James II and VII (14 October 1633 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 Francis Edward, 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 eldest, Protestant 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.

1. when was the Glorious Revolution?
2. which James fled to England?
3. when was James II born?
4. who defeated the Jacobites?
5. who was the father of James VII?
6. who took the throne when Charles I died?
7. what happened to Charles II?
8. when did James VII rule Scotland?
9. what did members of Britain's Poretestant elite suspect James II of?
10. who was his cousin?
1. 1688
2. James Francis Edward
3. 14 October 1633
4. Williamites
5. Charles I
6. Charles II
7. death
8. 6 February 1685 until 1688
9. being pro-French
10. King Louis XIV