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James II, King of Great Britain (1633-1701) Born 1633, St James's Palace. Died 1701, Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye [France] The second son of Charles I, and brother of Charles II, James was named Duke of York at birth. He became a successful naval commander during the reign of his brother and acceded to the throne in 1685.
The reign of James II. James II's Parliament of May 1685, predominantly Tory, was initially obedient and generous. But when it resisted his wishes to exempt Catholics from the restrictions of the Test Act, James adjourned it in November. He then continuously prorogued it for more than a year and a half until he dissolved it in July 1687.
Charles died on 6 February 1685 and the Duke of York ascended to the throne as James II of England and Ireland, and James VIII of Scotland. A rebellion by the Duke of Monmouth was put down, and the conspirators executed. In 1687 James issued his Declaration of Indulgence, which allowed Catholics and dissenting Protestants full political and ...
JAMES II, KING OF ENGLAND B. London, Oct. 14, 1633; d. St. Germain, France, Sept. 6, 1701. James, second son of Charles I and the French princess Henrietta Maria, was baptized a Protestant; he spent most of the Civil War in Oxford as duke of york. The fall of Oxford in 1646 placed him in the hands of the parliamentary forces, from which he ...
Life. James II was born in 1633, three years after the birth of his brother Charles, and was named after his grandfather James I, the first of the Stuart kings of England. His childhood was, like that of his brother, marred by the events of the English Civil War, which broke out when he was only 9 years old; he spent much of the next 5 years ...
Jun 27, 2024 · 8 John Childs, The army, James II, and the Glorious Revolution (Manchester, 1980), pp. 1, 4. 9 9 One might note here The thoughts of a private person (London, 1689), a defence of the earl of Danby's uprising against James II in the north of England in November and December 1688, which Wing attributes to Danby himself.
Oct 11, 2023 · James II and VII ( 14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) 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 .
