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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.
Paternal Family Tree: Bruce of Annandale
Maternal Family Tree: Aoife ni Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham 1145-1188
Robert Bruce Earl Carrick and Matilda aka Maud Fitzalan were married. She the daughter of John Fitzalan 7th Earl of Arundel and Isabella Mortimer Countess Arundel. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King John of England.
On 12th May 1240 [his father] Robert Bruce 5th Lord Annandale (age 25) and [his mother] Isabel Clare Lady Annandale (age 13) were married. She by marriage Lord Annandale. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford and [his grandmother] Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
In July 1243 Robert Bruce Earl Carrick was born to Robert Bruce 5th Lord Annandale (age 28) and Isabel Clare Lady Annandale (age 16).
On 10th July 1264 [his mother] Isabel Clare Lady Annandale (age 37) died. She was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map].
In 1271 Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 27) and Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 18) were married at Turnberry Castle. He by marriage Earl Carrick. She the daughter of Niall Carrick 2nd Earl Carrick and Margaret Stewart Countess Carrick. They were third cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
Around 1272 [his daughter] Isabel Bruce Queen Norway was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 28) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 19).
In 1273 [his daughter] Christina Bruce was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 29) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 20).
On 11th July 1274 [his son] King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 31) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 21) at Turnberry Castle.
On 3rd May 1275 [his father] Robert Bruce 5th Lord Annandale (age 60) and Christina Ireby Lady Annandale were married. She by marriage Lord Annandale.
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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.
Around 1276 [his son] Nigel Bruce was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 32) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 23).
In 1279 [his son] Edward Bruce King Ireland was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 35) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 26).
In 1282 [his daughter] Mary Bruce was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 38) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 29).
In 1283 [his daughter] Margaret Bruce was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 39) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 30).
Around 1284 [his son] Thomas Bruce was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 40) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 31).
Around 1285 [his son] Alexander Bruce was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 41) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 32).
Around 1286 [his daughter] Elizabeth Bruce was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 42) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 33).
Around 1287 [his daughter] Matilda Bruce Countess Ross was born to Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 43) and [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 34).
Before 9th November 1292 [his wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick (age 39) died.
In 1293 [his son-in-law] Eric II King Norway (age 25) and [his daughter] Isabel Bruce Queen Norway (age 21) were married. She by marriage Queen Norway. She the daughter of Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 49) and [his former wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick. He the son of King Magnus VI of Norway and Queen Ingeborg of Norway.
On 31st March 1295 [his father] Robert Bruce 5th Lord Annandale (age 80) died. He was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map]. His son Robert (age 51) succeeded 6th Lord Annandale.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. [1296] Having thus entered into a treaty with the king of France and his people, the Scots immediately raised their horns and prepared themselves for battle. By public proclamation, they decreed that all persons holding lands, possessions, or revenues in the kingdom of Scotland must appear armed and ready to resist the king of England and to carry out whatever further actions the king of Scotland, with the counsel of the twelve peers, might determine. Since many Englishmen and nobles who held lands there, remaining faithfully in allegiance to the king of England, refused to attend this gathering, their lands were given to others who were to hold and defend them by common agreement. These nobles, like all the English in general, were from that point considered public enemies and were expelled from the kingdom if they had not already voluntarily departed. Among them was Lord Robert de Brus (age 52), son of the Robert de Brus the Fourth mentioned above. Because he refused to attend on the appointed day, his land, namely Annandale, was given to Lord John Comyn of Buchan (age 27) to possess and defend as his own. Having taken possession of it, he immediately seized and carried off all the tithes of that region, belonging to us, for the fortification of Lochmaben Castle, without payment and by force. Our king, meanwhile, remaining firm in his intention that aid should be sent to him, was at last scornfully answered and deceived. They [the Scots] said that neither their king nor themselves were bound to him in any way, nor were they obliged to obey his requests or commands, especially since they had obtained from Pope Celestine the benefit of absolution from the oath of fealty and homage which had been unjustly extorted from their king by force. When the king heard this, he was astonished; and recognizing their rebellion, he issued a command to them as his vassals that, even if they refused to bring him aid, they should at least not allow his enemies, the French or Flemings, to enter their land. And if they wished to remain faithful to him, they should deliver three named castles, Berwick, Roxburgh, and Edinburgh, into his custody until the end of the war with France. But they utterly refused this last request, answering the first by saying, "Our land is free and exempt from all servitude. We do not acknowledge ourselves in any way bound by the commands of the king of England. Indeed, we will admit French or Flemish merchants, or others from wherever they come, freely and without any distinction of persons."
