- Henry FitzJames
Henry FitzJames ("1st Duke of Albemarle" in the
Jacobite peerage ) (August 6 ,1673 -December 16 ,1702 ), was the illegitimate son of KingJames II of England and VII of Scotland by Arabella Churchill, sister of the Duke of Marlborough. He was born inSt. James's Square ,Westminster ,Middlesex ,England . He was the brother ofJames FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick , the French Marshal. He married Marie Gabrielle d’Audibert de LussanJuly 20 ,1700 , daughter and heiress ofJean d'Audibert, Comte de Lussan . They had a posthumous daughter, Lady Christine Marie Jacqueline Henriette FitzJames, bornMay 29 ,1703 atBagnols , Languedoc, France. She became a nun. His widow, Marie Gabrielle d’Audibert de Lussan, Duchess of Albemarle, married, secondly, in May 1707, atSt. Germain-en-Laye , John Drummond, Marquess of Forth, later 2ndDuke of Melfort (1682-1754))FitzJames was created
Duke of Albemarle , together with the subsidiary titles of Earl of Rochford and Baron Romney, by his father onJanuary 13 ,1696 , but the title is only recognized by Jacobites. He was also appointed theGrand Prior of the revived Priory of the English Commandery of the Sovereign Military Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta, known as the Knights of Malta.Ancestry
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1= 1. Henry FitzJames, 1st Duke of Albemarle
2= 2.James II of England
3= 3. Arabella Churchill
4= 4.Charles I of England
5= 5.Henrietta Maria of France
6= 6. Winston Churchill
7= 7. Elizabeth Drake
8= 8.James I of England
9= 9.Anne of Denmark
10= 10.Henry IV of France
11= 11.Marie de' Medici
12= 12. John Churchill
13= 13. Sarah Winston
14= 14. John Drake
15= 15. Eleanor Boteler
16= 16.Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
17= 17.Mary I of Scotland
18= 18.Frederick II of Denmark
19= 19. Sofie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
20= 20.Antoine of Navarre
21= 21.Jeanne III of Navarre
22= 22.Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
23= 23.Johanna of Austria
24= 24. Jasper Churchill
25= 25. Elizabeth Chaplet
26= 26. Henry Winston
28= 28. John Drake
29= 29. Dorothy Button
30= 30. John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield
31= 31. Elizabeth VilliersReferences
* Ruvigny and Raineval, Henry Melville de Massue de Ruvigny, Marquis of, "the Jacobite Peerage", Edinburgh, 1904
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