What king gave up the "Stuart's Claim" ?

Question

Stuart's Claim is the divine rights of king. took place in the middle ages... some time back in the day.. please and thanks! =]

Answer 1

Queen Anne was the last monarch to rule from the House of Stuarts, her half-brother James III and his birth mother Mary of Modena escaped to France within a few months of the his birth because the English nation did not want a Catholic King.

Prince James Francis Edward Stuart (Stewart "The Old Pretender" (10 June 1688 – 1 January 1766) was the son of the deposed James II and VII, and as such laid claim to the English and Scottish thrones (as James III and VIII) from the death of his father in 1701, and was publicly proclaimed by Louis XIV of France as the rightful heir to the English and Scottish thrones.

The prince was brought up in France, where, recognised by King Louis XIV of France as the rightful heir to the English and Scottish thrones, he became the focus for the Jacobite movement. On his father's death in 1701, he declared himself King, with the title of James III and VIII and recognised as such by France, Spain, the Papal States and Modena.

James III had two sons and the eldest was Charles Edward Stuart (31 December 1720 – 31 January 1788), was the exiled claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and is now commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. Charles was recognised as Charles III by his supporters; his opponents referred to him as The Young Pretender.

Answer 2

The Divine Right of Kings is a belief, not a claim.  It is the belief that the king is answerable to no one but God and, as such, was not subject to the laws of the land.

The most famous, or infamous, was the trial of Marie Stuart, Queen of Scotland in 1586.

Marie was a God-anointed Queen and could not be tried as she was:

1. Not a subject of Queen Elizabeth of England.

2. As an anointed Queen, not answerable to anyone but God.

Elizabeth agonised for month over signing Marie's death warrant.  Finally Marie was executed on 8th February 1587.

When Elizabeth finally died on 24th March 1603, Marie had the last laugh as King James VI of Scotland, her son, rode into London as King James I of England a few days later.  At last Marie had a Stuart on the throne of England.  The Stuarts ruled England from 1603 until 1649 when Charles I was executed by Parliament.  Finally in 1660, the Stuarts were restored to the throne and ruled until Anne died in 1714.