Isabel Stuart | |
---|---|
![]() Portrait after Sir Peter Lely, circa 1679–1681 | |
Born | 28 August 1676 St James's Palace, London |
Died | St James's Palace, London | 2 March 1681 (aged 4)
Burial | 4 March 1681 |
House | Stuart |
Father | James, Duke of York and Albany |
Mother | Princess 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.