Edward Hyde de Clarendon

Edward Hyde (February 18th 1609, Dinton, Wiltshire - December 9th 1674), 1st count de Clarendon, was a magistrate, historian and English statesman.

At the time of the civil war, it served the party of the king and was created by Charles Ier Stuart Chancellor of the Exchequer and member of the private council. After the execution of Charles I, it joined the son of this prince (Charles II of England) and was charged by him with Dunkirk with important negotiations.

In 1657, Charles II appointed it large chancellor of England; with its re-establishment in 1660, it confirmed it in this dignity and added to it the titles of count de Clarendon and par. The credit of which he enjoyed, its unpopular intolerance and some measurements, like the sale of Dunkirk with Louis XIV, did many enemies to him and they ended up making it disgrace.

The king, importuned his rigid virtue or complaints of which it was the object, stripped it of all his places, and the Parliament banishes it with perpetuity.

It was withdrawn in France and died in Rouen.

One has of him:

History of the rebellion, since 1641 until the re-establishment of Charles II , published in 1702, 3 folio volumes, translated into French, $the Hague, 1704, 6 volumes.

He also wrote his own biography (Oxford, 1661). Clarendon was allied with the royal family, one of her daughters having married the duke of York (Jacques II of England), and having become mother of the princesses Marie and Anne, who reigned.

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