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1702 - 1735 · Female · Olawa, Silesia
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Maria Clementina Sobieska
1702 - 1735
Maria Clementina Sobieska was the wife of James Francis Edward Stuart and the mother of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Born in Silesia in 1702, she was a granddaughter of John III Sobieski, the king of Poland who had relieved the siege of Vienna in 1683, and brought the Stuart cause both prestige and a substantial fortune. Her journey to marry James in 1719 became famous across Europe: travelling to Italy, she was detained a…
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Gen 1 · 1316 - 1390
Robert II was the first Stewart king of Scots, reigning from 1371 until his death in 1390. He was the son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, and Marjorie Bruce, daughter of King Robert the Bruce, and it was through his mother that the crown eventually reached the Stewart line. Born at Paisley in 1316 and orphaned as an infant, he acted as Guardian of Scotland during the long absences and captivity of his uncle David II, and succeeded him in 1371 at the age of fifty-five. His reign saw renewed border warfare with England and a growing reliance on his sons to govern in his name. By his first wife, Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan, he was the father of Robert III, and every later Stewart and Stuart monarch descends from him.
Gen 3 · 1394 - 1437
James I was king of Scots from 1406 until 1437, though he spent the first eighteen years of his reign as a prisoner in England. Born at Dunfermline in 1394, the youngest son of Robert III and Annabella Drummond, he was captured at sea in 1406 while being sent to France and held at the English court, where he received an excellent education and is generally credited with the long courtly poem The Kingis Quair. Ransomed in 1424, he returned with his English wife Joan Beaufort and ruled with fierce energy, curbing the great magnates, reforming parliament and taxation, and destroying the rival Albany Stewarts. His reign ended when he was killed at Perth in February 1437, and his six-year-old son succeeded as James II.
Gen 4 · 1430 - 1460
James II was king of Scots from 1437 to 1460. Born at Holyrood in 1430 to James I and Joan Beaufort, he was six when he came to the throne, and his minority was dominated by the rivalries of the Livingston, Crichton and Douglas families. Taking power in his own right in the later 1440s, he broke the overmighty Black Douglases in a series of campaigns that ended with their forfeiture in 1455, and greatly strengthened the crown's lands and finances. He was an enthusiast for the new siege artillery of the age, and it was at the siege of the English-held Roxburgh Castle in August 1460 that he was killed when one of his own guns burst. His son succeeded as James III.
Gen 5 · 1452 - 1488
James III was king of Scots from 1460 to 1488. The son of James II and Mary of Guelders, he was about eight at his accession and grew into a cultivated but unpopular ruler, more interested in the arts, music and architecture than in the hunting and campaigning his nobility expected. His marriage to Margaret of Denmark in 1469 brought Orkney and Shetland into the Scottish crown in place of her unpaid dowry, a lasting gain. His attempts at friendship with England, his reliance on low-born favourites and his quarrels with his own brothers repeatedly set the magnates against him, and he was overthrown and killed in 1488 after the Battle of Sauchieburn, fought in the name of his eldest son, who became James IV.
Gen 6 · 1473 - 1513
James IV was king of Scots from 1488 to 1513 and is usually reckoned the most successful of the Stewart kings. The son of James III and Margaret of Denmark, he came to the throne at fifteen after the rebellion that ended his father's reign, and spent his life atoning for it. He was a genuine Renaissance prince: a linguist, a patron of the poets William Dunbar and Robert Henryson, a founder of the College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and of Scotland's first printing press, and the builder of the great warship the Michael. His marriage to Margaret Tudor in 1503, the Treaty of Perpetual Peace, eventually carried his descendants to the English throne. He was killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
Gen 7 · 1512 - 1542
James V was king of Scots from 1513 to 1542. Born at Linlithgow Palace in 1512 to James IV and Margaret Tudor, he was seventeen months old when his father was killed at Flodden, and his long minority was fought over by his mother, the Earl of Angus and the Duke of Albany. Ruling in his own right from 1528, he built up the crown's revenues, taxed the church heavily and rebuilt Falkland, Stirling and Linlithgow in the new Renaissance manner. He kept Scotland's French alliance and Catholic allegiance against the pressure of his uncle Henry VIII, marrying first Madeleine of Valois and then Mary of Guise. He died at Falkland Palace in December 1542, days after the birth of his daughter Mary, Queen of Scots.
