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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Earl Conyngham is in Earl Ireland.
The London Gazette 14064. 6th November 1797. Dublin Castle, November 6, 1797.
His Majesty's [aged 59] Royal Letters being received, granting the following Dignities, Letters Patent are preparing to be passed under the Great Seal of this Kingdom accordingly, viz.
To armour Lowry, Viscount Belmore, and the Heirs Male ofhis Body lawfully begotten, the Dignity of Earl Belmore in the County of Fermanagh.
To Henry Viscount Conyngham [aged 30], and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, the Dignities of Viscount Mount-Charles, of Mount-Charles in the County of Donegal, and Earl Conyngham, of Mount-Charles aforesaid.
To Francis Viscount Llandaff [aged 59] and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, the Dignity of Earl Landaff, of Thomastown in the County of Tipperary.
To Richard Hely, Lord Donoughmore [aged 41], and the Heirs Male of his Body, lawfully begotten, the Dignity of Viscount Donoughmore of Knocklofty in the County of Tipperary; and in Default of such Issue, to the Heirs Male of the Body of Christian Hely, Baroness Donoughmore, deceased, (Mother of the said Richard Hely, Lord Donoughmore) by John Hely Hutchinson, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Ireland, and Keeper of His Majesty's Signet or Privy Seal in that Kingdom, also deceased, and their Heirs Male lawfully begotten.
To Hugh, Baron Carleton [aged 58], Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully, begotten, the Dignity of Viscount Carleton, of Clare in the County of Tipperary.
In 1781 Henry Conyngham 1st Earl Conyngham [aged 76] was created 1st Earl Conyngham and 1st Baron Conyngham with a remainder to his nephew Francis Burton.
On 3rd April 1781 Henry Conyngham 1st Earl Conyngham [aged 76] died without issue. Earl Conyngham and Baron Conyngham extinct. His nephew Francis [aged 56] succeeded Baron Conyngham. On Francis Burton aka Conyngham 2nd Baron Conyngham adopted the surname Conyngham by Royal License.