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• Hij is geboren op 19 juni 1606 in Hamilton Palace, South Lanarkshire.

  Let op: Leeftijd bij trouwen (16 juni 1622) lag beneden de 16 jaar (15).

• Hij is overleden op 9 maart 1649 in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, Middlesex, hij was toen 42 jaar oud.

  Executed

• Een kind van James HAMILTON en Anne CUNNINGHAM

Gezin van James HAMILTON

Hij is getrouwd met Mary FEILDING.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 16 juni 1622 te Westminster, Middlesex, hij was toen 15 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Susannah HAMILTON  1633-1694 
2. Anne HAMILTON  1631-1716 

Notities over James HAMILTON

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton KG PC (19 June 1606 - 9 March 1649) was a Scottish nobleman and influential political and military leader during the Thirty Years' War and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

James was born in 1606 at Hamilton Palace in Lanarkshire, the son of James, Marquis of Hamilton, and the Lady Ann Cunningham, daughter of James, Earl of Glencairn. Following the death of his insane great-uncle James, Earl of Arran in 1609, the infant was styled Earl of Arran.

Heir to the Throne of Scotland
The young Earl of Arran's close ancestor was the Princess Mary, daughter to James II of Scotland and Mary of Gueldres. After the death in 1612 of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, James became third in line to the throne of Scotland, after Charles, Duke of Rothesay, and his sister Elizabeth.

James VI's first visit to Scotland since the Union of the Crowns occurred in early 1617, whilst in Scotland, he was apparently charmed by the Marquis, and invited him to court in London. The Marquis duly arrived in London in August of that year, with his eleven-year-old son. Although like most Noblemen's sons of the time he had a private tutor, James Bale, Arran's time spent at court in the ensuing years did not consist of much formal education. To remedy this, Arran was sent to Exeter College, Oxford; he matriculated on 14 December 1621.

Marriage
The Marquis meanwhile had been intriguing with George, Duke of Buckingham. Like all ambitious upstarts at court, Buckingham was keen to consolidate his new-found fortunes by allying himself and his family with established and wealthy families. Buckingham proposed to wed Arran to his niece Mary, daughter to William, Viscount Feilding, an undistinguished Warwickshire Squire. Hamilton, despite his misgivings regarding Buckingham's lowly origins was impressed enough by his influence with the King, to accept his suggestion. On 16 June 1622 the fifteen-year-old Arran married 9-year old Mary Feilding in the presence of the King. Arran was not consulted and later came to bitterly resent it.

In 1625 the 2nd Marquis died at Whitehall of a seizure. His death was blamed on fever, although the speed of his death and his age, thirty-six, made many suspect poison. King James died three weeks later. The new Marquis received all his father's titles, and also the same annuity his father had received from the court of £2500 sterling. At the coronation of King Charles I, Hamilton bore the Sword of State at Westminster Abbey.

In 1628, Hamilton, was made a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, Knight of the Garter, a privy councillor in both England and Scotland, and in the same year was made Master of the Horse, a post he stayed in until 1644.: He represented the King of Bohemia at the baptism of the infant Prince Charles.

By his wife Mary Feilding, Hamilton had six children, of whom four died in childhood.

Henrietta Mary (1631-1632)
Anne (1632-1716), later suo jure Duchess of Hamilton
Susannah (1633-1694), married John Kennedy, 7th Earl of Cassilis in 1668
Charles, Earl of Arran (ca. 1630 - buried 30 April 1640 in Westminster Abbey)
James (1635-1639)
William (1636-1638)

Following the death of his three sons, the dukedom passed by special remainder to his brother William Hamilton, Earl of Lanark. On the latter's death at Worcester in 1651 the Scottish titles reverted to the 1st duke's eldest daughter, Anne. She married William Douglas, Earl of Selkirk, who was created Duke of Hamilton for life.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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