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Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth (1657 – 17 October 1680), was the illegitimate son of King Charles II of England and Catherine Pegge. He had a sister, Catherine, who is believed to have become a nun. [2]
Charles FitzCharles, Earl of Plymouth. 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.
Charles Fitzcharles, Earl of Plymouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II of England and Catherine Pegge, was probably born in Bruges, West Flanders, in 1657. His mother's liaison with the exiled king had come to an end by 1658, and he was brought up by her in the Spanish Netherlands with the support of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Pegge of ...
FITZCHARLES, Charles (c. 1657–80) cr. 29 July 1675 (a minor) earl of PLYMOUTH First sat 8 May 1679; last sat 27 May 1679. b. c. 7 May 1657, s. of Charles II with Catherine (d.1678), da. of Thomas Pegge of Yeldersley, Derbys. and Catherine Kniveton. educ. in Flanders; travelled abroad (France and Holland), 1674–6.
Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth was the illegitimate son of King Charles II of England, by Catherine Pegge. Background. His mother went on to marry Sir Edward Greene of Samford in Essex, but they had no children. Charles FitzCharles was born in or about 1657.
Charles Fitzcharles, Earl of Plymouth was buried in Westminster Abbey on 18th January 1681 (modern dating) in the vault in Henry VII's chapel formerly occupied by Oliver Cromwell. He has no monument or gravestone.
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