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Clementina Sobieski, Clementina Sophia Walkinshaw

Clementina:

• James Francis Edward Stuart + Maria Clementina Sobieski (Polonia, 1702)
  • Charles Edward Stuart + Maria Clementina Sophia Walkinshaw (Roma, 1720)
    • Charlotte (Liegi, 29.10.1753)
  • Henry Benedict Stuart

Clementina e' Clementina...

	Maria Clementina Sobieski	Maria Clementina Sophia Walkinshaw
	(Polonia, 1702)	(Roma, 1720)
	Clementina e' la promessa sposa di James Stuart, pretendente al trono di Scozia e Inghilterra, e per tale motivo viene arrestata e messa nel carcere di Innsbruck
	Clementina scappa a Bologna
1719	Clementina sposa James Stuart a Montefiascone il 3 settembre 1719
1720	nasce l'erede al trono Charles Edward Stuart (che nel 1772 sposera' Louise Stolberg)
1725	nasce Henry Benedict Stuart (il "duca di York" che diventera' cardinale)
1735	Clementina, trentaduenne, viene dichiarata morta il 18 gennaio 1735
1745		dopo la sconfitta del 1745, James Stuart si ritira in esilio insieme a Clementina Walkinshaw
1753		viene dichiarata la nascita di Charlotte Stuart
1783		James Stuart riconosce ufficialmente Charlotte come sua figlia
1802		dopo aver vissuto a Parigi con il falso nome di Contessa di Alberstrof, Clementina muore in Svizzera nel 1802

Notizie biografiche su tale Clementina Walkinshhaw provengono dall'ambiente stesso in cui si nascondeva, come per il seguente brano tratto dal libro di James Dennistoun intitolato "Memoirs of Robert Strange and Andrew Lumisden", pubblicato a Londra nel 1855 (Robert Strange ha il cognome che in italiano significa "strano", mentre Andrew Lumidsen era il segretario privato di tale principe Stuart che stava insieme a Clementina):

• John Walkinshaw of Barrowfield, having been "out" in the '15, was taken prisoner after the battle of Sheriffmuir, and sent to Stirling Castle. Thence he escaped to join the Chevalier de St. George at Bar le Duc. When the Princess Maria Clementina Sobieski had been seized at Inspruck, on her way to join her affianced but crownless husband at Urbino, in 1718, John Walkinshaw was sent to remostrate with the Emperor Charles VI, and having obtained her release, conducted the bride to Italy. In acknowledgment of this service, the Princess requested that is eldest daughter might bear her name, and promised her a provision at court. His marriage with Catherine, daughter of Sir Hugh Paterson of Bannockburn, ere long enabled this pledge to be in part redeemed, so their first-born was christened Clementina Maria Sophia, and brought up a Roman Catholic. In 1746 Charles Edward was warmly received at Bannockburn House, where he met his mother's protege'. The circumstances of her birth were a claim upon attentions which soon became marked, and before he quitted Scotland the Adventurer had obtained her promise, that in event of his success she would attach herself to his Court, or on his failure would follow him to the world's end. For some time after the disaster of Culloden, Miss Walkinshaw remained in Scotland in no direct correspondence with the Prince, but at lenght through an emissary he induced her to join him at Paris, and return with him to Ghent, where he was then incognito. During several subsequent years she accompanied his wanderings, bearing his name, doing the honours of his house, and publicly treated by himself and others as his wife. While at Liege they had a daughter in 1753, baptised Charlotte, as the child of Mr. William Johnson and Lady Charlotte Pitt.