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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Ile de France is in France.
On 16th August 1445 Margaret Stewart Dauphine of France [aged 20] died at Châlons-en-Champagne [Map]. She was buried at the Church of Saint-Laon Thouars.
On 29th October 1854 Thomas Lister 4th Baron Ribblesdale was born to Thomas Lister 3rd Baron Ribblesdale [aged 26] at Fontainebleau. He married 7th April 1877 Charlotte Monckton "Charty" Tennant, daughter of Charles Tennant 1st Baronet and Emma Winsloe Lady Tennant, and had issue.
On 12th February 1712 Maria Adelaide Savoy [aged 26] died of measles at Versailles.
On 18th February 1712 Louis Bourbon Duke Burgundy [aged 29] died of measles contracted when nursing his wife Maria Adelaide Savoy who had died six days previously.
On 8th March 1712, their eldest son, heir to the throne, Louis Bourbon Duke Brittany [aged 5] died of measles.
The heir to the French throne their only remaining son Louis [aged 1], aged two, great-grandson of the reigning monarch Louis "Sun King" XIV King France [aged 73] who succeeded his great-grandfather three years later in 1715.
On 23rd February 1745 Dauphin Louis Bourbon [aged 15] and Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain [aged 18] were married at the Palace of Versailles. She the daughter of Philippe V King Spain [aged 61] and Elisabeth Farnese Queen Consort Spain [aged 52]. He the son of Louis XV King France [aged 35] and Marie Leszczyńska Queen Consort France [aged 41]. They were first cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.
On 16th April 1780 or 11th July 1780 Antoine 8th Duke Gramont [aged 24] and Aglae de Polignac "Guichette" Duchess Gramont [aged 11] were married at the Palace of Versailles. She the daughter of Jules 1st Duke of Polignac [aged 33] and Yolande Martine Gabrielle Polastron Duchess Gramont [aged 30]. He the son of Antoine 7th Duke Gramont [aged 58].