Monmouth Rebellion - Some Associated Poetry
James Scott -Duke of Monmouth Portrait of the Duke of Monmouth by William Wessing : In the public domain , courtesy of 'Wikipedia' James Scott Duke of Monmouth was the eldest of the 13 illegitimate children of Charles II. Born on 9th April 1649 in Rotterdam, as a result of Charles' affair with one Lucy Walters ,whilst in exile. He was to play a leading and quite controversial role during the politics of the Restoration as the 'Protestant Duke'. When Charles II died in 1685, Monmouth was living in temporary exile in the Dutch Republic, and the Duke of York ascended the throne as James II. Monmouth launched an ill fated rebellion in the West Country against James II , but was defeated , captured and finally executed on 15th July 1685. Seems to have been a while since this blog covered anything related to the James Duke of Monmouth: In 2018 I posted about Edmund Waller's poem ' On the Duke of Monmouth's