Q: James ll ascended the throne after:
a) Charles I
b) James I
c) King Louis
d) Charles II
Correct answer: d) Charles II
James II
James II was born on 14 October 1633 and died on 16 September 1701. He was king of England and Ireland as James II and king of Scotland as James VII, until he was deposed in the glorious revolution of 1688. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland. The second surviving son of Charles I, he ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II. When he produced a Catholic monarch, the tension exploded and leading nobles called on his protestant son-in-law and nephew William of orange, which he did in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James II was replaced by his protestant elder daughter Mary and her husband William of orange. James made one serious attempt to recover his crown from William and Mary when he landed in Ireland in 1689.
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