Paternal Family Tree: Oldenburg
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Eleonore Hesse Darmstadt Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg 1601-1659
1683 Marriage of Lady Anne and Prince George
1694 Death and Funeral of Queen Mary II
In 1643 [his father] Frederick III King of Denmark [aged 33] and [his mother] Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark [aged 14] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] George Hanover Duke Brunswick-Lüneburg and [his grandmother] Anne Eleonore Hesse Darmstadt Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg [aged 41]. He the son of Christian IV King of Denmark [aged 65]. They were sixth cousins.
On 2nd April 1653 Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland was born to [his father] Frederick III King of Denmark [aged 44] and [his mother] Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark [aged 25] at Copenhagen Castle.
John Evelyn's Diary. 29th October 1662. Was my Lord Mayor's show, with a number of sumptuous pageants, speeches, and verses. I was standing in a house in Cheapside [Map] against the place prepared for their Majesties. The Prince [aged 9] and heir of Denmark was there, but not our King. There were also the maids of honor. I went to Court this evening, and had much discourse with Dr. Basiers, one of his Majesty's [aged 32] chaplains, the great traveler, who showed me the syngraphs and original subscriptions of divers eastern patriarchs and Asian churches to our confession.
On 15th June 1667 [his brother] Christian V King of Denmark and Norway [aged 21] and [his sister-in-law] Charlotte Amalie Hesse-Kassel Queen Consort Denmark and Norway [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Wilhelm "The Just" VI Hesse-Kassel and Hedwig Sophia Hohenzollern [aged 43]. He the son of [his father] Frederick III King of Denmark [aged 58] and [his mother] Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark [aged 39]. They were fourth cousins.
On 9th February 1670 [his father] Frederick III King of Denmark [aged 60] died. His son [his brother] Christian [aged 23] succeeded V King of Denmark and Norway. [his sister-in-law] Charlotte Amalie Hesse-Kassel Queen Consort Denmark and Norway [aged 19] by marriage Queen Consort Denmark and Norway.
John Evelyn's Diary. 19th July 1683. George, Prince of Denmark [aged 30], who had landed this day, came to marry the [his future wife] Lady Anne [aged 18], daughter to the [his future father-in-law] Duke [aged 49]; so I returned home, having seen the young gallant at dinner at Whitehall [Map].
John Evelyn's Diary. 25th July 1683. I again saw Prince George of Denmark [aged 30]: he had the Danish countenance, blonde, of few words, spoke French but ill, seemed somewhat heavy, but reported to be valiant, and indeed he had bravely rescued and brought off his [his brother] brother, the King of Denmark [aged 37], in a battle against the Swedes, when both these Kings were engaged very smartly.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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John Evelyn's Diary. 28th July 1683. He was married to the [his wife] Lady Anne [aged 18] at Whitehall. Her Court and household to be modeled as the [his father-in-law] Duke's, her father [aged 49], had been, and they to continue in England.
On 28th July 1683 Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland [aged 30] and Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 18] were married at Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. She the daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 49] and Anne Hyde Duchess of York. He the son of Frederick III King of Denmark and Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark [aged 55]. They were second cousin once removed.
On 29th November 1683 Henry Waldegrave 1st Baron Waldegrave [aged 22] and [his sister-in-law] Henrietta Fitzjames Countess Newcastle [aged 16] were married. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 50] and Anne Hyde Duchess of York.
Around 1684 Charles Waldegrave 3rd Baronet [aged 58] died. Around 1684 His son Henry [aged 23] succeeded 4th Baronet Waldegrave of Hever Castle. [his sister-in-law] Henrietta Fitzjames Countess Newcastle [aged 17] by marriage Lady Waldegrave of Hever Castle.
On 1st January 1684 Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland [aged 30] was appointed 487th Knight of the Garter by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 53].
John Evelyn's Diary. 17th December 1684. Early in the morning I went into St James' Park [Map] to see three Turkish or Asian horses, newly brought over, and now first shewed to his Ma* [aged 54]. There were foure, but one of them died at sea, being three weekes coming from Hamborow. They were taken from a Bashaw at the siege of Vienna, at the late famous raising that leaguer. I never beheld so delicate a creature as one of them was, of somewhat a bright bay, two white feet, a blaze; such a head, eyes, cares, neck, breast, belly, haunches, legs, pasterns, and feete, in all reguards beautifull and proportion'd to admiration; spirited, proud, nimble, making halt, turning with that swiftnesse, and in so small a compasse, as was admirable. With all this so gentle and tractable as call'd to mind what I remember Busbequius speakes of them, to the reproch of our groomes in Europe, who bring up their horses so churlishly as makes most of them retain their 111 habits. They trotted like does, as if they did not feele the ground. 500 guinnies was demanded for the first; 300 for the second; and 200 for the third, wch was browne. All of them were choicely shap'd, but the two last not altogether so perfect as the first. It was judg'd by the spectators, among whom was the King, Prince of Denmark [aged 31], [his father-in-law] Duke of Yorke [aged 51], and several of the Court, noble persons, skill'd In horses, especialy Mons. Faubert and his sonn, (provost masters of ye Academie, and esteem'd of the best in Europe,) that there were never seene any horses in these parts to be compar'd with them. Add to all this, the furniture, consisting of embroidery on the saddle, houseings, quiver, bow, arrows, scymeter, sword, mace, or battle-axe a la Turcisq; the Bashaw's velvet mantle furr'd with the most perfect Ermine I ever beheld; all which, yron-worke in common furniture, being here of silver, curiously wrought and double gilt, to an incredible icon. Such and so extraordinary was the embrodery, that I never saw any thing approching it. The reins and headstall were of crimson silk, cover'd with chaines of silver gilt. There was also a Turkish royal standard of an horse's taile, together with all sorts of other caparisons belonging to a general's horse, by which one may estimate how gallantly and magnificently those infidels appeare in the field, for nothing could be seene more glorious. The gentleman (a German) who rid the horse was in all this garb. They were shod with yron made round and closed at the heele, with a hole in the middle about as wide as a shilling. The hoofes most intire.
