page_title: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
section_title: Children
hierarchical_section_title: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth / Children
caption_attribution_description: Anna, Duchess of Buccleuch and sons
context_page_description: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, KG, PC was a Dutch-born English nobleman. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland with his mistress Lucy Walter.
  He served in the Second Anglo-Dutch War and commanded English troops taking part in the Third Anglo-Dutch War before commanding the Anglo-Dutch brigade fighting in the Franco-Dutch War. He led the unsuccessful Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, an attempt to depose his uncle, King James II and VII. After one of his officers declared Monmouth the legitimate King in the town of Taunton in Somerset, Monmouth attempted to capitalise on his Protestantism and his position as the son of Charles II, in opposition to James, who was a Roman Catholic. The rebellion failed, and Monmouth was beheaded for treason on 15 July 1685.
context_section_description: His marriage to Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch resulted in the birth of six children:
  Charles Scott, Earl of Doncaster (24 August 1672 – 9 February 1673/1674)
  James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (23 May 1674 – 14 March 1705). He was married on 2 January 1693/1694 to Henrietta Hyde, daughter of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester. They were parents to Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch.
  Lady Anne Scott (17 February 1675 – 13 August 1685)
  Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine (1676 – 25 December 1730)
  Francis Scott (died an infant; buried 8 December 1679)
  Lady Charlotte Scott (died an infant; buried 5 September 1683)
  His affair with his mistress Eleanor Needham, daughter of Sir Robert Needham of Lambeth resulted in the birth of three children:
  James Crofts (died March 1732), major-general in the Army.
  Henrietta Crofts (c. 1682 – 27 February 1730). She was married around 1697 to Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton.
  Isabel Crofts (died young)
  Toward the end of his life he conducted an affair with Henrietta, Baroness Wentworth.
caption: Anna, Duchess of Buccleuch and her two surviving sons
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