The New Monarchies: 15c-16c

The New Monarchies: 15 16 c

c Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY

Characteristics of the New Monarchies 1. They offered the institution of monarchy as a guarantee of law and order.

2. They proclaimed that hereditary monarchy was the legitimate form of public power all should accept this without resistance. 3. They enlisted the support of the middle

class in the towns tired of the local power of feudal nobles. 4. They would have to get their monarchies sufficiently organized & their finances into reliable order.

Characteristics of the New Monarchies 5. They would break down the mass of feudal, inherited, customary, or

common law in which the rights of the feudal classes were entrenched. 6. The kings would MAKE law, enact it by his own authority, regardless of previous custom or historic liberties What

pleases the prince has the force of law! England stability under the Tudors France consolidation of power.

Spain unification by marriage. HR Empire different model: the cost of decentralization. The Tudors of England

Tudor Engla nd 1485

The Valois Dynasty in France France in the 15c 16c

The Habsburg Dynasty Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain

The Madonna of the Kingdoms of Spain: 1492

Empire of Charles V The Empire of Philip II The Holy Roman Empire:

Late 1512 The Holy Roman Empire: Late 16c

Central Europe in 1600 The Growth of the Ottoman Empire

The Battle of Lepanto, 1571 Eastern Europe in 1550