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: St Aubyn
On 22nd May 1695 [his father] John St Aubyn 2nd Baronet (age 24) and [his mother] Mary de la Hay were married.
On 27th September 1696 John St Aubyn 3rd Baronet was born to [his father] John St Aubyn 2nd Baronet (age 26) and [his mother] Mary de la Hay.
On 20th June 1714 [his father] John St Aubyn 2nd Baronet (age 44) died. His son John (age 17) succeeded 3rd Baronet St Aubyn of Clowance in Cornwall.
On 10th June 1718 John St Aubyn 3rd Baronet (age 21) entered Exeter College, Oxford University as a gentleman-commoner. He was awarded MA on 19th July 1721.
In 1722 John St Aubyn 3rd Baronet (age 25) was elected MP Cornwall unopposed. He was re-elected unopposed in 1727, 1734 and 1741.
On 3rd October 1725 John St Aubyn 3rd Baronet (age 29) and Catherine Morice Lady St Aubyn were married at St James' Church, Piccadilly. She brough £10,000 cash to the marriage, and the manor of Stoke-Damerel, including Devonport.
On 12th November 1726 [his son] John St Aubyn 4th Baronet was born to John St Aubyn 3rd Baronet (age 30) and [his wife] Catherine Morice Lady St Aubyn. He married May 1756 Elizabeth Wingfield Lady St Aubyn and had issue.
Around 1730 [his daughter] Barbara St Aubyn Lady Molesworth was born to John St Aubyn 3rd Baronet (age 33) and [his wife] Catherine Morice Lady St Aubyn. She married 22nd July 1762 her first cousin John Molesworth 5th Baronet, son of John Molesworth 4th Baronet and Barbara Morice Lady Molesworth, and had issue.
On 16th June 1740 [his wife] Catherine Morice Lady St Aubyn died. She was buried at St Crewenna's Church, Crowan.
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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Around 20th August 1744 John St Aubyn 3rd Baronet (age 47) died at Pencarrow House, Cornwall. He was buried at St Crewenna's Church, Crowan on 23rd August 1744. His son John (age 17) succeeded 4th Baronet St Aubyn of Clowance in Cornwall.
[his daughter] Mary St Aubyn was born to John St Aubyn 3rd Baronet and Catherine Morice Lady St Aubyn. She married 3rd March 1760 John Buller and had issue.
GrandFather: John St Aubyn 1st Baronet
Father: John St Aubyn 2nd Baronet
GrandMother: Anne Jenkyn Lady St Aubyn
GrandFather: Peter de la Hay of Westminster
Mother: Mary de la Hay