H.M. James II & VII (Stuart), King of Great Britain

1633 - 1701  (67 years)

• Name	James II & VII (Stuart)  [1]
  Title	H.M.
  Suffix	King of Great Britain
  Born	14 Oct. 1633	St. James's Palace, London, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Coronation	23 April 1685	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Hereditary Title	6 Feb. 1685 – 11 Dec. 1688  [2]
  	By the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith
  	Declared by Act of Parliament 2 February 1689 to have abdicated 11 December 1688 [2] Parliament, being an advisory but in no way a sovereign body, had no ability or right in law (either at common law or by royal authority) to effect such an abdication. It is a legal and genealogical anomaly in the history of Great Britain, that at this juncture the rightful heirs general to the Crowns of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland came no longer to be generally recognised as such by the countries' leading families of the Protestant confession. To this day the rightful heir to these thrones, who is at present Franz Duke of Bavaria, has remained deprived of such recognition.
  Regnal Name	James II & VII  [2]
  Died	16 Sept. 1701	Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France   [2]
  Buried	Chapel of Saint Edmund in the Church of the English Benedictines, Paris, France   [2]
  Person ID	I238	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	24 June 2018

  
  

  Father	H.M. Charles I (Stuart), King of Great Britain,   b. 19 Nov. 1600, Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland ,   d. 30 Jan. 1649, Palace of Whitehall, London, England  (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Princess Henrietta Maria (de Bourbon), of France,   b. 25 Nov. 1609,   d. 10 Sept. 1669, St. Colombe, France  (Age 59 years)
  Married	11 May 1625	Paris, France   [3]
  Family ID	F124	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry		Royal Arms of England (1603–88, 1702–7) Quarterly, 1st and 4th grand quarters, France Modern and England quarterly; 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland; the shield encircled with the Garter. [The Royal Arms of Scotland are, Or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules.] Source: Boutell's Heraldry, rev. J. P. Brooke-Little (1970), p. 213.
  		Royal Arms of Scotland (1603–88, 1702–7)

  
  

• Notes

  James II & VII was the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

  
  

• Sources

  [S13] The Scots Peerage, Sir James Balfour Paul, (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 32. [S1] Burke's Sovereign Families of Europe (Online), https://www.burkespeerage.com/royalFamily_UnitedKingdom.php. [S13] The Scots Peerage, Sir James Balfour Paul, (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 28.