Jacobite succession
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The Jacobite succession is the line through which Jacobites believe that the crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland should have descended, applying male preference primogeniture, since the depositio
Memorial to the three Stuart pretenders, 'James III', and his sons, Charles and Henry, above their place of interment in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican. By Antonio Canova, 1819.
Monument to the Stuarts detail
King James II and VII
Prince James Francis Edward Stuart by Alexis Simon Belle
Henry Benedict Stuart
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Henry Benedict Thomas Edward Maria Clement Francis Xavier Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York, also known as the Cardinal of York, was a cardinal, and was the third and final Jacobite heir to publicly claim
Portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs, c. 1750
Henry Benedict Stuart, age 13, by Louis Gabriel Blanchet (1738)
A young Henry Benedict Stuart (painted ca. 1729–1732), bearing a striking resemblance to his elder brother Charles Edward Stuart
Henry Benedict Stuart by Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1746/47), long thought to be of Charles Edward Stuart