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The 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." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Paternal Family Tree: Wrottesley
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Sheppard 1617
In 1739 [his father] Richard Wrottesley 7th Baronet (age 17) and [his mother] Mary Leveson-Gower Lady Wrottesley were married. She by marriage Lady Wrottesley of Wrottesley in Staffordshire. The had five daughters. She the daughter of [his grandfather] John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 44) and [his grandmother] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower. They were sixth cousins.
On 22nd December 1744 John Wrottesley 8th Baronet was born to Richard Wrottesley 7th Baronet (age 23) and Mary Leveson-Gower Lady Wrottesley.
In 1761 John Wrottesley 8th Baronet (age 16) was commissioned as ensign of the 2nd Foot Guards.
In 1762 John Wrottesley 8th Baronet (age 17) transferred as captain of the 85th Foot.
In 1766 John Wrottesley 8th Baronet (age 21) was appointed Equerry to Prince Edward Hanover 1st Duke of York (age 26) which position he held until 1767.
On 5th July 1768 John Wrottesley 8th Baronet (age 23) was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held for the remainder of his life.
On 29th June 1769 [his father] Richard Wrottesley 7th Baronet (age 48) died. His son John (age 24) succeeded 8th Baronet Wrottesley of Wrottesley in Staffordshire.
In 1770 John Wrottesley 8th Baronet (age 25) and Frances Courtenay Lady Wrottesley were married. She by marriage Lady Wrottesley of Wrottesley in Staffordshire. She the daughter of William Courtenay 7th Earl Devon and Frances Finch Countess Devon. They were half third cousin twice removed.
On 4th October 1771 [his son] John Wrottesley 1st Baron Wrottesley was born to John Wrottesley 8th Baronet (age 26) and [his wife] Frances Courtenay Lady Wrottesley.
On 30th April 1778 [his mother] Mary Leveson-Gower Lady Wrottesley died.
On 23rd April 1787 John Wrottesley 8th Baronet (age 42) died. His son [his son] John (age 15) succeeded 9th Baronet Wrottesley of Wrottesley in Staffordshire.
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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1828 [his former wife] Frances Courtenay Lady Wrottesley 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 England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 17 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 12 Grand Son of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Wrottesley
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Wrottesley 1st Baronet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Devereux 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Walter Wrottesley 2nd Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Walter Wrottesley 3rd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: John Wrottesley 4th Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Father: Richard Wrottesley 7th Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Grey 1st Baron Grey of Groby 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Grey 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Windsor Baroness Grey Groby 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Grey 1st Earl Stamford 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Neville 1st Baron Abergavenny 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Neville 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Rachel Lennard Baroness Bergavenny
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Grey 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cecil 1st Earl Exeter
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cecil 2nd Earl Exeter 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Neville Countess Exeter 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Cecil Countess Stamford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Drury 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Drury Countess Exeter 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stafford 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Frances Grey Lady Wrottesley 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humble Ward 1st Baron Ward of Birmingham Baron Dudley
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Ward 7th Baron Dudley 2nd Baron Ward 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ferdinando Dudley 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Sutton 6th Baroness Dudley 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Honora Seymour 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandmother: Catherine Ward 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Brereton 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Brereton 1st Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Holland 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Brereton 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Booth 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Susan Booth Lady Brereton
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Anderson Lady Dunham Massey
John Wrottesley 8th Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Gower 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Gower 2nd Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Doyley Baroness Gower
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Leveson-Gower 4th Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Leveson
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Leveson Baroness Gower 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Christian Mildmay 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bevil Grenville
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Granville 1st Earl Bath
Great x 4 Grandmother: Grace Smith
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Granville Baroness Gower
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Wyche
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Wyche
GrandFather: John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Manners 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Manners 8th Earl of Rutland 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Grace Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Manners 1st Duke Rutland 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III 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: Frances Montagu Countess Rutland 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Cotton 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Catherine Manners Baroness Gower 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden
Great x 3 Grandfather: Baptist Noel 3rd Viscount Campden
Great x 4 Grandmother: Juliana Hicks Viscountess Campden
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Noel Duchess Rutland 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Montagu Bertie 2nd Earl Lindsey 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bertie Viscountess Campden 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Martha Cockayne Countess Holderness
Mother: Mary Leveson-Gower Lady Wrottesley 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Pierrepont 1st Earl Kingston 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Pierrepont of Thoresby 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gertrude Talbot Baroness Pierrepont Holme Pierrepoint 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Harries aka Harris 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harries aka Harris
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Gifford
Great x 1 Grandfather: Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Evelyn of West Dean
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Evelyn of Wiltshire
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Evelyn
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Coxe
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Coxe
GrandMother: Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Feilding 1st Earl Denbigh
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Feilding 1st Earl Desmond 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Susan Villiers Countess Denbigh 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Feilding 2nd Earl Desmond 3rd Earl Denbigh 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Michael Stanhope 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bridget Stanhope Countess Desmond 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Read
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Fielding Countess Kingston upon Hull 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Carey 1st Earl Monmouth 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Carey 2nd Earl Monmouth 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Trevannion Countess Monmouth
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Carey Countess Desmond and Denbigh 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex
Great x 3 Grandmother: Martha Cranfield Countess Monmouth
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sheppard