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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: Reade
In 1650 [his father] Compton Reade 1st Baronet (age 24) and [his mother] Mary Cornwall Lady Reade (age 20) were married at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Duns Tew. They were half first cousins.
On 30th June 1659 Edward Reade 2nd Baronet was born to [his father] Compton Reade 1st Baronet (age 34) and [his mother] Mary Cornwall Lady Reade (age 29). He was baptised on 6th July 1599. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.12%.
On 27th February 1674 Edward Reade 2nd Baronet (age 14) matriculated St Mary Hall, Oxford University.
On 29th September 1679 [his father] Compton Reade 1st Baronet (age 54) died. He was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Shipton-under-Wychwood. His son Edward (age 20) succeeded 2nd Baronet Reade of Barton in Berkshire.
Before 25th July 1682 Edward Reade 2nd Baronet (age 23) and Elizabeth Harby Baroness Reade (age 21) were married. She by marriage Lady Reade of Barton in Berkshire. Some sources give the date as 9th June 1684 which is inconsistent with the birth of their first son Winwood Reade 3rd Baronet on 25th July 1682.
On or before 25th July 1682 [his son] Winwood Reade 3rd Baronet was born to Edward Reade 2nd Baronet (age 23) and [his wife] Elizabeth Harby Baroness Reade (age 21). He was baptised 25th July 1682 at St Mary's Church, Canons Ashby. He died aged nine point nine nine zero five one nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine three in 1692.
In 1683 [his son] Thomas Reade 4th Baronet was born to Edward Reade 2nd Baronet (age 23) and [his wife] Elizabeth Harby Baroness Reade (age 22). He married 29th October 1719 Jane Mary Dutton Lady Reade, daughter of Ralph Dutton 1st Baronet and Mary Barwick Lady Dutton, and had issue.
In 1685 Edward Reade 2nd Baronet (age 25) was appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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On 4th September 1691 Edward Reade 2nd Baronet (age 32) died. He was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Shipton-under-Wychwood. His son Winwood (age 9) succeeded 3rd Baronet Reade of Barton in Berkshire.
On 3rd February 1702 Henry Fermor of St Margaret's Westminster and [his former wife] Elizabeth Harby Baroness Reade (age 41) were married at All Hallows Staining Church Langbourn Ward.
On 13th September 1730 [his former wife] Elizabeth Harby Baroness Reade (age 69) died. She was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Shipton-under-Wychwood.
Kings Wessex: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 25 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 20 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 23 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Reade
GrandFather: Thomas Reade of Appleton
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Brocket
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Brocket
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Brocket
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Lytton of Knebworth
Great x 2 Grandmother: Helen Lytton
Father: Compton Reade 1st Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cornwall 8th Baron Burford 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Cornwall 9th Baron Burford 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Cornwall 11th Baron Burford 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Wogan
Great x 3 Grandmother: Janet Wogan
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Cornwall 12th Baron Burford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harley of Brampton Bryan
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Harley of Brampton Bryan
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ann Croft
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Harley Baroness Cornwall
GrandMother: Mary Cornwall 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Edward Reade 2nd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cornwall 8th Baron Burford 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Cornwall 9th Baron Burford 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Cornwall 11th Baron Burford 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Wogan
Great x 3 Grandmother: Janet Wogan
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Cornwall 12th Baron Burford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harley of Brampton Bryan
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Harley of Brampton Bryan
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ann Croft
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Harley Baroness Cornwall
GrandFather: Gilbert Cornwall 13th Baron Burford 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Lyttelton
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Lyttelton of Frankley 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Talbot 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Gilbert Lyttelton 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Pakington of Hampton Lovett 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bridget Packington
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Dacres
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Lyttelton Baroness Burford 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Coningsbury
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Coningsby
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Coningsbury
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Englefield
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Englefield
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Throckmorton 
Mother: Mary Cornwall Lady Reade 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Lyttelton
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Lyttelton
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Lyttelton of Frankley 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert Talbot 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Talbot 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Paston 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gilbert Lyttelton 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Pakington
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Pakington of Hampton Lovett
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Washbourne
Great x 2 Grandmother: Bridget Packington
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Dacres of Mayfield
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Dacres
GrandMother: Anne Lyttelton Baroness Burford 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Coningsby
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Coningsbury
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Ferriby
Great x 2 Grandfather: Humphrey Coningsby
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Coningsbury
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Englefield
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Englefield
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margery Danvers 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Englefield
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Throckmorton
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Throckmorton