Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Gawthorpe Hall is in Harewood.
Around 1350 William Gascoigne was born to William Gascoigne VII (age 50) and Agnes Frank (age 25) at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. He married (1) before 1396 Elizabeth Mowbray and had issue (2) after 1396 Joan Pickering and had issue.
Around 1366 William Gascoigne was born to William Gascoigne (age 16) and Elizabeth Mowbray (age 16) at Gawthorpe Hall [Map].
Around 1370 Joan Pickering was born to William Pickering at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. She married after 1396 William Gascoigne and had issue.
Around 1409 William Gascoigne XII was born to William Gascoigne (age 43) at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. He married 7th February 1426 Margaret Clarell Lady of the Garter and had issue.
On 17th December 1419 William Gascoigne (age 69) died at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. He was buried at All Saints Church Harewood [Map] with his wife Elizabeth Mowbray. He in judges robes with a gypciere. She wearing an elaborate Crespine Headress.
Elizabeth Mowbray: In 1350 she was born to Alexander Mowbray. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England. Before 1396 William Gascoigne and she were married. In 1396 Elizabeth Mowbray died.
On 28th March 1422 William Gascoigne (age 56) died at Gawthorpe Hall [Map].
Around 1452 William Gascoigne was born to William Gascoigne XIII (age 22) and Joan Neville (age 18) at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. He married before 1467 his half second cousin once removed Margaret Percy, daughter of Henry Percy 3rd Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor Poynings Countess Northumberland, and had issue.
In 1463 William Gascoigne XIII (age 33) died at Gawthorpe Hall [Map].
Around 1465 William Gascoigne XII (age 56) died at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. All Saints Church Harewood [Map].
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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In 1480 William Gascoigne (age 28) received a license to crenellate at Gawthorpe Hall [Map].
In 1486 Joan Neville (age 52) died at Gawthorpe Hall [Map].
On 12th March 1487 William Gascoigne (age 35) died at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. All Saints Church Harewood [Map]. Monument to William Gascoigne and Margaret Percy (age 40). Fluted Period. Alabaster chest tomb with a fine array of weepers, possibly their children although too many, women one side, nine men the other, one of which appears with angels wings, possible children and spouses. He wearing a Lancastrian Esses Collar with unusual O links. Clean shaved, no bascinet, his head resting on a helm with bulls head crest. His armour plate over which there appears to be, unusually for the period, a tabard. The left hand side of his face appears disfigured. Possibly a war wound. She wearing the widow's barbe. Note. Gardner describes this monument as being to Sir John Nevill of Womersley, died 1482. Chest with Weepers. Chest with Angels with Rounded Wings holding Shields. Angels Supporting Pillow.
William Gascoigne: Around 1452 he was born to William Gascoigne XIII and Joan Neville at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. Before 1467 William Gascoigne and Margaret Percy were married. She the daughter of Henry Percy 3rd Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor Poynings Countess Northumberland. They were half second cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England. In 1478 he was appointed Knight of the Bath. In 1480 William Gascoigne received a license to crenellate at Gawthorpe Hall [Map].
Margaret Percy: Around 1447 she was born to Henry Percy 3rd Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor Poynings Countess Northumberland. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Around 1510 William Gascoigne was born to William Gascoigne (age 15) and Margaret Fitzwilliam (age 15) at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. He married before 1538 Beatrice Tempest and had issue.
Around 1549 Margaret Gascoigne was born to William Gascoigne (age 39) and Beatrice Tempest (age 27) at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. She married in or before 1568 her third cousin Thomas Wentworth and had issue.
In 1552 Thomas Gascoigne (age 28) died at Gawthorpe Hall [Map].
In 1571 William Gascoigne (age 61) died at Gawthorpe Hall [Map].
Around 1735 Henry Lascelles (age 45) returned to England from Barbados and purchased the manors of Gawthorpe [Map] and Harewood [Map] in Yorkshire and obtained lucrative government contracts to victual British troops and wounded seamen in Jamaica, Barbados and the Leeward Isles. Using the contacts he made, he financed slave ships through Lascelles and Maxwell and offered loans and mortgages to Barbados plantation owners.
On 22nd December 1749 Richard Shuttleworth (age 66) died. His son James Shuttleworth (age 35) inherited Gawthorpe Hall [Map]
On 13th September 1785 Robert Shuttleworth was born at Gawthorpe Hall [Map].
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 9th November 1817 Janet Shuttleworth was born to Robert Shuttleworth (age 32) and Janet Marjoribanks (age 21) at Gawthorpe Hall [Map]. She married 24th February 1842 James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth 1st Baronet and had issue.
On 6th March 1818 Robert Shuttleworth (age 32) died at Gawthorpe Hall [Map].