Gen 7 · 1515 - 1578
Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was the daughter of Margaret Tudor by her second marriage to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and therefore a niece of Henry VIII with a real place in the English succession. Born at Harbottle Castle in Northumberland in 1515, she was raised largely at the English court and was close to her cousin Mary I. Her marriage in 1544 to Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, joined two claims to the Scottish and English thrones, and she worked tirelessly to advance them, promoting the marriage of her son Lord Darnley to Mary, Queen of Scots in 1565. That ambition twice landed her in the Tower of London. She died in 1578, grandmother of the future James VI and I.
Gen 9 · 1566 - 1625
James VI and I was king of Scots from 1567 and the first monarch to rule Scotland, England and Ireland together, succeeding Elizabeth I in 1603 in the Union of the Crowns. Born at Edinburgh Castle in 1566 to Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, he became king at thirteen months when his mother was deposed, and was brought up by regents and rigorous Protestant tutors. A genuine scholar, he wrote on kingship, witchcraft and tobacco, and commissioned the King James Bible of 1611. He married Anne of Denmark in 1589 and had three children who survived infancy: Henry Frederick, Elizabeth and Charles. His reign saw the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the first permanent English settlements in North America.
Gen 10 · 1594 - 1612
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, was the eldest son of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark and heir to the three kingdoms until his death at eighteen. Born at Stirling Castle in 1594 and raised there apart from his mother, he was invested as Prince of Wales in 1610 and quickly became the focus of enormous public expectation: athletic, militantly Protestant, keen on ships and naval power, and a serious collector of art and books whose collection later formed part of his brother's. He built his household at St James's Palace into a rival court to his father's. His death in November 1612 was met with extraordinary national mourning, and the succession passed to his younger brother, Charles I.
Gen 10 · 1600 - 1649
Charles I was king of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 until 1649. Born at Dunfermline in 1600, the second son of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark, he became heir when his elder brother Henry Frederick died in 1612. He married the French princess Henrietta Maria in 1625 and assembled one of the greatest art collections in Europe, employing Van Dyck and Rubens. His insistence on the divine right of kings, his eleven years of personal rule without parliament, and his attempt to impose a new prayer book on Scotland led to the Bishops' Wars and then the Civil Wars. Defeated by parliament's armies, he was tried for treason and executed outside the Banqueting House at Whitehall in January 1649.
Gen 11 · 1630 - 1685
Charles II was king of England, Scotland and Ireland, reigning in Scotland from 1649 and in all three kingdoms from the Restoration of 1660 until his death in 1685. The eldest surviving son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, he was born at St James's Palace in 1630, fought in the Civil Wars as a teenager and, after defeat at Worcester in 1651, spent nine years in exile on the Continent. Invited back in 1660, he presided over a reign that saw the Great Plague, the Fire of London, the founding of the Royal Society and the Royal Observatory, and three wars with the Dutch. Known as the Merry Monarch, he had no legitimate children by his queen, Catherine of Braganza, so his brother James succeeded him.
