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GCSE History · key term
A serious offence against the monarch or state, such as plotting to overthrow or kill the monarch.
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A serious offence against the monarch or state, such as attempting to overthrow royal authority.
Revise: Challenges of a Female RulerWith no wider rising and the government prepared to act, Essex retreated to Essex House and surrendered. He was tried for treason and executed on 25 February 1601.
A serious offence against the monarch or state, including plotting to overthrow or kill the monarch.
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Betraying or challenging the authority of the monarch, for example by plotting against the ruler.
Revise: Nature and Changing Definitions of Criminal ActivityHeresy and treason were not new either. The important changes were in the circumstances encouraging crime, the threats authorities feared and the behaviour the law treated as criminal.
A crime against the monarch or state, such as plotting to kill the ruler or overthrow their authority.
A serious offence against the monarch or state. The allegations against Anne Boleyn were treated as treason.
The offence of betraying the monarch or threatening the monarch’s authority.
An offence against the monarch or state punishable by death. Henry VIII’s treason legislation extended this to denial of his royal titles.
An offence against the monarch or their authority, including rebellion, which could be punished by death.
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Betrayal of a ruler or state, such as participation in an attempt to overthrow or kill the ruler.
Revise: Pursuit of Darius and the Indian CampaignBessus was captured in summer 329 BC and mutilated, a customary Persian punishment for treason. Treating him as a traitor fitted Alexander’s claim to be avenging Darius and succeeding to Persian kingship. The pursuit shows both Alexander’s persistence and his willingness to use harsh punishment against a rival.
A serious offence against the community or its authority, such as betrayal of the state.
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A serious betrayal of the monarch’s authority, such as attempting to overthrow the monarch.
Revise: Crimes and criminalsTreason was especially serious because it threatened the monarch’s position and power. Rebellion could involve attacks on officials, lords or the monarch’s authority.
An offence against the ruler or state, such as plotting to overthrow or kill the monarch.
The crime of betraying the monarch or acting against the monarch’s authority, such as by organising an armed rebellion.
Distinguish heresy, which concerned religious beliefs, from treason, which challenged the ruler’s authority. Explain why they could overlap when the monarch also headed the Church.
Distinguish accusations from established facts. Anne was convicted of adultery, incest and treason, but this does not prove that she committed them.
Do not treat every refusal of an oath as automatically punishable by death. Distinguish the penalties for refusing the succession oath from treason proceedings for denying the king’s titles.
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