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James Francis Edward Stuart (10 June 1688 – 1 January 1766) [a] was the House of Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1701 until his death in 1766. The only son of James II of England and his second wife, Mary of Modena , he was Prince of Wales and heir until his Catholic father was deposed and exiled in the ...
James's son James Francis Edward Stuart (the 'Old Pretender') and grandson Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender' or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie') actively participated in uprisings and invasions in support of their claim. From 1689 to the middle of the eighteenth century, restoration of the Jacobite succession to the throne was a major ...
James II and VII, King of England and Scotland (d. 1701) Anne's half-brother and first in line to the throne, James Francis Edward Stuart (1) James Francis Edward Stuart (1688–1766): Claimant from 1701 in opposition to heir designate George I Louis, Elector of Hanover. Henrietta of England (d. 1670) Anne Marie d'Orléans, Queen of Sardinia ...
The Jacobite rising of 1689 was a conflict fought primarily ... the first being the birth on 10 June of James' son, James Francis Edward Stuart. ... The Stuart Age: ...
Jacobitism [c] was a political ideology advocating the restoration of the Catholic House of Stuart to the British throne.When James II of England chose exile after the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, the Parliament of England ruled he had "abandoned" the English throne, which was given to his Protestant daughter Mary II of England, and her husband William III. [1]
The Jacobite rising of 1715 (Scottish Gaelic: Bliadhna Sheumais [ˈpliən̪ˠə ˈheːmɪʃ]; or 'the Fifteen') was the attempt by James Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland for the exiled Stuarts. At Braemar, Aberdeenshire, local landowner the Earl of Mar raised
At the age of three, James was appointed Lord High Admiral; ... His son Charles Edward Stuart led a Jacobite rising in 1745, but was again defeated. [156]
James Fitz-James Stuart, 3rd Duke of Berwick (1718–1787), Jacobite James Francis Edward Stuart (1688–1766), "the Old Pretender", claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (1663–1667), second son of the Duke of York and his first wife, Anne Hyde