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 ALBANY COMPLETE PEERAGE 83 mother, 24 July 1567, he sue. to the throne of Scotland as JAMES VI, when a// /lis honours merged in the Crown. On 24 Mar. 1603 he sue. to the throne of England as JAMES I. VIII. 1600 I. Charles (Stewart OR Stuart), 2nd s. of the above, to was ^. 19 Nov. 1600, at Dunfermline, and was when bap., 1625. 23 Dec. 1600, er. LORD ARDMANNOCH, EARL OF ROSS, MARQUESS OF ORMOND, and DUKE OF ALBANY [S.]. (") On 6 Jan. 1605, his father being then King of England, he was cr. Duke of York.. By the death of his elder br., 6 Nov. 16 12, he became Duke of Cornwall [E.] and Duke of Rothesay, ^c. [S.], and, on 4 Nov. 161 6, was cr. Earl of Chester and Prince of Wales. On 27 Mar. 1625 he sue. to the throne as CHARLES I, when all his honours merged in the Crown. IX. 1660 I. James (Stewart or Stuart), Duke of York, i^c. to (Prince James of England and Scotland), 2nd s. of 1685. Charles I, b. 14 Oct. 1633, was by his father er., 27 Jan. 1644, DUKE OF YORK. By his br., Charles II, soon after the Restoration, he was cr., 31 Dec. 1660, DUKE OF ALBANY [S.]. On 6 Feb. 1684/5 hew. to the throne as JAMES II [E.] and JAMES VII [S.], when all his honours merged in the Crown. TITULAR Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart C*) EARLDOM (generally spoken of as " Prince Charles Edward, " I. 1766 " the Young Chevalier, " " the Chevalier de St. to George, " or " the Young Pretender "), s. and h. of 1788. James Francis Edward, sometime Duke of Cornwall (/zV«/rtr Prince of Wales 1688-1701 and titular King of England i^c. 1701-66), by Marie Clementine, 4th da. and coh. of Jacques Louis Henry Sobieski, Prince of Poland, was b. 31 Dec. 1720, at Rome, and ^(3/>. there the same day. On 25 Dec. 1723, he was invested at Rome with the order of the Thistle by his father. On 25 July 1745, he landed in Scotland and proclaimed his father as King, but was finally defeated, 16 Apr. 1746, at Culloden. On i Jan. 1766 he sue. his father, after which time (though on formal occasions he assumed the titular style of King, as " Charles III "), he appears to have generally styled himself [Comte d'Albanie] EARL OF ALBANY. He m., privately and by proxy, at Paris, 28 Mar., and afterwards in person, in the Chapel of the (") There is no record of this creation in the Great Seal Register, but in the Privy Seal, 6 Nov., and afterwards, the Prince is called Duke of Albany, Marquess of Ormond, Earl of Ross, and Lord Ardmannach. {ex inform. G. Burnett, sometime Lyon.) C') Material help in the rewriting of this article has been kindly rendered by that capable genealogist G.W. Watson. V.G.