Inverness is where you go to see Loch Ness and Culloden’s Moor where the Jacobites (believers that the son of James II from his second marriage should have inherited throne) led by Bonnie Prince Charlie challenged the brother of the king of England, George II, To a battle in a soggy and marshy terrain against modern Canon warfare on the English side. The story I didn’t know was that the followers of Charlie had almost marched into London and had a some chance of dethroning George. But they decided to go back to Scotland and on the way had some very successful battles. They almost won the crown but George’s brother a mass far superior weaponry.
jacobite is from the Latin form of the name James, Jacobus. It refers to the followers of the royal family from the second marriage of James II.
what Family tree shows is that when there were no more heirs through the first marriage of James II of England (Scottish by ancestry and the king of Scotland), they decided to grab George from Hanover who didn’t speak English. What I didn’t know until I saw this tree is that he was a blood descendent of James I And was not just picked from some obscure claim. George was the beginning of the house of Hanover which continues to this day.
