Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall
The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall (Chronicon Anglicanum) is an indispensable medieval history that brings to life centuries of English and European affairs through the eyes of a learned Cistercian monk. Ralph of Coggeshall, abbot of the Abbey of Coggeshall in Essex in the early 13th century, continued and expanded his community’s chronicle, documenting events from the Norman Conquest of 1066 into the tumultuous reign of King Henry III. Blending eyewitness testimony, careful compilation, and the monastic commitment to record-keeping, this chronicle offers a rare narrative of political intrigue, royal power struggles, and social upheaval in England and beyond. Ralph’s work captures the reigns of pivotal figures such as Richard I and King John, providing invaluable insights into their characters, decisions, and the forces that shaped medieval rule. More than a simple annal, Chronicon Anglicanum conveys the texture of medieval life and governance, making it a rich source for scholars and readers fascinated by English history, monastic authorship, and the shaping of the medieval world.
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Paternal Family Tree: Fermor
On 14th July 1720 [his father] Thomas Fermor 1st Earl Pomfret (age 22) and [his mother] Henriette Louise Jeffreys Countess Pomfret (age 21) were married. They were fifth cousins.
In 1722 George Fermor was born to [his father] Thomas Fermor 1st Earl Pomfret (age 24) and [his mother] Henriette Louise Jeffreys Countess Pomfret (age 23).
In April 1744 [his brother-in-law] John Carteret 2nd Earl Granville (age 53) and [his sister] Sophia Fermor Countess Granville were married. She by marriage Countess Granville. She the daughter of [his father] Thomas Fermor 1st Earl Pomfret (age 46) and [his mother] Henriette Louise Jeffreys Countess Pomfret (age 45). He the son of George Carteret 1st Baron Carteret and Jane Granville Baroness Gower (age 89). They were fourth cousin twice removed.
On 7th October 1745 [his sister] Sophia Fermor Countess Granville died.
On 24th February 1752 Captain Thomas Grey (age 23) was killed in a duel with George Fermor (age 30) at Marylebone Fields. George Fermor was found guilty of manslaughter; he appears to have been sentenced to be burnt in the hand. He succeeded to his father's title the following year. See Letters of Horace Walpole.
Letters of Horace Walpole. 27th February 1752. I write this as a sort of letter of form on the occasion, for there is nothing worth telling you. The event that has made most noise since my last, is the extempore wedding of the youngest (age 18) of the two Gunnings, who have made so vehement a noise. Lord Coventry (age 29)295, a grave young lord, of the remains of the patriot breed, has long dangled after the eldest (age 19), virtuously with regard to her virtue, not very honourably with regard to his own credit. About six weeks ago Duke Hamilton (age 27)296, the very reverse of the Earl, hot, debauched, extravagant, and equally damaged in his fortune and person, fell in love with the youngest at the masquerade, and determined to marry her in the spring. About a fortnight since, at an immense assembly at my Lord Chesterfield's, made to show the house, which is really magnificent, Duke Hamilton made violent love at one end of the room, while he was playing at pharaoh at the other end; that is, he saw neither the bank nor his own cards, which were of three hundred pounds each: he soon lost a thousand. I own I was so little a professor in love, that I thought all this parade looked ill for the poor girl; and could not conceive, if he was so much engaged with his mistress as to disregard such sums, why he played at all. However, two nights afterwards, being left alone with her while her mother and sister were at Bedford House, he found himself so impatient, that he sent for a parson. The doctor refused to perform the ceremony without license or ring: the Duke swore he would send for the Archbishop-at last they were married with a ring of the bed-curtain, at half an hour after twelve at night, at Mayfair chapel297, The Scotch are enraged; the women mad that so much beauty has had its effect; and what is most silly, my Lord Coventry declares that he now will marry the other.
Poor Lord Lempster (age 30) has just killed an officer298 in a duel, about a play-debt, and I fear was in the wrong. There is no end of his misfortunes and wrong-headedness!-Where is Mr. Conway!-Adieu!
Note 295. George-William, sixth Earl of Coventry. He died in 1809, at the age of eighty-seven.-E.
Note 296. James, fourth Duke of Hamilton. He died in 1758.-D.
Note 297. On the 14th of February.-E.
Note 298. Captain Gray of the Guards (deceased). The duel was fought, with swords, in Marylebone Fields. Lord Lempster took his trial at the Old Bailey in April, and was found guilty of manslaughter.-E.
