Commonwealth and Protectorate

The Commonwealth and Protectorate (1649-1660) refers to the kingless governments of England (including Wales and Cornwall), Scotland, Great Britain and Ireland during the Interregnum between the actual reigns of the Stuart King Charles I (1625-1649) and his son King Charles II (1660-1685).

See

• Commonwealth of England (under parliamentary rule, 1649-1653 and 1659-1660)

and

• The Protectorate (The Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1653-1659),
  under the Lords Protectors, first Oliver Cromwell (1653-1658) and then his son Richard Cromwell (1658-1659)

See also

England

• Interregnum (England)
• Kingdom of England
• English Civil War
  • Cornwall in the English Civil War
• Restoration (England)

Great Britain, Ireland and the colonies

• British Interregnum
• Wars of the Three Kingdoms
• English overseas possessions in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
• Colony of Virginia#English Civil War and Commonwealth (1642–1660)
• Battle of the Severn (Maryland, 1655)
• Restoration (1660)

Scotland

• Interregnum (Scotland)
• Scotland in the Early Modern Era
• Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
• Scotland under the Commonwealth
• Restoration (Scotland)

Ireland

• Interregnum (Ireland)
• Kingdom of Ireland
• Confederate Ireland
• Irish Confederate Wars
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
• Restoration (Ireland)

External links

• United Kingdom: Flags (and arms) of the Interregnum, 1649-1660, Flags of the World web site, retrieved 13 May 2013