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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Stoneleigh, Warwickshire is in Warwickshire.
See: Church of the Virgin Mary, Stoneleigh [Map], Confluence of the River Sowe and River Avon [Map].
Around 1509 Thomas Leigh was born to Roger Leigh [aged 26] at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map].
Around 1536 Rowland Leigh of Longbarrow was born to Thomas Leigh [aged 27] at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map]. He married in or before 1585 Catherine Berkeley and had issue.
Around 1542 Thomas Leigh 1st Baronet was born to Thomas Leigh [aged 33] at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map]. He married in or before 1573 Katharine Spencer and had issue.
Around 1551 William Leigh was born to Thomas Leigh [aged 42] in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map]. He married before 1579 Frances Harrington and had issue.
In 1555 Roger Leigh [aged 72] died at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map].
In 1573 Catherine Leigh was born to Thomas Leigh 1st Baronet [aged 31] and Katharine Spencer at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map]. She married 1593 her third cousin Robert Catesby and had issue.
Around 1575 John Leigh was born to Thomas Leigh 1st Baronet [aged 33] and Katharine Spencer at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map]. He married in or before 1595 Ursula Hoddeston and had issue.
In 1578 Alice Leigh 1st Duchess Dudley was born to Thomas Leigh 1st Baronet [aged 36] and Katharine Spencer at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map]. She married December 1596 Robert Dudley, son of Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester and Douglas Howard Baroness Sheffield, and had issue.
In February 1626 Thomas Leigh 1st Baronet [aged 84] died at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map]. His grandson Thomas [aged 31] succeeded 2nd Baronet Leigh of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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On 12th November 1710 Thomas Leigh 2nd Baron Leigh [aged 58] died. He was buried at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map]. His son Edward [aged 26] succeeded 3rd Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire, 4th Baronet Leigh of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. Mary Holbech Baroness Leigh by marriage Baroness Leigh of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire.
On 4th June 1786 Edward Leigh 5th Baron Leigh [aged 44] died. He was buried at Church of the Virgin Mary, Stoneleigh [Map]. Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire, Baronet Leigh of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire extinct. The estates of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map] were inherited by his sister Mary Leigh.
In 1806 Mary Leigh died without issue. Her half sixth-cousin once-removed James Henry Leigh of Adlestrop [aged 40] inherited the estates of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map].
In 1828 Mary Leigh was born to Chandos Leigh 1st Baron Leigh [aged 36] at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map]. She married 4th May 1848 her fifth cousin once removed Henry Pitt Cholmondeley, son of Thomas Cholmondeley 1st Baron Delamere and Henrietta Elizabeth Williams-Wynn Baroness Delamere, and had issue.
On 4th May 1848 Henry Pitt Cholmondeley [aged 27] and Mary Leigh [aged 20] were married at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map]. They were fifth cousin once removed.
The River Sowe rises at Bedworth, Warwickshire [Map] from where it flows through Neal's Green, Warwickshire [Map], Longford Park, Coventry [Map], Stoke Aldermoor, Coventry [Map], past Lunt Roman Fort [Map] to Stoneleigh, Warwickshire [Map] after which it joins the Warwickshire River Avon.
The Warwickshire River Avon rises from a spring at Naseby, Northamptonshire [Map] after which it passes Welford, Northamptonshire [Map], Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire [Map], Catthorpe, Leicestershire [Map], Dow Bridge [Map], Rugby, Warwickshire [Map].
After Ruby it passes King's Newnham, Warwickshire [Map], Bretford, Warwickshire [Map], Brandon, Warwickshire [Map], Bubbenhall, Warwickshire [Map] before reaching Stoneleigh [Map] where it is joined by the River Sowe.
After Stoneleigh, Ashow, Warwickshire [Map], Warwick, Warwickshire [Map], Barford, Warwickshire [Map], Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire [Map], Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire [Map], Welford-on-Avon, Warwickshire [Map], Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire [Map], Evesham, Worcestershire [Map], Fladbury, Worcestershire [Map], Pershore, Worcestershire [Map], Eckington, Worcestershire [Map], Twyning Green, Gloucestershire [Map] before joining the River Severn at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire [Map].