Roundhead
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The Parliamentarians, commonly called Roundheads by their enemies, were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651). They fought against King Charles I of England and his supporters, known as the Cavaliers or Royalists, who claimed rule by absolute monarchy and the principle of the divine right of kings. The goal of the Roundheads was to give to Parliament the supreme control over executive administration of England.
Key facts
- Political party.name
- Parliamentarians
- Political party.colorcode
- C8102E
- Political party.merged
- Whigs
- Political party.leader1_title
- Leaders
- Political party.leader1_name
- Oliver CromwellRichard CromwellJohn BradshawThomas Fairfax
- Political party.ideology
- Parliamentary supremacyPopular sovereigntyFactions:Constitutional monarchismRepublicanism Universal suffrage Proto-socialism
- Political party.position
- Left-wing
- Political party.religion
- Protestantism
- Political party.country
- England
- Political party.flag
- Flag of England.svgborder
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- John Pettie Puritan Roundhead.jpg
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- Commons category
- Roundheads
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1678-00-00
- inception
- 1642-00-00
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- Beliefs
- Origins and background of the term
- In popular culture
- Notes
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The Parliamentarians, commonly called Roundheads by their enemies, were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651). They fought against King Charles I of England and his supporters, known as the Cavaliers or Royalists, who claimed rule by absolute monarchy and the principle of the divine right of kings. The goal of the Roundheads was to give to Parliament the supreme control over executive administration of England.
==Beliefs== thumb|upright|A Roundhead as depicted by John Pettie (1870) Most Roundheads sought constitutional monarchy in place of the absolute monarchy sought by Charles; however, at the end of the English Civil War in 1649, public antipathy towards the king was high enough to allow republican leaders such as Oliver Cromwell to abolish the monarchy completely and establish the Commonwealth of England.