Ancestry of Princess
Diana

Princess of Wales

Edmund Waller

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Diana — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5806 
  • Father:
  • Robert Waller 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Hampden   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Mar 1605/1606 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stocks Place, Coleshill, Hertfordshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Oct 1687 
  • Death Location:
  • St. James's Street, Westminster, Middlesex, England 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • St. Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Banks
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Jul 1631 
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, Middlesex, England 
  • Child:

  Anna Maria Waller (Ahnentafel No:2903 )

  • Notes: 

  • English poet and politician

    During the English Civil War in 1643, Edmund Waller sided with the Royalists and was involved in a plot for an armed uprising to sieze key points in London and let the Royalist army in the city. He was the sole survivor of what was later termed “Waller's Plot.” His fellow conspirators were all executed when they refused to betray the principles, but Waller sang like a bird and was spared.

• Additional marriages for Edmund Waller

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Bracey
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1644
  • Marriage Location:
  • Tower of London, London, England

• Sources for Edmund Waller

  • ¹ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2008, Vol. 9.4, p. 46.
  • ² Burke, Sir Bernard, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, 9th Edition, London: Harrison and Sons (1899), 468.
  • ³ Evans, Richard K., The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 307.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 270.
  • ⁵ Waters, Robert Edmond Chester, Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley, Their Ancestors and Descendants, Vol. 1, London: Robson and Sons (1878), 89-91.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Edmund Waller", (accessed 01/07/2014).