This July 12th, consider the possibility that the pioneer of religious toleration in Britain was James II.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674073098

#JamesII #History #BritishHistory #Toleration #EarlyModernHistory #ScottSowerby #July12th

I was Today Years Old when I learned that Charles I was not the last king chucked off the throne of England by parliament

James II was chucked off by parliament on 23 December 1688 over a concern over the potential for a Catholics vs Protestants civil war

(I did do Medieval and Early Modern History at university, but the Early Modern history was social history - the lives of every day people, religion etc -, not political history - not monarchs and battles)

#EarlyModernHistory #JamesII

On this day in history. King James II murdered the 8th Earl of Douglas in what is now the King's Old Building at Stirling Castle on 22 February 1452, 572 years ago today, after a meeting to discuss loyalties and allegiances went wrong. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stirling/stirlingcastle/kingsold.html

#Scotland #StirlingCastle #KingsOldBuilding #JamesII #Murder #OnThisDay #UndiscoveredScotland

Mons Meg and the Siege of Threave

A final video from Threave for the moment. Even after the murder of William Douglas, the 8th Earl of Douglas, the Douglas Family had continued to defy James the Second, prompting him to bring the fearsome Mons Meg to Galloway to deal with them.  #history #video #scotland #galloway #Douglas #BlackDouglas #JamesII #GameOfThrones #MonsMeg

https://crowkitchentales.wordpress.com/2023/09/13/mons-meg-and-the-siege-of-threave/

https://youtu.be/F5yBRWrSQyU

#BattleOfTheBoyne #Ireland #IrishHistory #Irish #WilliamOfOrange #JamesII #BoyneValley #history #EuropeanHistory #WilliamiteWar #BoyneRiver #OldbridgeHouse

On this day in history. King James II murdered the 8th Earl of Douglas in what is now the King's Old Building at Stirling Castle on 22 February 1452, 571 years ago today, after a meeting to discuss loyalties and allegiances went wrong. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stirling/stirlingcastle/kingsold.html

#Scotland #StirlingCastle #KingsOldBuilding #JamesII #Murder #OnThisDay #UndiscoveredScotland

Born #OTD 1617, William Sancroft. Sancroft opposed King James II's Declaration of Indulgence; he was imprisoned for seditious libel against James. Sancroft features in our Lords 1660-1715 volumes, available in print. Find out more about the Declaration: http://ow.ly/6N8o50MlzYa

@histodon #17thCentury #JamesII #libel

In December 1688, just before James II fled the country, Edward Griffin was made a peer. But, in the face of James' decision to flee, was Griffin actually allowed to sit in the Lords Chamber? Find out below👇 @GeorgianLords http://ow.ly/qhil50MoHPM

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