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William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Earl Mountbatten of Burma is in Earldoms of England Alphabetically, Earldoms of England Chronologically, Succeeded Countesses of England, Extant Earldoms of England.
Summary
28th October 1947. Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (age 47) created.
27th August 1979. Daughter Patricia Mountbatten 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (age 55) succeeded. See Death of Louis Mountbatten.
13th June 2017. Son Norton Knatchbull 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma (age 69) succeeded.
On 28th October 1947 Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (age 47) was created 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma with a special remainder to his daughters and their heirs male. Edwina Ashley Countess Mountbatten Burma (age 45) by marriage Countess Mountbatten of Burma.
On 27th August 1979 Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (age 79) was killed by an IRA bomb aboard his fishing boat in Mullaghmore, County Sligo. His daughter Patricia (age 55) succeeded 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma. John Knatchbull 7th Baron Brabourne (age 54) by marriage Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
Nicholas Timothy Knatchbull (age 14) was killed.
Pauk Maxwell, a local boy, was killed.
On 28th August 1979 Doreen Browne Baroness Brabourne (age 83) died from wounds in hospital the day after the bombing.
On 13th June 2017 Patricia Mountbatten 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (age 93) died. Her son Norton (age 69) succeeded 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma.