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Catherine Pegge (born c. 1635) was a long-term mistress of Charles II of England. She had two children by him, Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth , and Catherine FitzCharles . Pegge Family Arms.
- c. 1635
- Mistress of Charles II of England
- Thomas Pegge, Catherine Kniveton
Catherine was the beautiful daughter of Thomas Pegge, a gentleman from Derbyshire, and his wife, Catherine Kniveton, who was the daughter of a royalist Baronet. During the English Civil War, her father fought for the royalists, and on his capture the family were forced into exile in Bruges, Belgium.
Catherine Pegge. Catherine and Charles were together for several years while she was living in the Spanish Netherlands. She had two children by the future king, and lived a quiet life with her husband.
Catherine Pegge (mother of Charles,Earl of Plymouth,known as “Don Carlo”). Some of the mistresses of Charles II: Winifred Wells – one of the Queen’s Maids of Honour Mrs Jane Roberts – the...
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Catherine Pegge and Charles II also had a daughter together called Catherine FitzCharles but she died young or became a nun. Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth. Children by Barbara Villiers Palmer. Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland was perhaps the most notorious of Charles' mistresses.
Charles FitzCharles was the first child of Catherine Pegge and Charles II. He was born sometime in 1657 in Flanders, Spanish Netherlands, where the future Charles II was temporarily living in exile.
English paramour. Name variations: Katherine Pegg. Dau. of Thomas Pegge, a Derbyshire squire; mistress of Charles II (1630–1685), king of England (r. 1661–1685); children: (with Charles II) Charles Fitzcharles, earl of Plymouth (b. 1657); Catherine Fitzcharles (1658–1759, a nun at Dunkirk); possibly had another daughter who died in infancy.
