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Lucy’s surname has been recorded as Walter or Walters, Waters, and, Barlow or Barlo (the alias she used occasionally) by contemporaries and scholars over the years, but here I have referred to her by the assumed correct name of Walter. Lucy was born into a Welsh middling-gentry family around 1630 and lived in Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire.
At the time of the Exclusion Bill agitation (1679-81) the story that Charles had married Lucy Walter and that, therefore, Monmouth was the rightful heir to the throne was put out and widely credited. Lucy herself died in Paris in 1658. Her elder brother, RICHARD WALTER, was sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1657. He was succeeded in the Roch estates ...
3 de jul. de 2016 · Lucy Walter, born to landowner Richard Walter and the well bred Elizabeth Protheroe at Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire in 1630, was a wild child of the sea shore and the Welsh countryside, adored by her father. She had two brothers, Richard and the younger, Justus. Who could foresee that this wild Welsh maid was destined to become a dangerous woman?
Lucy Walter birthed the prince’s son in 1649, naming him James. Details of Walter's life right after birth remain a bit unclear. Her baby may have been sent away to a wet nurse for some time, but eventually the teen mother went to live with her mother in law, the Queen , in Paris.
Lucy Walter was the daughter of William Walter of Roch Castle, co. Pembroke, and Mr. S. Steinman, in his “Althorp Memoirs” (privately printed, 1869), sets out her pedigree, which is a good one. Roch Castle was taken and burnt by the Parliamentary forces in 1644, and Lucy was in London in 1648, where she made the acquaintance of Colonel ...
12 de ene. de 2023 · Lucy Walter (c. 1630-1658), that "brown, beautiful, bold but insipid creature" (as contemporary writer John Evelyn dubbed her) was an English courtesan in the mid-17th century. She became the mistress of the vaguely noble Algernon Sidney at the age of 17.
6 de mar. de 2013 · Lucy, born around 1630, was considered to be a stunningly beautiful, but quite vapid, woman. The image that has comes down to us over the centuries is that of a silly woman who was passed from man to man, bearing children as she went along, losing everything and ultimately dying in poverty. This rather fanciful depiction is said to be of Lucy ...
