temp. HANOVER. Charles Edward Stuart ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie (the Young Pretender) and Henry Benedict Stuart. 1720-1788 and 1725-1807, respectively. Æ Medal (45mm, 51.15 g, 12h). The Legitimacy of the Jacobite Succession. By O. Hamerani. Struck circa 1737-1740. HVNC · SALTEM EVERSO · IVVENEM (
at least permit this youth to repair the ruins of the age, –adapted from Virgil), laureate and armored bust of Charles right, wearing ermine mantle / TRIPLICIS · SPES TERTIA · GENTIS (
the third hope of a triple nation), draped and armored bust of Henry right. MI 493/35; Eimer 544A; Woolf 47:1. Good VF, brown surfaces, some spots.
The fourth and final Jacobite heir to publicly claim the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Henry Benedict Stuart was the younger son of the Old Pretender, James “III and VIII,” and brother of the Young Pretender, Charles “III.” Created the Duke of York by his father, he remained removed from the politics of the Jacobite movement, and was made Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati in Italy where he spent his life in exile. Upon his elder brother’s death in 1788, those within his camp as well as the movement styled him as Henry IX of England and Ireland and Henry I of Scotland. He never referred to himself publicly in this manner, however, and the papacy did not recognize him as the legitimate heir to the respective thrones. Dying childless in 1807, the Jacobite line of succession then passed to Henry’s nearest blood relative (the great-great-great-grandson of Charles I), Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia.
