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Lucy Walter or Lucy Barlow (c. 1630 – 1658) was a mistress of King Charles II of England and mother of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. She is believed to have been born in 1630 or a little later at Roch Castle near Haverfordwest, Wales into a family of middling gentry. The question of whether King Charles had secretly married Lucy Walter was raised during the Exclusion Crisis, when a Protestant faction wished to make her son the heir to the throne, while the king denied any marriage, and supported the claim of his brother, the Duke of York. ==Biography== Lucy Walter was born into a family of middling Welsh gentry. She was the daughter of William Walter (died 1650) of Roch Castle, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, and his wife Elizabeth (died 1652), daughter of John Prothero and niece of John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery. She is said to have been born at Roch Castle in 1630. In 1644, the castle having been taken and destroyed by the parliamentary forces, she sought refuge in London, whence she took shipping for The Hague. Algernon Sidney told James, Duke of York, that he had given fifty gold pieces for her, but, having to join his regiment hastily, had missed his bargain. His brother, Colonel Robert Sidney secured the prize, but did not retain it long. During the summer of 1648 this "private Welshwoman", as Clarendon calls her, "of no good fame, but handsome", captivated the then Prince of Wales (later Charles II), who was at The Hague for a short while about this time. He was only eighteen, and she is often spoken of as his first mistress, but there seems good reason to suppose that he had a tryst as early as 1646,〔 cites Gardiner, ''Hist. of Civil War'', iii. 238; Boero, ''Istoria...di Carlo II'',Rome, 1863.〕 James II admits Lucy's good looks, adding that, though she had not much wit, she had a great deal of that sort of cunning which those of her profession usually have. In August 1649 the respectable John Evelyn travelled with her in Lord Wilmot's coach from Paris to St. Germain, and speaks of her as "a brown, beautiful, bold but insipid creature".〔 cites Evelyn, 2.561–2.〕 During July and August 1649 she was with Charles at Paris and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and she may have accompanied him to Jersey in September. In June 1650 Charles left her at The Hague upon embarkation for Scotland. During his absence Lucy had an affair with Theobald, 2nd Viscount Taaffe, with whom she had a daughter, Mary (born 1651). After his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in late 1651, Charles escaped from England and returned to the Continent. He made it clear to Lucy that their relationship was ended. At first she attempted to persuade Dr. John Cosin that she was a convert.〔 cites Macpherson, i. 76.〕 and when that did not work for about four years she was involved in one scandal after another causing so much embarrassment to the royal court in exile, that in early in 1656 when she was in Cologne, the king's friends, by a promise of a pension of five thousand livres (£400 a year), persuaded her to return with the children to England. She sailed from Flushing and obtained lodgings in London over a barber's shop near Somerset House.〔 cites Thurloe, ''State Papers'', v. 160, 169.〕 The Lord Protector's intelligence department promptly reported her as a suspected spy, and at the close of June 1656 she and her maid, Ann Hill, were arrested and sent to the Tower of London. On 16 July, after examination, she was discharged and ordered to be deported back to the Low Countries.〔 cites ''Mercur. Polit''. No. 318.〕 Once back on the Continent she travelled to Brussels and resumed her extravagant lifestyle. Her attempt to use her son as a means of influencing Charles failed. However after the court party botched an attempt to kidnap the boy, she was persuaded in March 1658 to hand him over to a royal tutor. In September of the same year—after making a general confession to John Cosin—she died in Paris of venereal disease and was buried there. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucy Walter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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