| Sovereign Rarities Ltd > Auction 12 | Auction date: 21 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 303 Price realized: Unsold | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Italian and Jacobite interest, The Escape of Princess Clementina from Innsbruck, 1719, bronze medal by Ottone Hamerani, CLEMENTINA. M. BRITAN. FR. ET. HIB. REGINA. bust of the Princess left, rev. FORTVNAM CAVSAMQVE SEQVOR, the Princess escapes in a chariot, an Italianate landscape and ship at sea beyond, 42.36g, 48mm (Eimer 484; MI ii 444/49; Woolf 36:1). A few light contact marks, otherwise extremely fine. Princess Clementina was born one of the wealthiest women in all of Europe, inheriting vast estates in Galicia and Lithuania from her grandfather Jan Sobieski III. Her wealth attracted the attention of many bachelors, including James Stuart (III/VIII), the Jacobite Pretender to the British thrones. George I of Great Britain, upon hearing the news of a possible marriage, requested the intervention of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI to stop it. Charles intercepted and arrested Clementina whilst on her way to marry James in Italy, imprisoning her in Innsbruck castle. With the help of Jacobite soldier and diplomat Charles (Chevalier) Wogan, however, Clementina managed to escape the castle through cunning deceit. She managed to make her own way to Bologna, where she managed to contact the increasingly worried James Stuart. Through a complicated series of communications, Clementina was married upon her request by proxy to James, before formalising the marriage in a ceremony at the Cathedral Santa Margherita in Montefiascone on the 3rd of September 1719. Starting price: 400 GBP |  |
