Isabel Stuart

Isabel Stuart
Portrait after Sir Peter Lely, circa 1679–1681
Born28 August 1676
St James's Palace, London
Died(1681-03-02)2 March 1681 (aged 4)
St James's Palace, London
Burial4 March 1681
HouseStuart
FatherJames, Duke of York and Albany
MotherPrincess Mary of Modena

Isabel Stuart (28 August 1676 – 2 March 1681), also called Isobel and Isabella,[1] was a daughter of the future King James II of England and his second wife, Mary of Modena.

Isabel was born at St James's Palace in London.[2] She was the second daughter of James and Mary, after her sister Catherine Laura who died eleven months before Isabel's birth. Isabel had two older half-sisters from her father's first marriage to Anne Hyde: Mary and Anne; both would become reigning Queens of England. Isabel's paternal grandparents were Charles I of England and his wife Henrietta Maria of France, her maternal grandparents were Alfonso IV d'Este and Laura Martinozzi.

  1. ^ Burials in Westminster Abbey, p. 201
  2. ^ Biography of Isabel Stuart[usurped]