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- BIOGRAPHY
In 1715 he followed his uncle, the titular King James III and VIII, to Scotland, and on his return joined the Spanish Army. On 17 August 1716 Sir Peter Lawless wrote of him: 'He is to be married to a pretty sort of a lady of the highest quality and the greatest fortune in Spain, which match I have been managing for him since last February, and have now brought to its perfection.' On 31 December 1716 he married Catalina Ventura Colon de Portugal, 9th. Duquesa de Veragua, and they became the parents of six children.
In December 1726 he was sent on a special Embassy from King Felipe V to Russia where, from the Czar, received the Orders of St. Andrew and St. Alexander Nevski. In 1733, on the outbreak of the Polish War of Succession, he was appointed, with the rank of Field Marshal, to command the allied French and Spanish Armies in Naples. The fourteen-year-old Prince Charles Edward Stuart was sent on this occasion to learn the art of war under his tutelage.
Afterwards he became Spanish Ambassador to the Court of Naples which he remained until his death. In his forty-second year, on 2 June 1738, he died.
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