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Hace 5 días · Following the surrender of Oxford in June 1646, James was taken to London and held with his younger siblings Henry, Elizabeth and Henrietta in St James's Palace. Frustrated by their inability to agree terms with Charles I, and with his brother Charles out of reach in France, Parliament considered making James king.
22 de may. de 2024 · Arabella Churchill (23 February 1648 – 30 May 1730) was the mistress of King James II and VII, and the mother of four of his children (surnamed FitzJames, that is, "son of James").
9 de may. de 2024 · James II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) and replaced by William III and Mary II. That revolution, engendered by James’s Roman Catholicism, permanently established Parliament as the ruling power in England.
- James II succeeded his brother, Charles II, as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1685 and was deposed by the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
- James II converted to Roman Catholicism before coming to the throne. His placement of Catholic allies in high positions in the court and army, coup...
- James II was the last British Stuart king in the direct line. The Glorious Revolution that overthrew him also permanently established Parliament as...
- James II’s first wife, Anne, was Protestant (though she converted to Catholicism), and their daughters were Mary II (wife of William of Orange and...
Hace 4 días · Pages 500-504. Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 22, 1612-1668.Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1971.
Hace 2 días · Henry de Champflower died between 1331 and 1346 when his widow Joan was in possession. In 1349 John Champflower was lord of the manor, and two years later he granted Wyke to Thomas FitzJames, husband of Margaret who was evidently his heiress, in return for a rent for his life.
Hace 1 día · Fitzjames passes for one of the great benefactors of the college; indeed, he has been called its 'second Founder'. Yet that much of his influence was not for good seems certain. His tenure of office coincided in time with the rise of the New Learning in Oxford.
Hace 1 día · I want to discuss recent favorite of mine, Lydia Jaeger's Ordinary Splendor: Living in God's Creation (2023), which is a remarkably beautiful book.
