This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English
aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of
the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the
effectiveness of the King and the Earl of Arundel's policies to
promote and strengthen the nobility. He reveals how the peers
reasserted themselves as the natural leaders of the political
nation during the Great Council of Peers in 1640 and the Long
Parliament. He also demonstrates how Charles deliberately set out
to cultivate his aristocracy as the main bulwark of royal
authority, enabling him to go to war against the Scots in 1639 and
then build the royalist party which provided the means to fight
parliament in 1642. The analysis is framed throughout within a
broader study of aristocratic honour and the efforts of the heralds
to stabilise the social order.
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