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Charles II
King of Scotland
Reign: 30 January 1649 X 3 September 1651
Coronation: 1 January 1651
Predecessor: Charles I
Successor Military government led by George Monck
King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Reign 29 May 1660[2] X 6 February 1685
Coronation 23 April 1661
Predecessor Charles I (de jure)
Council of State (de facto)
Successor James II & VII
Spouse Catherine of Braganza
Issue
Illegitimate:
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland
Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton
George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond
House: House of Stuart
Father: Charles I
Mother: Henrietta Maria of France
Born: 29 May 1630 (N.S.: 8 June 1630)
St. James's Palace, London England
Died: 6 February 1685 (aged 54) (N.S.: 16 February 1685)
Whitehall Palace, London
Burial: Westminster Abbey
Religion: Anglican, converted to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed
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http://www.royalist.info/execute/biog?person=270
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- Charles II (of England) (1630-85), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
(1660-85), whose reign marked a period of relative stability after the
upheaval of the English Revolution.
Charles was born in London on May 29, 1630. He was the second, but eldest
surviving, son of King Charles I and was prince of Wales from birth. He
took his seat in the House of Lords in 1641 and held a nominal military
command in the early campaigns of the first civil war of the English
Revolution. He later fled from England and went into exile at The Hague,
the Netherlands, from where he made two attempts to save his father. On
the execution of Charles I in 1649, Charles II assumed the title of king
and was so proclaimed in Scotland and sections of Ireland, and in England,
then ruled by Oliver Cromwell. After an acknowledgment of the faults of
his father, Charles accepted the Scottish crown on January 1, 1651, at
Scone from the Scottish noble Archibald Campbell, 8th earl of Argyll. He
invaded England the following August with 10,000 men and was proclaimed
king at Carlisle and other places along his route. His army, however, was
routed by Cromwell at Worcester on September 3, 1651. After this battle
Charles fled to France.
He spent eight years in poverty and dissipation while in exile on the
Continent. In 1658, following the death of Cromwell and the succession of
his son, Richard, as Lord Protector, the demand for the restoration of
royalty increased. In February 1660, General George Monck led an army into
London and forced the Rump Parliament to dissolve. In April, in the
Declaration of Breda, Charles announced his intention to accept a
parliamentary government and to grant amnesty to his political opponents.
A new Parliament requested Charles to return and proclaimed him king on
May 8, 1660. He landed at Dover on May 26 and was welcomed at Whitehall by
Parliament three days later.
Charles was crowned on April 23, 1661. Noted for subservience and
insistence on royal prerogative, his first Parliament was overwhelmingly
Royalist and gave him free rein. Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon, his
companion in exile, was appointed chief minister. Clarendon restored the
supremacy of the Church of England, and English and Scottish
Nonconformists and Presbyterians were persecuted contrary to the
Declaration of Breda. Extravagant and always in want of money, Charles
assented to the abolition of the feudal rights of knight service,
wardship, and purveyance in consideration of a large annuity that,
however, was never fully paid. On May 20, 1662, he married the Portuguese
princess Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) for her large dowry. The
failure of Parliament to produce the amount agreed on and the chronic
mismanagement of the English finances brought the king to a desperate need
of money. In return for subsidies from Louis XIV of France, Charles formed
a secret alliance with that country; in 1672 that alliance plunged England
into a war with the Netherlands.
The war was popular. Commercial and colonial rivalry had already brought
about two wars between the two countries, the last one occurring between
1665 and 1667. The Dutch War of 1672 resulted in the English acquisition
of the Dutch colony of New Netherland (now New York). Knowledge of his
negotiations with France, together with his efforts to become an absolute
ruler, brought Charles into conflict with Parliament, which, buoyed by
French subsidies, he dissolved in 1681. The struggle was heightened by
enactment of the anti-Catholic Test Acts and by the so-called popish plot
fabricated by Titus Oates. From 1681 until his death on February 6, 1685,
Charles ruled without Parliament. Although a member of the Anglican
church, Charles received the last rites of the Roman Catholic church. He
was succeeded by his brother James II.
- BIOGRAPHY: In exile from 1649 - 1650 and 1651 - 1660, Died of a stroke.
