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Lucy Walter (c. 1630 – 1658), also known as Lucy Barlow, was 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.
- James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Mary Crofts
- Lucy Barlow (pseudonym)
15 de abr. de 2024 · Lucy Walter was the 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.
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8 de mar. de 2017 · Abstract. This article examines the challenges to maintaining royal authority during periods of exile by focusing on the relationship between Charles II and Lucy Walter, who became the king’s mistress and the mother of his firstborn child James, the future Duke of Monmouth.
- Nicole Greenspan
- 2016
18 de mar. de 2024 · Lucy Walter (nee Barlow) was one of Charles II’s first mistresses and provided him with one of the most prominent of his illegitimate children, James Scott. The boy became 1st Duke of Monmouth and at 36 was beheaded for treason against his father’s uncle, James II.
by Susan Flantzer. © Unofficial Royalty 2020. Lucy Walter, as a Shepherdess by Peter Lely; Credit: Abbotsford, The Home of Sir Walter Scott. Lucy Walter was born around 1630 at Roch Castle near Haverfordwest, Wales to William Walter and Elizabeth Prothero, from landed gentry families.
29 de mar. de 2015 · Lucy Walter, mistress of King Charles II. Lucy Walter or Lucy Barlow was a mistress of King Charles II but also mother to James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. Born in 1630 to William Walter...
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. Little is known about Lucy Walter. She was probably born in 1630; her father, William Walter, inherited Roch Castle in
