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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’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.
23 de dic. de 2016 · Lucy Walter, Royal Mistress. Lucy Walter was one of the first of many mistresses of King Charles II of England. She came from a moderately well-to-do family and was the king’s mistress for a short time while he was in exile on the continent during the English Civil War. Charles was the acknowledged father of Lucy’s son James, Duke of ...
Lucy Walter was the mother of James, Duke of Monmouth the eldest son of King Charles II. Historians inform you that Lucy was the king’s mistress and not his secret queen. They state that there was no love in the relationship. They say that Lucy was an infamous woman of easy virtue who trapped the king. However, some writers go even further ...
Lucy Walter or Lucy Barlow (c. 1630 – 1658) was a mistress of King Charles II of England and mother of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. She is believed to have been born in 1630 or a little later at Roch Castle near Haverfordwest, Wales into a family of middling gentry. Rumours that she had married the king during his exile (and thus that ...
8 de mar. de 2017 · While Charles and his agents often found it difficult to secure the obedience of his subjects and of other members of the royal family, Lucy Walter proved to be particularly troublesome in this regard. Lucy’s actions highlight at once the resourcefulness, relative freedom, and precarious position of exiles.
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 ...
