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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Paternal Family Tree: Cavendish
Maternal Family Tree: Catherine Hale 1673-1704
On 27th March 1718 [her father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire (age 19) and [her mother] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire (age 19) were married. He the son of [her grandfather] William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire (age 46) and [her grandmother] Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire (age 44).
On 7th June 1727 Rachel Cavendish was born to [her father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire (age 28) and [her mother] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire (age 28).
On 4th June 1729 [her grandfather] William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire (age 57) died. His son [her father] William (age 30) succeeded 3rd Duke Devonshire, 6th Earl Devonshire, 6th Baron Cavendish Hardwick. [her mother] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire (age 30) by marriage Duchess Devonshire.
In 1730 Charles Jervas (age 55). Portrait of Rachel Cavendish (age 2) as a Shepherdess.
In 1733 [her father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire (age 34) was appointed 550th Knight of the Garter by King George II of Great Britain and Ireland (age 49).
On 5th July 1739 [her brother-in-law] William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough (age 35) and [her sister] Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough (age 20) were married. His younger brother John Ponsonby (age 26) would marry her younger sister [her sister] Elizabeth Cavendish (age 13) four years later. She the daughter of [her father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire (age 40) and [her mother] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire (age 40). He the son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough (age 60) and Sarah Margetson.
In 1743 John Ponsonby (age 29) and [her sister] Elizabeth Cavendish (age 17) were married. His elder brother [her brother-in-law] William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough (age 39) had married her elder sister [her sister] Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough (age 23) four years before. She the daughter of [her father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire (age 44) and [her mother] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire (age 44). He the son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough (age 64) and Sarah Margetson.
Around 1744. Jeremiah Davison (age 49). Portrait of Rachel Cavendish (age 16).
In 1747 Bishop Richard Terrick (age 37) was elected Bishop of Peterborough through the influence of [her brother] William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire (age 26) the Prime Minister.
Before 1748 [her brother] William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire (age 27) and [her sister-in-law] Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington (age 16) were married. She the daughter of Richard Boyle 3rd Earl Burlington (age 53) and Dorothy Savile Countess Burlington (age 48). He the son of [her father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire (age 49) and [her mother] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire (age 49). They were fourth cousin once removed.
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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On 12th May 1748 Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 24) and Rachel Cavendish (age 20) were married. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire (age 49) and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire (age 49).
Letters of Horace Walpole. 23rd June 1752. Arlington Street. To The Hon H S Conway (age 31).
By a letter that I received from my Lady Ailesbury (age 31) two days ago, I flatter myself I shall not have occasion to write to you any more; yet I shall certainly see you with less pleasure than ever, as our meeting is to be attended with a resignation of my little charge (age 3).316 She is vastly well, and I think you will find her grown fat. I am husband enough to mind her beauty no longer, and perhaps you will say husband enough too, in pretending that my love is converted into friendship; but I shall tell you some stories at Park-place of her understanding that will please you, I trust, as much as they have done me.
My Lady Ailesbury says I must send her news, and the whole history of Mr. Seymour (age 22) and Lady Di. Egerton (age 21), and their quarrel, and all that is said on both sides. I can easily tell her all that is said on one side, Mr. Seymour's, who says, the only answer he has ever been able to get from the Duchess or Mr. Lyttelton was, that Di. has her caprices. The reasons she gives, and gave him, were, the badness of his temper and imperiousness of his letters; that he scolded her for the overfondness of her epistles, and was even so unsentimental as to talk of desiring to make her happy, instead of being made so by her. He is gone abroad, in despair, and with an additional circumstance, which would be very uncomfortable to any thing but a true lover; his father refuses to resettle the estate on him, the entail of which was cut off by mutual consent, to make way for the settlements on the marriage.
The Speaker told me t'other day, that he had received a letter from Lord Hyde, which confirms what Mr. Churchill writes me, the distress and poverty of France and the greatness of their divisions. Yet the King's expenses are incredible; Madame de Pompadour (age 30) is continually busied in finding out new journeys and diversions to keep him from falling into the hands of the clergy. The last party of pleasure she made for him, was a stag-hunting; the stag was a man in a skin and horns, worried by twelve men dressed like bloodhounds! I have read of Basilowitz, a Czar of Muscovy, who improved on such a hunt, and had a man in a bearskin worried by real dogs; a more kingly entertainment!
I shall make out a sad Journal of other news; yet I will be like any gazette, and scrape together all the births, deaths, and marriages in the parish. [her brother] Lady Hartington (age 32) and Lady Rachel Walpole (age 25) are brought to bed of sons; Lord Burlington (age 58) and Lord Gower (age 57) have had new attacks of palsies: Lord Falkland (age 45) is to marry the Southwark Lady Suffolk;317 and Mr. Watson (age 23), Miss Grace Pelham (age 17). Lady Coventry (age 19) has miscarried of one or two children, and is going on with one or two more, and is gone to France to-day. Lady Townshend (age 44) and Lady Caroline Petersham (age 30) have had their anniversary quarrel, and the [her mother] Duchess of Devonshire (age 53) has had her secular assembly, which she keeps once in fifty years: she was more delightfully vulgar at it than you can imagine; complained of the wet night, and how the men would dirty the rooms with their shoes; called out at supper to the [her father] Duke (age 53), "Good God! my lord, don't cut the ham, nobody will eat any!" and relating her private menage to Mr. Obnir, she said, "When there's only my lord and I, besides a pudding we have always a dish of Yeast!" I am ashamed to send you such nonsense, or to tell you how the good women at Hampton Court are scandalized at Princess Emily's (age 41) coming to chapel last Sunday in riding-clothes with a dog under her arm; but I am bid to send news: what can we do -,it such a dead time of year? I must conclude, as my Lady Gower did very well t'other day in a letter into the country, "Since the two Misses318 were hanged, and the two Misses319 were married, there is nothing at all talked of." Adieu! My best compliments and my wife's to your two ladies.
