During this time, several leaders and notable heroes rise up, such as Vervamon the Elder ( who was later burned at the stake ), Maeveen O ' Donahough, Barl the Artificer, Mairsil the Pretender, and Lord Ith ( who was held captive by Mairsil ).

Eventually, Jodah frees Lord Ith as Mairsil begins to lose his power ( caused by the weakening of the land by the coming ice age ).

Mairsil is obsessed with finding a gateway to Phyrexia, and when a young mage named Jodah arrives, he tries to manipulate the boy to take him there.

Indeed, John Deydras, a royal Pretender, appeared in Oxford, claiming to have been switched with Edward at birth, and to be the real king of England himself.

In 1715 he supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 which sought to overthrow the new king George I. Escaping to France he became foreign minister for the Pretender.

Bolingbroke had not been able to formulate any coherent plans for dealing with the succession ; if he thought of proclaiming the son of James II ( the Pretender ) as king, he made no moves to do so.

One of Bonnet's prisoners further reported witnessing Bonnet's men drinking to the health of the Old Pretender and wishing to see him king of the English nation.

He afterwards retired to France, where for some years he was, as " Count Murray ", the representative of the Jacobite claimant " James III and VIII ", known as the " Old Pretender ", who created him Earl of Westminster in the Jacobite Peerage, with remainder to heirs male of the body of his father, the fourth Lord Elibank.

* 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the " Old Pretender ", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.

His supporters, the Jacobites, turn to his son James Francis Edward Stuart ( 1688 – 1766 ), later called " The Old Pretender ", whom they recognise as James VIII and III.

James Francis Edward Stuart was known to those who rejected his claims as " The Old Pretender "; his elder son Charles was called " The Young Pretender " ( or " Bonnie Prince Charlie " among his supporters ), and the younger son, Henry, who became a Roman Catholic cardinal, was known as the Cardinal Duke of York.

* Charles Edward Stuart ( 1720 – 1788 ), Jacobite " Young Pretender ", often called Bonnie Prince Charlie, elder son of the " Old Pretender "

Similarly, in the IDW comic, Thunderwing had developed his Pretender technology, called " Bio-Cybernetic Grafting " as a way for Transformers to survive Cybertron's declining conditions.

Later, James was called " the Old Pretender ", to distinguish him from his son, Charles Edward Stuart ( 1720 – 1788 ), who became known as " the Young Pretender ".

" On 21st July, 1875 Abdullah the Pretender Sultan, in despair, called a meeting of chiefs where after a talk of poisoning Birch accepted the Maharajalela's offer to stab Birch to death.

He closes his `` letter '' by demanding that Dunkirk be demolished, that the Pretender be forced to move farther away from the coast of England, and that the Queen and the House of Hanover come to a better understanding.

* Palace of the Pretender by Last Emperor ( 2003 )

* December 27 – Siege of Bilbao-Third Carlist War -( 27 December 1873-2 May 1874 )- Campaigning in Navarre, Pretender Don Carlos VII and General Joaquín Elío besiege Bilbao, held by General Ignacio del Castillo and 1, 200 men.

* February 24-February 25 – First Battle of Somorrostro ( Third Carlist War ): Determined to raise the siege of Bilbao by the Pretender Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano sent General Domingo Moriones with a relief force of 14, 000 men.

* " The Fuse ", a song by Jackson Browne in his 1976 album The Pretender

He had no children of his own, and was succeeded by his third cousin, Emperor Go-Hanazono, great-grandson of the Northern Pretender Emperor Sukō.

Twenty-five were created between 1688 and 1784 by James II in exile after his dethronement, by his son James Stuart (" The Old Pretender ") and his grandson Charles Edward Stuart (" Bonny Prince Charlie ").

The same year saw a number one pop chart hit, " The Great Pretender " by The Platters.

" Shortly thereafter, Gerry Mcilduff was replaced on drums by Martin Chambers, and Hynde named the band " Pretenders " after The Platters song " The Great Pretender.

It contained four plundered tracks: " Don't " by Elvis Presley which included piano accompaniment by Bob Wiseman, " Pocket " by Count Basie, a version of Dolly Parton singing " The Great Pretender " in which " she gets to sing a duet with himself ( sic )", and " Spring ", a version of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

* The NBC drama The Pretender ( 1996 – 2000 ) was inspired by the life of Ferdinand Demara.

* Jarod, the protagonist in the TV series The Pretender is inspired by ( but not based on ) Demara.

In 1744, he was chosen to command the 10, 000 men of the French Invasion of Britain on behalf of the Old Pretender, which assembled at Dunkirk but did not proceed more than a few miles out of harbour before being wrecked by disastrous storms.

The Pretender is the fourth album by American singer / songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1976 ( see 1976 in music ).

Following the birth of the Catholic James II's only son James Francis Edward Stuart (" The Old Pretender "), the English establishment determined to avoid the possibility of a Catholic dynasty on the English throne by engineering the Glorious Revolution, when the throne was offered to the older of James's two Protestant daughters from his first marriage and her husband, the Stadhouder of Holland, who uniquely reigned as co-monarchs, William III ( 1688 – 1702 ) and Mary II ( 1688 – 1694 ).

In addition, he made numerous guest appearances on shows including The Larry Sanders Show, Walker, Texas Ranger, Touched by an Angel, Chicago Hope, The Pretender, and Ally Mcbeal.

By including in it the statement that the " King's Evil " had been cured by the Pretender, Carte lost the favour of most of his patrons.

In the 1490s, Perkin Warbeck, a Pretender for the English crown, claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, but he is generally considered to have been an impostor, and was labeled thus by the Tudor regime.

The succession of George I was secured in late 1715 by the defeat of a Jacobite army at the Battle of Preston and the subsequent flight of the Old Pretender.

He was invited to Rome by the Pretender, but Atterbury felt that a bishop of the Church of England would be out of place in Rome, and declined the invitation.

His Scottish and Jacobite roots also allowed for endless insinuation and controversy — in 1753 he was accused by the Bishop of Gloucester of " having drunk the health of the Old Pretender on his knees ".

This group was initially minuscule, but began to grow larger after World War II due both to the political leftism of the Orleanist Pretender, Henri, comte de Paris, and to the active efforts of the claimants of the elder line — Jaime, Duke of Segovia, the disinherited second son of Alfonso XIII of Spain, and his son, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz — to secure legitimist support, such that by the 1980s, the elder line had fully reclaimed for its supporters the political title of " Legitimists ".

* Since 1978 Norton Cuthbert Clarence, Pretender to the Miskito Kingdom and hereditary chief of the Miskito Nation

Pasquin says that he was appointed draughtsman to the chief engineer of Scotland, in which capacity he was at Fort William in the highlands when the Young Pretender landed, and was the first person to convey intelligence of the event to the government in 1745.

The town was held for his son, Charles Edward Stuart ( Bonnie Prince Charlie ; the Young Pretender ), 30 years later and in February 1746 the largest naval battle of the war was fought in Montrose Harbour.

* Jon ' the Pretender ', half-brother of Borric I, killed by him during the Kingdom's last civil war