STUARTS:

James the Second, 1685 to 1688

The Popish Duke

BORN: 14 October 1633, St. James's Palace, London.
PARENTS: Charles I (1600 - 49),
Henrietta Maria of France (1609 - 69).
MARRIED: (1) Anne Hyde (1637/8 - 71),
24 November 1659, Breda, Holland.

(2) Mary of Modena (1658 - 1718),
21 November 1673, Dover, Kent.
ACCEDED: 6 February 1685
CROWNED: 23 April 1685, Westminster Abbey.
(deposed: 11 December 1688)
DIED: 6 September 1701,
St. Germain-en-Laye, France.
INTERRED: St. Germain-en-Laye, France.
CHILDREN: with Anne Hyde:
(1) Charles, Duke of Cambridge (1660 - 61)
(2) Mary II (1662 - 94)
(3) James, Duke of Cambridge (1663 - 67)
(4) Anne (1665 - 1714)
(5) Charles, Duke of Kendal (1666 - 67)
(6) Edgar, Duke of Cambridge (1667 - 71)
(7) Henrietta (1669 - infancy)
(8) Catherine (1671 - infancy)

with Mary of Modena:
(9) child (1674 - stillborn)
(10 Catherine Laura (1675 - infancy)
(11) child (1675 - stillborn)
(12) Isabella (1676 - 81)
(13) Charles, Duke of Cambridge (1677 - infancy)
(14) Elizabeth (1678 - infancy)
(15) child (1681 - stillborn)
(16) Charlotte Maria (1682 - infancy)
(17) child (1683 - stillborn)
(18) child (1684 - stillborn)
(19) James Francis Edward, Duke of Cornwall (The Old Pretender) (1688 - 1766)
(20) Louisa Maria Theresa (1692 - 1712)

+ 7 illegitimate children

COEVAL
PERSONS:
Archbishops of Canterbury:
William Sancroft

Culture:
Henry Purcell (composer)

NOTABLE
EVENTS:



Contemporary portrait of James the Second