Claim: Jacobite succession would support the Stuart pretenders' claims.
Evidence: Excluded from the succession by law because of their Roman Catholicism, James's Stuart descendants pursued their claims to the crowns as pretenders. James's son, James Francis Edward Stuart (the 'Old Pretender') and his grandson Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender', 'Bonnie Prince Charlie') actively participated in uprisings and invasions in support of their claim. However, with Charles Edward's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, the Jacobite succession lost both its support and its political importance.