- DECLARED 12TH PRINCE OF WALES 1630 BUT NEVER FORMALLY CREATED AS SUCH;
"OF ST. JAMES'S"; DUKE OF CORNWALL, ROTHSAY; ACCEDED 1/30/1649 (CROWNED SCONE
1651); LIVED IN EXILE IN FRANCE, GERMANY AND HOLLAND 1651-1660; RESTORED (AND
CROWNED AGAIN AT WESTMINSTER 5/29/1661); RULED FROM 1661-1685
- DUKE OF CORNWALL
- stuart
- Stuart
- Notes on Charles II, King of England (ruled 1660-1685)
Charles was born at St JamesXs Palace 29 May 1630. He was created Prince of Wales in his ninth year; on the outbreak of the Civil War, he accompanied his father at the battle of Edgehill. By 1644, the Royalist cause had declined so sharply that Charles was forced into exile, first to Scilly and Jersey - where James, Duke of Monmouth, was begotten of his liaison with Lucy Walter - and finally to France. His offer to agree to any conditions that would preserve his FatherXs life having been rejected, on the royal captiveXs execution, Charles Stewart assumed the title of King. In 1650, he agreed to the terms laid down by the Scottish Commissioners, and having subscribed to the Covenant, he was crowned at Scone on 1 Jan 1651. He speedily found himself the prisoner of rancorous politico-religious factions far too busy quarrelling amongst themselves to combine to assert the KingXs title. Marching into England at the head of a scratch force lacking in all cohesion and control, he suffered such grievous defeat at Worcester (3 Sep 1651) that flight was inevitable. With £1,000 set on his head by Parliament, for forty-four days he stole through the Western counties, only preserved from capture by the unswerving devotion of the many loyalists, of all classes, who risked their lives to help him on his way. Finally smuggled aboard a coal-brig at Shoreham, he was safely landed in Normandy. Nine years of wandering, indigent exile ensued before a distracted and impoverished England, in dread of a revival of military despotism, summoned Charles to take up the reins of government; a recall very largelyengineered by General George Monck. Landing at Dover, Charles entered London in triumph on 29 May 1660. Two years later he married the Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza, but the union was childless. The first seven years of the reign were characterised by a loyal parliament and widespread constitutional support for a Church and State as anti-Catholic as it was anti-Puritan; although ClarendonXs control of policy exhibited an inflexible authoritarianism dangerously at variance with the prevailing climate of opinion. The intransigent attitude of the extremist Catholic-Presbyterian "Cabal" was ultimately reduced to impotence by the provisions of the Test Act of 1673. But failure to appreciate that the retention of Dunkirk without Calais to support it was no more than an empty gesture, rendered CharlesXs sale of the former Cromwellian incubus extremely unpopular; while the limited success attending theattempt to win back the valuable trans-oceanic carrying trade from the Dutch by the war of 1665 aroused general dissatisfaction. This was further exacerbated by de RuyterXs destructive raid on shipping in the Medway and Thamesmouth, where much of the Fleet had been "laid up in ordinary" for want of an adequate parliamentary grant to fit it out and the necessary seafarers to man it - this last a consequence of the Great Plague. ClarendonXs alleged mismanagement of the war led to his dismissal, hard on the conclusion of the Peace of Breda (1667). This was the outcome of the exhaustion of both belligerents, and left France free to pursue her design for an Anglo-Gallic combination against the States General. This aim was temporarily checked by Sir William TempleXs negotiations for a triple alliance between Britain, Holland and Sweden, a sop to the party of the "Cabal." But denied the requisite funds - particularly for the upkeep of the Navy by ShaftesburyXs intemperate "Country Party," Charles, believing that a kingXs only morality is the welfare of his people, and that an Anglo-French alliance against Holland was the only alternative to a dangerously powerful Franco-Dutch coalition against Britain, signed the secret Treaty of Dover (1670). If by this pact the British sovereign became in some sort the pensioner of Louis of France, he sinuously contrived to evade the services expected of him in return, including the forcible conversion of his realm to Roman Catholicism, while sedulously devoting £76,000 of his first subsidy of £84,700 to the build-up of a fighting marine powerful enough to exact wary respect from Frenchman and Hollander alike. The Dutch War of 1672 sufficiently avenged the Medway raid; but Gallic co-operation therein was so half-hearted that public opinion refused to support a conflict in which "the French only accompanied their allies to the scene of action to see if the British Navy earned its pay." Peace with Holland was concluded and cemented by the marriage of CharlesXs niece, Mary, to the Prince of Orange. With Shaftesbury heading an Opposition intent on making the utmost political capital out of Titus OatesXs trumped-up "Popish Plot," Charles steered an astutely prudent course. Pretending to be duly impressed by reported machinations too infeasible to beguile any but the most gullible, he nonetheless steadfastly refused to tamper with the succession to exclude his brother James. The immoderate violence of the Whig leaders, together with the unmasking of the Rye House Plot to assassinate the king and his brother, turned the tide in CharlesXs favour. With his implacable opponents vanquished, for the last three years of his life Charles reigned tranquilly and without obstruction. Stricken with apoplexy, he died on 6 Feb 1685. Shrewd, supple and of great political acumen, Charles was "an exact knower of mankind" and one who "had a world of wit and not a grain of ill-nature in him" (Defoe). Above all, he was determined torestore his countryXs prosperity and safeguard it by building the most powerful Navy afloat. Inheriting a tremendous load of debt and an Exchequer containing exactly £11, 2s. 10d., by 1685 he had wrought so well that "there were more men to be found on the Exchange worth £10, 000 than in 1651 had been worth £1,000" (Sir Josiah Child). Indeed, "England has rarely been so prosperous as under Charles II" (Sir Charles Petrie), and the rise in living standardswas shared by all classes. The Fleet was stronger than at any time under the Parliament, while 300,000 tons of merchant shipping wore the English flag. MenXs liberty had been underwritten by the passage of the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679; science had been advanced by the construction of Greenwich Observatory and the production of the Nautical Almanac. Charles sharply differentiated between his duties as a sovereign and his indulgences as a man. If his numerous amours expanded the ranks of the nobility with a dozen natural offspring, no woman who had granted him her favours could justly accuse him of ingratitude or neglect. His marriage being childless, he was succeeded by his brother, James. {BurkeXs Peerage and ChamberXs Biographical Dictionary} {Concise Dictionary of National Biography} Succeeded to the throne after his FatherXs execution by the Parliamentarians. Forced into exile in France, he returned with the Restoration period in 1660. He changed the spelling of his family to Stuart after the French fashion. [GADD.GED]
- Rentrâe de son exil en Hollande, il monte sur le trãone d'Angleterre en 1660.
- After the civil war parliment wouldn't have him as king. But as thing go there was a reformation and Charles was called back home from France to ascend the throne. He became King of England, Scotland and Ireland. His father, Chales I was executed and lost his head at Whitehall jan 30, 1649 at the end of the English Civil War. During Charles rein the great fire of London occurred as well as the great plague.
Charles died painfully suffering from kidney dysfunction.
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