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Charles II Stuart King of England

Male 1630 - 1685  (54 years)


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  • Name Charles II Stuart King of England  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Born 29 May 1630  St. James's Palace, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 27 Jun 1630  St. James's Palace, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1630-1649 
    16th Duke of Cornwall 
    Occupation 1649 
    Republic, Interregnum ("between reigns") 
    Occupation 30 Jan 1649 
    King of England, Scotland and Ireland 
    Occupation 30 Jan 1649 
    Succeeded his father 
    Occupation 5 Feb 1649 
    Proclaimed King Charles II by the Scottish Parliament 
    Occupation 23 Jun 1650 
    Agreed to the demands of the Scottish Covenanters and landed at Garmouth in Moray (signing the Covenant as he came ashore) 
    Occupation 1 Jan 1651 
    Scottish coronation at Scone in Scotland 
    Occupation 3 Sep 1651 
    Oliver Cromwell's much larger army inflicted a heavy defeat on the Royalists and Covenanters at Worcester (Charles II escaped to France) 
    Occupation 20 Apr 1653 
    Parliament was dissolved and Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector (on 16 December 1653) 
    Occupation 3 Sep 1658 
    Oliver Cromwell died at Whitehall (his son Richard's short-lived Protectorate was a failure) 
    Occupation 25 May 1660 
    Invited to become king by the army under General George Monck and arrived from exile at Dover 
    Occupation 29 May 1660 
    Obtained possession of the Crown (restored) 
    Occupation 23 Apr 1661 
    Crowned at Westminster Abbey 
    Occupation 1662 
    Sold England's last French possession, Calais, for £40,000 to his cousin, Louis XIV of France 
    Occupation 1685 
    Secretly converted to Catholicism on his deathbed 
    Died 6 Feb 1685  Whitehall, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 14 Feb 1685  Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4527  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Charles I Stuart King of England,   b. 19 Nov 1600, Dunfermline Palace, Fifeshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jan 1649, Whitehall Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Henriette Marie de Bourbon Queen of England,   b. 25 Nov 1609, Louvre, Paris, ÃŽle-de-France (Seine), France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Sep 1669, Château de Colombe, Paris, ÃŽle-de-France (Seine), France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Marriage Contract 20 Nov 1624  Paris, ÃŽle-de-France (Seine), France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 11 May 1625  Paris, ÃŽle-de-France (Seine), France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Info. 13 Jun 1625  Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2295  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine Henrietta of Portugal Queen of England,   b. 25 Nov 1638, Vila Viçosa, Lisboa, Portugal Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Dec 1705, Palace of Bemposta, Lisboa, Portugal Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Marriage Contract 23 Jun 1661 
    Married 20 May 1662  Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2296  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume III, p. 446.

    2. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 501.

    3. [S725] Histoire de la maison royale de France et des grands officiers de la couronne, Anselme de Sainte-Marie, augustin déchaussé, (Estienne Loyson, Paris, 1674), Volume 1, p. 502.

    4. [S628] Dictionnaire de la noblesse, seconde et troisième éditions, François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois, (La Veuve Duchesne, libraire, Antoine Boudet, l'auteur, rue Saint-André-des-Arcs, Schlésinger frères, Paris, 1770-1778), Tome 1, pp. 288-289.

    5. [S644] Dictionnaire général du Canada, Louis Le Jeune, (Université d'Ottawa, Canada; Imprimé en France, Firmin-Didot et Cie., Mesnil, Eure, 1931), Tome 1, pp. 64-65.
      Dictionnaire général de biographie, histoire, littérature, agriculture, commerce, industrie et des arts, sciences, moeurs, coutumes, institutions politiques et religieuses du Canada.