Jacobite succession
Post-1688 claim of succession of the British crowns
Jacobite succession
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 deposition of James II and VII in 1688 and his death in 1701. It is in opposition to the legal line of succession to the British throne since that time. Excluded from the succession by law because of their Catholicism, James's Stuart descendants pursued their claims to the crowns as pretenders. James's son James Francis Edward Stuart (the "Old Pretender") and grandson Charles Edward Stuart (the "Young Pretender" or "Bonnie Prince Charlie") actively participated in uprisings and invasions in support of their claim. From 1689 to the middle of the eighteenth century, restoration of the Jacobite succession to the throne was a major political issue in Britain, with adherents both at home and abroad. However, with Charles Edward's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, the Jacobite succession...
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