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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Biography of Martin Folkes 1690-1754

Paternal Family Tree: ffolkes

Maternal Family Tree: Ethelreda Lilly 1635-1683

Martin Folkes is in Polymaths.

Around 1683 [his step-father] Martin Folkes (age 42) and [his mother] Dorothy Hovell were married by which marriage Hillington, Norfolk came into the ffolkes family.

On 29th October 1690 Martin Folkes was born to [his step-father] Martin Folkes (age 50) and [his mother] Dorothy Hovell.

On 17th February 1705 [his step-father] Martin Folkes (age 64) died.

In 1714 Martin Folkes (age 23) and Lucretia Bradshaw were married.

In 1720 [his son] Martin ffolkes was born to Martin Folkes (age 29) and [his wife] Lucretia Bradshaw.

On 22nd October 1724 [his mother] Dorothy Hovell died.

On 28th July 1740 [his son] Martin ffolkes (age 20) died. Grave slab in the Church of St Mary, Hillington [Map]. Arms quartered ffolkes Arms and Hovell Arms differenced with a label three points.

Martin ffolkes: In 1720 he was born to Martin Folkes and Lucretia Bradshaw.

On 28th June 1754 Martin Folkes (age 63) died. Grave slab in the Church of St Mary, Hillington [Map]. Arms quartered ffolkes Arms and Hovell Arms.

Ancestors of Martin Folkes

Father: Martin Folkes

Martin Folkes

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Hovell of Hillington

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Hovell of Hillington

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ford of Frating in Essex

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margery Ford

Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Hovell

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Ferneley of West Creeting in Suffolk

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Ferneley of Creting in Suffolk

Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Ferneley

GrandFather: William Hovell of Hillington

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Bourne

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Kempe of Olantigh in Wye in Kent

Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Kempe

Great x 1 Grandmother: Dorothy Chicheley

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Russell 1st Baronet

Great x 2 Grandmother: Sarah Russell

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Gerard

Mother: Dorothy Hovell

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Lilly of South Lynn

GrandMother: Ethelreda Lilly