James II of England (born 1633)

James II of England

King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1685 to 1688

James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685, until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland,…