a legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War
a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution
a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s
