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MP Northamptonshire is in Member Parliament.
In February 1324 Richard Willoughby (age 34) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1394 Henry Green (age 47) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
Before September 1397 Henry Green (age 50) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1410 John St John (age 48) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1411 John St John (age 49) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In March 1416 John St John (age 54) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In May 1421 John St John (age 59) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1445 Thomas Billing was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1453 Thomas Tresham (age 33) was appointed MP Northamptonshire.
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 1459 Thomas Tresham (age 39) was appointed MP Northamptonshire.
In 1467 Thomas Tresham (age 47) was appointed MP Northamptonshire.
On 7th November 1485 Thomas Lovell was elected MP Northamptonshire.
On 17th February 1554 Thomas Tresham (age 54) was appointed MP Northamptonshire.
On 3rd October 1554 Thomas Tresham (age 54) was appointed MP Northamptonshire.
In 1604 Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 41) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1621 Richard Knightley (age 27) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1656 William Wray 1st Baronet (age 31) was elected MP Grimsby during the Second Protectorate Parliament.
William Wyndham 1st Baronet (age 24) was elected MP Somerset during the Second Protectorate Parliament.
Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew (age 32) was elected MP Northamptonshire during the Second Protectorate Parliament.
Francis Bacon (age 55) was elected MP Ipswich in the Second Protectorate Parliament.
In 1661 Justinian Isham 2nd Baronet (age 51) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1679 William Langham 3rd Baronet (age 48) was elected MP Northamptonshire which seat he held until 1695.
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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On 13th June 1689 Thomas Samwell 1st Baronet (age 35) was elected MP Northamptonshire which seat he held until 1690.
In 1748 Valentine Knightley (age 29) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
On 21st November 1763 Lucius Knightley (age 21) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
After 11th March 1768 William Dolben 3rd Baronet (age 41) was elected MP Northamptonshire which seat he held until 1774.
On 14th January 1773 Lucius Knightley (age 30) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1774 George Robinson 5th Baronet (age 43) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1774 Lucius Knightley (age 31) was elected MP Northamptonshire.
In 1780 Lucius Knightley (age 37) was elected MP Northamptonshire.