Charles Radclyffe, "5th Earl of Derwentwater"

Charles Radclyffe (3 September 1693 in Little Parndon, Essex – 8 December 1746 in London) titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater, who claimed the title Fifth Earl of Derwentwater, was an early Scottish Rite Freemason. He was the youngest son of Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater and Lady Mary Tudor.[2]

The Radclyffe family were ardent followers of the House of Stuart, James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater (1689-1716), being raised at the court of the Stuarts in France as companion to James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender. James and his brother Charles joined the Jacobite rising of 1715 and after being captured at Preston both were tried in London on charges of treason and condemned to death.

James was beheaded on Tower Hill, London on 24 February 1716, declaring on the scaffold his devotion to the Roman Catholic religion and to King James III, but Charles escaped from prison and rejoined the Stuarts in France. In 1725, Charles Radclyffe was serving in Paris as personal secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart of Scotland, and founded the first Scottish Rite Masonic Lodge.

In 1731, James Radclyffe's son, John (the fourth Earl) died and the title passed to his uncle (Charles).

He traveled to Rome and was an active participant in the Court of the Jacobite claimant James Francis Edward Stuart. Charles was re-captured by the forces of George II of Great Britain in November, 1745 while sailing to join Charles Edward Stuart, the young Pretender, in Scotland. Condemned to death under his former sentence by Lord Chancellor Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, he was beheaded on 8 December 1746.

Charles married, on 24 June 1724, to Charlotte Maria Livingston (1694-1755). She was the daughter of the 2nd Earl of Newburgh and was the widow of Thomas Clifford, son of the 2nd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh. Charles and Charlotte were the parents of three children;

James Bartholomew Radclyffe, 4th Earl of Newburgh (23 August 1725- 2 January 1787), married Barbara Kemp, by whom he had issue.[3] Maj.-Gen. James Clement Radclyffe (5 November 1727- 1788), died unmarried. Mary Radclyffe (5 April 1732- 27 August 1798), married on 11 February 1755 Francis Eyre, by whom she had issue.[4]

He allegedly had an illegitimate daughter, Jane or "Jenny", as she was commonly known, by a mistress, Margaret Snowden, with whom he went through a form of marriage which was not legally binding.

In fiction As Charles Radcliffe, he was a leading character in the historical novel Devil Water, by Anya Seton. The protagonist is his alleged illegitimate daughter, Jane or "Jenny", who went to live in Virginia, where she married and had children.

Margaret was born in 1694, died in 1723, daughter of Jane and John Snowden, who was a common laborer. Jane Snowden died on Jan. 14, 1709. Charles was married to his cousin Lady Betty Lee Linchfield when he found out that his previous girlfriend Margaret Snowden was with child. Charles then was forced to marry her by her father and brother having a shotgun wedding for them. Charles stayed with Meg long enough to give the baby a Radclyffe name. Charles went back to his wife Lady Betty but stayed in touch with them until his death. 60-1.Lady Jane "Jenny" (born in 1710, England-died in America) (Married Robert "Rob" Wilson

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Virginia County Court Records/ ancestraltrackers.net

LEVINGSTON, EARL OF NEWBURG.
Sir John Levingston, a stanch Cavalier of King Charles I was made a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1626. His son James, was elevated to the peerage of Scotland as Viscount Newburgh
in 1647. For his self sacrifice and devotion to the principles
of the constitution and monarchy during the Puritan usurpation he was made Earl of Newburgh by King Charles II in 1660. He married 1st, Catherine, daughter of Theophilus
Howard, Earl of Suffolk ; 2nly, Anne, daughter of Sir Henry
Poole,

Her son Charles had a daughter and heir who married
in 1724, Charles Radcliffe, 4th Earl of Derwentwater, ((where is his profile?))

which family gave such heroic testimony to its grandeur of soul by its noble sacrifice for the cause of legitimacy in 171 5 and 1745. The Radcliffe family, which was of Franco-Norman
origin, inherited the Baronetcy of Nova Scotia, from whenc it passed to the next heir Lady Ann Clifford, whose only child the Countess Cecelia married in 1757, Benedict, 5th Prince
Giustiniani unto whose descendant this title of Baronet of Nova Scotia as well as that of Earl of Newburgh has passed......

Charles Radclyffe, "5th Earl of Derwentwater" is our fourth cousin 10 times removed.
Added by Janet Milburn 11/19/22 plus I am Radcliffe descendant