Hamilton, Mary (1613–1638)

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Hamilton, Mary (1613–1638)

Duchess of Hamilton. Name variations: Margaret Fielding; Mary Fielding. Born Mary Fielding in 1613; died on May 10, 1638; daughter of William Fielding, 1st earl of Denbigh, and Susan Villiers ; married James Hamilton (1606–1648), 1st duke of Hamilton, in 1630; children: Anne Hamilton (1636–1716); Charles Hamilton, earl of Arran; Susannah Hamilton.

Mary, duchess of Hamilton, was lady-of-the-bedchamber to Queen Henrietta Maria . Poet Edmund Waller praised her in "Thyrsis Galatea." Her husband James Hamilton was beheaded in 1648 for leading a Scottish army into England.

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