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Catherine Kniveton. 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 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 (abt. 1630 - 1678) Born about 1630 in Yeldersley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. Ancestors. Daughter of Thomas Pegge and Catherine (Kniveton) Pegge. Sister of Prudence Pegge. Wife of Edward Greene Bart. — married 1667 [location unknown] Descendants.
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.
His other mistresses included Moll Davis, Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Killigrew, Catherine Pegge, Lucy Walter and Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth. As a result, in his lifetime he was often nicknamed "Old Rowley", the name of his favourite racehorse, notable as a stallion.
In August 1675, Charles II granted the title of Duke of Richmond to Charles Lennox, his illegitimate son by Louise de Kérouaille.Just one month later, the king further created his son the Duke of Lennox, and the two titles were held jointly, with Richmond as the principal title.
