James II of England
Monarch
1633 – 1701
Who was James II of England?
James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland.
The second surviving son of Charles I, he ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II. Members of Britain's political and religious elite increasingly suspected him of being pro-French and pro-Catholic and of having designs on becoming an absolute monarch. When he produced a Catholic heir, the tension exploded, and leading nobles called on his Protestant son-in-law and nephew, William of Orange, to land an invasion army from the Netherlands, which he did. James fled England in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was replaced by his Protestant elder daughter, Mary II, and her husband, William III. James made one serious attempt to recover his crowns from William and Mary, when he landed in Ireland in 1689 but, after the defeat of the Jacobite forces by the Williamite forces at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, James returned to France.
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- Born
- Oct 14, 1633
St James's Palace - Also known as
- James VII of Scotland
- James
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Anne Hyde
(1660/09/03 - 1671/04/10) - Mary of Modena
(1673 - 1701/09/16)
- Anne Hyde
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- England
- Died
- Sep 16, 1701
Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Resting place
- Windsor Castle
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on July 23, 2013
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