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.
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Paternal Family Tree: Morden aka Harbord
In 1809 [his father] Edward Harbord 3rd Baron Suffield [aged 27] and Georgiana Venables-Vernon Baroness Suffield [aged 22] were married.
In 12th September 1826 [his father] Edward Harbord 3rd Baron Suffield [aged 44] and [his mother] Emily Harriey Shirley Baroness Suffield were married. She by marriage Baroness Suffield.
On 2nd January 1830 Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield was born to [his father] Edward Harbord 3rd Baron Suffield [aged 48] and [his mother] Emily Harriey Shirley Baroness Suffield.
In 1835 [his half-brother] Edward Harbord 4th Baron Suffield [aged 22] and [his sister-in-law] Charlotte Susannah Gardner [aged 24] were married.
In July 1835 [his father] Edward Harbord 3rd Baron Suffield [aged 53] died at Vernon House Park Place after a fall from his horse on Constitution Hill. His son [his half-brother] Edward [aged 22] succeeded 4th Baron Suffield, 5th Baronet Harbord of Suffield in Norfolk.
In 1853 [his half-brother] Edward Harbord 4th Baron Suffield [aged 40] died. His half brother Charles [aged 22] succeeded 5th Baron Suffield, 6th Baronet Harbord of Suffield in Norfolk.
On 4th May 1854 Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 24] and Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Baroness Suffield.
On 14th June 1855 [his son] Charles Harbord 6th Baron Suffield was born to Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 25] and [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 21].
On 15th June 1856 [his daughter] Cecilia Margaret Harbord Marchioness was born to Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 26] and [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 22]. She married 1878 Charles Robert Wynn-Carington 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, son of Robert Carrington 2nd Baron Carrington and Charlotte Augusta Annabella Drummond Willoughby Baroness Carrington, and had issue.
On 23rd June 1857 [his daughter] Alice Marion Harbord Baroness Hillingdon was born to Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 27] and [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 23]. She married 1886 her half fourth cousin once removed Charles Mills 2nd Baron Hillingdon, son of Charles Mills 1st Baron Hillingdon and Louisa Isabella Lascelles Baroness Hillingdon, and had issue.
On 21st November 1858 [his daughter] Mabel Harbord was born to Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 28] and [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 24]. She died aged one in 1860.
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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On 11th February 1860 [his daughter] Mabel Harbord [aged 1] died.
On 23rd February 1860 [his daughter] Elizabeth Evelyn Harbord Baroness Hastings was born to Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 30] and [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 26]. She married 17th April 1880 George Manners Astley 20th Baron Hastings, son of Delaval Loftus Astley 18th Baron Hastings and Frances Diana Manners-Sutton Baroness Hastings, and had issue.
On 20th January 1861 [his son] Assheton Edward Harbord was born to Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 31] and [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 27] at Harleston, Northamptonshire.
On 12th June 1862 [his daughter] Judith Harbord was born to Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 32] and [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 28] at Gunton, Norfolk.
On 31st December 1864 [his daughter] Winifred Harbord was born to Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 34] and [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 30] at Gunton, Norfolk. She married 20th July 1889 Colonel Geoffrey Carr Glyn and had issue.
On 7th January 1868 [his daughter] Eleanor Harbord Lady Musgrave was born to Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 38] and [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 34] at Gunton, Norfolk. She married before 1896 Richard George Musgrave 12th Baronet, son of Richard Courtenay Musgrave 11th Baronet and Adora Frances Olga Wells Lady Musgrave and Baroness Brougham, and had issue.
On 20th December 1870 [his daughter] Bridget Louisa Harbord was born to Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 40] and [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 36]. She married 20th June 1898 Derek William George Keppel, son of William Keppel 7th Earl Albermarle and Sophia Mary MacNab of Dundurn Castle.
On 28th June 1876 [his brother-in-law] Evelyn Baring 1st Earl Cromer [aged 35] and Ethel Errington [aged 31] were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.
In 1878 [his son-in-law] Charles Robert Wynn-Carington 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire [aged 34] and [his daughter] Cecilia Margaret Harbord Marchioness [aged 21] were married.
