Henry, Duke of Gloucester
(1640-1660), Third son of Charles ISitter associated with 19 portraits
Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was the Protestant brother of Charles II of England. The third son of Charles I, he visited his father the night before his execution. For the next three years he was confined by the Commonwealth regime. In 1652 Oliver Cromwell gave him permission to go abroad, and he joined his mother and brothers in Paris. His firm adherence to the Protestant religion, however, incensed his Roman Catholic mother, Queen Henrietta Maria. She turned him out after which he joined the Spaniards at Dunkirk, fighting alongside his brother the Duke of York (afterward James II) in 1658. Henry returned to England on the restoration of Charles II, but he died a few months later of smallpox.
Related People
- Queen Anne (niece)
- Anne of Denmark (grandmother)
- Princess Anne (sister)
- King Charles I (father)
- King Charles II (brother)
- Princess Elizabeth (sister)
- Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orleans (sister)
- King James I of England and VI of Scotland (grandfather)
- King James II (brother)
- Henrietta Maria (mother)
- Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (sister)
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