7/5/2023 0 Comments Heather darsie![]() ![]() Mary of Guelders was Anna’s great-great aunt on her father’s side. Margaret Tudor continued this Cleves connection through her marriage to James IV, and the subsequent birth of James V of Scotland. Mary of Guelders became queen consort of Scotland’s James II in 1449, and gave birth to the future James III. Catherine of Cleves, the same Catherine of Cleves whose gorgeous illuminated Book of Hours is still extant, became mother to Mary of Guelders in 1434. Henry VIII first became related to the Cleves family through the marriage in 1503 of his elder sister Margaret to James IV of Scotland. Below, we will go through the genealogy of some of Anna’s royal connections. In 1539, when Anna came to England to be Henry’s queen, she had many well-known powerful relations, distant though they were. While an interesting anecdote, Edward I, or Edward Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots, died in 1307. ![]() Anna von Kleve, from the line of von der Marck (Germanic) or LaMarck (Francophone), fourth wife of Henry VIII and most commonly known as Anne of Cleves, is known to have shared the lineage of King Edward I of England with Henry’s other five wives. ![]()
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