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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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Paternal Family Tree: Carey
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Morgan Baroness Hunsdon 1529-1607
On 21st May 1545 [her father] Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon (age 19) and [her mother] Anne Morgan Baroness Hunsdon (age 16) were married.
Around 1550 Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham was born to [her father] Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon (age 23) and [her mother] Anne Morgan Baroness Hunsdon (age 21).
In July 1563 Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 27) and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 13) were married. They were half first cousin twice removed.
On 3rd March 1564 [her daughter] Elizabeth Howard Countess Carrick was born to [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 28) and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 14) at Effingham, Surrey [Map]. Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 30) was her Godmother. She married (1) Robert Southwell and had issue (2) 1604 her half fifth cousin John Stewart 1st Earl Carrick, son of Robert Stewart 1st Earl Orkney and Jean Kennedy Countess Orkney.
On 25th August 1568 [her father] Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon (age 42) was appointed Governor of Berwick on Tweed.
In 1569 [her father] Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon (age 42) was appointed Lieutenant General.
Before 1572 Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 21) was appointed First Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 38).
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 January 1573 [her father-in-law] William Howard 1st Baron Howard (age 63) died at Hampton Court Palace, Richmond [Map]. He was buried at Reigate, Surrey [Map]. His son [her husband] Charles (age 37) succeeded 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham. Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 23) by marriage Baroness Howard of Effingham.
On 29th December 1574 [her brother] George Carey 2nd Baron Hunsdon (age 27) and [her sister-in-law] Elizabeth Spencer Baroness Hunsdon and Eure (age 22) were married.
In 1575 [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 39) was appointed 362nd Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 41).
On 4th November 1576 John Paulet 2nd Marquess Winchester (age 66) died. His son William (age 44) succeeded 3rd Marquess Winchester, 3rd Earl Wiltshire, 3rd Baron St John. [her sister-in-law] Agnes Howard Marchioness Winchester (age 41) by marriage Marchioness Winchester.
On 20th December 1576 [her brother] John Carey 3rd Baron Hunsdon (age 26) and [her sister-in-law] Mary Hyde Baroness Hunsdon (age 22) were married.
In 1577 [her father] Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon (age 50) was appointed Privy Council.
On 27th December 1577 [her son] William Howard 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham was born to [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 41) and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 27). He married 7th February 1597 his third cousin Anne St John Lady Effingham, daughter of John St John 2nd Baron St John and Katherine Dormer Baroness St John Bletso, and had issue.
On 17th September 1579 [her son] Charles Howard 2nd Earl Nottingham was born to [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 43) and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 29). He married (1) 19th May 1597 Charity White (2) 22nd April 1620 Mary Cockayne 1st Countess Nottingham, daughter of William Cockayne and Mary Morris Countess Dover.
On 4th October 1581 Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton (age 36) died. His son Henry (age 7) succeeded 3rd Earl of Southampton. His wardship was sold by the Queen to her kinsman, [her husband] Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham (age 45), for £1000. Howard then transferred his wardship to William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (age 61).
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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In 1582 Edward Seymour 1st Earl Hertford (age 42) and [her sister-in-law] Frances Howard Countess Hertford (age 28) were married. She by marriage Countess Hertford. He the son of Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset and Anne Stanhope Duchess Somerset (age 85). They were half sixth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In 1584 [her brother-in-law] Thomas Scrope 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton (age 17) and [her sister] Philadelphia Carey Baroness Scrope Bolton were married. They were third cousins.
In 1585 [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 49) was appointed Lord High Admiral.
In July 1585 [her father] Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon (age 59) was appointed Lord Chamberlain of the Household to Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 51).
In 1587 [her son-in-law] Admiral Richard Leveson (age 17) and [her daughter] Margaret Howard were married. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 51) and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 37). They were sixth cousins.
In 1589 [her son-in-law] Henry Fitzgerald 12th Earl of Kildare (age 27) and [her daughter] Frances Howard Countess Kildare were married. She by marriage Countess Kildare. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 53) and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 39). He the son of Gerald "Wizard Earl" Fitzgerald 11th Earl of Kildare and Mabel Browne Countess Kildare (age 53). They were fifth cousin once removed.
In 1590 Robert "The Elder" Peake (age 39). Portrait of Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 40).
On 13th June 1592 Henry Scrope 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton (age 58) died at Carlisle, Cumberland [Map]. His son [her brother-in-law] Thomas (age 25) succeeded 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton. [her sister] Philadelphia Carey Baroness Scrope Bolton by marriage Baroness Scrope of Bolton.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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On 20th August 1593 [her brother] Robert Carey 1st Earl Monmouth (age 33) and [her sister-in-law] Elizabeth Trevannion Countess Monmouth (age 30) were married.
