Louis XIV and Peter I where two of the most notable examples of an absolute monarch. To great extent, it can be stated that each monarch successfully fulfilled the goals of an absolute monarch by, limiting the power of the and nobility and church, increasing the power and prestige of their country, centralizing the power in the hands of the monarch and leaving a legacy.
Both of these thriving absolute monarchs came to power in the seventeenth century. Louis XIV was granted power in 1643 at the age of five, after the death of his father, Louis XIII. Louis XIV decided that absolutism was the way to govern a state after he lived through the chaos and anarchy of the twelve year Fronde, when he and his mother where captured and threatened by rebel groups. Peter I came into power at the age of ten in 1682, it was not until 1696 though that he became the absolute power of Russia after the death of his older half brother Ivan.
Both Louis XIV and Peter I had to have some way of......
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