Jacobites

Jacobites was a name given to the adherents of the Stuart dynasty in Great Britain after their expulsion from the throne in 1688, and derived from that of James II, the last Stuart king. They made two great attempts to restore the exiled dynasty, in 1715 and 1745, but both were unsuccessful, after which the movement exhausted itself in an idle sentimentality, which also was by the early 19th century as good as extinct. They ceased to have supporters in any number when Henry Benedict Stuart died childless in 1807.

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Jacobo Arbenz, Jacobs, Jacobus, Jacobus Arminius, Jacopo Bellini