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Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (née Barbara Villiers / ˈ v ɪ l ər z / VIL-ərz; 27 November [O.S. 17 November] 1640 – 9 October 1709), was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledged and subsequently ennobled.
Barbara Villiers. Barbara Villiers (*noviembre de 1641-†9 de octubre de 1709), primera duquesa de Cleveland y amante del rey Carlos II de Inglaterra, más conocida por su título de condesa de Castlemaine .
15 de jul. de 2011 · La amante pobre, Barbara Villiers (1640-1709) Retrato de Barbara Villiers, Henri Gascar. Wikimedia Commons. Barbara Villiers ascendió desde una familia noble arruinada al lecho del rey que trajo la Restauración monárquica a Inglaterra. La duquesa de Cleveland fue una de la larga lista de amantes del alegre monarca, al que dio cinco hijos.
Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (born autumn 1641, London, England—died October 9, 1709, Chiswick, Middlesex) was a favourite mistress of the English king Charles II; she bore several of his illegitimate children. According to the diarist Samuel Pepys, she was a woman of exceptional beauty, but others commented on her crude mannerisms.
27 de nov. de 2019 · Barbara Villiers (1640–1709), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, as a Shepherdess late 17th C. Jacob Huysmans (c.1633–1696) (after) National Trust, Blickling Hall. This was a particular favourite of contemporary court ladies and was also portrayed by Charles II's wife, Catherine of Braganza.
Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine, was the favourite mistress of King Charles II…. To the writer and diarist John Evelyn, she was ‘the curse of the nation’. To the Bishop of Salisbury, she was ‘a woman of great beauty, enormously vivacious and ravenous; foolish but imperious’. To the Chancellor of England, she was ‘that lady’.
Mistress of Charles II The favourite mistress of Charles II during the 1660s, Barbara Villiers was a dominant presence both at court and in the public's imagination. She married Roger Palmer, later the Earl of Castlemaine, in 1659, and met Charles soon after. She was appointed Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen in spite of the latter's protests. Regarded as the foremost beauty of her day, she ...
