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	Charles II of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles II (Carlos Segundo) of Spain (November 6, 1661 – November 1, 1700) was king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily, nearly all of Italy (except Piedmont, the Papal States and Venice), and Spain's overseas Empire, stretching from Mexico to the Philippines.
		Charles was the only surviving son of his Habsburg predecessor, King Philip IV of Spain and his second Queen (and niece), Mariana of Austria, another Habsburg.
		Charles II was the last of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty, physically disabled, mentally retarded and disfigured (possibly through affliction with mandibular prognathism).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain (963 words)

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		Charles II (May 29, 1630 - February 6, 1685) was King of England, Scotland and Ireland (proclaimed by monarchists January 30, 1649; assumed throne at the restoration May 29, 1660 - February 6, 1685).
		Charles was the eldest son of King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria, born at St James's Palace.
		Charles died of a stroke at the Palace of Whitehall.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_ii_of_england.html (1189 words)

	Charles II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles II (29 May 1630–6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, Ireland from 30 January 1649 (retrospectively de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death.
		Charles, the eldest surviving son of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France, was born in St.
		Charles II's eldest son, the Duke of Monmouth, led a rebellion against James II, but was defeated at the battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685, captured, and executed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_II_of_England (3590 words)

	Bambooweb: King Charles II of England
		Charles II (29 May 1630–6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 30 January 1649 (de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death.
		Charles, the eldest son of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria, was born in St James's Palace on 29 May 1630.
		Charles I was captured by the rebels in 1647, escaped, and was recaptured in 1648.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/k/i/King_Charles_II_of_England.html (2595 words)

	Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles had promised a general amnesty in his conciliatory Declaration of Breda, and he and Clarendon, who became first minister, acted immediately to secure passage of the Act of Indemnity, pardoning all except the regicides.
		Charles also favored religious toleration (largely because of his own leanings toward Roman Catholicism), but the strongly Anglican Cavalier Parliament, which first convened in 1661, passed the series of statutes known as the Clarendon Code, which was designed to strike at religious nonconformity.
		Charles was forced to rescind (1672) his second declaration of indulgence toward dissenters, to approve (1673) the Test Act, and to sign (1674) a peace with the Dutch.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ch/Charles2Eng.html (986 words)

	Charles Darwin - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist whose revolutionary theory laid the foundation for both the modern theory of evolution and the principle of common descent by proposing natural selection as a mechanism.
		Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on 12 February 1809 at the family home, The Mount House.
		Charles Darwin came from a Non-conformist background, then studied Anglican theology with the aim of becoming a clergyman, at a time of religious and political turmoil in England.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /charles_darwin.htm (4536 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		Charles I was born in 1600, the second son of James I and Anne of Denmark.
		Charles ascended the throne at the age of 25; after a weak, sickly childhood, he became an excellent horseman and a strong-willed king.
		Charles inherited the incessant financial problems of his father: the refusal of Parliament to grant funds to a king who refused to address the grievances of the nobility.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon47.html (635 words)

	MSN Encarta - Charles II (of England)
		Charles II (of England) (1630-1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660-1685), whose reign marked a period of relative stability after the upheaval of the English Revolution.
		He was the second, but eldest surviving, son of King Charles I and was Prince of Wales from birth.
		On the execution of Charles I in 1649, Charles II assumed the title of king and was so proclaimed in Scotland and sections of Ireland, and in England, then ruled by Oliver Cromwell.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558442/Charles_II_(of_England).html (641 words)

	Famous Scots - Charles II
		Charles II was born at St James's Palace in London on 29 May, 1630.
		The Scottish Parliament declared Charles II to be king of Scotland.
		Charles publicly advocated religious tolerance and an avoidance of persecution of the Puritans.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfamcharles2.htm (761 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		Charles II, second son of Charles I and Henrietta Marie of France, was born in 1630.
		The Whigs used Catholicism to undermine Charles; England was in the throes of yet another wave of anti-Catholicism, with the Whigs employing this paranoia in an attempt to unseat the heir apparent, Charles' Catholic brother James, from succeeding to the throne.
		Charles' tolerance was astounding considering the situation of England at the time of his ascension, but was necessary for his reign to stand a chance at success.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon49.html (826 words)

	BBC - History - Charles II (1630 - 1685) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles II, as the oldest surviving son of Charles I, spent part of the English Civil War (1642-6) fighting on his father's behalf in the West of England, most notably at the Battle of Edgehill (1642).
		Charles II tried to increase religious tolerance with his Declaration of Indulgence, but was forced to withdraw it.
		The King's alliance with Louis of France was forcibly ended at this point, with the brokered marriage of Charles's niece, Mary, to the Protestant William of Orange - arch rival of Louis.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/charles_ii_king.shtml (686 words)

