Charles Radcliffe, 5th Earl Of Derwentwater

James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl Of Derwentwater was found guilty of High Treason for his part in the Jacobite Rising Of 1715 . His title was forfeited and he was beheaded.

Charles also fought in The Fifteen. He was taken prisoner at the Battle Of Preston , and convicted of high treason, but escaped abroad from Newgate Prison in December 1716 . He spent the rest of his life on the European continent, marrying the wealthy Charlotte Maria Livingstone, Countess Of Newburgh , in Brussels in 1724 . On the death of his nephew John Radcliffe he assumed the title Earl Of Derwentwater .

He traveled to Rome and was an active particpant in the Court of the Jacobite claimant James Francis Edward Stuart . In 1745 he sailed to join James's son Charles Edward Stuart in Jacobite Rising Of 1745 .

Along with many other exiled Jacobites in the French army en route to Scotland in late 1745 and early 1746 Charles Radcliffe, a captin in Dillon's regiment, was captured. He was condemned under his former sentence, and beheaded on Tower Hill on 8 December 1746 .

fictionally mentioned as a grand-master of the Priory Of Sion by author Dan Brown in his book The Da Vinci Code (Chapter 79)

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