Executing Charles I: The Banqueting House

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Following on from my video on Whitehall Palace (   • Henry VIII's Palace: Whitehall  ), today we're focusing on the Banqueting House and the moment when it acted as the backdrop to regicide with the execution of Charles I.

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

The Execution of Charles I of England by an unknown artist, formerly attributed to Jan Weesop (c.1649). Held by the Scottish National Gallery.

Engraving from "Nalson's Record of the Trial of Charles I" in the British Museum. Plate 2 from A True copy of the journal of the High Court of Justice for the tryal of K. Charles I as it was read in the House of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps, clerk to that infamous court / taken by J. Nalson Jan. 4, 1683: with a large introduction. London: Printed by H.C. for Thomas Dring at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery Lane and Fleet Street, 1684. (Original 1680s; this reproduction published 1899). From "The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors" by Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew T. Servin (Eagle Publishing Company of Pittsfield, Massachusetts) 1899. Volume 1. Between pages 54 and 55.

Portrait of Charles I in Three Positions by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1635 - Before June 1636). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.

The Rubens Ceiling, whole and in detail, from the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace. Sir Peter Paul Rubens series, The Glorification of King James I (installed 1636). Images hosted at https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#...

Screenshot from: https://www.hrp.org.uk/banqueting-hou...

The execution of King Charles I, by an unknown artist. See source website for additional information. Text: "The most abhorrent outrageous execution, performed on the most serene and most grandly powerful Carl Stuart, king in Great Britain, France and Ireland etc. in London before Whitehall Palace, Tuesday 30 January [Julian] / 9 February [Gregorian] in the year 1649, between 2 and 3 pm." Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Frontispiece, Eikon Basilike: The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings, by King Charles I of England (1649). Held by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
William Marshall’s engraved frontispiece for the Eikon Basilike: The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings, by King Charles I of England (claimed) (1649). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Quoted texts:

Mark A. Kishlansky and John Morrill. "Charles I (1600–1649), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. https://www-oxforddnb-com.ezproxy2.lo...

A True copy of the journal of the High Court of Justice for the tryal of K. Charles I as it was read in the House of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps, clerk to that infamous court: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A63...

King Charles his speech made upon the scaffold at Whitehall-Gate, immediately before his execution: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A7...