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Hanoverian Tories were Tory supporters of the Hanoverian Succession of 1714. At the time many Tories favoured the exiled Jacobite James Francis Edward Stuart to take the British and Irish thrones, while their arch rivals the Whigs supported the candidacy of George, Elector of Hanover.
The following is the Jacobite line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones as of the death of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, on 1 August 1714. It reflects the laws current in England and Scotland immediately before the Act of Settlement 1701 , which disqualified Catholics from the throne.
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 his nephew, her husband William III. [1]
Internationally, the Jacobite succession had limited recognition. Only France , Spain and the Papacy acknowledged James II's son as 'James III' on his father's death in 1701. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] By the Peace of Utrecht , France and Spain switched their recognition to the Hanoverian succession in 1713, [ 20 ] although France subsequently recognised ...
The last reigning members of the House of Hanover lost the Duchy of Brunswick in 1918 when Germany became a republic and abolished royalty and nobility. The formal name of the house was the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Hanover line. [1] The senior line of Brunswick-Lüneburg, which ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, became extinct in 1884.
Petrie was known for his interest in royalism and Jacobitism, particularly for his 1926 essay in counterfactual history, If: A Jacobite Fantasy.It has Bonnie Prince Charlie go on from Derby to Oxford (albeit to a cool reception), but just as all seems lost, the Duke of Newcastle appears in haste to tell him that George II, the head of the House of Hanover dynasty, has fled back to Hanover, and ...
The Jacobite Murders. Robert Hale Ltd. Mentions the events in Cornwall. Lee, Katharine (1895). When Fortune Frowns. London Horace Cox. A fictional account based on historical facts of the Jacobite rising in Cornwall. Kearsley, Susanna (2011). The Rose Garden. Allison and Busby. A fictional romance based on the Cornish part in the Jacobite uprising.
Sophia of Hanover 1630–1714: Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover 1629–1698: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth 1649–1685: William III 1650–1702 r. 1689–1702: Mary II 1662–1694 r. 1689–1694: Anne 1665–1714 r. 1702–1714: James Francis Edward Stuart "the Old Pretender" 1688–1766: Louisa Maria Stuart 1692–1712: George I 1660 ...