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Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian cardinal, pretender to the British throne and last member of the House of Stuart (born 1725)
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Roman Catholic cardinal (1725–1807)
Henry Benedict Thomas Edward Maria Clement Francis Xavier Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York was a Roman Catholic cardinal, and was the third and final Jacobite heir to publicly claim the thrones of Great Britain and Ireland, as the younger grandson of King James II of England. One…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Jacobite succession
Post-1688 claim of succession of the British crowns
The Jacobite succession is the line through which Jacobites believed 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
House of Stuart
British royal house of Scottish origin
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