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John Evelyn's Diary. 18th December 1684. I went with Lord Cornwallis [aged 28] to see the young gallants do their exercise, Mr. Faubert having newly rail'd in a manage, and fitted it for the academy. There were the Dukes of Norfolk [aged 29] and Northumberland [aged 18], Lord Newburgh, and a nephew of (Duras) Earle of Feversham [aged 43]. The exercises were, 1. running at the ring; 2. flinging a javelin at a Moor's head; 3. discharging a pistol at a mark; lastly, taking up a gauntlet with the point of a sword; all these perform'd in full speede. The D. of Northumberland hardly miss'd of succeeding in every one, a dozen times, as I think. The D. of Norfolk did exceeding bravely. Lords Newburgh and Duras seem'd nothing so dextrous. Here I saw the difference of what ye French call "belle homme a cheval", and "bon homme a cheval;" the Duke of Norfolk being the first, that is, rather a fine person on a horse, the Duke of Northumberland being both in perfection, namely, a graceful person and excellent rider. But the Duke of Norfolk told me he had not ben at this exercise these 12 yeares before. There were in the field ye Prince of Denmark [aged 31], and the Lord Landsdown [aged 23], sonn of ye Earle of Bath [aged 56], who had ben made a Count of ye Empire last Summer for his service before Vienna.
In 20th February 1685 [his mother] Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark [aged 56] died.
In 1686 Catherine Sedley Countess Dorchester and Portmore [aged 28] was created 1st Countess Dorchester for life by [his father-in-law] King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 52] for services as his mistress. Her father Charles Sedley 5th Baronet [aged 46] quipped "As the king has made my daughter a countess, the least I can do, in common gratitude, is to assist in making his Majesty's [his sister-in-law] daughter [aged 23] a queen".
In 1686 Henry Waldegrave 1st Baron Waldegrave [aged 25] was created 1st Baron Waldegrave Chewton Somerset by [his father-in-law] King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 52] three years after Henry Waldegrave 1st Baron Waldegrave married the King's illegitimate daughter [his sister-in-law] Henrietta Fitzjames Countess Newcastle [aged 19]. Henrietta Fitzjames Countess Newcastle by marriage Baroness Waldegrave Chewton Somerset.
In 1687 [his illegitimate brother-in-law] James Fitzjames 1st Duke Berwick [aged 16] was created 1st Duke Berwick by [his father-in-law] King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 53].
John Evelyn's Diary. 15th August 1687. I went to visit Lord Clarendon at Swallowfield, where was my Lord Cornbury [aged 25] just arrived from Denmark, whither he had accompanied the Prince of Denmark [aged 34] two months before, and now come back. The miserable tyranny under which that nation lives, he related to us; the King keeps them under an army of 40,000 men, all Germans, he not daring to trust his own subjects. Notwithstanding this, the Danes are exceedingly proud, the country very poor and miserable.
On 23rd December 1688 [his father-in-law] King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 55] left England for France effectively abdicating as King England Scotland and Ireland. In April 1689 Parliament made William and Mary joint monarchs; His daughter [his sister-in-law] Mary [aged 26] succeeded II Queen England Scotland and Ireland. His nephew William [aged 38] succeeded III King England Scotland and Ireland.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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In 1689 Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland [aged 35] was created 1st Duke Cumberland by his father-in-law King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 55]. Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 23] by marriage Duchess Cumberland.
On 24th July 1689 [his son] Prince William Duke Gloucester was born to Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland [aged 36] and [his wife] Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 24]. He died aged eleven in 1700.
On 28th December 1694 [his sister-in-law] Mary Stewart II Queen England Scotland and Ireland [aged 32] died of smallpox shortly after midnight at Kensington Palace. Her body lay in state at the Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace [Map].
On 5th March 1695 she was buried in Westminster Abbey [Map]. Archbishop Thomas Tenison [aged 58] preached the sermon.
She had reigned for five years. Her husband King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland [aged 44] continued to reign for a further eight years.
