Anne (Hyde) Stuart (1637 - 1671)

Born 12 Mar 1637 in St James palace, London, England

Ancestors

Wife of James Stuart — married 3 Sep 1660 (to 31 Mar 1671) in London, England

Descendants

Died 31 Mar 1671 in Kensington palace, London, England

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Biography

Anne Hyde (12 Mar 1637 – 31 Mar 1671) was Duchess of York and Albany was the first wife of James, Duke of York, later King James II and VII.

Anne was the daughter of a commoner – Edward Hyde. In 1629, Edward (1st Earl of Clarendon) married his first wife, Anne Ayliffe of Gretenham. Six months into the marriage Anne caught smallpox, miscarried and died.[3] Three years later, Hyde married Frances Aylesbury. In 1637, Anne, the couple's eldest daughter, was born at Cranbourne Lodge in Windsor.[4] Almost nothing except that she was named after Edward Hyde's first wife is known of her life before 1649, when her family fled to the Netherlands after the execution of King Charles I.[5] They settled in Breda, where the Princess of Orange (also an English Princess Royal), as she had done with many English fugitives,[6] offered them a home and appointed Anne a maid of honour, apparently against the wishes of her mother and late father.[7]

Anne's marriage to James caused much gossip. The two first met in the Netherlands while Anne was living in the household of James' sister Mary. They held an official but private marriage ceremony in London on 3 September 1660, following the restoration of the monarchy. Two months after the marriage, Anne gave birth to the couple's first child, who had obviously been conceived out of wedlock. Until near the end of Anne's life, some observers disapproved of James' decision to marry Anne; but not King Charles II, James' brother, who wanted the marriage to take place.

Children:

• Charles, Duke of Cambridge 22 October 1660 - 5 May 1661.
• Lady Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (30 April 1662 - 28 December 1694)
• James, Duke of Cambridge (12 July 1663 - 20 June 1667)
• Lady Anne, Queen of Great Britain (6 February 1665 - 1 August 1714)
• Charles, Duke of Kendal (4 July 1666 - 22 May 1667)
• Edgar, Duke of Cambridge (14 September 1667 - 8 June 1671)
• Henrietta (13 January 1669 - 15 November 1669)
• Catherine (9 February 1671 - 5 December 1671).

All of their sons and two of their daughters died in infancy.[2] The two who survived to adulthood were Lady Mary, who succeeded her father after his deposition during the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and Lady Anne, who succeeded her brother-in-law and became the first monarch of Great Britain.

Anne was ill for fifteen months after the birth of her youngest son, Edgar.[38] She bore Henrietta in 1669 and Catherine in 1671.[39] Anne never recovered from Catherine's birth.[40] Ill with breast cancer,[41] she died on 31 March 1671.[4][b] Two days after her death, her embalmed body was interred in the vault of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Westminster Abbey's Henry VII Chapel.[42] In June 1671, Anne's only surviving son Edgar died of natural causes, followed by Catherine in December, leaving Ladies Mary and Anne as the Duke of York's heiresses.[43]

Sources

• Wikipedia:Anne_Hyde and all related primary source documents
• Wikipedia:Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon Anne's father
• Anne Hyde on Find A Grave: Memorial #9594382 retrieved 23 sep 2016
• WikiData: Q145609 Wikidata Information Reasonator enwiki Ancestors (about wikidata)

Acknowledgments

• Hyde-354 created on May 26, 2011 by Kerry Langlands through the import of My-Family-26-May-2011.ged.
• Hyde-355 created on May 26, 2011 by Kerry Langlands through the import of My-Family-26-May-2011.ged.
• Hyde-466 created on Jun 13, 2011 by Kerry Langlands through the import of My-Family-13-Jun-2011.ged.
• Hyde-467 created on Jun 13, 2011 by Kerry Langlands through the import of My-Family-13-Jun-2011.ged.
• Hyde-472 created on Jun 22, 2011 by Roger Travis through the import of Travis Family Tree.ged.

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