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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Aunis is in France.
On 14th March 1424 Archibald Douglas 1st Duke Touraine [aged 52] arrived at La Rochelle with an army following a request from Charles "Victorious" VII King France [aged 21] for aid.
On 16th August 1608 Jean-Louis Raduit Count de Souches was born at La Rochelle.
On 12th July 1627 George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham [aged 34] led an English force of 100 ships and 6,000 soldiers to capture the city of Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Île de Ré.
In August 1627 more troops, including the newly promoted Lieutenant John Felton [aged 32], arrived.
On 3rd September 1627 two thousand Irish troops arrived under Ralph Bingley [aged 57]
On 27th October 1627 a final assault was attempted; it failed because the attackers' siege ladders were shorter than the walls of the fortress.
In November 1627 George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham retreated and returned to England having lost thousands of his men.
