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{{short description|17th century British prince}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name     = Edgar Stuart
| title     = [[Duke of Cambridge]]
| birth_date = 14 September 1667
| birth_place = [[St James's Palace]], [[London]]
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1671|6|8|1667|9|14|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Richmond Palace]], [[Surrey]]
| burial_date = 12 June 1671
| burial_place = [[Westminster Abbey]]
| house     = [[House of Stuart|Stuart]]
| father   = [[James, Duke of York]]
| mother   = [[Anne Hyde]]
}}
'''Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge''' (14 September 1667 – 8 June 1671) was the fourth son of James, Duke of York (later [[James II of England]]) and his first wife [[Anne Hyde]]. He was second in the [[line of succession to the British throne|line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones]].

==Life==
Edgar was born on 14 September 1667 at [[St James's Palace]]<ref name=weir>{{cite book|first=Alison |last=Weir |title=Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy |location=London, U.K.| publisher = The Bodley Head |date= 1999| page =259}}</ref> and baptized there with the [[Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle|Duke of Albemarle]], the [[Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort|Marquis of Worcester]], and the [[Barbara Howard, Countess of Suffolk|Countess of Suffolk]] as sponsors.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sheppard |first1=Edgar |title=Memorials of St. James's Palace |date=1894 |publisher=Longmans, Green & Company |location=London |page=43 |volume=II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZALAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA43 |access-date=15 October 2018}}</ref> The name "Edgar" had ancient roots in both the English ([[Edgar the Peaceful]]) and Scottish ([[Edgar, King of Scotland]]) monarchies. On 7 October 1667 he was created [[Duke of Cambridge|Duke]] and [[Earl of Cambridge]] and [[Baron of Dauntsey]].<ref>{{cite book| display-editors=etal| editor-last=Cokayne |editor-first=G.E. | title = The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant|edition= new|location= Gloucester, U.K.| publisher =Alan Sutton Publishing|date= 2000 |volume =II| page =496}}</ref> His elder brother [[Charles Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (1660–1661)|Charles]] had died at the age of six months in 1661 before the patent for the title of Duke of Cambridge was passed and another brother, [[James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge|James]], was formally created [[Duke of Cambridge]] before his death in 1667 at the age of three. Edgar's titles became extinct until the birth of another son, also named [[Charles Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (born 1677)|Charles]], in 1677.

His mother was ill for months following his birth and never fully recovered, though she gave birth twice more to daughters who died before their first birthdays; she died on 13 March 1671.<ref>{{cite book | first = J.R. | last =Henslowe | title = Anne Hyde, Duchess of York | page= 289 | location = London | publisher = T. Werner Laurie }}</ref> Edgar died at [[Richmond Palace]] on 8 June 1671<ref name=weir/> leading to official mourning.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hinds |first1=Allen B. |title=Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 37, 1671-1672:June 1671, 21–30.. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1939. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol37/pp79-81 |website=British History Online |access-date=11 August 2020}}</ref>
He was entombed in the royal vault in the [[Henry VII Chapel]] in [[Westminster Abbey]] on 12 June 1671, his coffin placed atop that of his mother.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Keepe |first1=Henry |title=Monumenta Westmonasteriensia: Or An Historical Account of the Original, Increase, and Present State of St. Peter's, Or the Abby Church of Westminster |date=1682 |publisher=C. Wilkinson and T. Dring |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ftbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA109 |access-date=15 October 2018}}</ref>

==Legacy==
The town of [[Edgartown, Massachusetts]], on [[Martha's Vineyard]], settled in 1642, was named for him when incorporated in 1671, shortly before news of his death reached North America.<ref>{{EB1911|noprescript=1|wstitle=Martha's Vineyard | volume= 17| pages=787–788| first = George |last=Gladden}}</ref><ref>{{Britannica|179081|Edgartown}}</ref> Martha's Vineyard was then part of the proprietary colony of New York, given to Edgar's father the Duke of York in 1664 by Charles II.<ref>{{cite book | pages= 140ff | title = The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts | volume= I | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iYUlAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA140 | first = Charles Edward | last= Banks | publisher = G.H. Dean | date=1911| isbn = 9780598971876 }}</ref>

==Arms==
[[File:Coat of arms of James, Duke of Cambridge (1664-1667).png|thumb|upright|alt=See adjacent text|Coat of arms as Duke of Cambridge]]

Edgar bore a coat of arms, as a grandson of a British Sovereign, consisting those of the kingdom, differenced by a ''label argent of five points ermine''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Marks of Cadency in the British Royal family|url=http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/cadency.htm|access-date=18 October 2018}}</ref>

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge'''
|2= 2. [[James II of England]]
|3= 3. [[Anne Hyde]]
|4= 4. [[Charles I of England]]
|5= 5. [[Henrietta Maria of France]]
|6= 6. [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]]
|7= 7. [[Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon|Frances Aylesbury]]
|8= 8. [[James VI and I|James I of England]]
|9= 9. [[Anne of Denmark]] 
|10= 10. [[Henry IV of France]]
|11= 11. [[Marie de' Medici]]
|12= 12. [[Henry Hyde (died 1634)|Henry Hyde]]
|13= 13. Mary Langford 
|14= 14. [[Sir Thomas Aylesbury, 1st Baronet|Sir Thomas Aylesbury, 1st Bt]]
|15= 15. [[Anne Denman]]
}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web|title=Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge| url= http://thepeerage.com/p10136.htm#i101357| first =Darryl |last=Lundy|date=20 January 2011|publisher=thePeerage.com|access-date=18 October 2018}}

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