book zinfld. Frofn this period James puffed a private and retired
«■ ■ life, and feems to have entirely renounced all his views upon
the crown of Poland. He died in 17 3 7 at Zolkiew in Red
Ruflia, in the 70th year of his age; and in him, as the laft
male of his family, the name of Sobieiki became ,.extin£h
His wife was*Hedwige Eleonora®, daughter of Philip William
elector palatine; by her he left two daughters, Mary
Charlotte and Clementina Mary.
The eldeft, Mary Charlotte, married in 17 2 3 Frederic
Maurice de la Tour duke of Bouillon, who dying within a
few days after the marriage, (lie efpoufed, with adifpenfatiou
from the pope, his brother Charles Godfrey the fame year.
By him. (he left iffue a fon,. the prefent duke of Bouillon,
married- to a lady of the houfe of Loraine, and a, daughter,
who efpoufed the duke of Rohan-Rohan. In trhefe noble
perfons and their progeny the female line of Sobieiki Pill
exifts.
Clementina Mary,the youngeft daughter of"prince James,,
married at Mon tefiafcone, in 1 7 19 , James Ed ward Stuart, com-
* Sifter o f Eleonora Magdalena wife o f “ his addrefles to.her.;- which he did with-
the emperor-Leopold. James had been firft that fuceefs,.. that he engaged her fo far
contracted in marriage to- the widow o f the “ and fo unexpectedly, that he was; pri*
eleCtor o f Brandenburgh’s brothery a rich- “ vately married to her the night before ihe
fieirefs o f the houfe o f Radzivil in Lithuania, “ was-to be married to the prince o f Po-
but upon this occafion;he" firft experienced. “ land^ fo that prince James was forced .to >
that ill fortune which afterwards-attended “ -return back fhamefully: . which the king;
him through life. “ An envoy was fent to “ his ftther-refented fo highly,.that he was.
“ Berlin to negotiate the marriage, which “ relolved to have fatisfaftion from the
“ was agreed upon by the elector’s and her “ -eleCtor o(f Brandenburg,.for fuffering his.
“ •ccfnfent, arid.the prince himfelf came thi- “ fon to receive fo notorious an affront at
“ ther in perfojn-, with a. numerous attend- “ his court j but the eleCtor,..knowing no-
“ ance, to confummate it.. A t the fame time “ thing- o f that private intrigue, juftifiech
w-came to Berlin the eleCtor palatine^ bro- “ hinjfelf,. and all animofities were at laft;
“ ther, prince Charles o f N ewburg, brother. “ adjufted by prince Jarhes’s marrying his.
“ to the emprefs, to fee the ceremony of- “ rival’s filter the princefs o f Ncuburg, who
“ the marriage ; but this princefs, taking “ was fent into Poland, and has two daugh-
M more fancy to him than to the prince o f “ ters by him.” Connor’s Hiftory o f Po-
SA-Poland, gave him encouragement to make. land,.v, II, p...i88, 189,
x monly
S O B I E S K I F A M I L Y .
monly known by the name o f the Chevalier de St. George, c^rAP-
the pretender to the Britiih throne. This princefs, though <— .— >
a woman of great perfonal and mental endowments, could
not engage the affeftion of her huiband; and ihe was fo offended
at his attachment to a favourite miftrefs, that Ihe
withdrew from his houfe, and remained for fome time in
a convent near Rome. Afterwards, being reconciled to him,
(he died at Rome on the 18th o f June, 17 3 5 , aged 33 ; her
death, according to the account of a writer * attached to the
Stuart family, was occaiioned by religious abftinence and
too fevere mortifications : her remains were interred with
regal pomp in the church of St. Peter, and a fumptuous
monument was eredfed to her memory. She left two fons
by the Chevalier, who are now alive: Charles, ufually
termed count of Albany; and Henry, cardinal of Yorke,
Charles married the princefs of Stolberg, by whom he has
no children: a mifunderftanding not long after their marriage
taking place between them, ihe quitted her huiband,
and took (belter in a convent in the Tufcan dominions;
and, as her quarrel was efpoufed bythe cardinal of Yorke, (Ire
has obtained a reparation for life. We may therefore forefee
the extinction of the Sobieiki line in the Stuart branch.
The ample patrimony of James Sobieiki was divided equally
between his two daughters. Having lent a confiderable fura
to the houfe of Auftria, he obtained in return a mortgage
upon certain eftates in Silefia, which, upon the clivifion of the
property after his deceafe, fell to the Stuart family, and were
in their poffeffion when the king of Pruflia fecured Silefia
in the year x740. His Pruffian majeily confifcated thefe
* Letters from a Painter in Italy, where her funeral and monument is defcribecl
v .U p. 56.
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