Henry Benedict Stuart

The writer Gaetano Moroni provides the lengthiest account of Henry’s close attachment with Monsignor Lercari his majordomo. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. But Charles never asserted nor renounced his Jacobite claims nor have any of his successors to this day.

He spent his life in the Papal States and had a long career in the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church rising to become the Dean of the College of Cardinals and Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia and Velletri. Unlike his father James Francis Edward Stuart and brother Charles Edward Stuart Henry made no effort to seize the throne.