Margaretta van Hesse1

Female, #8947, (12 Jan 1635 - before 12 May 1710)

Parent*Jan van Hesse Seigneur de Persehill and Wena (s 1599 - )
Parent*Catharina van Cats (s 1601 - )
Margaretta van Hesse|b. 12 Jan 1635\nd. before 12 May 1710|p8947.htm|Jan van Hesse Seigneur de Persehill and Wena|b. say 1599|p8969.htm|Catharina van Cats|b. say 1601|p8970.htm|||||||||||||

Name Variation  Margaretta van Hesse was also known as Margaret. 
Birth*12 Jan 1635 Margaretta was born on 12 Jan 1635. 
 She was the daughter of Jan van Hesse Seigneur de Persehill and Wena and Catharina van Cats. 
Marriage*3 Aug 1659 She married Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway at The Hague, Holland, on 3 Aug 1659. 
Married Name3 Aug 1659  As of 3 Aug 1659, her married name was Culpeper Baroness of Thoresway. 
Death*before 12 May 1710 She died before 12 May 1710. 
Burial*12 May 1710 Her body was interred on 12 May 1710 at Broomfield, co. Kent, England. 
Biography* In a private act of Parliament passed in August, 1663 (12 Car. II, c. 12; House of Lords MS; Cf. list of private acts in Ruffhead, iii) to naturalise the foreign born wives brought home from the exile by several of the cavaliers, she was described as 'Margaret Lady Culpeper, wife of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Culpeper, Baron of Thoresway... said Margaret [being born] also at The Hague [in Holland]... said ladies being protestants.' The Dutch genealogist already cited describes her father as 'lord of Piershall and Wena, nobleman of the house of the Prince of Orange,' her mother as 'Catharina van Cats;' and says that her elder sister Charlotte (1629-1716) m. 1655 Thomas Killigrew the poet, and after the Restoration became a Lady of the Privy Chamber to Charles II's queen. Mr. Wykeham-Martin (Leeds Castle, p. 171) had access to Lady Culpeper's marriage-settlement, which unfortunately he did not print for it has since been lost, and from it quotes the description of her father as 'Sieur jean de Hesse, Chevalier, en son vivant Seigneur de Pierschil et Wena, et judge des Eaux et Forets de Holland et West Frize, Captaine de Cavalerie au service de Monseigneurs les Etats Generaux des Provinces Unies.' In the Leeds Castle family bible George William Fairfax, writing long after Lady Culpeper's death, recorded her as 'youngest daughter and heir of the Seigneur jean de Hesse, of the noble family of Hesse of Bergen near Cologne.' Burnaby translates this into 'a princess of the house of Hesse Cassel.' The family of Hesse maintained, in several branches, a minor sovereignty on the banks of the Rhine from the middle ages to the time of Napoleon; but it is apparent from the descriptions quoted above that the father of Margaret Lady Culpeper, while of that breeding, was modestly cadet, and not at all princely. To this judgment should be added Lady Culpeper's own testimony after her husband's death (Hist. MS. Comm., House of Lords MS., 1689-90, p. 434) that she brought him 'a very great fortune with which he purchased a very considerable estate of inheritance in fee simple.' - Fairfax Harrison. 

Family

Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway (before 21 Mar 1635 - 27 Jan 1689)
Child

Last Edited 14 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part I", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVII, 47-81, (1904) http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.