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.'
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On 1st August 1137 Louis VI King of the Franks [aged 55] died of dysentery. His son Louis [aged 17] succeeded VII King of the Franks. Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen Consort Franks and England [aged 15] by marriage Queen Consort Franks.
On 9th October 1212 Philip Flanders I Marquis Namur [aged 37] died of dysentery.
On 5th October 1285 King Philip III of France [aged 40] died of dysentery; see Annals of Dunstable. His son Philip [aged 17] succeeded IV King France: Capet. Joan Blois I Queen Navarre [aged 12] by marriage Queen Consort of France.
On 8th June 1376 Edward "Black Prince" [aged 45] died of dysentery at Westminster Palace [Map]. He was buried in Canterbury Cathedral [Map]. His son Richard [aged 9] succeeded as heir to his grandfather King Edward III of England [aged 63] who died a year later.
On 17th September 1415 Michael de la Pole 2nd Earl Suffolk [aged 54] died of dysentery. His son Michael [aged 21] succeeded 3rd Earl Suffolk, 3rd Baron Pole. Elizabeth Mowbray Countess Suffolk [aged 21] by marriage Countess Suffolk.
Life Charles VI by a Monk of St Denis [~1420]. 31st August 1422. In the year previously mentioned, on Monday, the last day of August, Henry, King of England, at the place called the Bois de Vincennes, the most delightful castle of the King of France, departed the way of all flesh. Indeed, the cause of his death was an illness of dysentery1, which is called Saint Fiacre's disease, because, as was commonly said, he had wished to transfer the precious body of the said most glorious saint from its rightful place to another, out of disordered desire, gravely offending the Creator and the said glorious saint. And, as is very likely, he had intended to bring that precious body to his kingdom of England. And because the will is considered equivalent to the deed, if one has done everything within one's power, he was therefore to be regarded as a sacrilegious person and a violator of the church.
Anno superius declarato, die autem lune ultima mensis augusti, Henricus, rex Anglie, in loco dicto le boys de Vincennes, castro regis Francie delectabilissimo, viam universe carnis est ingressus. Etenim sui decessus causa fuit infirmitas fluxus ventris, que dicitur infirmitas sancti Fiacri, eo, ut communiter ferebatur, quia preciosum corpus dicti gloriosissimi sancti a proprio loco in alterum ad sui inordinatum affectum voluerat et volebat transferre, Creatorem dictumque sanctum gloriosum grávissime offendendo, et, ut verissimile est, in se proposuerat illud corpus preciosum in suum Anglie regnum asportare. Et quia voluntas reputatur pro facto, si fecerimus quod in nobis est, ideo sacrilegus et ecclesie violator reputandus erat.
Note 1. "fluxus ventris" i.e. dysentery may be better translated as "diarrhea".
On 19th October 1595 Philip Howard 13th or 20th Earl of Arundel [aged 38] died of dysentery at Tower of London [Map]. He was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map], reburied at Arundel Cathedral, Sussex [Map] and then reburied in the Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle [Map]. Earl Arundel, Baron Maltravers, Baron Arundel forfeit.
He had been imprisoned for ten years and had never seen his son and heir Thomas Howard 14th or 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk [aged 10] who had been born three months after he was imprisoned.
On 7th December 1674 Charles Hohenzollern [aged 19] died of dysentery.
On 17th October 1680 Charles "Don Carlo" Fitzcharles 1st Earl Plymouth [aged 23] died of dysentery at Tangier [Map] during the Siege of Tangier. Earl Plymouth, Viscount Totnes and Baron Dartmouth extinct.
In 1689 Bishop Thomas Cartwright [aged 55] died of dysentery in Dublin [Map]. He was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin [Map].
Before 1758 Robert Apreece [aged 80] died of dysentery.
On 23rd November 1856 Thomas Seddon [aged 35] died of dysentery at Cairo, Egypt.