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James Francis Edward Stuart

B. 10 June 1688, s. of James II and Mary of Modena; m. Maria Clementina, da. of James Sobiewski, 28 May 1719; issue: Charles Edward, Henry; d. 1 Jan. 1766, bur. St Peter's, Rome.

James Stuart, ‘the Old Pretender’, is one of the submerged characters of British history. He was ‘the warming-pan baby’ of 1688, whose birth precipitated James II's downfall, and was taken by his mother to France in December. He remained all his life a devoted catholic, refusing to change his religion for political advantage. On the death of his father in September 1701, he was declared king as James III and VIII, and recognized by Louis XIV. His main attempt to recapture the throne came in the winter of 1715 when he spent six weeks in Scotland. Cold and disconsolate, the impression he created was not heartening; ‘our men asked if he could speak’, wrote one Jacobite. His marriage to a granddaughter of John Sobiewski was not successful and his wife left him after five years. He was a spectator of the gallant effort by his son Charles in 1745–6, and fell subsequently into a pio

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Peterhead, where James Landed on 22 December 1715

James Francis Edward Stuart lived from 10 June 1688 to 1 January 1766. He was the son of James VII/II and Mary of Modena, and in the Jacobite peerage was referred to as "Prince James" until he became James VIII/III of Great Britain on the death of his father on 16 September 1701. However, his father had been deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1689 in favour of William and Mary, and James Francis Edward was never to rule, being known to many in Britain as "The Pretender" or, after the birth of his son, Charles Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" to distinguish between the two. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

It was the very fact of Prince James' birth in 1688 that helped bring about the crisis in the reign of James VII/II. James had two grown-up daughters from his first marriage, Mary and Anne, who had been brought up as Protestants. James VII/II's Catholicism caused deep disquiet in a nation that

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James Francis Edward Stuart

Jacobite pretender (1688–1766)

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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 Glorious Revolution of 1688. His Protestant half-sister Mary II and her husband William III became co-monarchs. As a Catholic, he was subsequently excluded from the succession by the Act of Settlement 1701.

Raised primarily in France and Italy, when his father died in September 1701, James claimed the thrones. As part of the War of the Spanish Succession, in 1708 Louis XIV of France backed a landing in Scotland on his behalf. This failed, as did further attempts in 1715 and 1719. Led by his elder son Charles Edward Stuart, the 1745 Rising was the