Charles Edward Stuart
Military Commander
1720 – 1788
Who was Charles Edward Stuart?
Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart, commonly known in Britain during his lifetime as The Young Pretender, and often referred to in retrospective accounts as Bonnie Prince Charlie, was the second Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. This claim was as the eldest son of James Francis Edward Stuart, himself the son of James II of England. Charles is perhaps best known as the instigator of the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising of 1745, in which he led an insurrection to restore his family to the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain, which ended in defeat at the Battle of Culloden that effectively ended the Jacobite cause. Charles's flight from Scotland after the uprising has rendered him a romantic figure of heroic failure in some later representations. In 1759 he was involved in a French plan to invade Britain which was abandoned following British naval victories.
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- Born
- Dec 31, 1720
Palazzo Muti - Also known as
- Bonnie Prince Charlie
- Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- The Young Pretender
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern
(1772 - )
- Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Scottish people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Lived in
- Rome
- Died
- Jan 31, 1788
Rome - Resting place
- St. Peter's Basilica
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on July 23, 2013
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