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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Paternal Family Tree: Pierrepoint
In 1635 [his father] Francis Pierrepont [age 22] and Elizabeth Bray [age 20] were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Robert Pierrepont 1st Earl Kingston [age 50] and [his grandmother] Gertrude Talbot Baroness Pierrepont Holme Pierrepoint [age 54].
On 30th August 1636 Robert Pierrepont was born to [his father] Francis Pierrepont [age 23].
On 3rd April 1652 Robert Pierrepont [age 15] educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
On 14th April 1652 Robert Pierrepont [age 15] educated.
On 30th January 1659 [his father] Francis Pierrepont [age 46] died.
In 1660 Robert Pierrepont [age 23] was elected MP Nottingham after the selected candidate John Hutchinson was evicted as a regicide.
After 27th March 1661 Robert Pierrepont [age 24] and Anne Murray [age 20] were married.
On 8th May 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [age 30] summoned his second Parliament.
John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston [age 44] was elected MP Wallingford.
James Thynne [age 56] was elected MP Wiltshire.
Adam Browne 2nd Baronet [age 35] was elected MP Surrey.
Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne [age 30] was elected MP Northumberland.
William Compton [age 36] was elected MP Cambridge.
Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 32] was elected MP Camelford.
Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge [age 61] was elected MP Bath and Heytesbury.
Edward Hungerford [age 28] was elected MP Chippenham.
Robert Pierrepont [age 24] was elected MP Nottingham.
John Melbury Sampford Strangeways [age 75] was elected MP Weymouth.
Giles Strangeways [age 45] was elected MP Dorset.
John Strangeways [age 24] was elected MP Bridport.
William Wyndham 1st Baronet [age 29] was elected MP Taunton.
James Herbert [age 38] was elected MP Queenborough.
William Alington 1st and 3rd Baron Alington [age 21] was elected MP Cambridge.
William Bowes of Streatlam [age 4] was elected MP Durham.
Robert Brooke [age 24] was elected MP Aldeburgh.
Josiah Child [age 30] was elected MP Dartmouth.
Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet [age 73] was elected MP Nottinghamshire.
Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew [age 37] was elected MP Brackley.
Richard Jennings [age 42] was elected MP St Albans.
Robert Kemp 2nd Baronet [age 33] was elected MP Norfolk.
Edward Phelips [age 48] was elected MP Somerset.
Robert Robartes [age 27] was elected MP Bossiney.
Hender Robartes [age 25] was elected MP Bodmin.
Clement Fisher 2nd Baronet [age 48] was elected MP Coventry.
William Portman 6th Baronet [age 17] was elected MP Taunton.
John Robinson 1st Baronet [age 46] was elected MP Rye.
On 10th March 1662 [his son] Francis Pierrepont was born to Robert Pierrepont [age 25] and [his wife] Anne Murray [age 21].
Before January 1663 [his brother-in-law] William Paget 6th Baron Paget Beaudasert [age 25] and [his half-sister] Frances Pierrepont Baroness Geneville Beaudasert were married.
Before 1st April 1669 [his son] William Pierrepont was born to Robert Pierrepont [age 32] and [his wife] Anne Murray [age 28].
On 19th October 1678 William Paget 5th Baron Paget Beaudasert [age 69] died. His son [his brother-in-law] William [age 41] succeeded 6th Baron Paget Beaudasert. [his half-sister] Frances Pierrepont Baroness Geneville Beaudasert by marriage Baroness Paget Beaudasert.
In March 1679 Robert Pierrepont [age 42] was elected MP Nottingham during the Habeas Corpus Parliament 3C2.
In July 1679 Robert Pierrepont [age 42] was elected MP Nottingham during the Exclusion Bill Parliament 4C2.
In 1681 Robert Pierrepont [age 44] was elected MP Nottingham.
