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Monument to the Royal Stuarts in St. Peter's Basilica. The Monument to the Royal Stuarts is a memorial in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City State.It commemorates the last three members of the Royal House of Stuart: James Francis Edward Stuart ("the Old Pretender", d. 1766), his elder son Charles Edward Stuart ("the Young Pretender" or "Bonnie Prince Charlie", d. 1788), and his younger ...
The tomb of Pope Pius III was translated to Sant'Andrea della Valle. The tomb of Pope Paul III Pope Julius III was reinterred in an ancient sarcophagus. Pope Marcellus II reused a fourth-century sarcophagus. The tomb of Pope Innocent IX was the last installed in Old St. Peter's.
This area, closest to Saint Peter's tomb, is surrounded by chapels dedicated to Our Lady, forming a crown around the Apostle's tomb. The central space of the grottoes, encompassing the tombs of successive popes, resembles a lower basilica with three naves.
Only extant papal tomb outside of Italy and France; [32] [33] [34] original completed circa 1237, dismantled in the seventeenth century, separating the tomb-chest and effigy; tomb-chest constructed with marble from Kärnten [31] [35] 17 July 1048 – 9 August 1048 Damasus II: Unknown San Lorenzo fuori le Mura: Sarcophagus in the portico [36] [37]
James Francis Edward Stuart (10 June 1688 – 1 January 1766) [a] was the House of Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1701 until his death in 1766. The only son of James II of England and his second wife, Mary of Modena , he was Prince of Wales and heir until his Catholic father was deposed and exiled in the ...
The Stuarts were monarchs of Britain and Ireland and its growing empire until the death of Queen Anne in 1714, except for the period of the Commonwealth between 1649 and 1660. [note 3] In total, nine Stewart/Stuart monarchs ruled Scotland alone from 1371 until 1603, the last of whom was James VI, before his accession in England.
Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart [1] (31 December 1720 [b] – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart, making him the grandson of James VII and II, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1766 as Charles III.
This list contains all European emperors, kings and regent princes and their consorts as well as well-known crown princes since the Middle Ages, whereas the lists are starting with either the beginning of the monarchy or with a change of the dynasty (e.g. England with the Norman king William the Conqueror, Spain with the unification of Castile and Aragon, Sweden with the Vasa dynasty, etc.).