Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland

English royal mistress from the Villiers family

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1640

Place of Birth: St Margaret's Church, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 09-Oct-1709

Profession: lady-in-waiting, Lady of the Bedchamber

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (27 November [O.S.
17 November] 1640 – 9 October 1709), more often known by her maiden name Barbara Villiers or her title of Countess of Castlemaine, was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledged and subsequently ennobled.
Her influence was so great that she has been referred to as "The Uncrowned Queen". Barbara was the subject of many portraits, in particular by court painter Sir Peter Lely.
Her extravagance, bad temper, adultery with the king, and influence at court provoked the diarist John Evelyn to describe her as the "curse of the nation", whereas Samuel Pepys often wrote admiringly of seeing her.
In the Gilded Age, it was stylish to adorn an estate with her likeness. Barbara's first cousin Elizabeth Villiers (later 1st Countess of Orkney 1657–1733) was the presumed mistress of King William III. She converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism in 1663.

Henri Gascar (1635–1701)
Alternative names	Henri Gascard, Henri Gascars, Henry Gascard
Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	between 1634 and 1635 date QS:P,+1634-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1634-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1635-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	18 January 1701
Location of birth/death	Paris	Rome
Work period	1660s date QS:P,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 -1700
Work location	France, England, Rome
Authority control	: Q12058374 VIAF: 250860406 ISNI: 0000 0003 7130 9614 ULAN: 500029516 Oxford Dict.: 10419 GND: 1078648123