Maria Klementyna Sobieska was a Polish princess who was born on 18 July 1702 in Poland, the daughter of Poland's Crown Prince Jakub Ludwik Sobieski, and Hedwig Elisabeth Amelia of Neuburg. The granddaughter of John III Sobieski, she was one of Europe's wealthiest heiresses. Princess Maria Klementyna was betrothed to Prince James Stuart. King George I of Great Britain was opposed to the marriage because he feared that there would be an heir. In order to placate him, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI arrested Princess Maria Klementyna while on her way to Italy to marry James Stuart. She was confined in Innsbruck Castle but eventually the guards were deceived and Maria Klementyna escaped to Bologna, Italy, where, just to be safe from further intrusions, she was married by proxy to James who was in Spain at that time. Maria Klementyna's father, Prince James Louis Sobieski, approved her escape declaring that, as she became engaged to Prince James she ought to "follow his fortune and his cause". Maria Klementyna and James Stuart were formally married on 3 September 1719 at Montefiascone, Italy in the Cathedral of Santa Margherita
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