, 1600 in Dumferline Palace, Fifeshire, Scotland. Charles I's father was James I Stuart and his mother was Anne Oldenburg. His paternal grandparents were Henry Stuart and Mary Stuart; his maternal grandparents were II Frederick and Sophia Von Mecklenburg. He had two brothers and four sisters, named Robert Bruce, Henry Frederick, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary and Sophia. He died in Whitehall Palace, London, England.General Notes
Charles I Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart was the second surviving son of James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark. He was a sickly child, and, when his father became king of England in March 1603, he was temporarily left behind in Scotland because of the risks of the journey. Devoted to his elder brother, Henry, and to his sister, Elizabeth, he became lonely when Henry died (1612) and his sister left England in 1613 to marry Frederick V, elector of the Rhine Palatinate (see James I).
All his life Charles had a Scots accent and a slight stammer. Small in stature, he was less dignified than his portraits by the Flemish painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck suggest. He was always shy and struck observers as being silent and reserved. His excellent temper, courteous manners, and lack of vices impressed all those who met him, but he lacked the common touch, travelled about little, and never mixed with ordinary people. A patron of the arts (notably of painting a nd tapestry; he brought both Van Dyck and another famous Flemish painter, Peter Paul Rubens, to England), he was, like all the Stuarts, also a lover of horses and hunting. He was sincerely religious, and the character of the court became less coarse as soon as he became king. From his father he acquired a stubborn belief that kings are intended by God to rule, and his earliest surviving letters reveal a distrust of the unruly House of Commons with which he proved incapable of coming to terms. Lacking flexibility or imagination, he was unable to understand that those political deceits that he always practiced in increasingly vain attempts to uphold his authority eventually impugned his honour and damaged his credit.
In 1623, before succeeding to the throne, Charles, accompanied by the Duke of Buckingham, King James I's favourite, made an incognito visit to Spain in order to conclude a marriage treaty with the daughter of King Philip III. When the mission failed, largely because of Buckingham's arrogance and the Spanish court's insistence that Charles become a Roman Catholic, he joined Buckingham in pressing his father for war against Spain. In the meantime a marriage treaty was arranged on his behalf with Henrietta Maria, sister of the French king, Louis XIII.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1469 in Lennox, Stirlingshire, Scotland d.09 Sep 1513 in Battle Of Flodden, Branxton, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1492 in Lennox, Stirlingshire, Scotland d.04 Sep 1526 in Manuel, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.1473 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.Apr 1531
- b.21 Sep 1516 in Dunbarton Castle, England d.04 Sep 1571 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1494 in Balveny, Fifeshire, Scotland d.> 1533 in Scotland
- b.07 Dec 1545 in Temple Newsham, Yorkshire, England d.1567 in Killed at Kirk O'Field
- b.~ 1469 d.09 Sep 1513 in Battle of Flodden
- b.1489 in Scotland d.22 JAN 1555/56 in Castle of Tantallon, Scotland
- b.~ 1470 in Drummond Castle, England d.21 Aug 1514
- b.07 Oct 1515 in Harbottle Castle, Northumberland d.9 MAR 1574/75 in Hackney, Middlesex, England
- b.28 JAN 1456/57 in Pembroke Castle, England d.05 Apr 1509
- b.29 Nov 1489 in Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England d.18 Oct 1541 in Methven Castle, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.11 FEB 1464/65 in Anjou, France
- b.19 Jun 1566 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, West Lothian, Scotland d.27 Mar 1625 in Theobalds Park, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
- b.10 Jul 1451 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland d.11 Jun 1488 in Sauchieburn, St. Ninian's, Stirlingshire
- b.18 MAR 1471/72 in Edinburgh, West Lothian, Scotland d.09 Sep 1513 in Battle of Flodden, Northumberland, England
- b.23 Jun 1456 in Kobenhavn, Kobenhavn, Denmark d.14 Jul 1486 in Stirlingshire, Lochawe, Scotland
- b.10 Apr 1512 in Edinburgh, West Lothian, Scotland
- b.28 JAN 1456/57 in Pembroke Castle, England d.05 Apr 1509
- b.29 Nov 1489 in Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England d.18 Oct 1541 in Methven Castle, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.11 FEB 1464/65 in Anjou, France
- b.07 Dec 1542 in Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland d.7 FEB 1585/86 in Executed at Fotheringhay
- b.22 Nov 1515 in Bar-le-Duc, France
- b.19 Nov 1600 in Dumferline Palace, Fifeshire, Scotland d.30 JAN 1647/48 in Whitehall Palace, London, England
- b.21 May 1425 in Kobenhavn, Kobenhavn, Denmark d.1481
- b.1449 d.1533
- b.1430
- b.1509 d.1559
- b.02 Aug 1455 d.9 JAN 1497/98
- b.27 Aug 1487
- b.1449
- b.01 Jul 1534 d.04 Apr 1588
- b.1511 d.1575
- b.14 Oct 1574 in Skanderborg Castle, Jutland, Denmark d.4 MAR 1618/19 in England
- b.21 Apr 1528 d.14 MAR 1600/01
- b.04 Sep 1557 d.04 Oct 1631
- b.14 Oct 1524
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They had three sons and three daughters, named Charles II, James II, Henry, Mary, Elizabeth and Henrietta Anne.
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Children
Henrietta Anne Stuart
Henrietta Anne was born on June 16th, 1644 in Whitehall Palace, London, England.
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