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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 Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury 1926-2024

Paternal Family Tree: Brudenell

On 31st March 1926 Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury was born to [his father] Cedric Brudenell-Bruce 7th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 22).

On 17th March 1952 Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 25) and Edwina Sylvia de Winton-Wills (age 19) were married. He the son of Cedric Brudenell-Bruce 7th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 48).

On 12th November 1952 [his son] David Brudenell-Bruce 9th Marquess of Ailesbury was born to Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 26) and [his wife] Edwina Sylvia de Winton-Wills (age 19). He married (1) 1980 Rosamund Jane Winkley Marchioness of Ailesbury.

In 1961 Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 34) and Edwina Sylvia de Winton-Wills (age 28) were divorced.

On 10th July 1963 Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 37) and Juliet Adrienne Lethbridge Kingsford were married. He the son of Cedric Brudenell-Bruce 7th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 59).

In 1974 Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 47) and Juliet Adrienne Lethbridge Kingsford were divorced.

On 18th September 1974 Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 48) and Caroline Elizabeth Wethered Marchioness of Ailesbury (age 37) were married. She by marriage Marchioness Ailesbury. He the son of Cedric Brudenell-Bruce 7th Marquess of Ailesbury.

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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In 1980 [his son] David Brudenell-Bruce 9th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 27) and [his daughter-in-law] Rosamund Jane Winkley Marchioness of Ailesbury (age 31) were married. She by marriage Marchioness Ailesbury. He the son of Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 53) and [his former wife] Edwina Sylvia de Winton-Wills (age 47).

In 1992 Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 65) and Caroline Elizabeth Wethered Marchioness of Ailesbury (age 54) were divorced.

In or before 2011 [his son] David Brudenell-Bruce 9th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 58) and [his daughter-in-law] Rosamund Jane Winkley Marchioness of Ailesbury (age 61) were divorced.

In 2023 [his former wife] Edwina Sylvia de Winton-Wills (age 90) died.

On 12th May 2024 Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (age 98) died after falling from a window at his home in the Shepherd's Bush area of London. His son David (age 71) succeeded 9th Marquess Ailesbury, 15th Earl Cardigan, 10th Earl Ailesbury, 9th Earl Bruce of Whorlton in Yorkshire, 9th Viscount Savernake of Savernake Forest in Wiltshire, 15th Baron Brudenell of Stonton in Leicestershire, 10th Baron Bruce of Tottenham in Wiltshire.

Royal Ancestors of Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury

Kings Wessex: Great x 25 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 22 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 28 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 23 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings Godwinson: Great x 26 Grand Son of King Harold II of England

Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Kings Scotland: Great x 24 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 22 Grand Son of Louis VII King of the Franks

Kings France: Great x 16 Grand Son of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 30 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Brudenell 1st Earl Ailesbury 7 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Brudenell 1st Marquess Ailesbury 8 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 4 Grandmother: Susanna Hoare Countess Ailesbury

Great x 2 Grandfather: Ernest Brudenell-Bruce 3rd Marquess Ailesbury 9 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 4 Grandfather: Noel Hill 1st Baron Berwick 14 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 3 Grandmother: Henrietta Maria Hill 12 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna Vernon 11 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Brudenell-Bruce 5th Marquess of Ailesbury 10 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 4 Grandfather: Archbishop William Beresford 1st Baron Decies 11 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Horsley Beresford 2nd Baron Decies 12 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fitzgibbon

Great x 2 Grandmother: Louisa Elizabeth Horsley Beresford Marchioness Ailesbury 13 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Horsley of Bolam House in Northumberland

Great x 3 Grandmother: Charlotte Philadelphia Horsley

GrandFather: George Brudenell-Bruce 6th Marquess of Ailesbury 11 x Great Grand Son of

Father: Cedric Brudenell-Bruce 7th Marquess of Ailesbury 12 x Great Grand Son of

Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury 13 x Great Grand Son of