, 1760 Roehenstart was
baptised into the
Roman Catholic faith on 13 May 1784 at the
parish church of
Saint-Merry in the rue de Saint Martin,
Paris, when he was described as a son of Maximilian Roehenstart and of Clementine Ruthven. He was named Charles Edward after his royal grandfather. and one son, all fathered by Ferdinand de Rohan. The daughters were Charlotte Maximilienne Amélie, born during the summer of 1780, Victoire Adélaïde, born between 1781 and spring 1783, and possibly Marie Victoire, who was baptised at the
Château de Couzières on 19 June 1779, as well as Marie Aglaë, who may be identical with one of her sisters or whose fate is otherwise unknown. Roehenstart's grandmother Clementina Walkinshaw lived until 1802, in her later years taking up residence in
Switzerland, and Roehenstart was raised in the
reformed faith. During the years of the
French Revolution, his father paid for his education in
Germany. Most of the remainder of his fortune, one hundred thousand
roubles, was invested with a Russian banker named Sofniev. He lived in
Philadelphia from 1811 to 1813. He remained in America until 1814. In 1816, after the conclusion of the
Napoleonic Wars, Roehenstart went to
Scotland and again to
England, unsuccessfully renewing the Stuarts' pursuit of their old claim on the
dowry of
Queen Mary Beatrice of Modena, his great-great-grandmother. Louisa Constance lived until 20 October 1853, dying at Paris, but there were no children of either marriage. In 1853, Roehenstart lost his wife, and in 1854 he revisited Scotland. While there he was fatally injured in a road accident, while travelling in a carriage which overturned. He was buried in the graveyard of
Dunkeld Cathedral. In the twentieth century Roehenstart's papers came into the hands of the American scholar
George Sherburn, who produced a comprehensive account of him from them. ==Claims to the throne==