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Arabella FitzJames, in religion Ignatia.
Born: 1674.
Died: 7 Nov 1704 in Pontoise, aged 30.
father: King James II Stuart
mother: Lady Arabella Churchill
Benedictines, Pontoise choir nun.
She was clothed 16 Apr 1689.
She professed 30 Apr 1690, aged 16.
subject: Poem by Jane Barker, To madam Fitzjames on the day of her profession 1691 (CW)
Sources: Pontoise ob 68H4: 120; Register Pontoise: 311.
QuotationsNotes:
ODNB suggests that Sister Ignatia lived to see the consolidation of the Hanoverian dynasty and the coronation of King George III. This seems unlikely as convent records show that she died in 1704. GR
Poem published in Carol Shiner Wilson (ed.) The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford, 1997, pp297-8: from Niall Mackenzie, 'Jane Barker, Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate and 'Solomons Wise Daughter', Review of English Studies Vol 58, no, 233, 2007.