Title page of A Brief description of the Fifth Monarchy or Kingdome (1653) by William Aspinwall.
The Fifth Monarchists, or Fifth Monarchy Men, were a Protestant sect which advocated Millennialist views, active during the 1649 to 1660 Commonwealth of England.[1] Named after a prophecy in the Book of Daniel that Four Monarchies would precede the Fifth or establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth, the group was one of a number of Nonconformist sects that emerged during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Perhaps its best known adherent was Major-General Thomas Harrison, executed in October 1660 as a regicide, while Oliver Cromwell was a sympathiser until 1653.
Members believed the execution of Charles I in January 1649 marked the end of the Fourth Monarchy, and viewed both the institution of the Protectorate in 1653 and the 1660 Stuart Restoration as preventing the coming of the Fifth. The belief this justified military action meant they were actively persecuted by both regimes, and never became a mass movement. Many of their remaining leaders were executed after participating in Venner's Rising of January 1661, and the group dissolved.
Along with millenarianism and Antinomianism, many of the religious views advocated by Fifth Monarchists were common to other Non-Conformists, notably Anabaptists. As a group, they were primarily united by shared political beliefs, rather than being a sect with a distinctive and coherent doctrine.[2]
The FifthMonarchists, or Fifth Monarchy Men, were a Protestant sect which advocated Millennialist views, active during the 1649 to 1660 Commonwealth...
coincide with those advocated by Pessoa and mentioned above). As for the FifthMonarchists later in England and other authors, although with some differences...
Restoration of 1660, 50 militant FifthMonarchists under Thomas Venner attempted to take over London to start the "Fifth Monarchy of King Jesus". After...
century, when they were absorbed into the Quaker movement. The FifthMonarchists or Fifth Monarchy Men were Nonconformists who were active from 1649 to...
later opposed those he considered heretical, such as Quakers and FifthMonarchists. In 1640, Cromwell was returned as MP for Cambridge in the Short and...
Columbus predicted that the world would end during this year. 1655–1657 FifthMonarchists This group of radical Christians predicted that the final apocalyptic...
known as the Levellers and the apocalyptic Christian movement of the FifthMonarchists. Some Puritans (but by no means all of them) wore their hair closely...
creation and Restoration recreation. On 6 January 1661, about 50 FifthMonarchists, headed by a wine-cooper named Thomas Venner, tried to gain possession...
alleged prophetess active in England in the 1650s, associated with the FifthMonarchists whom she joined in 1652. Anna Trapnell was born sometime during the...
king was also regarded as "Father of the country". List of regicides FifthMonarchists saw the overthrow of Charles I as a divine sign of the second coming...
Muggletonianism) Mary Cary (prophetess) (1621-1653, supporter of the FifthMonarchists) Eva Margareta Frölich (1650–1692) (Millennialist, pietist author...
Overton, both members of the Christian millennialist sect known as the FifthMonarchists, Goffe was convinced the Second Coming was imminent. This belief influenced...
antiquity Christian eschatology Curse and mark of Cain Day-year principle FifthMonarchists Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Human branding List of phobias, including...
returning to plot against Cromwell. He assumed leadership of the FifthMonarchists after the execution of General Thomas Harrison at Charing Cross on...
monarchism; however, efforts by Hungarian monarchists failed to bring back a royal head of state, and the monarchists settled for a regent, Admiral Miklós...
nominated it. The Radicals (approximately 40) included a hard core of FifthMonarchists who wanted to be rid of Common Law and any state control of religion...
Protestant views of the Millennium, which some sects, such as the FifthMonarchists predicted would arrive in England. Milton, however, would later criticise...
Clauses 10 through 12; these placed severe restrictions on sects like FifthMonarchists and Baptists, while seeking to re-establish a national church structured...
quartered at Charing Cross on 13 October 1660. He was a leader of the FifthMonarchists, who still posed a threat to the Restoration. 18 John Hewson Alive...
committed republican and religious Independent who sympathised with the FifthMonarchists, like others with similar views he opposed the establishment of The...
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