Jacobitism facts for kids

The name of the movement derives from deposed Stuart monarch, James II and VII

Jacobitism was the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland (and after 1707, the United Kingdom). It was so named after James VI of Scotland and I of England whose name in Latin is Iacobus Rex.

Jacobitism was a response to the deposition of James VII and II in 1688 when he was replaced by his daughter Mary II jointly with her husband William of Orange. The Stuarts lived on the European continent after that, occasionally attempting to regain the throne with the aid of France or Spain.

Royalists supported Jacobitism because they believed that Parliament had no authority to interfere with the Royal succession, and many Catholics looked to it for relief from Protestant oppression, but people became involved in the military campaigns for all sorts of allegiances and motives. In Scotland the Jacobite cause became entangled in the last throes of the warrior Clan system, and became a lasting romantic memory.

The emblem of the Jacobites is the white rose; white rose day is celebrated on June 10, the anniversary of the birth of James VIII and III in 1688.

Images for kids

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  Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo; his support of the doctrine of indefeasible hereditary right placed him in a minority of Jacobites by 1745

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  Tyrconnell, Deputy Governor of Ireland; his appointment of Catholics to military and political positions built widespread support for the Jacobite regime

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  The Spanish Regiment of Hibernia, ca 1740; foreign military service remained common for Irish Catholics until banned after 1745

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  Tory minister and Jacobite Lord Bolingbroke; driven into exile in 1715 and pardoned in 1720

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  Jacobite commander George Murray; a pro-Union, anti-Hanoverian Scot who fought in the 1715, 1719 and 1745 Risings but loathed Prince Charles, he encapsulated the many contradictions of Jacobite support

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  Flora MacDonald by Allan Ramsay c. 1749–1750; note white roses, a Jacobite symbol

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  Welsh Tory Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn; his blue coat was often worn by Jacobite sympathisers

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  Charles Edward Stuart in old age; in 1759, he was dismissed by French ministers as "incapacitated by drink"

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  Detail of the monument in the Vatican

See also

In Spanish: Jacobismo para niños