Saturday, April 10, 2021
Hyde Line with Queen Ann of England m KING JAMES VII OF ENGLAND Connecting to Our Robinson Line With Amos Benton and Deborah Hyde
Nadene Goldfoot
Edward Hyde was born on 18 February 1609, at Dinton, Wiltshire, sixth of nine children and third son of Henry Hyde (1563–1634) and Mary Langford (1578–1661). His siblings included Anne (1597–?), Elizabeth (1599–?), Lawrence (1600–?), Henry (1601–1627), Mary (1603–?), Sibble (1605–?), Susanna (1607–?) and Nicholas (1610–1611).[2]
His father and two of his uncles were lawyers; although Henry retired after his marriage, Nicholas Hyde became Lord Chief Justice, Lawrence was legal advisor to Anne of Denmark, wife of James I. Educated at Gillingham School, in 1622 he was admitted to Hertford College, Oxford, then known as Magdalen Hall, graduating in 1626. Originally intended for a career in the Church of England, the death of his elder brothers left him as his father's heir, and instead he entered the Middle Temple to study law.
He married twice, first in 1629 to Anne Ayliffe, who died six months later, then to Frances Aylesbury in 1634. They had six children who survived infancy: Henry (1638–1709), Laurence (1642–1711), Edward (1645–1665), James (1650–1681), Anne (1638–1671), and Frances. As mother of two queens, Anne is the best remembered, but both Henry and Laurence had significant political careers, the latter being 'an exceptionally able politician'.
The Hyde line found marrying into our Robinson line through the wife of a Robinson, a Durkee and it leads to Anne Hyde (March 22 1637- April 10, 1671) England who married King James, II, Duke of York and VII of England. They married on September 3, 1660 in London, England. Anne's father was Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon PC JP, was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II from 1660 to 1667
Anne Hyde was the mother of Mary II, (April 30, 1662-December 28, 1694) Queen of England who married William III and II, King England, Scotland, Ireland and mother of Queen Anne.( February 6, 1664-1714) who married Prince George " Jørgen (Oldenburg) Fredericksen of Denmark.
Deborah Hyde (October 16, 1734- 1780), an offshoot of our Durkee line-of which our Abiathar Smith Robinson's mother in law was Asenath Durkee was Queen Anne's 1/2 3rd cousin-4 times removed. They shared the same surname but were not exactly direct relatives. Deborah Hyde is our Robinson line relative. She was married to Amos Benton Robinson (July 26, 1734-before March 16, 1812) whose great grandson was my great grandfather, Abiathar Smith Robinson (1829-October 1904).
I have fulfilled my mother's wish to be connected to the kings and queens of England. Mildred Elizabeth Robinson would then be a 1/2 3rd cousin--9 times removed. That makes my brother David and I Anne Hyde's 1/2 3rd cousin--10 times removed.
Nigel Bruce played Sir Edward Hyde in the 1947 film The Exile, with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as Charles II.
In the film Cromwell, Clarendon (called only Sir Edward Hyde in the film), is portrayed by Nigel Stock as a sympathetic, conflicted man torn between Parliament and the king. He finally turns against Charles I altogether when the king pretends to accept Cromwell's terms of peace but secretly and treacherously plots to raise a Catholic army against Parliament and start a second civil war. Clarendon reluctantly, but bravely, gives testimony at the king's trial which is instrumental in condemning him to death.
In the 2003 BBC TV mini-series 'Charles II: The Power and The Passion, Clarendon was played by actor Ian McDiarmid. The series portrayed Clarendon (referred to as 'Sir Edward Hyde' throughout) as acting in a paternalistic fashion towards Charles II, something the king comes to dislike. It is also intimated that he had arranged the marriage of Charles and Catherine of Braganza already knowing that she was infertile so that his granddaughters through his daughter Anne Hyde (who had married the future James II) would eventually inherit the throne of England.
In the 2004 film Stage Beauty, starring Billy Crudup and Claire Danes, Clarendon (again referred to simply as Edward Hyde) is played by Edward Fox.
In fiction, Clarendon is a minor character in An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, and he is also a recurring character in the Thomas Chaloner series of mystery novels by Susanna Gregory; both authors show him in a fairly sympathetic light.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon
My own genealogy of our Robinson line
https://wwwrobinsongenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/connecting-to-king-james-ii-and-his.html
