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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.
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.
Apr 26, 2022 · Death: 1678 (42-43) London,London,,England. Immediate Family: Daughter of Thomas Pegge, of Yeldersley and Catherine (Kniveton) Pegge. Wife of Sir Edward Greene, 1st (and last) Baronet of Sampford. Ex-partner of Charles II of England.
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.
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.
Meanwhile the queen, the Portuguese Catherine of Braganza, was left isolated, unhappy and side-lined by the “Windsor beauties”. It was common knowledge that the king enjoyed the company of his mistresses above anyone else.
Catherine Pegge was one of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England and mother of three children by him: Catherine Mary Stuart (1652-1741); Charles Fitzcharles, Duke of Plymouth (1657-1680); Catherine "Sister Ophelia" Fitzcharles (1658-1759).
