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Personal data Charles II Stuart King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland 

• Alternative names: Karel 2 [Stuart] van Engeland en Schotland, Charles II Stewart, Charles II Stuart
• He was born on May 29, 1630 in St. James's Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, Great Brittain.
• He was christened on May 29, 1630 in St. James's Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, Great Brittain.
• (Titled) on January 30, 1649.

  King of England

• (Titled) on January 30, 1649.

  King of Ireland

• (Titled) on January 1, 1651.

  King of Scotland

• He died on February 6, 1685 in Whitehall Palace, Westminster, london, Middlesex, England, he was 54 years old.
• He is buried on February 14, 1685 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, Great Brittain.
• A child of Charles I Stuart and Henrietta Maria prinses v Frankrijk de Bourbon
• This information was last updated on July 24, 2021.

Household of Charles II Stuart King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland

(1) He is married to Lucy Walters.

They got married about 1648 at Not Married.

Child(ren):

1. James [illegitimate] Scott  1649-1685 
2. Mary [illegitimate] Walters  1651-1693 

(2) He is married to Barbara de Villiers.

They got married about 1661 at Not Married.

They were never married, and thus the children could not make a legitimate claim to the throne.  However, the sons were given substantial titles.

Child(ren):

1. Charles [illegitimate] Fitzroy  1662-1730 
2. Henry [illegitimate] Fitzroy  1663-1690 
3. George [illegitimate] Fitzroy  1665-1716
4. Charlotte [illegitimate] Fitzroy  1664-1717 
5. Anne [illegitimate] Palmer  1661-1722 
6. Barbara [illegitimate] Fitzroy  1672-1737 

(3) He is married to Eleanor (Nell) Gwynn.

They got married about 1669 at Not Married.

Child(ren):

1. Charles [illegitimate] Beauclerk  1670-1726 
2. James [illegitimate] Beauclerk  1671-1680

(4) He is married to Louise Renée de Penancoët.

They got married about 1670 at Not Married.

Child(ren):

1. Charles [illegitimate] Fitzroy  1671-1723 

(5) He is married to Elizabeth Killigrew.

They got married at Not Married.

Child(ren):

1. Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria Fitzroy [illegitimate] Boyle  1650-1684 

(6) He is married to Catherine Pegge.

They got married at Not Married.

Child(ren):

1. Charles [illegitimate] FitzCharles  1657-1680 
2. Catherine [illegitimate] FitzCharles  ± 1659-1759

(7) He is married to Mary (Moll) Davis.

They got married at Not Married.

Child(ren):

1. Mary [illegitimate] Tudor  1673-1726 

(8) He is married to Eleanor Needham.

They got married at Not Married.

(9) He is married to Hortense Mancini.

They got married at Not Married.

(10) He is married to Maria Stuardo.

They got married at Not Married.

Child(ren):

1. Jacobo Errico Stuardo de Bove  1646-????

(11) He is married to Margaret Carteret.

They got married at Not Married.

Child(ren):

1. James Stuart  1646-1667

(12) He has/had a relationship with Lady Lucy Walter of Haverford.

(13) He is married to Mary Moll Davies.

They got married

(14) He is married to Catharina Henrietta van Bragança.

They got married on May 21, 1662 at Portsmouth, England, Great Britain, he was 31 years old.

(15) He is married to Frances Teresa Stuart.

They got married at Not Married.

Child(ren):

1. Rebecca [illegitimate] Stuart  ± 1667-???? 

Notes about Charles II Stuart King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland

euweb.dir CHARLES II of England and Scotland (1660-85), *St.James's Palace 29.5.1630, +Whitehall 6.2.1685; m.Portsmouth 21.5.1662 Infanta Catherine of Portugal (*Vila Vicosa 25.11.1638, +Lisbon 31.12.1705); His illegitimate issue:

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Royalfam.ged:

"The Kings of Scotland", which appeared in volume I [1904] of *The Scots Peerage*, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, states on pp. 29-30:

CHARLES 11. was born 29 May 1630, succeeded his father on 30 January 1648-49, but the kingdom being then in the hands of the 'Republicans' under Oliver Cromwell, who governed with the title of Protector, his early years were spent in exile.  The Scottish Presbyterians distrusting Cromwell and the English Independents, had invited Charles to assume the Crown of Scotland, and though their army was defeated by Cromwell at Dunbar, 3 September 1650, he was duly crowned King of Scots at Scone I January 1650-51.  Invading England, however, his army was defeated by Cromwell at Worcester on 3 September 1631, and the Young king had to seek safety abroad.

