Person:Melusina von der Schulenburg (1)

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Petronille Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham
b.1 Apr 1693
d.16 Sep 1778
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  1. Petronille Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham1693 - 1778
  2. Countess Margarete Gertrud of Oeynhausen1701 - 1726
m. 5 Sep 1733
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Name Petronille Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1 Apr 1693
Marriage 5 Sep 1733 to Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Death[1] 16 Sep 1778
Reference Number[1] Q108377?


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Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham (1 April 1693 – 16 September 1778) was the natural daughter of King George I of Great Britain and his longtime mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal.

In 1722, Melusina was created Baroness Aldborough and Countess of Walsingham as a life peer. After the death of her father in 1727, she lived mainly with her mother at Kendal House in Isleworth.

In Isleworth, Middlesex, on 5 September 1733 she married Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, a leading Whig politician.

The couple had no children, but it is said that "family letters" suggest that Melusina may have been the mother, through an intimacy with Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, of Benedict Swingate Calvert. Calvert was born in England in around 1730–32, the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore. His mother's identity is otherwise unknown.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Albrecht Wolfgang Graf zur Schaumburg-Lippe, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  3.   3:183, in Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).