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James II Stuart King of England

Male 1633 - 1701  (67 years)


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  • Name James II Stuart King of England  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Born 14 Oct 1633  St. James's Palace, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 24 Nov 1633  St. James's Palace, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 27 Jan 1644 
    Duke of York 
    Occupation 12 Mar 1664 
    New England settlements developed eastward, north of the Kennebec to the St. Croix River 
    Military 8 Sep 1664 
    The Dutch colony of New Netherland was captured and renamed New York while Fort Orange became Fort Albany 
    Military 1665 
    Lord High Admiral and commanded the Royal Navy during the Second Anglo-Dutch Wars (until 1667) 
    Occupation 1667 
    Secretly converted to Roman Catholicism with his wife Anne Hyde 
    Military 1672 
    Lord High Admiral and commanded the Royal Navy during the Third Anglo-Dutch Wars (until 1674) 
    Occupation 1673 
    Conversion made public when he objected to swearing an anti-Catholic oath under the terms of Parliament's new "Test Acts" 
    Occupation 6 Feb 1685 
    King of England, Scotland and Ireland 
    Occupation 6 Feb 1685 
    The succession was challenged by Charles II's eldest illegitimate son, the Protestant Duke of Monmouth 
    Occupation 22 Feb 1685 
    Crowned privately according to the rites of the Catholic Church at Whitehall Palace 
    Occupation 23 Apr 1685 
    Crowned publicly according to the rites of the Church of England at Westminster Abbey 
    Military 20 May 1685 
    The Earl of Argyll landed at Campbeltown with 300 Dutch troops in a failed uprising 
    Military 6 Jul 1685 
    Defeated Monmouth at the Battle of Sedgemoor (who was subsequently executed along with many of his supporters) 
    Military 5 Nov 1688 
    William of Orange landed at Brixham in south west England ("Glorious Revolution") and much of James' army switched allegiance to him 
    Burial Desecrated by a mob and lost during the French Revolution Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 11 Dec 1688 
    Deposed (attempted an escape to France but was caught in Kent) 
    Occupation 23 Dec 1688 
    Released by William and allowed to leave 
    Residence 1689  Saint-Germain-en-Laye, archev. Paris, ÃŽle-de-France (Yvelines), France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 2 Feb 1689 
    Declared to have abdicated the Government on 11 December 1688 by Act of Parliament 
    Occupation 1 Jul 1690 
    Remained de facto King of Ireland until his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne 
    Died 16 Sep 1701  Saint-Germain-en-Laye, archev. Paris, ÃŽle-de-France (Yvelines), France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Chapel of Saint Edmund, Church of the English Benedictines, Rue St-Jacques, Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4528  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 1 Anne Hyde,   b. 22 Mar 1638, Cranborne Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Mar 1671, St. James's Palace, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years) 
    Marriage Contract 24 Nov 1659  Breda, Brabant-Septentrional, Pays-Bas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 3 Sep 1660  Worcester House (Strand), London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mary II Stuart Queen of England,   b. 30 Apr 1662, St. James's Palace, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Dec 1694, Kensington Palace, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 32 years)
     2. Anne Stuart Queen of England,   b. 6 Feb 1665, St. James's Palace, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jul 1714, Kensington Palace, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2297  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Maria Beatrice de Modène Queen of England,   b. 25 Sep 1658, Modena, Italia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 May 1718, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, archev. Paris, ÃŽle-de-France (Yvelines), France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Married 30 Sep 1673  Modena, Italia (by proxy) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Info. 21 Nov 1673  Dover, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. James Francis Edward Stuart of England,   b. 10 Jun 1688, St. James's Palace, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jan 1766, Roma, Italia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2298  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 & Vol. XII/2, pp. 914-918.

    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), 170 & 500-501.

    3. [S658] The original lists of persons of quality; who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, John Camden Hotten, (Chatto and Windus, London, England, 1874, reprinted: Empire State Book Co., New York), 161.
      12 March 1664: Grant to James, Duke of York, and his heirs, all that part of the main land of New England, and several Islands adjacent (16 Chas. II. p. 8).

    4. [S96] The History of the State of Maine; from its first discovery, A. D. 1602, to the separation, A. D. 1820, William D. Williamson, (Glazier, Masters & Smith, Hallowell, 1832), Volume 1, p. 592.

    5. [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, p. 289.

    6. [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. 65-66 & 69.
      Dictionnaire général de biographie, histoire, littérature, agriculture, commerce, industrie et des arts, sciences, moeurs, coutumes, institutions politiques et religieuses du Canada.


  

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