Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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Paternal Family Tree: Barnard
Around 1697 Bishop William Barnard was born to [his father] John Barnard [aged 29].
On or before 22nd September 1713, the date he was buried at Temple Church, London [Map], [his father] John Barnard [aged 45] died. See Register of Burials at Temple Church, page 34.
In or before 1726 Bishop William Barnard [aged 28] and Anne Stone [aged 26] were married.
In 1726 [his son] Thomas Barnard was born to Bishop William Barnard [aged 29] and [his wife] Anne Stone [aged 27]. He married 20th July 1758 Elizabeth Browne and had issue.
In 1729 Bishop William Barnard [aged 32] was appointed Vicar of St Bride's Church, Fleet Street.
In 1743 Bishop William Barnard [aged 46] was appointed Dean of Rochester.
In 1744 Bishop William Barnard [aged 47] was appointed Bishop of Raphoe.
In 1747 Bishop William Barnard [aged 50] was appointed Bishop of Derry.
On 20th July 1758 [his son] Thomas Barnard [aged 32] and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Browne [aged 57] were married. The difference in their ages was 25 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 10th January 1768 Bishop William Barnard [aged 71] died.
In 1783 [his former wife] Anne Stone [aged 84] died.