James II of England | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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James II of England


00:01:49 1 Early life
00:01:58 1.1 Birth
00:02:52 1.2 Civil War
00:04:06 1.3 Exile in France
00:06:00 2 Restoration
00:06:09 2.1 First marriage
00:08:08 2.2 Military and political offices
00:10:33 2.3 Conversion to Roman Catholicism and second marriage
00:12:36 2.4 Exclusion Crisis
00:14:43 2.5 Return to favour
00:15:50 3 Reign
00:15:58 3.1 Accession to the throne
00:17:16 3.2 Two rebellions
00:19:20 3.3 Religious liberty and the dispensing power
00:25:46 4 Glorious Revolution
00:28:51 5 Later years
00:29:00 5.1 War in Ireland
00:30:21 5.2 Return to exile and death
00:32:35 6 Succession
00:34:06 7 Historiography
00:40:17 8 Titles, styles, honours, and arms
00:40:28 8.1 Titles and styles
00:41:47 8.2 Honours
00:42:00 8.3 Arms
00:42:35 9 Issue
00:42:43 10 Ancestry



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James II and VII (14 October 1633O.S. – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland.
The second surviving son of Charles I, he ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II. Members of Britain's Protestant political elite increasingly suspected him of being pro-French and pro-Catholic and of having designs on becoming an absolute monarch.  When he produced a Catholic heir, a son called James, leading nobles called on his Protestant son-in-law and nephew William III of Orange to land an invasion army from the Dutch Republic, which he did in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.  James fled England (and thus was held to have abdicated). He was replaced by his Protestant eldest daughter Mary II and her husband William III. James made one serious attempt to recover his crowns from William and Mary when he landed in Ireland in 1689.  After the defeat of the Jacobite forces by the Williamites at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, James returned to France.  He lived out the rest of his life as a pretender at a court sponsored by his cousin and ally, King Louis XIV.
James is best known for his struggles with the English Parliament and his attempts to create religious liberty for English Roman Catholics and Protestant nonconformists, against the wishes of the Anglican establishment. This tension made James's four-year reign a struggle for supremacy between Parliament and the Crown, resulting in his deposition, the passage of the Bill of Rights, and the accession of his daughter and her husband as queen and king.