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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 7th March 1930 Antony Armstrong-Jones 1st Earl of Snowdon was born.
On 21st April 1956 Colin Tennant 3rd Baron Glenconner (age 29) and Anne Veronica Coke Baroness Glenconner (age 23) were married at St Withburga's Church, Holkham [Map]. Bishop Percy Herbert (age 70) presided. The guests included [his future mother-in-law] Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Queen Consort England (age 55) and [his future wife] Princess Margaret (age 25). Princess Margaret's future husband Antony Armstrong-Jones 1st Earl of Snowdon (age 26) took the photographs. She the daughter of Major Thomas William Edward Coke 5th Earl of Leicester (age 47) and Elizabeth Mary Yorke Countess of Leicester (age 44).
On 6th May 1960 Antony Armstrong-Jones 1st Earl of Snowdon (age 30) and Princess Margaret (age 29) were married at Westminster Abbey [Map]. The ceremony was the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television. She the daughter of King George VI of the United Kingdom and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Queen Consort England (age 59).
Colin Tennant 3rd Baron Glenconner (age 33) and Anne Veronica Coke Baroness Glenconner (age 27), whose wedding the couple had attended four years before, offered them a piece of land on their privately owned island, Mustique, and agreed to build a house for the couple on the land. It was designed in 1971 by uncle to Lord Snowdon, Oliver Messel, and named "Les Jolies Eaux" aka "The Pretty Waters"
On 3rd October 1961 [his son] David Armstrong-Jones 2nd Earl of Snowdon was born to Antony Armstrong-Jones 1st Earl of Snowdon (age 31) and [his wife] Princess Margaret (age 31) at Clarence House. He a grandson of King George VI of the United Kingdom.
On 6th October 1961 Antony Armstrong-Jones 1st Earl of Snowdon (age 31) was created 1st Earl Snowdon, 1st Viscount Linley.
7th April 1982. Lord Snowdon (age 52). Photograph of Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell 6th Baronet (age 84).
On 8th October 1993 [his son] David Armstrong-Jones 2nd Earl of Snowdon (age 32) and [his daughter-in-law] Serena Stanhope (age 23) were married. She the daughter of Charles Stanhope 12th Earl of Harrington (age 48). He the son of Antony Armstrong-Jones 1st Earl of Snowdon (age 63) and [his wife] Princess Margaret (age 63).
On 9th February 2002 [his wife] Princess Margaret (age 71) died at King Edward VII's Hospital. She was buried at King George VI Memorial Chapel, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map].
On 13th January 2017 Antony Armstrong-Jones 1st Earl of Snowdon (age 86) died. His son [his son] David (age 55) succeeded 2nd Earl Snowdon, 2nd Viscount Linley. [his daughter-in-law] Serena Stanhope (age 46) by marriage Countess Snowdon.