Henry FitzJames
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Henry FitzJames | |
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| Died | 16 December 1702 (aged 29) |
| Noble family | FitzJames |
| Spouse(s) | Marie Gabrielle d'Audibert de Lussan |
| Issue | Lady Christine Marie Jacqueline Henriette FitzJames |
| Father | James II of England |
| Mother | Arabella Churchill |
Henry FitzJames (6 August 1673 – 16 December 1702), titular 1st Duke of Albemarle in the Jacobite peerage, was the illegitimate son of King James II of England and VII of Scotland by Arabella Churchill, sister of the first Duke of Marlborough.
Life
FitzJames was born in
St. James's Square, Westminster, then in the county of Middlesex, England. He was the brother of James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, the French Marshal. He was also the brother of Henrietta FitzJames
and Arabella FitzJames, who was named after her mother and became a nun.
On 20 July 1700, he married Marie Gabrielle d'Audibert de Lussan, daughter and heiress of
Duke of Melfort
(1682–1754).
Unrecognized title
FitzJames was created
Grand Prior of the revived Priory of the English Commandery of the Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta
, known as the Knights of Malta.
Ancestry
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Notes
References
- Ruvigny and Raineval, Henry Melville de Massue de Ruvigny, Marquis of, The Jacobite Peerage, Edinburgh, 1904.