Henry FitzJames (6 August 1673 – 16 December 1702), titular 1st Duke of Albemarle in the Jacobite peerage, was the illegitimate son of King

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and VII of Scotland by Arabella Churchill, sister of the first Duke of Marlborough.

Life

FitzJames was born in

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, then in the county of

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. He was the brother of

James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, 1st Duke of Liria and Jérica, 1st Duke of Fitz-James (21 August 1670 – 12 June 1734) was an Anglo-French military leader, illegitimate son of King James II of England by Arabella Churchill, sister o ...

, the

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. 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 Jean d'Audibert, Comte de Lussan and Marie Françoise Raimond. He had a

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daughter, Lady Christine Marie Jacqueline Henriette FitzJames, born 29 May 1703 at Bagnols sur Cèze, Languedoc, France, who became a nun. His widow remarried in May 1707, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, to John Drummond, Marquess of Forth, later 2nd Duke of Melfort (1682–1754).

Unrecognized title

FitzJames was created Duke of Albemarle, together with the subsidiary titles of

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and

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, by his father on 13 January 1696, but the title is only recognized by

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. He was also appointed the

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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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References

*Ruvigny and Raineval, Henry Melville de Massue de Ruvigny, Marquis of, ''The Jacobite Peerage'', Edinburgh, 1904. 1673 births 1702 deaths 17th-century English nobility 18th-century English people Henry Illegitimate children of James II of England People from Westminster Dukes of Albemarle Dukes in the Jacobite peerage Peers created by James II (1689–1701) Sons of kings {{UK-royal-stub