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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.
Switzerland is in Europe.
On 30th September 1434 Bishop John Langdon died at Basel.
On 30th October 1741 Angelica Kauffmann was born in Chur Graubünden.
In October 1445 Agnes Savoy Duchess Longueville was born to Louis Savoy I Count Savoy (age 32) and Anne Cyprus Countess Savoy (age 27) at Chambéry. She married in or before 1480 her third cousin once removed François Valois II Duke Longueville, son of François Valois Duke Longueville and Agnès de Savoy Duchess Longueville.
On 19th August 1454 François Savoy was born to Louis Savoy I Count Savoy (age 41) and Anne Cyprus Countess Savoy (age 35) at Chambéry.
On 8th July 1528 Emmanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy was born to Charles 3rd Duke Savoy (age 41) and Beatrice Aviz Duchess Savoy (age 23) at Chambéry. He married 1559 his half first cousin once removed Margaret Valois Duchess Berry and Savoy, daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude Valois Orléans Queen Consort France, and had issue.
On 26th September 1791 William Craven 6th Baron Craven (age 53) died at Lausanne, Switzerland. His son William (age 20) succeeded 7th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire. His son William succeeded 8th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire.
On 13th July 1967 Nicholas Hohenzollern Sigmaringen (age 63) and Thereza Lisboa Figueira Mello were married at Lausanne, Switzerland.
On 3rd November 1846 Elizabeth Thompson Lady Butler was born to Thomas James Thompson (age 34) and Christiana Weller (age 21) at the Villa Claremont, Lausanne. She married 11th June 1877 Lieutenant-General William Francis Butler.
In November 1875 William Holman Hunt (age 48) and Marion Edith Waugh (age 28) were married at Neuchâtel, Switzerland since marrying your late wife's sister was illegal in England - see 1835 Marriage Act. She his first wife's younger sister contrary to English Law; an example of Married to Two Siblings. His brother-in-law Thomas Woolner (age 49) considered the marriage immoral; they never spoke again.
On 29th July 1983 David Niven (age 73) died at his chalet at Château-d'Oex, District de la Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut.
On 2nd August 1983 David Niven (deceased) was buried in a private ceremony at a Church of St Peter, Château-d'Oex. Yehudi Menuhin and seven of his students played the violin. Prince Rainier of Monaco comforted the British actor's widow Hjördis Paulina Genberg (age 63). Niven's Scottish pastor friend Arnot Morrison conducted the funeral service. The British ambassador to Switzerland, John Powell-Jones, represented the British government at the funeral.
In 1890 Sigmund Neumann 1st Baronet (age 32) and Anna Allegra Hakim Lady Neumann (age 26) were married at Vevey, Switzerland.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 7th February 1741 Henry Fuseli was born at Zurich, Switzerland. He married 1788 Sophia Rawlins.