The House of Tudor was the royal family that ruled England and Wales from 1485 to 1603, founded by Henry VII after his victory at Bosworth Field and ending with the death of his granddaughter Elizabeth I. In five reigns the dynasty took England out of the Roman Catholic church, made the monarch the head of a national religion, and turned a peripheral kingdom into a naval and literary power. This tree follows the line from the Welsh courtier Owen Tudor and the dowager queen Catherine of Valois down to Elizabeth I, together with the Brandon, Grey and Clifford cousins and the Scottish line that ended in James VI and I. ## Origins The family name comes from Penmynydd in Anglesey, north Wales, where the Tudors were landed gentry in the service of the princes of Gwynedd. Owen Tudor came to the English court in the 1420s and married Catherine of Valois, the widow of Henry V. Their sons Edmund and Jasper Tudor were half-brothers of Henry VI, who raised them to earldoms in 1452. Edmund's marriage to Lady Margaret Beaufort, a great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, added the senior Lancastrian claim to the throne, and their only child, born after his father's death, became Henry VII. His marriage to Elizabeth of York, eldest daughter of Edward IV, joined the two houses whose rivalry had driven the Wars of the Roses and gave the dynasty its red and white rose. ## Notable members Henry VII rebuilt the crown's finances and secured the new dynasty through marriage alliances with Spain and Scotland. Henry VIII married six times and broke with Rome, and his three surviving children each reigned in turn: Edward VI as a Protestant boy king, Mary I as the first queen to rule England in her own right, and Elizabeth I for forty-four years. Around them stand the cousins who carried royal blood without the crown, among them Lady Jane Grey, queen for nine days, her sisters Catherine and Mary Grey, and Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, one of the last Plantagenets. ## The Scottish and Suffolk lines Henry VII's daughters carried the blood outward. Margaret Tudor married James IV of Scotland, and her line runs through James V and Mary, Queen of Scots, to James VI and I, who inherited England in 1603. Mary Tudor married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and their daughters Frances and Eleanor Brandon produced the Grey and Clifford claimants whom Henry VIII's will preferred over the Scottish descendants of his elder sister. ## Significance No English dynasty changed the country more in so few generations. The Tudors created the Church of England, absorbed the wealth of the monasteries into the crown, brought Wales formally into the English legal and parliamentary system, and built the navy that met the Spanish Armada. The Elizabethan settlement shaped English religion for centuries, and the Elizabethan decades produced Shakespeare, Spenser and the first English voyages to the Americas. When Elizabeth I died unmarried in 1603, the throne passed peacefully to her Scottish cousin, and the two crowns were joined in one person for the first time. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Origin | Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales | | Ruled | England, Wales and Ireland, 1485 to 1603 | | Founder | Owen Tudor, through his son Edmund Tudor | | Monarchs | Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I | | Emblem | The Tudor rose, red and white combined | | Principal seats | Richmond, Greenwich, Hampton Court and Whitehall palaces | | Ended | Death of Elizabeth I in 1603, succeeded by James VI of Scotland |
The House of Bonaparte is the French imperial dynasty founded by Napoleon I, a family of minor Corsican nobles from Ajaccio who within one generation ruled France and placed brothers and sisters on the thrones of Spain, Holland, Naples and Westphalia, and whose senior line survives today in Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoleon. The family descends from Carlo Buonaparte, an Ajaccio lawyer, and Letizia Ramolino, whose eight surviving children were born between 1768 and 1784 on an island that had only just passed from Genoese to French rule. The second son, Napoleon, became First Consul in 1799 and Emperor of the French in 1804, and the whole family rose with him. ## Origins in Corsica The Buonaparte were a patrician family of Ajaccio with roots traced to Tuscany, holding local office and a modest estate rather than great wealth. Carlo Buonaparte studied law at Pisa, served in the Corsican assembly and secured French recognition of the family's noble status, which opened the military academies of Brienne and Paris to his sons. After his death in 1785 Letizia Ramolino held the household together, later presiding over the imperial court as Madame Mere and outliving the Empire itself. ## Notable members Napoleon I is the figure the family is remembered for: general of the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, author of the Civil Code, and Emperor until his abdication in 1815 and exile on Saint Helena. His siblings became sovereigns in their own right, Joseph in Naples and Spain, Louis in Holland, Elisa in Tuscany, Caroline in Naples with her husband Joachim Murat, and Jerome in Westphalia. Napoleon's only legitimate son, Napoleon II, was titled King of Rome. The dynasty returned to power through Louis and Hortense de Beauharnais's son, who ruled as Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870 alongside Empress Eugenie. Later generations produced the ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte and the celebrated Paris salon hostess Princess Mathilde. ## Significance No other modern European family moved so far so quickly, and few left as deep a mark. The Napoleonic Code still underpins the civil law of much of continental Europe and Latin America, while the Second Empire rebuilt Paris into the city of boulevards visitors see today. Two empires, two exiles and a princely line that continues in the present make the Bonapartes the most consequential of the newer European houses. