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Works by King Charles II
Charter of Carolina: 1665 2 copies
Charter of Carolina: 1663 2 copies
Grant of the Province of Maine: 1664 2 copies
Charter of Connecticut: 1662 1 copy
Le Compte Des Recettes Et Dépenses Du Roi De Navarre: En France Et En Normandie De 1367 a 1370 (2012) 1 copy
The greatest escape : an account of King Charles II's escape from the Battle of Worcester 1651 (2013) 1 copy
His Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Wednesday the 15th of December, 1680 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1630-05-29
- Date of death
- 1685-02-06
- Burial location
- Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England
- Birthplace
- St. James' Palace, London, England
- Place of death
- Whitehall Palace, London, England
- Cause of death
- apoplectic fit
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Paris, France
The Hague, Netherlands - Occupations
- king
prince
slaver (Company of Royal Adventurers|founder|1663) - Relationships
- Charles I (father)
James I (grandfather)
Mary Queen of Scots (great-grandmother)
King James II (brother)
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (cousin)
Duchess of Portsmouth, Louise de Kérouaille (mistress) (show all 16)
Catherine of Braganza (wife)
Queen Anne of Great Britain (niece)
James Edward Stuart (The Old Pretender) (nephew)
Queen Henrietta Maria of England (mother)
Marie de Medici, Queen of France (grandmother)
Nell Gwyn (mistress)
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland (nephew, comrade-in-arms)
Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans (sister)
Mary II, of England (niece)
Louis XIII, King of France (uncle) - Organizations
- House of Stuart
- Awards and honors
- King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
- Short biography
- King Charles II was the son of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his wife Queen Henrietta Maria, the sister of King Louis XIII of France. He was named Prince of Wales at about age 8. Charles participated in the battles of the English Civil War even as a young teenager. In 1646, when the Royalists were losing the war, he fled into exile in France, where his mother was already living. Later he moved to The Hague for support from his sister Princess Mary and her husband William II, Prince of Orange. Charles declared himself King after his father was executed by the Puritans in 1649. After many further years of fighting, defeats, and exile, Charles II was remarkably recalled to the throne when the death of the Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell caused a political crisis in Britain. On May 29, 1660, his 30th birthday, he entered London to great public acclaim. He was called the Merry Monarch in reference to the liveliness and hedonism of his Restoration court, and his numerous mistresses and illegitimate children. King Charles was especially fond of his younger sister Henrietta-Anne, known in the family as "Minette," who married her cousin Louis, Duke of Orleans; many of their letters survive.
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- Works
- 34
- Members
- 45
- Popularity
- #340,917
- ISBNs
- 3