Jacobites
Jacobites were members of a political faction advocating the restoration of the Catholic House of Stuart to the British throne after the Glorious Revolution.[1]
When the pro Catholic James II of England chose exile after the 1688 Glorious Revolution, the Parliament of England ruled he had "abandoned" the English throne, which was given to his Protestant daughter Mary II of England, and her husband William III.[2] The followers of the exiled king were known as Jacobites.[1]
After the War of Spanish Succession and the accession of the throne by the Hanoverian House in 1714, the Jacobites began to revolt in Great Britain.[3] The allegiance of the officials was questioned, like for the governor of Bahamas Woodes Rogers who was suspected to have ties with the Jacobites while in fact he was a member of the West Indies Rite of the Templar Order.[4] His Grand Master Laureano de Torres y Ayala tasked him to collect in Isu vials the blood of the Parliament members and ministers, covering it as a pledge of fealty to the king against the Jacobites.[3] Around the same time period, a newspaper article agitated about the increasing number of pirates in Nassau that voiced their support for the exiled James Stuart, publishing rumors that the Republic of Pirates had established bonds with the Jacobites in England in order to secure privateer contracts once King George was overthrown.[5]
Appearence
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed: Pirates (mentioned only)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Jacobitism on Wikipedia
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates - Timeline: 1688
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - The Observatory
- ↑ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - Commodore Eighty-Sixed
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Pirates - Lost files: "Newspaper article"