Absolute Monarchs

Declared his absolute power when he told subjects " I AM THE STATE."

• Henry VIII

• Louis XIV

• Peter the Great

• Frederick

English Queen who married the Catholic king of Spain, Phillip II and tried to restore England to Catholicism.

• Mary I

• Elizabeth I

• Elizabeth III

• Mary IV

English king who first broke with the Catholic Church.

• Henry VIII

• Peter the Great

• Oliver Cromwell

• Louis XIV

Ruler of Prussia in 1740 who built up the military and expanded its borders.

• Peter the Great

• Frederick the Great

• Oliver Cromwell

• Phillip II

Officially repealed the Edict of Nantes in France and would no longer protect the Protestant minority.

• Phillip II

• Henry VIII

• Louis XIV

• Oliver Cromwell

Russian czar who took an 18 month tour of England and the Netherlands to learn the ways of Western Europe.

• Phillip II

• Peter the Great

• Frederick the Great

• Oliver Cromwell

Spanish king who sent the Spanish Armada to attack England.

• Mary I

• Henry VIII

• Louis XIV

• Phillip II

Sun King

• Phillip II

• Henry VIII

• Louis XIV

• Oliver Cromwell

He overthrew King Charles I in England after the English Civil War.

• Oliver Cromwell

• Peter the Great

• Henry VIII

• Phillip II

Forced Russian nobility to adopt western ways ( Clothing, culture, etc...).

• Frederick the Great

• Louis XIV

• Peter the Great

• Oliver Cromwell