	Charles II (1630-1685) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles II, the eldest surviving son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France, was born at St. James's Palace, London.
		Charles saw to it that the conversion clause of the treaty was not made public.
		Charles fully shared the interests of the skeptical, materialist century that saw the foundation of the Royal Society under his charter, and he did something to foster technological improvements in navigation and ship design.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/KingCharles-II/KingCharles-II.html (1958 words)

	Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
		Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Exiled King - Exiled King After his father's execution (1649), Charles was proclaimed king in Scotland and in...
		Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Character and Influence - Character and Influence Charles was a ruler of considerable political skill.
		`King of Scotland': Lauderdale and the Restoration North of the Border: Raymond Campbell Paterson re-examines the fortunes and friendships of a key figure of Charles II's administration.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0811428.html (360 words)

	Royalty.nu - Royal History - Charles II
		King Charles II King Charles II, the son of Charles I, reigned from 1660 to 1685.
		Charles II was succeeded by his brother, James II.
		Nell Gwynn: Mistress to a King by Charles Beauclerk.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/England/Stuart/CharlesII.html (1011 words)

	Empire of the Bay: King Charles II
		Charles was forced to accept the role of limited monarch in order to regain the throne, and was known for religious tolerance.
		Charles II was restored to the throne when the puritan democracy collapsed in 1660.
		The signing came after a year of indecision on the king's part, stemming from concern that the treaty would mar his close ties with France's Louis XIV, whose substantial monetary assistance was crucial to the British sovereign's role in Parliament.
	www.pbs.org /empireofthebay/profiles/charles_ii.html (361 words)

	Charles II, emperor of the West and king of the West Franks. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles II, emperor of the West and king of the West Franks.
		or Charles the Bald, 823–77, emperor of the West (875–77) and king of the West Franks (843–77); son of Emperor Louis I by a second marriage.
		When Charles’s nephew Lothair, son of Lothair I and king of Lotharingia, died in 869, Charles seized his kingdom but was forced by the Treaty of Mersen (870) to divide it with Louis the German.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ch/Charles2Wst.html (318 words)

	King Charles II from 1660 to 1685 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles II (b.1630) was King Charles I's eldest son.
		He returned to Scotland in 1650, was crowned King there but his attempt to recover the English crown failed at the battle of Worcester, 1651, when his Scottish army was defeated by Cromwell.
		Charles had fourteen children by a variety if mistresses but none were legitimate, the crown passed to his brother, James II.
	www.inspirationalimports.com /Kings_Queens_of_England/charlesII.htm (176 words)

	Britannia: The Mistresses of Charles II
		However, even by the permissive standards this implied, King Charles II (1630-1685) was an extraordinarily active monarch, who ran more than one mistress in harness at a time and made no secret of his fourteen illegitimate children.
		Charles, meanwhile, moved on to other mistresses and enjoyed at least four more before his exile ended and he was recalled to England to become king in 1660.
		Charles, too, had a sharp sense of humour, but this time, he was not amused and Moll was summarily dismissed.
	www.britannia.com /history/charmist.html (1478 words)

	King Charles Ii
		Charles I, spent part of the English Civil War (1642-6) fighting on his father's behalf in the West of England,...
		Charles I was born at St. James's Palace on 29 May 1630.
		II became convinced that members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) were plotting to kill him and so had more than 6,000 members arrested and exiled to Italy....
	www.futuregate.co.uk /king_charles_ii.html (248 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Stuarts > Charles I
		Charles I was born in Fife on 19 November 1600, the second son of James VI of Scotland (from 1603 also James I of England) and Anne of Denmark.
		Charles was reserved (he had a residual stammer), self-righteous and had a high concept of royal authority, believing in the divine right of kings.
		Charles did not see his action as surrender, but as an opportunity to regain lost ground by playing one group off against another; he saw the monarchy as the source of stability and told parliamentary commanders 'you cannot be without me: you will fall to ruin if I do not sustain you'.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page76.asp (1990 words)

