Charles Lucas

English army officer

Died
1648
Sir Charles Lucas was a member of the landed gentry from Essex. A Royalist cavalry leader during the First English Civil War, in March 1646 he swore not to fight against Parliament again, but broke this promise when the Second English Civil War began in 1648. Lucas was executed following the Siege of Colchester in August 1648, and became a Royalist martyr after the 1660 Stuart Restoration.

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