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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Paternal Family Tree: Nugent of Carlanstown
In 1709 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent was born to Michael Nugent.
On 14th July 1730 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 21) and Emilia Plunkett were married. She the daughter of Peter Plunkett 4th Earl of Fingall and Frances Hales Countess Fingall.
On 16th August 1731 [his wife] Emilia Plunkett died in childbirth.
On 16th August 1731 [his son] Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Nugent was born to Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 22) and [his wife] Emilia Plunkett.
On 23rd March 1736 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 27) and Anne Craggs were married.
In 1739 [his father] Michael Nugent died.
On 7th May 1744 Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley (age 29) and [his future wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 24) were married. She by marriage Countess Berkeley. He the son of James Berkeley 3rd Earl Berkeley and Louisa Lennox Countess Berkeley.
On 2nd January 1757 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 48) and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 37) were married.
In 1758 [his daughter] Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham was born to Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 49) and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 38).
In 1758 [his daughter] Louisa Nugent was born to Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 49) and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 38).
In 1767 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 58) was created 1st Viscount Clare, 1st Baron Nugent. [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 47) by marriage Viscountess Clare.
On 30th May 1767 William Craven 6th Baron Craven (age 28) and [his step-daughter] Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach (age 16) were married. She the daughter of Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 47).
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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.
On 17th March 1769 William Craven 5th Baron Craven (age 63) died. His grandson William (age 30) succeeded 6th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire. [his step-daughter] Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach (age 18) by marriage Baroness Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire.
In 1771 [his son] Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Nugent (age 39) died unmarried.
In 1775 [his son-in-law] George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham (age 21) and [his daughter] Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham (age 17) were married. She the daughter of Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 66) and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 55).
In 1776 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 67) was created 1st Earl Nugent. [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 56) by marriage Countess Nugent.
In 1784 [his step-son] George Cranfield Berkeley (age 30) and Emily Charlotte Lennox (age 20) were married. He the son of Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 64). They were second cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 13th October 1788 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 79) died. [his son-in-law] George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham (age 35) succeeded 2nd Earl Nugent. Viscount Clare, Baron Nugent extinct.
On 29th June 1792 [his former wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 72) died.
Letters of Horace Walpole. Nugent is most affectedly an humble servant of Mr. Pelham, and seems only to have attached himself to the Prince, in order to make the better bargain with the ministry; he has great parts, but they never know how to disentangle themselves from bombast and absurdities. Besides those, there are two young men who make some figure in the rising Opposition, Bathurst(4) attorney to the Prince; and Potter, whom I believe you have had mentioned in my letters of last year; but he has a bad constitution, and is seldom able to be in town. Neither of these are in the scale of moderation.
(4) The Hon. Henry Bathurst, second heir of Allen, first Lord Bathurst, He became heir to the title upon the death, without issue, of his elder brother, the Hon. Benjamin Bathurst, in 1761. In 1746 he was appointed Attorney-General to Frederick, Prince of Wales; in 1754, one of the puisne judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1771, Lord Chancellor. He was, upon this occasion, created a peer, by the title of Lord Apsley. He succeeded his father as second Earl Bathurst in 1775, and died in 1794.-D.