Soon After the death of Cromwell, Charles was restored to his kingdom, and entered London on his thirtieth birthday, 29 MAY 1660.  He married, 31 May 1662, Donna Catherine Infanta of Portugal, born 25 November 1638, daughter of John iv., King of Portugal, sister of Alphonso vi and Pedro ii., successively kings of Portugal. King Charles died 6 February 1685 leaving no issue by his queen, who retired to Lisbon, where she died 31 December 1705. He had, however, many illegitimate children

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(2) Charles Stuart, King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland (b 29.05.1630, d 06.02.1685) m. (21.05.1662) Katherine of Braganza (d 30.11.1705, dau of John IV, King of Portugal)
p1. Lucy Walters (dau of William Walters of Haverfordwest)
p2. Elizabeth Killegrew, Viscountess Shannon

p3. Katherine Peg (dau of Thomas Peg of Yeldersley)
p4. Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (d 09.10.1709, dau of William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison)

p5. Eleanor (Nell) Gwynne
p6. Louise de Kerouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Duchess d'Aubigny (d 14.11.1734, dau of Guillaume de Penancoet, Count de Kerouaille)
p7. Mary Davis or Davies (singer and actress)

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royal_fam.ged

     Charles II, King of England, Scotland,and Ireland (1660-85), was one
of the laziest but cleverest of English kings. He was the oldest surviving son of Charles I. After the defeat and execution (1649) of his father, Charles was exiled to Holland and France,where he spent 11 years plotting to overthrow the republic established in England. In 1650 he decided to go to Scotland, where the prevailing party, the Covenanters, had not approved of his father's execution and agreed to recognize him as king of the Scots. In return he promised to uphold the Solemn League and Covenant, which virtually committed him to imposing Presbyterianism on England and Ireland, although he had no real intention of doing so. After the Covenanters had been defeated in battle by Oliver Cromwell, Charles led a Scottish army into England, where he was defeated at Worcester in 1651. He escaped to France and later, when the French allied themselves with the English republic, planned to invade England with Spanish troops. Nothing came of this, but after the death (1658) of Cromwell, many English people favored restoring Charles to the throne. Accordingly, the Restoration took place in 1660.  The new Parliament was overwhelmingly royalist. It restored Anglicanism as the established religion, imposing stiff penalties on Nonconformists by the so-called Clarendon Code (1661-65), and pressed Charles to make war on the Dutch. He did so in 1665 but was forced to agree to a humiliating peace in 1667.  Charles then allied himself with France against the Dutch, but in the ensuing war (1672-74) the Dutch forced him to make a separate peace. By the Treaty of Dover (1670), Louis XIV of France had secretly promised to pay subsidies to Charles, who in turn promised to convert England to Roman Catholicism, but these payments proved insufficient to sustain another war. Moreover, Charles's efforts to ease the restrictions on religious dissenters, including Roman Catholics, were firmly resisted by Parliament, which distrusted his pro-French stance.   Anti-Catholic hysteria erupted in reaction to the spurious Popish Plot, concocted by Titus Oates, in 1678. Charles resisted efforts led by the1st earl of Shaftesbury to exclude his Catholic brother, the future James II, from the succession. To do this he was finally compelled to dissolve Parliament in 1681, and he ruled thereafter without Parliament.  Charles is known as the Merry Monarch, partly because of his numerous mistresses, who included Nell Gwynne, Louise de Keroualle, duchess ofPortsmouth, and Barbara Villiers, duchess of Cleveland. He also openly enjoyed horse racing, gambling, and jovial company, and was very popular with the common people. However, although he was never subservient to the French, on whom he relied to protect him in the event of another civil war, his pocketing of bribes and blatant lying to get over difficulties with Parliament did not commend him to his political opponents or future historians. He was received into the Roman Catholic church just before his death.

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E: Charles Stuart, King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland (b 29.05.1630, d 06.02.1685)
m. (21.05.1662) Katherine of Braganza (d 30.11.1705, dau of John IV, King of Portugal)
p1. Lucy Walters (dau of William Walters of Haverfordwest)
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