ABSTRACT
‘The Glorious Revolution’ is a positive name for events in British history set in motion in the fall of 1688 when the Protestant William, Prince of Orange and stadtholder in the Dutch Republic, landed in England with an army, causing the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the Catholic James II, to flee to France. When Charles II died in 1685 and his brother, the openly Roman Catholic James II, who was unpopular in England, took over, William invaded the country with the support of a group of influential members of parliament. Parliament required the presence of the monarch in order to have legitimacy, and so the assembly that sanctioned the contention that the throne was vacant was called a “convention.”. A monarch held his or her position by divine right, and it was a moral and religious crime to interfere with what God had ordained.
