Resultado de búsqueda
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.
Possible portrait of Catherine Pegge, artist unknown. Derbyshire Baronet Bruges, Belgium.
Peter Lely is known to have painted two portraits of Katherine Pegge, mistress of Charles II and mother to the Earl of Plymouth. This paper advances the theory that those portraits are possibly well known Lely works with no fully confimred.
- John Pegg
Catherine Pegge was one of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England and mother of three children by him: Catherine Mary Stuart (1652-1741); Charles Fitzcharles, Duke of Plymouth (1657-1680); Catherine "Sister Ophelia" Fitzcharles (1658-1759). The latter two are documented but Catherine Mary seems to have been overlooked or hidden. Cf.
- Female
- Edward Greene Bart.
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.
English paramour. Name variations: Katherine Pegg. Dau. of Thomas Pegge, a Derbyshire squire; mistress of Charles II (1630–1685), king of England (r. 1661–1685); children: (with Charles II) Charles Fitzcharles, earl of Plymouth (b. 1657); Catherine Fitzcharles (1658–1759, a nun at Dunkirk); possibly had another daughter who died in infancy.
Collection. Peggy Guggenheim, Marseille, 1937. The collection is principally based on the personal art collection of Peggy Guggenheim, a former wife of artist Max Ernst and a niece of the mining magnate, Solomon R. Guggenheim.
