James Louis Henry Sobieski was a son of John III Sobieski, king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania, and Marie Casimire d'Arquien.
Silesian Jakub Ludwik Sobieski
Portrait of Jakub Ludwik Sobieski with his father, c. 1680s by Jan Tricius
The Armenian monastery of Suceava was a base of operations in John III Sobieski's failed efforts to secure the Moldavian throne for his son Jakub.
This painting was commissioned by Jakub Sobieski in 1697. It depicts his deceased father pointing to a book entitled Hac Lege lego and accompanied by Jakub and his wife, suggesting that Jakub ought to be the next King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
Maria Clementina Sobieska was titular queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland by marriage to James Francis Edward Stuart, a Jacobite claimant to the thrones of the British Isles. A granddaughter of th
James Louis Sobieski
…subsequently settled in the Sobieski's ancestral castle in Żółkiew. After falling out of favor with Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI for allowing his daughter Maria Clementina Sobieska to marry James Francis Edward Stuart he lost the principality of Oława in 1719, but was able to regain his Silesian holdings in 1722. Sobieski would…
Martin van Meytens (after), Maria Clementina Sobieska, 1727/28, Scottish National Gallery
The Solemnisation of the Marriage of James III and Maria Clementina Sobieska by Agostino Masucci
Memorial in St. Peter's, Rome
Maria Clementina by Pierre Imbert Drevet.