Lucy Walter

Lucy Walter , mistress of the English king Charles II and mother of the 1 {{er}} duke of Monmouth, was born with the neighborhoods from 1630, Roch Castle, close to Haverfordwest.

Walters were a Welsh family of good condition, which declared as regards king during the English Civil war (1642-1649). Roch Castle having been invaded then burned by the forces of the Parliament in 1644, Lucy Walter found initially refuge with London, then with $the Hague. It is there that it met the future king in 1648.

Thanks to family relations, it entered the London company , and became initially, at 17 years, the mistress of Algernon Sidney, an officer “head-round” (name given to the members of Parliament in favor of Cromwell). It made knowledge in Holland of her young brother, royalist Robert Sidney, in exile. It is thanks to him that it became close to Charles II.

There are few reasons to accredit the legend according to which it was its first mistress; he in any case was not its first lover. The intimacy which settled between the king and this “brown creature, beautiful, shameless, but insipid”, like says it John Evelyn, lasted with irregular intervals until the autumn 1651. Charles recognized their son, born in 1649, and named it duke of Monmouth.

She left Charles II and carried out a life dissolue, which is perhaps the cause of its untimely death, in September or October 1658.

His/her daughter, Mary (born in 1651), is probably the girl of Henry Bennet, 1st count d' Arlington. She married William Sarsfield.

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