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3 days ago · Nevertheless, he allowed the widowed James to marry Mary of Modena, a fifteen-year-old Italian princess. James and Mary were married by proxy in a Roman Catholic ceremony on 20 September 1673. [55] On 21 November, Mary arrived in England and Nathaniel Crew , Bishop of Oxford , performed a brief Anglican service that did little more than ...
5 days ago · For example, St. Claude de la Colombière, SJ, the confessor of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, serving as chaplain to Mary of Modena, was arrested and held in prison for several months until exiled to France in 1680. His health broken, he died two years later on February 15, 1682.
5 days ago · Public alarm at James's Catholicism increased when his wife, Mary of Modena, became pregnant for the first time since James's accession. In letters to her sister Mary, Anne raised suspicions that the Queen was faking her pregnancy in an attempt to introduce a false heir.
3 days ago · Here Mary Beatrice of Modena spent the first years of her wedded life with James Duke of York; and even after she became Queen Consort she always preferred its homely apartments to the gilded and gorgeous rooms of the great Palace at Whitehall.
3 days ago · Willem Wissing: Mary of Modena. Mary of Modena, detail of an oil painting by Willem Wissing, c. 1685; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. (more) The final crisis of James’s reign resulted from two related events.
4 days ago · And then the writer proceeds to record the persecutions of which the Lollards' Tower was too often the scene; the shelter afforded by the church porch to Mary of Modena, when she fled from Whitehall with her little son, as we have already said; the burial of the two Tradescants, father and son.
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3 days ago · The younger Anne Killigrew is listed as one of six Maids of Honour to Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, as of 1683.Anne had two older sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, both of whom married outside of court circles.
