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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Earl Portmore is in Earldoms of England Alphabetically, Earldoms of England Chronologically, Extinct Earldoms of England.
Summary
13th April 1703. David Colyear 1st Earl Portmore [aged 47] created.
2nd January 1730. Son Charles Colyear 2nd Earl Portmore [aged 29] succeeded.
5th July 1785. Son William Charles Colyear 3rd Earl Portmore [aged 40] succeeded.
1823. Son Thomas Colyear 4th Earl Portmore [aged 50] succeeded.
18th January 1835. Thomas Colyear 4th Earl Portmore extinct.
On 13th April 1703 David Colyear 1st Earl Portmore [aged 47] was created 1st Earl Portmore. Possibly for having married the King's former mistress Catherine Sedley Countess Dorchester and Portmore [aged 45]. Catherine Sedley Countess Dorchester and Portmore by marriage Countess Portmore.
On 2nd January 1730 David Colyear 1st Earl Portmore [aged 74] died. His son Charles [aged 29] succeeded 2nd Earl Portmore.
On 5th July 1785 Charles Colyear 2nd Earl Portmore [aged 84] died. His son William [aged 40] succeeded 3rd Earl Portmore. Mary Leslie Countess Portmore [aged 31] by marriage Countess Portmore.
In 1823 William Charles Colyear 3rd Earl Portmore [aged 78] died. His son Thomas [aged 50] succeeded 4th Earl Portmore.
On 18th January 1835 Thomas Colyear 4th Earl Portmore [aged 62] died. Earl Portmore extinct.