Maria Clementina Sobieska Archives - History of Royal Women

Maria Clementina Sobieska – The Jacobite Queen

Friday, 8 January 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Maria Clementina Sobieska was born on 18 July 1702 as the daughter of James Louis Sobieski, the son of King John III of Poland and Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d’Arquien, and Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg. She was one of their three surviving children out of seven. At the age of 16, [read more]

The Jacobite Succession – The Kings and Queens over the water

Wednesday, 3 October 2018, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

On 30 June 1688, a group of Protestant nobles invited William III, Prince of Orange, husband of Mary, daughter of King James II of England and VII of Scotland, to come to England with an army in a bid to overthrow his Catholic father-in-law. Upon his arrival, James II declined to attack the invading the [read more]