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The family tree of Frankish and French monarchs (509–1870) France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I, king of the Franks (r. 507–511), as the first king of ...
The Jacobite succession is the line through which Jacobites believed that the crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland should have descended, applying male preference primogeniture, since the deposition of James II and VII in 1688 and his death in 1701.
King of the French r. 1830–1848: Napoleon 1769–1821 Emperor of the French r. 1804–1814, 1815: Louis Bonaparte 1778–1846 King of Holland r. 1806–1810: Napoleon II 1811–1832 Emperor of the French r. 1815: Napoleon III 1808–1873 Emperor of the French r. 1852–1870
Drummond, the Royal Scots, the Irish Brigade picquets and a number of other French advisors and specialists were embarked at Dunkirk in late November 1745 to support the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Thanks to the Royal Navy blockade many were captured, but Drummond along with most of his regiment slipped past the blockade under the cover of a gale ...
Eleanor and her sisters Molly and Fanny, all of whom married into French nobility, were strong supporters of the Jacobite cause. Eleanor’s Paris townhouse was a hub of Jacobite activity and a shelter for co-conspirators. When Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke joined the cause, Eleanor and her husband associated with him in Paris. When ...
of the royal line (kings of England) (1340–1802) of the Jacobite line (from 1689 until today) after the revolution as principal claimants to the restoration of the monarchy: pretenders to the throne of the French empire (Bonapartists) of the Prince Napoléon Line (1815–1852 and from 1870 until today) of the Prince Canino Line (1846–1924)
[citation needed] Two months after James's death, on 14 March, the royal arms of England were removed from the doorway of the Palazzo Muti. [29] In 1792, the papacy specifically referred to George III as the "King of Great Britain and Ireland", which elicited a protest from James's younger son Henry, who was by then the Jacobite claimant. [31]
Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart (French: Louise Marie Thérèse; 28 June 1692 – 18 April 1712), known to Jacobites as The Princess Royal, was the last child of James II and VII, the deposed King of England, Scotland and Ireland, by his second wife Mary of Modena.