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164 BERWICK doc, 16 Jan., and was bur. 25 Feb. 1697/8, in the Chapel of the English Ladies at Pontoise, aged 22 years and 10 months. (^) He m., 2ndly, 18 Apr. 1700, in Paris, Anne,(^) da. of the Hon. Henry Bulkeley (4th s. of Thomas, ist Viscount Bulreley [I.]), by Sophia, da. and coh. of the Hon. Walter Stuart, 3rd s. of Walter, ist Lord Blantyre [S.]. While opposing Prince Eugene of Savoy he was slain at the siege of Philippsburg, 12 June 1734, aged nearly 64. C') Will dat. 4 June 1731 to Aug. 1732. His widow ^. 12 June 1751. II. 1734. 2. James Francis (Stuart-FitzJames), but for the attainder 2nd Duke of Berwick, i^c. [E.], also 2nd Duke of Liria and Xerica, and a Grandee of the ist Class [Spain]; ist s. and h., being only child by the ist wife; b. 21 Oct. 1696, the King and Queen being sponsors; K.G.F. 1714. The following year he accompanied his uncle, the titular King James III and VIII, to Scotland, and on his return joined the Spanish Army. In Dec. 1726 he was sent on a special Embassy from King Philip V to Russia,('^) and received from the Czar the Orders of St. Andrew and St. Alexander Nevski ; K.G. by the titular King James 3 Apr. 1727. In 1733, on the outbreak of the Polish War of Succession, he was appointed, with the rank of Field Marshal, to command the allied French and Spanish Armies in Naples, Prince Charles Edward, then aged 14, being sent on this occasion to learn the art of war under his tutelage. He was after- wards Spanish Ambassador to the Court of Naples till his death. He m., 31 Dec. I7i6,(^) Catalina Ventura, 9th Duchess of Veragua (1537) and of La Vega (1557) and Marchioness of Jamaica (1537), 3rd Marchioness of San Leonardo (1649) and La Mota (1575), 4th Marchioness of Tarazona (1642), iith Countess of Gelves (1529), (^) Her. and Gen., vol. iii, p. 64, from the Necrology of Pontoise (Pezcnas being misprinted Perenas). {ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. C") Mary, Duchess of Montagu, writes, after meeting his 2nd wife in Paris, about 1720 : "His Duchess looks like a very ill-humoured woman, and I think not better bred than we are in England." V.G. (^) "The truest and most moderate of the Jacobite leaders." [Lecky). He left male issue by both wives, which still (191 1) continues. That of the elder branch is entitled to the Spanish and that of the younger to the French Dukedom. The account of those who, but for the attainder, would have succeeded to the English Dukedom, has kindly been supplied by the Editor of the 'Jacohite Peerage. V.G- () He wrote an account of this journey, which was published in Spain ; also a History of Russia. That no scheme on behalf of King James, as is sometimes stated, was the object of this expedition, is proved by his regretful letter to Gualterio declar- ing his inability to visit Rome on the way. See The Royalist., vol. xi, p. 14. V.G. (f) Sir Peter Lawless writes of him, 17 Aug. 1716, "He is to be married to a pretty sort of a lady of the highest quality and the greatest fortune in Spain, which match I have been managing for him since last February, and have now brought to its perfection." V.G.