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King James Stuart, King James II

Male 1633 - 1701  (67 years)


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  • Name James Stuart 
    Title King 
    Suffix King James II 
    Birth 14 Oct 1633  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 6 Sep 1701  [1
    Person ID I1320  Bourchiers
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

    Father King Charles Stuart, King Charles I,   b. 19 Nov 1600, Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jan 1649, Whitehall, London Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Henrietta Maria, of France 
    Family ID F585  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Anne Hyde,   b. 12 Mar 1637, Windsor, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Mar 1671, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years) 
    Marriage 1660 
    Children 
     1. Quen Mary Stuart, Queen Mary II,   b. 30 Apr 1662, St James' Palace, London Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Dec 1694, Kensington Palace, London Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)
     2. Queen Anne Gloria Stuart, - Queen Anne of Great Britain,   b. 6 Feb 1665   d. 1 Aug 1714 (Age 49 years)
     3. Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge
    Family ID F589  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2015 

    Family 2 Mary, of Modena,   b. 1658   d. 1718 (Age 60 years) 
    Children 
     1. Catherine Laura Stuart,   b. 10 Jan 1675   d. 3 Oct 1675 (Age 0 years)
     2. Isabel Stuart,   b. 28 Aug 1676   d. 2 Mar 1681 (Age 4 years)
     3. Charles Stuart, Duke of Cambridge,   b. 7 Nov 1677   d. 12 Dec 1677 (Age 0 years)
     4. Charlotte Maria Stuart,   b. 16 Aug 1682   d. 16 Oct 1682 (Age 0 years)
     5. James Frencis Edward Stuart, Duke of Cambridge,   b. 10 Jun 1688   d. 1 Jan 1766 (Age 77 years)
     6. Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart,   b. 28 Jun 1692   d. 20 Apr 1712 (Age 19 years)
    Family ID F590  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2015 

  • Notes 
    • James II and VII (14 October 1633O.S. – 16 September 1701)[2] was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII,[3] from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland.

      The second surviving son of Charles I, he ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II. Members of Britain's political and religious elite increasingly suspected him of being pro-French and pro-Catholic and of having designs on becoming an absolute monarch. When he produced a Catholic heir, the tension exploded, and leading nobles called on his Protestant son-in-law and nephew William of Orange, to land an invasion army from the Netherlands, which he did in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James fled England (and thus was held to have abdicated).[4] He was replaced by his Protestant elder daughter, Mary and her husband William of Orange. James made one serious attempt to recover his crowns from William and Mary when he landed in Ireland in 1689, but after the defeat of the Jacobite forces by the Williamite forces at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, James returned to France. He lived out the rest of his life as a pretender at a court sponsored by his cousin and ally, King Louis XIV.

      James is best known for his struggles with the English Parliament and his attempts to create religious liberty for English Roman Catholics and Protestant nonconformists, against the wishes of the Anglican establishment. However he also continued the persecution of the Presbyterian Covenanters in Scotland. Parliament, opposed to the growth of absolutism that was occurring in other European countries, as well as to the loss of legal supremacy of the Church of England, saw their opposition as a way to preserve what they regarded as traditional English liberties. This tension made James's four-year reign a struggle for supremacy between the English Parliament and the Crown, resulting in his deposition, the passage of the Bill of Rights, and the Hanoverian succession.

      see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_II_of_England

  • Sources 
    1. [S1870] Wikipedia, (en.wikipedia.org), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England.