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Henry Benedict Thomas Edward Maria Clement Francis Xavier Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York (6 March 1725 – 13 July 1807) was a Roman Catholic cardinal, and was the fourth and final Jacobite heir to publicly claim the thrones of Great Britain and Ireland, as the younger grandson of King James II of England.
In 1747 the pious, mild-mannered duke was created cardinal of York by Pope Benedict XIV. He was consecrated archbishop of Corinth in 1758 and was later (1761–1803) bishop of Frascati, in Italy. Upon the death of the Young Pretender in 1788, Stuart proclaimed himself king as Henry IX.
Henry Benedict Thomas Edward Maria Clement Francis Xavier Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York was a Roman Catholic cardinal, and was the fourth and final Jacobite heir to publicly claim the thrones of Great Britain and Ireland, as the younger grandson of King James II of England.
Henry Benedict Stuart. Henry Stuart was a good-looking young man, with the same dark eyes as his brother Charles, but lacked Charles' height. In common with his father, he was more introverted, cautious and certainly less high spirited than his ebullient older brother.
Jul 12, 2020 · The last Stuart “king” was Henry Benedict Stuart, who died in this week of 1807, unmarried and certainly not with any legitimate children.
Stuart, HENRY BENEDICT MARIA CLEMENT, cardinal, Duke of York, known by the Jacobites as HENRY IX, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND; b. at Rome, March 11, 1725; d. at Frascati, July 13, 1807. He was the second son of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Chevalier de St. George, and Clementina, daughter of Prince James Sobieski.
Henry Benedict Maria Clement Thomas Francis Xavier Stuart was born March 6, 1725, in the Palazzo Muti (now Palazzo Balestra) in Rome. He was the younger son of King James III and VIII and of his wife, Maria Clementina Sobieska.
