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James Francis Edward Stuart
Prince of Wales
Portrait from the studio of Alexis Simon Belle, c. 1712
Jacobite pretender
Pretence
16 September 1701 – 1 January 1766
Predecessor
James VII and II
Successor
"Charles III"
Born
(1688-06-10)10 June 1688 St. James's Palace, London, Kingdom of England
Died
1 January 1766(1766-01-01) (aged 77) Palazzo Muti, Rome, Papal States
Burial
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Spouse
Maria Clementina Sobieska
(m. 1719; died 1735)
Issue
Charles Edward Stuart
Henry Benedict Stuart
House
Stuart
Father
James II of England
Mother
Mary of Modena
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Signature
James Francis Edward Stuart (10 June 1688 – 1 January 1766), nicknamed the Old Pretender by Whigs and the King over the Water by Jacobites, was the son of King James VII and II of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena. He was Prince of Wales from July 1688 until, just months after his birth, his Catholic father was deposed and exiled in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James II's Protestant elder daughter (the prince's half-sister) Mary II and her husband (the prince's cousin) William III became co-monarchs. The Bill of Rights 1689 and Act of Settlement 1701 excluded Catholics such as James from the English and British thrones.
James Francis Edward was raised in Continental Europe and known as the Chevalier de St. George. After his father's death in 1701, he claimed the English, Scottish, and Irish crowns as James III of England and Ireland and James VIII of Scotland, with the support of his Jacobite followers and Louis XIV of France, a cousin of his father. Fourteen years later, he unsuccessfully attempted to gain the British and Irish thrones during the Jacobite rising of 1715. A final attempt at restoration, the Jacobite rising of 1745, was led by his elder son Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender).
Following James's death in 1766, Charles Edward Stuart continued to claim the British and Irish crowns as part of the Jacobite succession.
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