| Name |
Charles II Stuart |
| Suffix |
King of England, Scots and Ireland |
| Born |
29 May 1630 |
St. James' Palace, Pall Mall, Westminster, Middlesex, England  [1, 2, 5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Between 1649 and 1650 |
The Netherlands |
| In exile |
| History |
01 Jan 1651 |
Scone Palace, Scone, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland |
| According to royalists (and retrospective English law), Charles II became king when his father Charles I was executed at Whitehall on 30 Jan 1649, the climax of the English Civil War. The English Parliament did not proclaim Charles II king at this time, passing a statute making it unlawful, and England entered the period known to history as the English Interregnum. The Parliament of Scotland, on the other hand, proclaimed Charles II King of Scots on 5 Feb 1649 in Edinburgh. He was crowned King of Scots at Scone on 1 Jan 1651. |
| Residence |
22 Jan 1651 |
Falkland Palace, Falkland, Fife, Scotland |
| After his coronation at Scone, Charles II Stuart stayed several nights at Falkland Palace, the last king to do so there. |
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Falkland Palace, Falkland, Fife, Scotland
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| Occupation |
Between Feb 1651 and 1660 |
France |
| In exile |
| History |
03 Sep 1651 |
Worcester, Worcestershire, England |
| Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentarians defeated King Charles II's Royalist, predominantly Scottish, forces at the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War. Charles fled to the continent and spent the next nine years in exile. |
| History |
25 May 1660 |
Dover, Kent, England |
| After the Protectorate collapsed under Richard Cromwell in 1659, General George Monck invited Charles to return and assume the thrones in what became known as the Restoration |
| Occupation |
23 Apr 1661 |
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England |
King: 30 Jan 1649 to 3 Sept 1651 (in Scotland); 29 May 1660 to 6 Feb 1685 (in England, Ireland and Scotland)
Preceded by Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector, then the English Council of State or Protector's Privy Council: 25 May 1659 to 28 May 1660. |
| History |
1665 |
London, Middlesex, England |
| Great Plague in London kills 75,000 "Bring out your dead" |
| History |
Between 2 Sep 1666 and 5 Sep 1666 |
Pudding Lane, City of London, Middlesex, England |
| The Great Fire of London started at the bakery of Thomas Farriner (or Farynor) on Pudding Lane |
| History |
1679 |
London, Middlesex, England |
| Titus Oates's revelations of a supposed "Popish Plot" sparked the Exclusion Crisis when it was revealed that Charles's brother and heir (the future James II) was a Roman Catholic. This crisis saw the birth of the pro-exclusion Whig and anti-exclusion Tory parties. Charles sided with the Tories, and, following the discovery of the Rye House Plot to murder Charles and James in 1683, some Whig leaders were killed or forced into exile (see John Hampden and Algernon Sydney). Charles dissolved the English Parliament in 1679, and ruled alone until his death converting to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed. |
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Titus Oates "the Perjurer"
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| History |
15 Sep 1682 |
England |
| A comet (later called Halley's comet) appears in the night sky |
| History |
1685 |
Houses of Parliament, the Palace of Westminster (the King's Palace), Westminster, Middlesex, England |
| Best known for his belief in absolute monarchy and his attempts to create religious liberty for his subjects. Both of these went against the wishes of the English Parliament and of most of his subjects. |
| Died |
06 Feb 1685 |
Palace of Whitehall, Whitehall, Westminster, Middlesex, England [1, 2] |
| Cause: No legitimate issue. |
| Buried |
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England |
| Person ID |
I1750113064 |
Red1st |
| Last Modified |
22 May 2012 |
| Father |
Charles I Stuart, King of England, Scots and Ireland, b. 19 Nov 1600, Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland , d. 30 Jan 1649, The Mansion House, Whitehall, Westminster, Middlesex, England (Age 48 years) |
| Mother |
HenriettaMaria de Bourbon, Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland, Princess of France, b. 25 Nov 1609, Palais-Royal (Palais-Cardinal), Palais du Louvre, Paris, Île-de-France, France , d. 10 Sep 1669, Château St. Colombes, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 59 years) |
| Married |
13 Jun 1625 |
Canterbury, Kent, England |
| Family ID |
F672661633 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine, b. 1641, d. 9 Oct 1709 (Age 68 years) |
| Married |
Type: Mistress [6, 7] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Anne Palmer (later FitzRoy), Countess of Sussex, b. 25 Feb 1661, d. 16 May 1721/2 (Age 61 years) |
| + | 2. Charles Palmer (later FitzRoy), 2nd Duke of Cleveland, 1st Duke of Southampton, Earl of Southampton, Baron Limerick, KG, Chief Butler of England, b. 18 Jun 1662, d. 9 Sep 1730 (Age 68 years) [Birth] |
| + | 3. Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, b. 28 Sep 1663, England , d. 9 Oct 1690, Cork, County Cork, Munster, Ireland (Age 27 years) |
| | 4. Charlotte Fitzroy, Countess of Lichfield, b. 5 Sep 1664, d. 17 Feb 1718 (Age 53 years) |
| | 5. George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC, b. 28 Dec 1665, d. 28 Jun 1716, Epsom, Surrey, England (Age 50 years) |
| | 6. Barbara (Benedicta) FitzRoy, b. 16 Jul 1672, Cleveland House, St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, Middlesex, England , d. 6 May 1737, St. Nicholas Priory, Pontoise, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 64 years) |
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| Last Modified |
22 May 2012 22:48:50 |
| Family ID |
F673046947 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1630 - 1685 (54 years)
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