He acquired Moor Park in Hertfordshire in April 1670. On Septemhe was made colonel of the His Majesty’s Own Troop of Horse Guards. In June 1666, he returned to England to become captain of a troop of cavalry. In 1665, at the age of 16, Monmouth served in the English fleet under his uncle, Prince James, the Duke of York in the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Monmouth, as he became known, was popular, particularly for his Protestantism, whereas the official heir presumptive to the throne, the King’s brother James, Duke of York, had openly converted to Roman Catholicism. The day after his marriage, the couple were made Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, Earl and Countess of Dalkeith, and Lord and Lady Scott of Whitchester and Eskdale in the Peerage of Scotland. James took his wife’s surname upon marriage. On April 20, 1663, just days after his 14th birthday, he was married to the heiress Anne Scott, 4th Countess of Buccleuch. On February 14, 1663, at the age of 13, shortly after having been brought to England, James was created Duke of Monmouth, with the subsidiary titles of Earl of Doncaster and Baron Scott of Tynedale, all three in the Peerage of England, and on 28 March 1663 he was appointed a Knight of the Garter. Charles II, as King, later testified in writing to his Council that he had never been married to anyone except his queen, Catherine of Braganza. Monmouth came to maintain that his parents were married and that he possessed evidence of their marriage, but he never produced it. Lucy Walter, mistress of King Charles II and Mother of the Duke of Monmouth.Īs an illegitimate son, Monmouth was ineligible to succeed to the English or Scottish thrones, unless he could prove rumours that his parents had married secretly. In 2012, a DNA test of Monmouth’s patrilineal descendant the 10th Duke of Buccleuch showed that he shared the same Y chromosome as a distant Stuart cousin this is evidence that Charles II was indeed Monmouth’s father. These voices may have been encouraged by the Duke of York himself, brother of King Charles II, who was afraid of any of the acknowledged fourteen royal bastards’ possible claims to the throne, Charles having no legitimate surviving children.
When the child grew to manhood, those loyal to the Duke of York (whom the exclusionists wished to replace as heir to the throne) publicly put about the story that they saw a semblance to Sidney.Ĭharles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Some voices later whispered that in the summer of 1648 Lucy had been the mistress of Colonel Robert Sidney, a younger son of the Earl of Leicester.
Research by Hugh Noel Williams suggests that Charles had not arrived at The Hague until the middle of September 1648 – seven months before the child’s birth, but that he had met Lucy in July. There is some question to whether or not Prince Charles was the father of James Scott. James was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, then spent his early years in Schiedam. James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of BuccleuchĬharles moved to The Hague during 1648, during the Second English Civil War, where his sister Mary and his brother-in-law William II, Prince of Orange, were providing more support to his father Charles I‘s cause than his French relations. He was only eighteen, and she is often spoken of as his first mistress, but they may have had a tryst as early as 1646. The Prince of Wales captivated by Lucy Walter, who was at The Hague for a short while about this time. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland with mistress Lucy Walterĭuring the summer of 1648, Charles, Prince of Wales was in exile as the English Civil War was being played out. James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch (Ap– July 15, 1685) was a Dutch-born English nobleman.
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