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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
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Robert I King West Francia and Aelis Unknown Queen Consort West Francia were married.
Around 866 Robert I King West Francia was born to Robert "Strong" King West Francia (age 36).
On 2nd July 866 Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine (age 46) and [his father] Robert "Strong" King West Francia (age 36) were killed fighting the joint Breton-Viking army at the Battle of Brissarthe at Brissarthe.
Around 890 Robert I King West Francia (age 24) and Beatrice Vermandois (age 10) were married. She the daughter of Herbert Vermandois I Count Vermandois (age 41).
In 894 [his daughter] Emma Capet was born to Robert I King West Francia (age 28) and Aelis Unknown Queen Consort West Francia.
In 898 [his son] Hugh "Great" Capet Count Paris was born to Robert I King West Francia (age 32) and [his wife] Beatrice Vermandois (age 18).
In 922 [his son] Hugh "Great" Capet Count Paris (age 24) and [his daughter-in-law] Judith Maine were married. She the daughter of Roger Maine I Count Maine and Rotrude Carolingian Abbess Saint Radegunde. He the son of Robert I King West Francia (age 56) and [his wife] Beatrice Vermandois (age 42). They were third cousin twice removed.
In 922 Robert I King West Francia (age 56) was appointed I King West Francia.
On 15th June 923 Robert I King West Francia (age 57) died. On 13th July 923 his son-in-law Rudolph aka Raoul I King West Francia (age 33) was elected I King West Francia.
On 26th March 931 [his former wife] Beatrice Vermandois (age 51) died.
[his daughter] Adela Capet Countess Vermandois, Soissons and Meaux was born to Robert I King West Francia and Aelis Unknown Queen Consort West Francia.
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