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Family name | Bonaparte, originally Buonaparte | | Place of origin | Ajaccio, Corsica, with earlier roots in Tuscany | | Founding couple | Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino | | Best known member | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French | | Thrones held | France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Naples, Westphalia | | Imperial periods | First Empire 1804 to 1815, Second Empire 1852 to 1870 | | Current head of the house | Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoleon, born 1986 | | Generations in this tree | Five, from Carlo Buonaparte to Jean-Christophe |
The Kennedy family is an Irish American political dynasty from Boston, Massachusetts, whose members have included the 35th President of the United States, three United States senators, four congressmen, several ambassadors, and the founders of the Peace Corps and the Special Olympics. Across four documented generations the family moved from a County Wexford farm to the White House, and its name became shorthand in American public life for both political ambition and public service. ## Origins The American line begins with Patrick Kennedy, a farmer's son from Dunganstown, near New Ross in County Wexford, who emigrated to East Boston during the Great Famine. His son, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy (1858 to 1929), built a livelihood in the liquor and banking trades and served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature, becoming one of the Democratic ward leaders who ran the city's Irish Catholic politics. On the other side stood John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (1863 to 1950), congressman and twice Mayor of Boston. The two families joined in 1914 when P. J.'s son Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. married Honey Fitz's daughter Rose Fitzgerald. Their nine children, raised between Brookline, Bronxville and the compound at Hyannis Port on Cape Cod, form the generation the world knows. ## Notable members John F. Kennedy served as President from 1961 until his death in 1963, having previously represented Massachusetts in the House and Senate. His brother Robert F. Kennedy was Attorney General, then Senator from New York, and a candidate for the presidency in 1968. Their youngest brother Edward "Ted" Kennedy sat in the United States Senate for almost 47 years and was one of the most productive legislators of his era. The eldest son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., was a naval aviator killed on a volunteer mission in 1944. Away from elected office, Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics, her husband Sargent Shriver created the Peace Corps and Head Start, and Jean Kennedy Smith founded the arts and disability organisation VSA before serving as United States Ambassador to Ireland. The following generations have produced congressmen, a lieutenant governor, ambassadors, documentary filmmakers, human rights advocates and journalists. ## Significance No other American family has combined electoral success, philanthropy and public visibility on this scale for so long. The Kennedys shaped the civil rights era, the space programme, immigration reform, health care legislation and the modern understanding of disability rights, and their private losses were mourned publicly in a way usually reserved for royalty. The Kennedy Library in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington and dozens of schools and institutions carry the name. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Family name | Kennedy | | Irish origin | Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland | | American home | Boston and Hyannis Port, Massachusetts | | Founding couple | Patrick Joseph Kennedy and Mary Augusta Hickey | | Best known member | John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States | | Generations covered | Four | | Offices held | Presidency, US Senate, US House, ambassadorships, state office | | Institutions founded | Peace Corps, Special Olympics, Best Buddies, Citizens Energy |
Maria Clementina Sobieska has 2 recorded children: Charles Edward Stuart, Henry Benedict Stuart.
Maria Clementina Sobieska married James Francis Edward Stuart.
Maria Clementina Sobieska is recorded as Jacobite queen consort in the Stuart family tree.
Maria Clementina Sobieska's recorded native place is Olawa, Silesia.
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