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Maria Clementina Sobieska (Polish: Maria Klementyna Sobieska; 18 July 1702 – 18 January 1735) was a titular queen of England, Scotland and Ireland by marriage to James Francis Edward Stuart, a Jacobite claimant to the British throne.
Jan 8, 2021 · Learn about the life and marriage of Maria Clementina Sobieska, the daughter of a Polish king and the wife of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Jacobite pretender. Discover how she escaped from the Holy Roman Empire, gave birth to Bonnie Prince Charlie, and died in Rome at 32.
Jan 5, 2024 · This chapter explores the material and visual culture of Maria Clementina Sobieska, the last widely recognised Stuart queen, who died in Rome in 1735. It examines her funeral, burial, and posthumous image, as well as the role of the papal curia and the exiled Stuarts in her commemoration.
Aug 5, 2021 · Despite her status as Stuart queen in exile, Clementina — alongside women more generally — has been under-studied in the Jacobite historiography. This article seeks to reinstate Clementina Sobieska into the narrative of Jacobitism, and early modern queenship more broadly.
Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702-1735), granddaughter of Jan Sobieski III, the famous King of Poland who defeated the Turks at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, was known in Jacobite circles from 1719 as 'our Queene'[1]). Maria Clementina was one of the most well-connected young ladies in Europe at this time.
Learn about the life and portraits of Maria Clementina Sobieska, the wife of James Francis Edward Stuart, the exiled King of Great Britain. See her oil painting, bronze medal, engravings and mezzotints in the Early Georgian Portraits collection.
Born Marie Casimir Clementina on July 18, 1702, in Silesia; died of scurvy on January 18, 1735, at the Apostolic Palace, Rome; interred in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican; daughter of Prince James Sobieski (son of John III, king of Poland, and Marie Casimir) and Hedwig Wittelsbach; married Prince James Francis Edward Stuart (1688–1766), duke of Co...
