Compare and contrast the monarchy’s relationship with the nobility in France, Spain, and England in the seventeenth century.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. In the early seventeenth century, the monarchies in all three countries had to contend with a fractious nobility.
b. The Fronde was a civil war in France in which an alliance of nobles, merchants, and artisans challenged royal authority.
c. The English Civil War pitted Parliament against the monarchy.
d. Civil war also plagued Spain, ending in a weakened monarchy.
e. In France, Louis XIV succeeded in bringing the nobility under his control.
f. In England, the nobility succeeded in placing limits on the monarchy.
g. In Spain, the great nobles known as the grandees retained their hold on power.
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