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James Scott "... first called James Crofts, after his guardian Lord Crofts, was born on 9 April 1649. Therefore his conception must have taken place some time in Juli [1648] - that is, just before the Prince of Wales [Karl II. Stuart, sein Vater] sailed off at the head of his rumbling fleet. ... He [Karl II. Stuart] assumed responsibility for the child from his birth and was inclined rather to remove him from his unsuitable mother's care than to consign him to a limbo of doubtful bastardy." (in: Antonia Fraser: King Charles II, id., p. 65). Lucy Walter führte ein sehr freies Leben in den Niederlanden, ging sehr viele sexuelle Beziehungen mit anderen Männern ein und war daher nicht als ideale Mutter bzw. als Vormund für das königliche Kind "James Scott" betrachtet worden: "The next step was to remove her son from Lucy's care. It was not a pretty story. Repeated efforts were made - abduction, if not outright kidnapping, was planned in what the King called 'the matter of the child'. By 1658 James had been successfully removed to the care of his grandmother, Henrietta Maria, in Paris. Yet in view of the fact that Lucy died shortly afterwards of venereal disease, the removal, however callously performed, was clearly in the child's best interests." (in: Antonia Fraser: King Charles II, id., p. 155). Was wohl aus seiner kleinen Halbschwester Mary geworden ist?
James Scott "... as a boy bore a striking resemblance to his father at the same age; later he enjoyed the highly characteristic looks of the Stuart family: the paternity over which the scandal-minded sniggered at his birth was never questioned in the periwigged duke, lounging at his royal father's Court." (in: Antonia Fraser: King Charles II, id., p. 65).
Am 20. April 1663 wurde James Scott mit Anne Scott (1651-1732) verheiratet, mit der er sechs Kinder hatte, von denen jedoch nur zwei Söhne das Erwachsenenalter erreichten: James Scott (1674-1705), Earl of Dalkeith, und Henry Scott (1676-1730), 1st Earl of Deloraine.
"Monmouth died at the executioners's axe [am 15. Juli 1685] after his foolish and bloody rebellion, only a few months after his father's death." (in: Antonia Fraser: King Charles II, id., p. 461). Er hatte versucht nach dem Tod seines Vaters, seinen katholischen Onkel Jakob II. (VII.) Stuart vom schottisch-englischen Thron zu vertreiben und sich selbst als neuer anglikanischer König die Krone auf das Haupt zu setzen.
Vor seiner Hinrichtung hatte er sich noch an seine Stiefmutter Katharina von Braganza in einem Brief, geschrieben am 9. Juli 1685, gewandt und sie um Hilfe gebeten: "MADAM, - Being in this unfortunate condition, and having none left but your Majesty that I think may have some compassion of me, and that for the last King’s sake [seines Vaters, des englisch-schottischen Königs Karl II. Stuart], makes me take this boldness to beg of you to intercede for me. I would not desire your Majesty to do it, if I were not from the bottom of my heart convinced how I have been deceived in it, and how angry God Almighty is with me for it; but I hope, Madam, your intercession will give me life to repent of it; and to show the King [dem jetzigen König, seinem Onkel Jakob II. (VII.) Stuart] how really and truly I will serve him hereafter; and I hope, Madam, your Majesty will be convinced that the life you save shall ever be devoted to your service, for I have been, and ever shall be, your Majesty’s most dutiful and obedient servant, MONMOUTH." (in: Francis Lancelott: The Queens of England and their Times, Volume II, id., p. 741). Katharina von Braganza setzte sich in der Tat für ihn ein - "She did so with great earnestness", konnte jedoch ihren Schwager Jakob II. (VII.) Stuart nicht überreden, Milde walten zu lassen.
Informationen über seine Hinrichtung: "The headsman was so nervous or unskilful, that unable to effectively execute his horrible task at the third stroke, he flung down the axe, and swore that his heart failed him, and he would do no more; but the sheriffs forced him to proceed, and at the fifth blow the head was severed from the mangled body." (in: Francis Lancelott: The Queens of England and their Times, Volume II, id., p. 760).
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