In 1611, he was made a.
An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the princess culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations.
He had trained up a large Catholic army in support of the king and had weakened the authority of the Irish Parliament, while continuing to confiscate land from Catholics for Protestant settlement at the same time as promoting a Laudian Anglicanism that was anathema to presbyterians.
English Civil War A nineteenth-century painting depicting Charles centre in blue sash before the , 1642 In mid-1642, both sides began to arm.