On 17th April 1880 [his son-in-law] George Manners Astley 20th Baron Hastings [aged 23] and [his daughter] Elizabeth Evelyn Harbord Baroness Hastings [aged 20] were married at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall Palace. She by marriage Baroness Hastings.
On 3rd January 1881 [his mother] Emily Harriey Shirley Baroness Suffield died.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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In 1886 [his son-in-law] Charles Mills 2nd Baron Hillingdon [aged 30] and [his daughter] Alice Marion Harbord Baroness Hillingdon [aged 28] were married. They were half fourth cousin once removed.
The London Gazette 25561. Master of the Horse's Office, Royal Mews, Pimlico, February 17, 1886, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Charles Harbord [aged 56] Baron Suffield, K.C.B., to be Master of Her Majesty's Buckhounds, in the room of the Right Honourable John Henry Delapoer [aged 41], Marquis of Waterford, K.P., resigned.
On 20th July 1889 [his son-in-law] Colonel Geoffrey Carr Glyn [aged 25] and [his daughter] Winifred Harbord [aged 24] were married.
Before 1896 [his son-in-law] Richard George Musgrave 12th Baronet [aged 23] and [his daughter] Eleanor Harbord Lady Musgrave [aged 27] were married. She by marriage Lady Musgrave of Hartley Castle in Westmoreland.
On 20th June 1898 [his son-in-law] Derek William George Keppel [aged 35] and [his daughter] Bridget Louisa Harbord [aged 27] were married. He the son of William Keppel 7th Earl Albermarle and Sophia Mary MacNab of Dundurn Castle [aged 65].
In August 1901 [his brother-in-law] Evelyn Baring 1st Earl Cromer [aged 60] was created 1st Earl Cromer. Katherine Georgina Louisa Thynne Countess Cromer [aged 36] by marriage Countess Cromer.
In August 1901 [his brother-in-law] Evelyn Baring 1st Earl Cromer [aged 60] was created 1st Viscount Errington Hexham Northumberland. Katherine Georgina Louisa Thynne Countess Cromer [aged 36] by marriage Viscountess Errington Hexham Northumberland.
On 22nd October 1901 [his brother-in-law] Evelyn Baring 1st Earl Cromer [aged 60] and Katherine Georgina Louisa Thynne Countess Cromer [aged 36] were married. The difference in their ages was 24 years. She the daughter of John Alexander Thynne 4th Marquess of Bath and Frances Isabella Catherine Vesey Marchioness Bath. They were first cousin twice removed.
On 16th February 1911 [his wife] Cecilia Annetta Baring Baroness Suffield [aged 77] died.
On 9th April 1914 Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield [aged 84] died. His son Charles [aged 58] succeeded 6th Baron Suffield, 7th Baronet Harbord of Suffield in Norfolk.
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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The London Gazette 23128. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk and of the City and County of the City of Norwich.
The Right Honourable Charles, Lord Suffield, to be Vice Lieutenant. Dated 14th June, 1866.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 24 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 29 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 24 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Morden
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Morden aka Harbord 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cropley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Judith Cropley
GrandFather: Harbord Morden aka Harbord 1st Baron Suffield
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Britiffe
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Britiffe Lady Harbord
Father: Edward Harbord 3rd Baron Suffield
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Assheton 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Assheton
Great x 1 Grandfather: Ralph Assheton 3rd Baronet
GrandMother: Mary Assheton Baroness Suffield
Charles Harbord 5th Baron Suffield 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Shirley 2nd Baronet 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Shirley 4th Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Devereux Lady Shirley 
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Shirley 1st Earl Ferrers 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Okeover
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Okeover Lady Shirley
Great x 1 Grandfather: George Shirley 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Finch 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Selina Finch Countess Ferrers
GrandFather: Evelyn Shirley 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Humphrey Sturt
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Sturt
Mother: Emily Harriey Shirley Baroness Suffield 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charlton Wollaston
GrandMother: Phillis Byam Wollaston