Charles Edward Stuart, Count Roehenstart

This article is about the passive Jacobite claimant. For his grandfather and actual Jacobite claimant, see Charles Edward Stuart.

Charles Edward Augustus Maximilian Stuart, Baron Korff, Count Roehenstart (c. May 1784 – 28 October 1854) was the natural son of Prince Ferdinand of Rohan (1738–1813), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cambrai, by Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, herself the natural daughter of Charles Edward Stuart, the "Young Pretender". She was legitimised after the birth of her children,[1] and Roehenstart was later a passive Jacobite pretender to the British throne.

The name of "Roehenstart" given to him in infancy combined the names of both of his parents, Rohan and Stuart, while failing to proclaim their identity, which at the time would have been a cause for scandal.[1]

Although he retired from military service as a lieutenant colonel, he is sometimes called "General" Charles Edward Stuart, and this title appears on his gravestone at Dunkeld.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c George Wiley Sherburn, Roehenstart, a late Stuart pretender (1961), P. 115: "Roehenstart was a colonel, but not a general..."
  2. ^ Compton Mackenzie, Prince Charlie and his ladies (1935), pp. 266–267