Jacobitism

Jacobitism was the political movement that supported the restoration of the exiled House of Stuart to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland after James II and VII was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Its supporters, the Jacobites, drew on loyalty to hereditary monarchy, Catholic sympathies, and in Scotland and Ireland hostility to the Union and to Protestant rule. They rose in major rebellions in 1715 and 1745, the latter led by Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, which was crushed at Culloden in 1746. Afterward, the Highlands were harshly repressed and clan society was undermined. The movement faded in the later eighteenth century and had effectively ended with the death of Cardinal Henry Stuart in 1807.

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