Why did the English execute king charles I?
Well, if you really knew Charles you might want to kill him yourself. Charles had one of those prickly prissy personalities that just made people want to slap him up alongside the head. In fact it was a miracle that the English waited so long to execute Charles. But the reasons involved were long and convoluted and deeply entwined in English History most especially the history of people governing themselves and the role of the monarchy in the governance of the nation. It is late and explaining a question as complex as this takes time that is to often wasted on this site. Suffice it to to say that Charles alive was more of a problem than keeping him alive would be worth. Though Charles had agreed to concede certain powers to the English Parliament he had gone back on some of those promises and if he remained alive there was every chance that he could rally enough force to perhaps destroy Parliament, utterly remove it as a factor in English life, such was Parliaments fear and thus they c