On 8th July 1753 [his father] Thomas Fermor 1st Earl Pomfret (age 55) died. His son George (age 31) succeeded 2nd Earl Pomfret aka Pontefract, 3rd Baron Leominster, 4th Baronet Fermor of Easton Neston in Northamptonshire.
On 15th December 1761 [his mother] Henriette Louise Jeffreys Countess Pomfret (age 63) died.
In 1764 George Fermor 2nd Earl Pomfret (age 42) and Anna Maria Delagard Countess Pomfret (age 28) were married. She by marriage Countess Pomfret aka Pontefract. He the son of Thomas Fermor 1st Earl Pomfret and Henriette Louise Jeffreys Countess Pomfret.
In 1766 [his daughter] Charlotte Fermor was born to George Fermor 2nd Earl Pomfret (age 44) and [his wife] Anna Maria Delagard Countess Pomfret (age 30). She married before 1816 Peter Denys and had issue.
On 6th January 1768 [his son] George Fermor 3rd Earl Pomfret was born to George Fermor 2nd Earl Pomfret (age 46) and [his wife] Anna Maria Delagard Countess Pomfret (age 32).
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 12th October 1770 [his son] Thomas Fermor 4th Earl Pomfret was born to George Fermor 2nd Earl Pomfret (age 48) and [his wife] Anna Maria Delagard Countess Pomfret (age 34). He married 13th January 1823 Amabel Elizabeth Borough Countess of Pomfret, daughter of Richard Borough 1st Baronet and Anna Maria Lake, and had issue.
In 1785 George Fermor 2nd Earl Pomfret (age 63) died. His son George (age 16) succeeded 3rd Earl Pomfret aka Pontefract, 4th Baron Leominster, 5th Baronet Fermor of Easton Neston in Northamptonshire.
In 1787 [his former wife] Anna Maria Delagard Countess Pomfret (age 51) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 18 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 24 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 19 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 12 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 27 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fermor 
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Fermor of Easton Neston
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Vaux 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hatton Fermor of Easton Neston Northamptonshire 15 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Curzon 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Curzon 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Hussey 
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Fermor 1st Baronet 16 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cockayne 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cockayne
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Medcalf
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Cockayne
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Morris
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Morris Countess Dover
GrandFather: William Fermor 1st Baron Leominster 17 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Father: Thomas Fermor 1st Earl Pomfret 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Osborne 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hewett Osborne
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Hewett
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Osborne 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Fleetwood 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joyce Fleetwood
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bridget Spring 
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Walmesley 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Walmesley Lady Osborne 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Danvers 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Danvers 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Neville 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Sophia Osborne Baroness Leominster 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peregrine Bertie 13th Baron Willoughby 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Bertie 1st Earl Lindsey 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Vere Baroness Willoughby of Eresby 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Montagu Bertie 2nd Earl Lindsey 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Montagu Countess Lindsey 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jeffrey
Great x 1 Grandmother: Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cockayne
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cockayne
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Medcalf
Great x 2 Grandmother: Martha Cockayne Countess Holderness
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Morris
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Morris Countess Dover
George Fermor 2nd Earl Pomfret 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Jeffreys
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Jeffreys
Great x 1 Grandfather: George "Hanging Judge" Jeffreys 1st Baron Jeffreys
GrandFather: John Jeffreys 2nd Baron Jeffreys
Great x 1 Grandmother: Sarah Needham
Mother: Henriette Louise Jeffreys Countess Pomfret 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke 
6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip Herbert 4th Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Montgomery 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Sidney Countess Pembroke 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Philip Herbert 5th Earl Pembroke 2nd Earl Montgomery 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward de Vere 17th Earl of Oxford 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Susan Vere Countess Montgomery 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Cecil Countess of Oxford 
11 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Philip "Infamous Earl" Herbert 7th Earl Pembroke 4th Earl Montgomery 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Villiers of Brokesby 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Villiers 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Audrey Saunders
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Villiers Countess Pembroke and Montgomery
Great x 3 Grandmother: Rebecca Roper Lady Villiers 
GrandMother: Charlotte Herbert Viscountess Windsor 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Guillaume de Penancoët Seigneur de Kéroualle
Great x 1 Grandmother: Henrietta Kéroualle Countess Pembroke and Montgomery