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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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Paternal Family Tree: Whitmore
Before 6th April 1637 [his father] Thomas Whitmore 1st Baronet (age 24) and [his step-mother] Elizabeth Acton Lady Whitmore (age 17) were married. She being the sole heiress of her father William Acton 1st Baronet (age 67).
On 6th April 1637 William Whitmore 2nd Baronet was born to [his father] Thomas Whitmore 1st Baronet (age 24).
On 28th June 1641 [his father] Thomas Whitmore 1st Baronet (age 28) was created 1st Baronet Whitmore of Apley. [his step-mother] Elizabeth Acton Lady Whitmore (age 21) by marriage Lady Whitmore of Apley.
In 1653 [his father] Thomas Whitmore 1st Baronet (age 40) died. His son William (age 15) succeeded 2nd Baronet Whitmore of Apley.
In 1660 William Whitmore 2nd Baronet (age 22) was elected MP Shropshire.
In 1661 William Whitmore 2nd Baronet (age 23) was elected MP Bridgnorth which he held until his death in 1699.
Before 30th March 1699 William Whitmore 2nd Baronet (age 61) and Mary Harvey Lady Whitmore were married. She by marriage Lady Whitmore of Apley.
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 30th March 1699 William Whitmore 2nd Baronet (age 61) died without issue. Baronet Whitmore of Apley extinct.
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Whitmore of Balmes Manor in Hackney
GrandFather: William Whitmore of Apley Hall in Shropshire
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Bond
Father: Thomas Whitmore 1st Baronet