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Catherine Pegge (born c. 1635) was a long-term mistress of Charles II of England. She had two children by him, Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth, and Catherine FitzCharles. Pegge Family Arms.
Catherine was the beautiful daughter of Thomas Pegge, a gentleman from Derbyshire, and his wife, Catherine Kniveton, who was the daughter of a royalist Baronet. During the English Civil War, her father fought for the royalists, and on his capture the family were forced into exile in Bruges, Belgium.
Catherine Pegge, born about 1635, was a long term mistress of Charles II. She had two children by him, Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth, and Catherine FitzCharles. There are allegedly two portraits of Catherine Pegge by Sir Peter Lely, the whereabouts of which are unknown.
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Catherine Pegge fue una poeta y escritora inglesa nacida en 1705. Era hija del poeta y clérigo Christopher Pitt y fue educada en Oxford. A los 19 años se casó con el reverendo Samuel Pegge, quien también era escritor.
Catherine Pegge (mother of Charles,Earl of Plymouth,known as “Don Carlo”). Some of the mistresses of Charles II: Winifred Wells – one of the Queen’s Maids of Honour
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If he had sired legitimate heirs to the throne, he may have spent more time with Catherine, and less time proving his fertility and manhood with other women. But several of his descendants, products of illicit affairs and children born out of wedlock, are prominent members of the British royal family even today.
Charles FitzCharles was the first child of Catherine Pegge and Charles II. He was born sometime in 1657 in Flanders, Spanish Netherlands, where the future Charles II was temporarily living in exile.