Adam Murimuth's Continuation and Robert of Avesbury’s 'The Wonderful Deeds of King Edward III'
This volume brings together two of the most important contemporary chronicles for the reign of Edward III and the opening phases of the Hundred Years’ War. Written in Latin by English clerical observers, these texts provide a vivid and authoritative window into the political, diplomatic, and military history of fourteenth-century England and its continental ambitions. Adam Murimuth Continuatio's Chronicarum continues an earlier chronicle into the mid-fourteenth century, offering concise but valuable notices on royal policy, foreign relations, and ecclesiastical affairs. Its annalistic structure makes it especially useful for establishing chronology and tracing the development of events year by year. Complementing it, Robert of Avesbury’s De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii is a rich documentary chronicle preserving letters, treaties, and official records alongside narrative passages. It is an indispensable source for understanding Edward III’s claim to the French crown, the conduct of war, and the mechanisms of medieval diplomacy. Together, these works offer scholars, students, and enthusiasts a reliable and unembellished account of a transformative period in English and European history. Essential for anyone interested in medieval chronicles, the Hundred Years’ War, or the reign of Edward III.
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On 22nd September 1681 Robert Pierrepont [age 45] died. He was buried at the Church of St Edmund, Holme Pierrepoint [Map].
On 22nd August 1716 [his former wife] Anne Murray [age 75] died.
In or after 1852 the contents of the Crypt of the Church of St Edmund, Holme Pierrepoint [Map] were listed with a diagram by the Reverend James Cleaver, Rector of Holme Pierrepont, as follows:
1. [his grandfather] Robert Pierrepont 1st Earl Kingston
2. [his grandmother] Gertrude Talbot Baroness Pierrepont Holme Pierrepoint
3. William Pierrepoint died 1719
4. Evelyn Pierrepont 2nd Duke Kingston upon Hull
5. Unknown
7. Robert Pierrepont 3rd Earl Kingston.
8. Robert Pierrepont
10. William Pierrepont 4th Earl Kingston
11. Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull
12. [his uncle] Gervase Pierrepont
13. Unknown
14. [his son] William Pierrepont
15. Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull
16. Isabella Bentinck Duchess Kingston upon Hull
17. Francis Pierrepont, died Aug 13 1679.
18. Charles Medows aka Pierrepont 1st Earl Manvers.
19. Anne Mills Countess Manvers
20. Henry Pierrepont 1st Marquess Dorchester
21. Samuel Pierrepont aged 6, 1711.
22. Blank
23. Blank
24. Charles Herbert Pierrepont 2nd Earl Manvers [age 73]
25. Mary Laetitia Eyre Countess Manvers [age 67]
26. Annora Mary Pierrepont, daughter of Charles, Viscount Newark, 3 months, 1815.
27 - 31. Blank
33. Sophia Cecil.
35. Emily Littleton
36 - 41. Blank.
[his daughter] Anne Pierrepont Baroness Torrington was born to Robert Pierrepont and Anne Murray. She married 8th July 1709 Thomas Newport 1st Baron Torrington, son of Francis Newport 1st Earl Bradford and Diana Russell Countess Bradford.
Kings Wessex: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 20 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 25 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 19 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 23 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Pierrepont 
7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Pierrepont 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Empson
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Empson
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Pierrepont 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Thwaites
Great x 2 Grandmother: Winifred Thwaites
GrandFather: Robert Pierrepont 1st Earl Kingston 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cavendish 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Cavendish 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Scudamore 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cavendish 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Carrington Smith
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Smith
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Cavendish 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harwick
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Hardwick 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Pinchbeck 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Leeke of Hasland 7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leeke 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Vaux 
Father: Francis Pierrepont 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury 
3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Hastings Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland 
6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Dacre 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Greystoke 6th Baroness Greystoke Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Talbot 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Manners 11th Baron Ros Helmsley 
6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland 
4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne St Leger Baroness Ros of Helmsley 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Gertrude Manners Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Paston 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bridget Heydon 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
GrandMother: Gertrude Talbot Baroness Pierrepont Holme Pierrepoint 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Rayner
Robert Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England