Note 315. Now first published.
Note 316. Their daughter, Ann Seymour Conway.
Note 317. Sarah, Duchess-dowager of Suffolk, daughter of Thomas Unwen, Esq. of Southwark.-E.
Note 318. Miss Blandy and Miss Jefferies.
Note 319. The Gunnings. [Maria Gunning Countess Coventry and Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 18)]
On 24th June 1752 [her son] Horatio Walpole 2nd Earl Orford was born to [her husband] Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 29) and Rachel Cavendish (age 25). He married (1) 1781 his half second cousin Sophia Churchill and had issue (2) 1806 Catherine Tunstall.
On 5th December 1755 [her father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire (age 57) died. His son [her brother] William (age 35) succeeded 4th Duke Devonshire, 7th Earl Devonshire, 7th Baron Cavendish Hardwick.
Around 1756 [her son] William Walpole was born to [her husband] Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 32) and Rachel Cavendish (age 28). He died aged eight in 1764.
On 5th February 1757 [her father-in-law] Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole (age 78) died at Wickmere, Norfolk. His son [her husband] Horatio (age 33) succeeded 2nd Baron Walpole of Wollerton.
On 4th July 1758 Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough (age 79) died. His son [her brother-in-law] William (age 54) succeeded 2nd Earl Bessborough, 3rd Viscount Duncannon of Duncannon in Wexford, 3rd Baron Bessborough of Bessborough in Kilkenny. [her sister] Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough (age 39) by marriage Countess Bessborough.
On 20th January 1760 [her sister] Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough (age 40) died. Monument in Derby Cathedral [Map] sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack (age 65).
Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough: In May 1719 she was born to William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire. On 5th July 1739 William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough and she were married. His younger brother John Ponsonby would marry her younger sister Elizabeth Cavendish four years later. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire. He the son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough and Sarah Margetson. In 1743 John Ponsonby and Elizabeth Cavendish were married. His elder brother William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough had married her elder sister Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough four years before. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire. He the son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough and Sarah Margetson. On 4th July 1758 Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough died. His son William succeeded 2nd Earl Bessborough, 3rd Viscount Duncannon of Duncannon in Wexford, 3rd Baron Bessborough of Bessborough in Kilkenny. She by marriage Countess Bessborough.
On 2nd October 1764 [her brother] William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire (age 44) died. His son [her nephew] William (age 16) succeeded 5th Duke Devonshire, 8th Earl Devonshire, 8th Baron Cavendish Hardwick.
On 21st December 1764 [her son] William Walpole (age 8) died.
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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On 8th May 1777 [her mother] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire (age 78) died at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire [Map].
In 1781 [her son] Horatio Walpole 2nd Earl Orford (age 28) and [her daughter-in-law] Sophia Churchill (age 25) were married. He the son of [her husband] Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 57) and Rachel Cavendish (age 53). They were half second cousins.
On 8th May 1805 Rachel Cavendish (age 77) died.
On 24th February 1809 [her former husband] Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford (age 85) died. His son [her son] Horatio (age 56) succeeded 2nd Earl Orford, 3rd Baron Walpole of Wollerton.
Kings Wessex: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 28 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 1st Earl Devonshire 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cavendish 2nd Earl Devonshire 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Keighley
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cavendish 3rd Earl Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Bruce 1st Lord Kinloss
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christian Bruce Countess Devonshire
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Cavendish 1st Duke Devonshire 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury 
11 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Brooke 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cecil Countess Devonshire 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandFather: William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Butler 11th Earl Ormonde 4th Earl Ossory 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Butler Viscount Thurles 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen Butler Countess Ormonde and Ossory 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Poyntz 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Poyntz 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sydenham 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Butler Duchess Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Preston of Whitehill in Midlothian 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Preston 1st Earl Desmond
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Preston Duchess Ormonde 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Butler 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sheffield Countess Ormonde and Ossory 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Russell 1st Baron Russell 
9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Russell 4th Earl Bedford 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Long Baroness Russel Thornhaugh
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Russell 1st Duke Bedford 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Giles Brydges 3rd Baron Chandos 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Brydges Countess Bedford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Clinton 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Russell 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst 12 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Carr 1st Earl Somerset 
13 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Carr Countess of Bedford 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandMother: Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Browne Countess Southampton 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Wriothesley 4th Earl of Southampton 2nd Earl Chichester 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Vernon 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Vernon Countess Southampton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Devereux 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Rachel Wriothesley 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Daniel de Massue Seigneur de Rouvigny
Great x 2 Grandmother: Rachel Massue Countess Southampton
Rachel Cavendish 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Hoskins
GrandFather: John Hoskins of Oxted
Mother: Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Hale
GrandMother: Catherine Hale