	King Charles II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		King Charles II King Charles II King Charles II was king of Great Britain and Ireland and Scotland for 25 years.
		Charles II was the eldest surving son of King Charles I and Herietta Maria and was born in St. James's palace in London.
		Charles II died, in London, on February 6, 1685.
	www.northstar.k12.ak.us /schools/tan/lite/pol/Gary.html (121 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Stuarts > Charles II
		Although those who had signed Charles I's death warrant were punished (nine regicides were put to death, and Cromwell's body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey and buried in a common pit), Charles II pursued a policy of political tolerance and power-sharing.
		Parliament's reaction to the Popish Plot of 1678 (an allegation by Titus Oates that Jesuit priests were conspiring to murder the King, and involving the Queen and the Lord Treasurer, Danby) was to impeach Danby and present a Bill to exclude James (Charles's younger brother and a Roman Catholic convert) from the succession.
		Charles was a patron of Christopher Wren in the design and rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, Chelsea Hospital (a refuge for old war veterans) and other London buildings.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page92.asp (937 words)

	The Despensers: King Edward II's "Favourites" - Genealogy on Pat Patterson's Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He accompanied the king on his unfortunate expedition to Scotland in 1314, and when the defeat of Bannockburn placed Edward at the mercy of Lancaster, was forced to withdraw from the court and the council.
		The king was anxious to interfere on their behalf; he was prevailed on to call a parliament, and pressed to consent to their banishment.
		During the early years of the reign of Edward II he evidently belonged to Lancaster's party, for in 1313, with the consent of the prelates and others, he was made the king's chamberlain in the place of Gaveston, because the barons knew that Edward hated him (T. de la Moore, ii.
	genealogy.patp.us /spencer.shm (3781 words)

	History of King Charles II of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At the gate where Charles endeavored to get back into the city, he found the way choked up by a heavy ammunition cart which had been entangled there, one of the oxen that had been drawing it being killed.
		The king dismounted, abandoned his horse, and made his way through and over the obstruction as he could.
		Charles himself, finding that all was lost, made his escape at last from the city, at six o'clock in the evening, at the head of a troop of horse.
	manybooks.net /pages/abbottjacetext04hkcii10/75.html (259 words)

	King Charles II
		In 1649 Charles was proclaimed king of Scotland.
		Charles agreed that if he was made king he would pardon all members of the parliamentary army and would continue with the Commonwealth's policy of religious toleration.
		In 1662 Charles married Catherine of Braganza, the daughter of the King of Portugal.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUcharles2.htm (1764 words)

	Charles II
		the love story of the dashing King Charles II of Restoration England and his bride Catherine Of Braganza, who proved to be a woman of passionate integrity, and from the moment she set eyes on the darkly handsome King Charles she loved him utterly.
		Sewell is portraying Charles II in a 5.5 million pound four-part drama that the BBC is filming in what is supposed to be Oxford, where the king decamped to escape the plague.
		The focus of King Charles II is his court, his squabbling family and his glamorous mistresses - from the high-born and promiscuous Barbara Villiers (Helen McCrory), through folk heroine and sex symbol of the day Nell Gwynne (Emma Pierson) to the French spy Louise de Keroualle (Mélanie Thierry).
	www.geocities.com /vue2sewell/CharlesII/char1.html (3393 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Stuart, Charles (II, King)
		Charles II was born on May 29th 1630 at Saint James’s palace in London.He was the first surviving child of Charles I and his French Queen Henrietta Maria.
		After the execution of the king the jprince was declared Charles II by all royalists and he was determined to recover his birthright.
		I recently re-read ‘The Escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester’ by Richard Ollard (1966, reissued 2002), and can thoroughly recommend it as a fast-moving, gripping account of the King’s time on the run in 1651, from Worcester to (eventually) France.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/344.php (1355 words)

	Overview of King Charles II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His father having been executed by the English in 1649, Charles II was proclaimed King in Scotland only.
		The reception of Charles by the Scots annoyed Cromwell's parliamentarian government in England and triggered an invasion of Scotland.
		Charles married the Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza in 1662.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst329.html (283 words)

	King Charles II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles II was born in London, England, on May 29, 1630.
		Religious toleration was something Charles favored, and he remained a member of the Church of England until his death on February 5, 1685, at the age of 54.
		Charles was a strong-minded, ruthless king, but at the same time was considerate, easy to talk to, and really funny.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /01_02/AH/CII/cii.htm (547 words)

	KING CHARLES II - DOCUMENT SIGNED 03/02/1677
		CHARLES II Fourteen years after he annexed New Netherland as a British province, renaming it New York, the King empowers Lord Finch to conclude a defense treaty with the Netherlands.
		As evidenced by the text of this document, Charles II regarded himself as King of England not from 1660 but from the moment of his father's death, signing in 1678 "in the 30th year of Our Reigne".
		In 1664, King Charles II took from the Dutch, New Netherland, which included the settlement of New Amsterdam.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/6_2001/leaders/KING_CHARLES_II.htm (346 words)

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