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Hace 4 días · Catherine of Braganza, the poor neglected queen of Charles II., invited over to England some members of a sisterhood at Munich, called the Institute of the Blessed Virgin, and these she settled and supported during her husband's life in a house in St. Martin's Lane.
Hace 6 días · Despite the Protestant marriage, fears of a potential Catholic monarch persisted, intensified by the failure of Charles II and his wife, Catherine of Braganza, to produce any children. A defrocked Anglican clergyman, Titus Oates, spoke of a "Popish Plot" to kill Charles and to put the Duke of York on the throne.
Hace 3 días · The castle‘s English connection was further reinforced in the 16th century when Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, married King Charles II of England. As part of her dowry, Catherine brought the city of Tangier and the Seven Islands of Bombay to England, laying the foundations for the British Empire in India.
Hace 5 días · Once the monarchy was finally restored in 1660, Charles made Huddlestone chaplain to his mother, Queen Henrietta Maria, and to his wife, Catherine of Braganza.
Hace 5 días · Queen Catharine as a Shepherdess. Jacob Huysmans [1] (c. 1633–1696) was a Flemish portrait painter who, after training in his native Antwerp, immigrated to England before the Restoration. He became a feted court painter and attracted the patronage of the Portuguese born queen Catherine of Braganza, a Catholic like himself, of whom ...
Hace 4 días · An English soldier, peer and courtier who fought on both sides in the Civil War. When Charles II married Catherine of Braganza in 1661, he acquired Tangier as part of her dowry and Peterborough was sent there as its Governor.
Hace 5 días · Thereafter Sedgewick continued to descend with Chesworth until c. 1699, when the trustees of Queen Catherine of Braganza let it to Sir John Bennett, serjeant-at-law, who bought the freehold apparently in 1705, the year of the queen's death.
