Sophia Stuart (1606)
Sophia Rosula Stuart (born June 22, 1606, in Greenwich at Palace of Placentia and died June 23, 1606) was the fourth daughter and last of nine children of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark.
Biography[edit]
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Anne of Denmark prepared herself for childbirth at the Palace of Placentia, or Greenwich Palace. Her lady in waiting, Audrey Walsingham, bought linen and lacework to the value of £614 for her lying-in.[2] Sophia Stuart was born early in the morning of 22 June 1606 .[3] Anne used the same midwife, Alice Dennis, who had helped at the birth of Mary Stuart in April 1605. Sophia grew "verye weake" and was baptised by James Montague, Dean of the Chapel Royal.[4] She was named after her grandmother Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.[5] Ninth and last child of James I of England and Queen Anne of Denmark, her body was carried on the Thames in a barge covered with black velvet to be buried in Westminster Abbey.[3]
A cancelled tournament[edit]
There had been plans to hold a tournament at Greenwich to celebrate the birth and baptism. A challenge had been issued in the name of the "Four Knights Errant of the Fortunate Island" on 1 June 1606. The comic text of the challenge made King James laugh. Sophia's uncle Christian IV of Denmark was expected to attend. The event was cancelled.[6] Christian IV arrived in England and went to see his grieving sister at Greenwich on 18 July.[7] Christian IV was entertained by the king at Theobalds while Anne remained at Greenwich.[8]
Monument at Westminster Abbey[edit]
Sophia's monument at Westminster Abbey resembling a stone crib was designed by Maximilian Colt and painted and gilded by John de Critz.[9] The tomb is finely carved with lacework.[10] Its Latin inscription may be translated, "Sophia, a royal rosebud untimely plucked by Fate and from James, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, and Queen Anne her parents, snatched away, to flower again in the rose garden of Christ, lies here. 23rd June, 4th year of the reign of King James 1606".[11]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Patricia Phillippy, Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England (Cambridge, 2002), p. 144.
- ↑ Fanny Bury Palliser, History of Lace (London, 1865), p. 296.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Panton 2011, p. 465.
- ↑ M. S. Giuseppi, HMC Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House, 1606, vol. 18 (London, 1940), p. 178.
- ↑ Jemma Field, Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts (Manchester, 2020), pp. 185, 192.
- ↑ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1828), pp. 49-52: Martin Wiggins & Catherine Richardson, British Drama, 1533-1642: 1603-1608, vol. 5 (Oxford, 2015), p. 302.
- ↑ J. Leeds Barroll, Anna of Denmark, Queen of England (Philadelphia, 2001), p. 107.
- ↑ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1828), pp. 53, 59.
- ↑ Patricia Phillippy, Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England (Cambridge, 2002), p. 144: Frederick Devon, Issues of the Exchequer in the Reign of James I (London, 1836), p. 60: Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, vol. 3 (London, 1791), pp. 319-20.
- ↑ Graham Parry, The Golden Age Restor'd: The Culture of the Stuart Court, 1603-42 (Manchester, 1981), p. 255.
- ↑ Westminster Abbey: James I and Anne of Denmark
Bibliography[edit]
- James Panton, Stuart, Sophia, Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy, p 465, 2011, [1]
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