On 26th March 1695 [his illegitimate brother-in-law] James Fitzjames 1st Duke Berwick [aged 24] and Honora Burke Duchess Berwick [aged 21] were married at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines. She by marriage Duchess Berwick. She the daughter of William Burke 7th Earl Clanricarde and Helen MacCarty Countess Clanricarde [aged 63]. He the illegitmate son of [his father-in-law] King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 61] and Arabella Churchill [aged 46].
On 3rd April 1695 Piers Butler 1st Earl Newcastle [aged 43] and [his sister-in-law] Henrietta Fitzjames Countess Newcastle [aged 28] were married. She by marriage Countess Newcastle in Limerick. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 61] and Anne Hyde Duchess of York.
On 13th January 1696 [his illegitimate brother-in-law] Henry Fitzjames 1st Duke Albemarle [aged 22] was created 1st Duke Albemarle Jacobite.
In 1698 [his illegitimate brother-in-law] James Fitzjames 1st Duke Berwick [aged 27] and Anne Bulkeley Duchess Berwick were married. She by marriage Duchess Berwick. He the illegitmate son of [his father-in-law] King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 64] and Arabella Churchill [aged 48].
On 25th August 1699 [his brother] Christian V King of Denmark and Norway [aged 53] died. His son [his nephew] Frederick [aged 27] succeeded IV King of Denmark and Norway. Louise of Mecklenburg Güstrow Queen Consort Denmark and Norway [aged 31] by marriage Queen Consort Denmark and Norway.
In October 1699 James Annesley 3rd Earl Anglesey [aged 25] and [his illegitimate sister-in-law] Catherine Darnley Duchess Buckingham and Normandby [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Countess Anglesey. She the illegitmate daughter of [his father-in-law] King James II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 65] and Catherine Sedley Countess Dorchester and Portmore [aged 41]. He the son of James Annesley 2nd Earl Anglesey and Elizabeth Manners Countess Anglesey [aged 45]. They were fourth cousin twice removed.
On 30th July 1700 [his son] Prince William Duke Gloucester [aged 11] died of smallpox.
On 8th March 1702 King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland [aged 51] died of Pneumonia at Kensington Palace. His demise was the direct result of a fall from his horse, named Sorrel, which stumbled on a molehill causing King William to fall and break his collarbone. For many years afterwards, Jacobites would raise their glasses and toast "the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat". His first cousin Anne [aged 37] succeeded I Queen England Scotland and Ireland. She, Anne, being the sister of his wife Mary Stewart II Queen England Scotland and Ireland.
In December 1702 [his illegitimate brother-in-law] Henry Fitzjames 1st Duke Albemarle [aged 29] died. Duke Albemarle Jacobite extinct.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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Around 1705. Michael Dahl [aged 46]. Portrait of Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland [aged 51]. Walmer Castle [Map].
On 16th March 1705 John Sheffield 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby [aged 56] and [his illegitimate sister-in-law] Catherine Darnley Duchess Buckingham and Normandby [aged 25] were married at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. She by marriage Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby. The difference in their ages was 31 years. She the illegitmate daughter of [his father-in-law] King James II of England Scotland and Ireland and Catherine Sedley Countess Dorchester and Portmore [aged 47]. He the son of Edmund Sheffield 2nd Earl Mulgrave and Elizabeth Cranfield Countess Mulgrave [aged 97].
In 1707 Samuel Masham 1st Baron Masham [aged 28] and Abigail Hill Baroness Masham [aged 37] were married. [his wife] Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 41] was present. She contributed £2,000 to Abigail's dowry.
Before 28th October 1708 John Closterman [aged 48]. Portrait of Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland [aged 55].
On 28th October 1708 Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland [aged 55] died without surviving issue. Duke Cumberland extinct.
On 13th November 1708 Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland [deceased] was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].
On 1st August 1714 [his former wife] Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 49] died at Kensington Palace. Her second cousin George [aged 54] succeeded I King Great Britain and Ireland.
Kings Wessex: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Godwinson: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 25 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 20 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 23 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Christian I King of Denmark 
Great x 3 Grandfather: King Frederick I of Denmark
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothea of Brandenburg
Great x 2 Grandfather: Christian III King of Denmark 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John "Cicero" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anna of Brandenburg 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret of Thuringia 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Frederick II King of Denmark 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Dorothea of Saxe Lauenburg Queen Consort Denmark and Norway
GrandFather: Christian IV King of Denmark 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Magnus II Duke of Mecklenburg
Great x 3 Grandfather: Albrecht VII Duke Mecklenburg
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ulrich Mecklenburg-Schwerin 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Joachim "Nestor" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anna Hohenzollern Duchess Mecklenburg 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Sophie Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Denmark 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Father: Frederick III King of Denmark 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandFather: George Hanover Duke Brunswick-Lüneburg 
Mother: Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William II Landgrave of Hesse 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Landgrave Philip I of Hesse 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Landgrave George I of Hesse Darmstadt 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Duke of Saxony 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christine of Saxony 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara Jagiellon 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Landgrave Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandMother: Anne Eleonore Hesse Darmstadt Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England