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Cecilia Fitzroy, in religion Cecilia.
Died: 7 Jun 1759 in Dunkirk, aged 75.
father: King Charles II Stuart
mother: Lady Barbara Villiers duchess of Cleveland
Benedictines, Dunkirk choir nun.
She professed c 1715.
She was the cousin of Arabella FitzJames.She was the sister of Barbara Fitzroy.
Sources: Dunkirk History: 60, 90.
Notes:
She was a fine musician.
The nuns list Cecilia Fitzroy's father as King Charles II. This would not have been possible however, because Lady Barbara Villiers was dismissed from court in 1676, when she moved to Paris. At the time John Churchill was in command of the royal English regiment in France, and ODNB suggest that Lady Villiers moved to Paris to resume their relationship. However by the 1680s we have no knowledge of her relationships and the father of Sister Cecilia is currently unkown. GR
A pedigree in John Gough Nichols ed. The Herald and Genealogist III, 'The English Ladies of Pontoise' p. 419, makes her Charlotte or Katharine Fitzroy, daughter of Charles II and Katharine Pegge, who was mother by her husband Sir Edward Greene of Justina Greene (OB056) and two other daughters. She was also mother of the king's son Charles, earl of Plymouth (ibid, p. 414).