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Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart (28 June 1692 – 18 April 1712), known to Jacobites as The Princess Royal, was the last child of James II and VII (1633–1701), the deposed king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of his queen, Mary of Modena. In English, she was called Louisa Maria and Louise Marie in French. A Royal Stuart Society paper calls Louisa Maria the Princess over the Water, an allusion to the informal title King over the Water of the Jacobite pretenders, none of whom had any other legitimate daughters.〔(Publications of the Royal Stuart Society ) at royalstuartsociety.com – web site of the Royal Stuart Society (accessed 11 February 2008)〕〔(SCOTTISH ROYAL LINEAGE – THE HOUSE OF STUART Part 4 of 6 ) online at burkes-peerage.net (accessed 9 February 2008)〕 ==Birth== Louisa Maria was born in 1692, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, during her parents' exile.〔(Princess Louisa Maria Theresa Stuart (1692–1712), Daughter of James II ) at npg.org.uk (accessed 8 February 2008)〕 Owing to the huge controversy which had surrounded the birth of her brother, James Francis Edward, with accusations of the substitution of another baby in a warming pan following a still-birth, James II had sent letters inviting not only his daughter, Queen Mary II, to attend the birth in person, but also a large number of other Protestant ladies.〔Beatty, Michael A., ''The English Royal Family of America, from Jamestown to the American Revolution'' (London, McFarland, 2003) pp. 83–85〕 Of all her legitimate siblings and half-siblings, only her brother James Francis Edward and her half-sisters, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne, survived infancy. Mary died while Louisa Maria was still a small child, but she was on friendly terms with her half-sister Anne.〔 The Whig historian Macaulay later commented on James's precaution:〔Macaulay, Thomas Babington, ''The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second'', Vol 4 (1855) (Chapter XVIII (1692), p. 225 ) online at books.google.com (accessed 10 February 2008)〕 The new-born princess was given the names Louisa and Maria in baptism, while Teresa (sometimes spelt Theresa) was added later, at the time of her confirmation.〔 She was given the name Louisa in honour of King Louis XIV, who acted as her godfather.〔 Her godmother was King Louis's sister-in-law, Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, Duchess of Orléans.〔 After the birth, James II declared that Louisa Maria had been sent by God as a consolation for her parents at the time of their distress, and in later years she was often referred to as ''La Consolatrice''.〔Callow, John, ''The King in Exile: James II, Warrior, King and Saint, 1689–1701'' (London, Sutton, 2004) pp. 203–204〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louisa Maria Stuart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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