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Maria Clementina Sobieska

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Clementina claimed that James wished to give his son a Protestant education. This claim secured her the support of the Pope as well as the Kingdom of Spain against James and the sympathy of the public when she demanded that James remove the Duke of Dunbar and the Hays from his court and reinstate Sheldon in her position. In April 1726, James granted her sons permission to visit her. The whole affair was seen as a scandal in Europe and reported about by anti-Jacobite agents in Rome. In May 1727, through the mediation of the duke of Liria, James removed the Hay couple from his court, and in January 1728, Maria Clementina and James reconciled in Bologna.
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Catholic ascetic rituals, which is thought to have played a role in the fact that she never conceived again. Her sexual relations with James soon discontinued; they seldom dined together, and though they were officially reconciled, she preferred to avoid him outside formal occasions. Maria Clementina did perform the ceremonial functions she had as Jacobite queen: in June 1729, for example, she gave an audience for
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of St. Cecilia in Rome with her favourite Sheldon and the rest of her personal retinue. She accused her husband of adultery, while he said it was sinful to leave him and her children. Upon the advice of Cardinal Alberoni, who claimed it was her only chance to gain support against her husband, Maria
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The married life of James and Maria Clementina proved turbulent and unhappy. Reportedly, James initially had a favourable impression of her because of her beauty, while she disliked him because of his lack of it, as well as his passive nature. She befriended the governess of her son, a Mrs Sheldon,
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In practice, however, Maria Clementina and James lived the rest of their marriage separated: James preferred to reside in Albano, while Maria Clementina lived in the Palazzo Muti in Rome. She was prone to depression, spending much of her time praying and submitting to religious fasting and other
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Her health was weakened by her ascetic life style and deteriorated as the years went by. Maria Clementina died at the early age of 32 on 18 January 1735. Her doctor named the cause of death as 'scorbutic disease', more commonly known as
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Sobieska is the proper spelling of her last name, for she was female. However, English language literature commonly uses the spelling Sobieski, which is appropriate for a male member of the family.
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at that time. Maria Clementina's father approved her escape, declaring that, as she became engaged to James Francis Edward, she ought to "follow his fortune and his cause".
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The solemnisation of the marriage of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska (Montefiascone 1 September 1719) by Agostino Masucci
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was opposed to the marriage because he feared that the union might produce heirs to James Francis Edward's claim to his thrones. To placate him,
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Being one of Europe's wealthiest heiresses from inheriting vast estates in Poland from her paternal grandfather, she was betrothed to
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considered James and Maria Clementina, both Catholics, the rightful king and queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Maria Clementina and Prince James were formally married on 3 September 1719 in the chapel of the episcopal palace of
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also provided them with an annual allowance of 12,000 crowns out of the papal treasury. Popes Clement XI and
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who became her confidant and favourite. On the other hand, she disliked the influence of James's favourite
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as the guardian of their sons against the wishes of Maria Clementina. She left him and went to live in
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Morte di Maria Clementina Sobieska Stuart: il caso di Michele Marieschi progettista di apparati funebr
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and his wife Marjorie, and reportedly, she suspected James of having an affair with Marjorie Hay.
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La politica europea e il matrimonio inglese di una principessa polacca: Maria Clementina Sobieska
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i, in ARTE/Documento. Rivista di Storia e tutela dei Beni Culturali, 4, 1990, pp. 164–173.
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in the Piazza dei Santi Apostoli in Rome to live in, as well as a country villa at
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In 1725, soon after their second child's birth, James fired Sheldon and appointed
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Viaggio a Roma sede d'esilio. Sovrane alla conquista di Roma: secoli XVII-XVII
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Maria Clementina's Tomb by Barigioni and Bracci in St Peter's Basilica, Rome.
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The Pope provided them with a papal guard of troops and gave them the
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Castle but eventually the guards were deceived and, with the help of
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claimant to the British throne. The granddaughter of the Polish king
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sculpted a statue for it, and it was erected 1742 in the Basilica.
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I, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani, Roma 2002, pp. 99–118.
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against the Ottoman Turks on 12 September 1683. Her older sister
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A fictionalised re-telling of Maria Clementina's rescue from
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She was born Maria Klementyna Sobieska, on 18 July 1702 in
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Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography of Charles Edward Stuart
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Maria Clementina and James Francis Edward had two sons:
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Kings over the Water: The Saga of the Stuart Pretenders
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Martin van Meytens
Scottish National Gallery
Consort of the Jacobite pretender
Silesia
Oława
Palazzo Muti
Rome
Papal States
St. Peter's Basilica
James Francis Edward Stuart
Issue
Charles Edward Stuart
Henry Benedict Stuart
Polish
House
Sobieski
Jakub Ludwik Sobieski
Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg

Polish
queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
James Francis Edward Stuart
Jacobite
John III Sobieski
Charles Edward Stuart
Henry Benedict Cardinal Stuart
Oława (Ohlau)
Silesia
Poland

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