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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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Paternal Family Tree: Peverell
William Peverell and Adeline Unknown were married.
Around 1040 William Peverell was born.
Around 1080 [his son] William "The Younger" Peverell was born to William Peverell (age 40) and Adeline Unknown. He married in or before 1110 Avicia Taillebois, daughter of William Taillebois and Gundred Warenne Countess Warwick, and had issue.
Around 1090 William Peverell (age 50) built Peverell Castle.
Chronicon ex Chronicis by Florence and John of Worcester. 1094. The earl [Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy (age 43)], driven to extremity, brought his suzerain, king Philip, with a French army into Normandy, who laid siege to the castle of Argentan, and on the very day he sat down before it, took seven hundred of the king's knights prisoners, with as many squires, and the whole garrison of the place, without loss of blood. He then returned to France, having given orders that the prisoners should be detained in custody until they paid their respective ransoms. Earl Robert also besieged the castle called Holme, until William Peverel (age 54) and eight hundred men who defended it surrendered to him. When the king was informed of this, he sent messengers to England with orders that twenty thousand foot soldiers should be levied and despatched to his aid in Normandy. They were mustered at Hastings, in readiness for crossing the sea, but Ralph Passe-Flambard, by the king's command, withheld the pay which had been allotted for their maintenance, at the rate of ten-pence for each man, and gave them orders to return to their homes: the money he remitted to the king. Meanwhile, all England was distressed by heavy and constant taxation, and by a mortality which was very general in this and the following year.
Around 1100 William Peverell (age 60) was granted Bakewell, Derbyshire [Map] by King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 32). The Anglo-Saxon Minster was demolished and a new church built.
In or before 1110 [his son] William "The Younger" Peverell (age 29) and [his daughter-in-law] Avicia Taillebois were married. She the daughter of William Taillebois and Gundred Warenne Countess Warwick.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Around 1115 William Peverell (age 75) died.
[his daughter] Adeliza Peverell was born to William Peverell and Adeline Unknown. She married Richard Redvers and had issue.
[his daughter] Maud Peverell was born to William Peverell and Adeline Unknown. She married before 1117 Robert Fitzmartin.
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