Lucy Walter (c. 1630 – 1658), also known as Lucy Barlow, was a Welsh noblewoman, the first mistress of King Charles II of England and mother of James, Duke of Monmouth. During the Exclusion Crisis , a Protestant faction wanted to make her son heir to the throne, fuelled by the rumour that the king might have married Lucy, a claim which he denied.
Lucy Walter, también conocida como Lucy Barlow, (c. 1630-1658) fue una amante galesa del rey Carlos II de Inglaterra, y madre de James Scott, I duque de Monmouth. Se cree que nació en 1630, o quizá un poco más tarde, en el Castillo de Roch, cerca de Haverfordwest , en Gales, en una familia de la aristocracia terrateniente gentry .
Lucy Walter, (born 1630?, Roch Castle, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales—died September/October 1658, Paris), mistress of the British king Charles II and mother of James Scott, duke of Monmouth. Her family, the Walters, were Welsh of good standing who declared for King Charles I during the Civil War. Roch Castle having been captured and burned by the Parliamentary forces in 1644, Lucy ...
6 de feb. de 2023 · Lucy Walter, también conocida como Lucy Barlow, fue una amante galesa del rey Carlos II de Inglaterra, y madre de James Scott, I duque de Monmouth. Se cree que nació en 1630, o quizá un poco más tarde, en el Castillo de Roch, cerca de Haverfordwest, en Gales, en una familia de la aristocracia terrateniente gentry.[1]
8 de mar. de 2017 · In 1648 the young Welsh gentlewoman Lucy Walter met the soon-to-be Charles II at The Hague, beginning a relationship—by turns passionate, fraught, scandalous and distant—that would last for the next ten years.
3 de jul. de 2016 · She is currently preoccupied with her ancestress, Lucy Walter, who was given such a bad press in the late 1600s and planning a radio play of Lucy’s story. 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 ...
Lucy Walter was born around 1630 at Roch Castle near Haverfordwest, Wales to William Walter and Elizabeth Prothero, from landed gentry families. During the English Civil War, the Walter family supported the royalist forces and in 1644, Roch Castle was captured by the parliamentary forces and burned. The Walter family fled and Lucy found herself ...