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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.
Condes de Barcelona by Masearo is in Victorian Books.
From his second marriage to Doña Leonor of Portugal. Without children.
Hardly had the King been widowed by Doña Maria when he immediately arranged his second marriage with Doña Leonor (age 20), a princess of noble qualities, daughter of King Alfonso IV and Queen Beatriz, monarchs of Portugal. Despite the significant obstacles raised by the King of Castile, an avowed enemy of the King of Aragon, in an attempt to thwart this union, the marriage nevertheless took place in the city of Barcelona, where the new queen arrived by sea on November 15 of the same year that her predecessor, Doña Maria, had died. However, the King suffered the sorrow of losing this second wife to pestilence at the end of October [30th October 1348] the following year, 1348, without her leaving any offspring. She died in the city of Teruel, where the royal couple happened to be due to the extension of the Cortes and the disputes and unrest with Castile and the supporters of the Union, which eventually led to the bloodiest of wars.
The Queen’s body was later taken to Poblet and rests in the same tomb as her husband, according to Finestres.
De Segundas Nupcias Con Doña Leonor De Portugal. Sin Hijos.
Apenas enviudó el Rey de D.ª Maria contrató inmediatamente su segundo enlace con D. Leonor , princesa de altas prendas , hija de D. Alfonso IV y de D.ª Beatriz monarcas de Portugal1 , y a pesar de los grandes obstáculos que opuso el rey de Castilla , enemigo declarado del de Aragon , para frustrar este casamiento , se efectuó no obstante la union conyugal en la ciudad de Barcelona , donde llegó por mar la nueva Reina el dia 15 de noviembre del mismo año de la muerte de su antecesora D.ª Maria ; pero el Rey tuvo el disgusto de perder esta segunda esposa de pestilencia á fines de octubre del siguiente año de 1548 , sin que le dejase fruto alguno de sucesion , en la ciudad de Teruel donde se hallaban casualmente los dos esposos con motivo de la prorrogacion de córtes y de las desavenencias y disturbios con Castilla y los partidarios de la Union , que acabaron en la mas sangrienta guerra.
El cadaver de la Reina fué conducido despues á Poblet , y descansa en el mismo sepulcro que su esposo segun Finestres2.
Note 1. Real Archive , Curia 11. Pet . III.
Note 2. Hist . de Poblet , tom . 1.º , pág . 283 , y alli mismo pueden verse muchas noticias de sepulturas Reales en aquel monasterio .
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