English nobleman and soldier (1649–1685)
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Charles II's illegitimate son who bet his life that England would rather crown a bastard than a Catholic — and lost his head when the country chose his uncle instead.
Born James Crofts in Rotterdam in 1649, the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II and Lucy Walter, he grew into a capable military officer who served in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars and commanded the Anglo-Dutch brigade in the Franco-Dutch War. When his uncle James II ascended the throne as England's first openly Catholic monarch in decades, Monmouth launched a rebellion in 1685, staking his claim on his Protestant faith and royal blood. After one of his officers declared him the legitimate king in Taunton, Somerset, the uprising collapsed. He was captured and beheaded for treason on…
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Here are six guineas for you. Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell. I have heard that you struck him three or four times.
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