Barren parliament

As the Barren Parliament ( English Addled Parliament ) is called the parliamentary session convened by King James I of England in 1614 .

The parliament - in which for example John Eliot and Thomas Wentworth moved in for the first time - failed because of the flaring conflict with King James I, who promised the approval of further taxes (subsidies). However, the parliament only wanted to grant this in return for concessions in the field of foreign and religious policy. Jacob I refused such concessions because they impaired his royal prerogatives .

Against this background - an agreement turned out to be impossible - James I dissolved the parliament after a few sessions and a total session duration of only eight weeks, from which the term barren parliament results.