Stuart restoration

Charles II, first monarch after the Restoration, in coronation regalia. Oil painting by John Michael Wright , Hampton Court Palace , circa 1661

Entry of the Ambassador Philip IV of Spain into London in September 1660, who was the first European ruler to recognize the English monarchy again. Oil painting by François Duchatel , Belœil Castle

As restoration ( Engl. Restoration ) is in English history refers to the period 1660-1689, as among the kings Charles II. And James II. From the house Stuart during the English Civil War abolished the monarchy was restored.

The possibility of this restoration arose after the death of the lord protector Oliver Cromwell in 1658, because his system of government had proven to be unsustainable and his son Richard had proven to be an unsuitable successor.

The era ended in 1689 with the Glorious Revolution , in which the Catholic James II was expelled and his Protestant daughter Maria II and her husband William of Orange ascended the English throne.

literature

• Jonathan Scott: England's Troubles. Seventeenth Century English Political Instability in European Context. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-41192-0 .
• NH Keeble: The Restoration. England in the 1660s. (= A History of Early Modern England. ) Blackwell, Malden, MA et al. 2002, ISBN 0-631-23617-1 .
• Ronald G. Asch : The Stuarts. History of a dynasty. (= CH Beck Wissen. ) Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61189-6 , pp. 70-77 (preview).