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Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart [1] (31 December 1720 [b] – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart making him the grandson of James VII and II, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1766 as Charles III.
However, with Charles Edward's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, the Jacobite succession lost both its support and its political importance. James II and VII's other grandson, Henry Benedict Stuart , was the last of his legitimate descendants, as he took a career as a Catholic prelate and as such never married.
Charles Edward Stuart, elder son of James Francis. He had no legitimate issue by his wife. He had an illegitimate daughter who has descendants, but they have no succession rights. Also known as "Charles III" by Jacobites or as "Bonnie Prince Charlie" more widely. Henry Benedict Stuart, younger son of James Francis. He was a Cardinal of the ...
Charles Stuart 1666–1667 Duke of Kendal: Edgar Stuart 1667–1671 Duke of Cambridge: Prince William 1689–1700 Duke of Gloucester: Catherine Stuart 1675–1676: Isabel Stuart 1676–1681: Charles Stuart 1677 Duke of Cambridge: Elizabeth Stuart 1678: Charlotte Stuart 1682: Maria Clementina Sobieska 1702–1735: James Francis Edward Stuart The ...
Charles Edward Augustus Maximilian Stuart, Baron Korff, Count Roehenstart (c. May 1784 – 28 October 1854) was the natural son of Prince Ferdinand of Rohan (1738–1813), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cambrai, by Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, herself the natural daughter of Charles Edward Stuart, the "Young Pretender".
Charlotte Stuart, styled Duchess of Albany [1] (29 October 1753 – 17 November 1789) was the illegitimate daughter of the Jacobite pretender Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie" or the "Young Pretender") and his only child to survive infancy.
John Sobieski Stuart. In the 1820s, two English brothers, John Carter Allen (1795–1872) and Charles Manning Allen (1802–1880) adopted the names John Sobieski Stuart and Charles Edward Stuart, moved to Scotland, converted to Catholicism, and about 1839 began to claim that their father, Thomas Allen (1767–1852), a former Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, had been born in Italy the only ...
The Royal House of Stuart became extinct in the male line with the death in 1807 of Henry Benedict Stuart, called "King Henry IX" by Jacobites, who succeeded his elder brother Charles Edward Stuart in 1788. Charles was survived only by an illegitimate daughter, Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, and her own illegitimate son Charles Edward ...