Charles Radcliffe, titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater
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Charles Radcliffe, titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater was born on 3 September 1693. He was the youngest son of Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater and Mary Tudor.
James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater was found guilty of high treason for his part in the Jacobite Rising of 1715. His title was forfeited and he was beheaded.
Charles also fought in The Fifteen. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Preston, and convicted of high treason, but escaped abroad from Newgate Prison in December 1716. He spent the rest of his life on the European continent, marrying the wealthy Charlotte Maria Livingstone, Countess of Newburgh, in Brussels in 1724. On the death of his nephew John Radcliffe he assumed the title Earl of Derwentwater.
He traveled to Rome and was an active participant in the Court of the Jacobite claimant James Francis Edward Stuart. In 1745 he sailed to join James's son Charles Edward Stuart in Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Along with many other exiled Jacobites in the French army en route to Scotland in late 1745 and early 1746 Charles Radcliffe, a captain in Dillon's regiment, was captured. He was condemned under his former sentence, and beheaded on Tower Hill on 8 December 1746.
He was fictionally mentioned as a grand-master of the priory of Sion by author Dan Brown in his book The Da Vinci Code (chapter 79).
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- ↑ Charles Radclyffe
- ↑ Born on 16 October 1673 Mary Tudor was an illegitimate child of Charles II and Moll Davies.
