13 Facts About Jacobite Uprisings

Jacobite Uprisings ideology originated with James VI and I, first monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1603.

Jacobite Uprisings's religion made James popular among Irish Catholics, whose position had not improved under his brother.

Jacobite Uprisings rising in Scotland achieved some initial success but was ultimately suppressed.

Jacobite Uprisings propagandists argued such divinely sanctioned authority was the main moral safeguard of society, while its absence led to party strife.

An example was John Matthews, a Jacobite Uprisings printer executed in 1719; his pamphlet Vox Populi vox Dei emphasised the Lockean theory of the social contract, a doctrine very few Tories of the period would have supported.

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Many of the Highland clansmen who were a feature of Jacobite Uprisings armies were raised this way: in all three major risings, the bulk of the rank and file were supplied by a small number of north-western clans whose leaders joined the rebellion.

The majority of the rank and file, as well as many Jacobite Uprisings leaders, belonged to Protestant Episcopalian congregations.

Many Jacobite Uprisings leaders were closely linked to each other and the exile community by marriage or blood.

Family traditions of Jacobite Uprisings sympathy were reinforced through objects such as inscribed glassware or rings with hidden symbols, although many of those that survive are in fact 19th century neo-Jacobite Uprisings creations.

Outside elite social circles, the Jacobite Uprisings community circulated propaganda and symbolic objects through a network of clubs, print-sellers and pedlars, aimed at the provincial gentry and middling sort.

Jacobite Uprisings "secretly" visited London in 1750 to meet supporters, and was inducted into the Non Juror church.

The Jacobite Uprisings cause was abandoned by the French, while British supporters stopped providing funds; Charles, who had returned to Catholicism, now relied on the Papacy to fund his lifestyle.

Since Henry's death, none of the Jacobite Uprisings heirs have claimed the English or Scottish thrones.