On 14th December 1595 [her mother] Anne Morgan Baroness Hunsdon (age 66) was appointed Keeper of Somerset House.
Around 1596 Thomas Aylesbury 1st Baronet (age 20) was appointed Secretary to [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 60).
On 23rd July 1596 [her father] Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon (age 70) died at Somerset House [Map]. Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 62) was present. She, apparently, proposed he be made Earl of Wiltshire. He refused saying... "Madam, as you did not count me worthy of this honour in life, then I shall account myself not worthy of it in death". His son [her brother] George (age 49) succeeded 2nd Baron Hunsdon. [her sister-in-law] Elizabeth Spencer Baroness Hunsdon and Eure (age 44) by marriage Baroness Hunsdon.
In 1597 [her brother] George Carey 2nd Baron Hunsdon (age 50) was appointed Lord Chamberlain of the Household Elizabeth I to Elizabeth I.
On 7th February 1597 [her son] William Howard 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham (age 19) and [her daughter-in-law] Anne St John Lady Effingham (age 22) were married. He the son of [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 61) and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 47). They were third cousins.
On 23rd April 1597 [her brother] George Carey 2nd Baron Hunsdon (age 50) was appointed 385th Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 63).
On 19th May 1597 [her son] Charles Howard 2nd Earl Nottingham (age 17) and [her daughter-in-law] Charity White were married. He the son of [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 61) and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 47).
On 22nd October 1597 [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 61) was created 1st Earl Nottingham. Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 47) by marriage Countess Nottingham.
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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On 14th May 1598 [her sister-in-law] Frances Howard Countess Hertford (age 44) died.
In 1601 [her son-in-law] Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham (age 36) and [her daughter] Frances Howard Countess Kildare were married. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 65) and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 51). They were third cousin once removed.
On 18th November 1601 [her sister-in-law] Agnes Howard Marchioness Winchester (age 66) died.
On 25th February 1603 Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 53) died at Arundel House [Map]. She was buried in Chelsea Old Church on 25th April 1603.
In September 1603 [her former husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 67) and Margaret Stewart 1st Countess Nottingham (age 12) were married. She by marriage Countess Nottingham. The difference in their ages was 55 years. She the daughter of James "The Bonnie Earl" Stewart 2nd Earl of Moray and Elizabeth Stewart 2nd Countess Moray. They were half fourth cousin twice removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 14th December 1624 [her former husband] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 88) died. His son [her son] Charles (age 45) succeeded 2nd Earl Nottingham, 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham. [her daughter-in-law] Mary Cockayne 1st Countess Nottingham by marriage Countess Nottingham.
[her daughter] Margaret Howard was born to Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham. She married 1587 her sixth cousin Admiral Richard Leveson.
[her daughter] Frances Howard Countess Kildare was born to Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham. She married (1) 1589 her fifth cousin once removed Henry Fitzgerald 12th Earl of Kildare, son of Gerald "Wizard Earl" Fitzgerald 11th Earl of Kildare and Mabel Browne Countess Kildare, and had issue (2) 1601 her third cousin once removed Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham, son of William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham and Frances Newton Baroness Cobham.
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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[her daughter] Joan Howard was born to Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham.
Kings Wessex: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King of the Franks
Kings France: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Carey 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip Carey 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Courtenay 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Carey 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Orchard
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christiana Orchard
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Carey 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Baldwin Fulford
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anna Fulford
GrandFather: William Carey 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Spencer 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Winstone Churchill Spencer
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Spencer of Spencer Combe
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Spencer 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Beaufort 1st Marquess Somerset and Dorset 
Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Beaufort 1st or 2nd Duke of Somerset Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Holland Duchess Clarence 
2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Beaufort Countess Ormonde 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Father: Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Boleyn 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Geoffrey Boleyn
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Bracton
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Boleyn 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ann Hoo 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Wychingham 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde 
3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Butler 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Hankford
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Montagu Duchess Exeter 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandMother: Mary Boleyn 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Howard 
4 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Mowbray Baroness Grey Ruthyn 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Moleyns 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Moleyns 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Howard Countess of Wiltshire and Ormonde 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Tilney 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Frederick Tilney
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lawrence Cheney
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cheney 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cockayne 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Thomas Morgan
Mother: Anne Morgan Baroness Hunsdon