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A map from 1736 map of the Northern Neck Proprietary. The Northern Neck Proprietary – also called the Northern Neck land grant, Fairfax Proprietary, or Fairfax Grant – was a land grant first contrived by the exiled English King Charles II in 1649 and encompassing all the lands bounded by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in colonial Virginia.
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) [c] was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France.
Virginia was the most loyal of King Charles II's dominions. It had, according to the eighteenth-century historian Robert Beverley Jr., been "the last of all the King's Dominions that submitted to the Usurpation". [24] Virginia had provided sanctuary for Cavaliers fleeing the English republic.
The Restoration of 1660 brought the exiled Stuart to the British throne as Charles II, and Berkeley again became governor of Virginia. Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, had died in 1658, and Richard , his son and successor, was too weak to hold the reins of government and laid aside the heavy burden the next year, and Charles II became king.
Watch the full version of King Charles III's first King's Speech as monarch at the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday, 7 November. The speech was written by the government to set out the ...
Berkeley also invited the king to Virginia. The issue of which side Maryland stood on was finally settled, at least in appearance, when Thomas Greene, deputy to Stone and a Roman Catholic, declared on 15 November 1649, that Charles II was the "undoubted rightfull heire to all his father's dominions". All acts taken by the Maryland Assembly ...
To mark the start of the king's reign, both King Charles and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, will don crowns pulled from the Tower of London, where they have been guarded since the 17th century.
The land was named "Province of Carolina" or land of Charles. Sir Robert's attempts at settlement failed and in 1645, during the English Civil War, he was stripped of all of his possessions as a Royalist supporter of the King. In 1663, eight members of the English nobility received a charter from King Charles II to establish the colony of ...