Inito itaque foedere cum rege Franciæ et suis, mox erexerunt cornua et se ad pugnam paraverunt, convenientesque statuerunt ex edicto quod omnes et singuli qui terras, possessiones, seu redditus aliquos in regno Scotia tenerent, sub forisfactura earundem venirent præparati cum armis ad resistendum regi Angliæ, et ad faciendum ulterius quod de consilio XII parium rex ipse discerneret faciendum; et quia Anglici multi et nobiles, qui terras ibidem habebant, utpote in fide regis Angliæ fideliter permanentes, ad illud colloquium venire noluerunt, ideo terræ illorum datæ sunt aliis qui ex ordinatione communi eas tenerent et defenderent. Illi etiam nobiles, sicut et cæteri Anglici universi, extunc tanquam hostes publici censebantur, et ejiciebantur a regno qui prius sponte non recesserant. Inter quos dominus Robertus de Bruys, filius Roberti quarti de quo supra meminimus, quia ad diem illum venire contempserat, data est terra sua, scilicet Vallis Anandiæ, domino Johanni Comyn de Boughan, ut eam in dominio possideret et defenderet tanquam suam; quam cum esset ingressus mox omnes decimas nostras ejusdem patriæ ad munitionem castri de Loghmaban absque ullo pretio fecit cariari et violenter retinuit. Rex vero noster dum in primo proposito permaneret ut sibi auxilium mitteretur, et illusus esset, et ei tandem proterviter hoc modo responsum est. Dixerunt enim nec regem illorum nec se teneri in aliquo, nec precibus ejus vel præceptis obsequendum, præcipue cum a fidelitate sua et homagio illicito, quod a rege eorum extorserat per potentiam, a Coelestino papa absolutionis beneficium fuerant consecuti. Quod cum audisset rex miratus est, et eorum seditione cognita, ipsis tanquam fidelibus suis præcipiendo mandavit ut quamquam auxilium sibi ferre negarent, hostes tamen suos Francos vel Flandrenses non admitterent in terram suam; et si in fide sua manere vellent, tria castra nominata, scilicet Berewyk, Rokesburgh et Edensburgh suis, saltem usque ad finem guerræ regi Franciæ, retinenda liberarent. Quod quidem ultimum facere contempserunt, ad primum respondendo dicentes, "Terra nostra libera est et ab omni servitute quieta, nec præcepto regis Angliæ fatemur in aliquo nos astrictos; immo mercatores Francos vel Flandrenses, seu alios undecumque venientes, absque ulla personarum distinctione admittemus ad votum."
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In 1296 [his son] King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 21) and [his daughter-in-law] Isabella Mar (age 43) were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years; she, unusually, being older than him. She the daughter of Donald Mar 7th Earl of Mar and Elen ferch Llewellyn Aberffraw Countess Huntingdon and Mar. He the son of Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 52) and [his former wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. She a great granddaughter of King John of England.
In 1301 [his son-in-law] Christopher Seton (age 23) and [his daughter] Christina Bruce (age 28) were married. She the daughter of Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 57) and [his former wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick.
In 1302 [his son] King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 27) and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Burgh Queen Consort Scotland (age 18) were married. She the daughter of Richard "Red Earl" Burgh 2nd Earl of Ulster (age 43) and Margaret Burgh Countess Ulster. He the son of Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 58) and [his former wife] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick. They were fifth cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
Before 4th March 1304 Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 60) died. He was buried at Holme Cultram Abbey, Cumberland [Map].
