William and Mary, who had no surviving children, were succeeded by Mary’s sister Anne (ruled 1702–14), who also had no surviving children, despite eighteen pregnancies. At Anne’s death, the crown passed, with Parliament’s approval, to Anne’s distant cousin George, the ruler of the small German principality of Hanover. Groups in Scotland favoring James, the son of James II, who had grown to be a young man in France, revolted. This uprising in favor of the Stuarts – termed “Jacobite” from the Latin form of James’s name