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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.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. In the same year died Sir Robert de Brus (age 60) the fifth, soon after Easter [4th March 1304], while he was on the road towards Annandale, and he was buried in the monastery of Holm [Map].1 In the same year died John, Earl of Warenne (age 73), an old man, and was buried at Lewes after Christmas. In the same year died that valiant knight Sir William Latimer (age 61), on the vigil of Saint Nicholas [5th December 1304], who had exercised his knighthood in many lands, and he was buried at Empingham.2
Eodem anno obiit dominus Robertus de Brus quintus, cito post Pascha, cum esset in via versus Vallem Anandiæ, sepultusque est in monasterio de Holme. Eodem anno obiit comes de Warenna Johannes, homo senex, sepultusque est apud Lews post Natale Domini. Eodem anno obiit strenuus ille miles dominus Willelmus Latimer in vigilia Sancti Nicholai, qui suam militiam in multis terris exercuerat, sepultusque est apud Hempingham.
Note 1. Holme Cultram Abbey, Cumberland [Map].
Note 2. Empingham, Rutlandshire.
Kings Wessex: Great x 6 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 4 Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Scotland: Great x 5 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 14 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Kings France: Great x 6 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 11 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Bruce 1st Lord Annandale 1st Lord Skelton
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Bruce 2nd Lord Annandale
Great x 4 Grandfather: Fulk Paynel
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Paynel Lady Annandale Lady Skelton
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Bruce 3rd Lord Annandale
Great x 2 Grandmother: Euphemia Crosebi Lady Annandale
GrandFather: Robert Bruce 4th Lord Annandale
Great x 1 Grandmother: Christina Unknown Lady Annandale
Father: Robert Bruce 5th Lord Annandale 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Malcolm III of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: King David I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Wessex Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Dunkeld 3rd Earl Huntingdon 1st Earl of Northumbria
Great x 4 Grandfather: Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon
Great x 1 Grandfather: David Dunkeld 8th Earl Huntingdon
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Warenne 1st Earl of Surrey
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gundred Countess of Surrey
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ada Warenne Countess Huntingdon and Northumbria
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh "Great" Capet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelaide I Countess Vermandois
GrandMother: Isabel "the Scot" Dunkeld Lady Annandale 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ranulf le Meschin Gernon 3rd Earl Chester
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ranulf Gernon 4th Earl Chester
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Bolingbroke Countess Chester
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh de Kevelioc Gernon 5th Earl Chester Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Matilda Fitzrobert Countess Chester Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mabel Fitzhamon Countess Gloucester
Great x 1 Grandmother: Matilda Gernon Countess Huntingdon 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Amaury Montfort Count Évreux
Great x 3 Grandfather: Simon "Chauve" Montfort 4th Count Évreux
Great x 2 Grandmother: Bertrade Montfort Countess Chester
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mathilde Unknown Countess Évreux
Robert Bruce Earl Carrick 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert de Clare
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard de Clare
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adeliza Claremont
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Clare 2nd Earl Hertford
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ranulf le Meschin Gernon 3rd Earl Chester
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Gernon
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Bolingbroke Countess Chester
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Clare 3rd Earl Hertford
Great x 2 Grandmother: Maud St Hilary Countess Hertford
GrandFather: Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Henry I "Beauclerc" England Son of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Daughter Gay
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Fitzrobert 2nd Earl Gloucester Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Fitzhamon
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mabel Fitzhamon Countess Gloucester
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sibyl Montgomery
Great x 1 Grandmother: Amice Fitzrobert Countess Hertford Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey
Great x 2 Grandmother: Hawise Beaumont Countess Gloucester
Great x 4 Grandfather: Raoul Gael
Great x 3 Grandmother: Amice Gael Countess Leicester
Mother: Isabel Clare Lady Annandale 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gilbert Giffard
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Fitzgilbert
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward of Salisbury 1st Baron Trowbridge 1st Baron Chitterne
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter of Salisbury 2nd Baron Chitterne
Great x 2 Grandmother: Sybil of Salisbury
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sybilla Chaworth Baroness Chitterne
GrandMother: Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert de Clare
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gilbert de Clare 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adeliza Claremont
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard "Strongbow" Clare 2nd Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Beaumont Countess Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke
Great x 3 Grandfather: Diarmait Macmurrough
Great x 2 Grandmother: Aoife ni Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham