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: Thorold
In or before 1520 [his father] William Thorold and [his mother] Dorothy Leke were married.
In or before 1520 Anthony Thorold was born to [his father] William Thorold and [his mother] Dorothy Leke.
After 1520 Anthony Thorold and Margaret Sutton (age 6) were married.
In 1558 Anthony Thorold (age 38) was elected MP Grantham with the support of Henry Manners 2nd Earl of Rutland (age 31)
Around 1568 [his daughter] Winifred Thorold was born to Anthony Thorold (age 48) and [his wife] Margaret Sutton (age 54). She married 1581 George Clifton and had issue.
In 1569 [his father] William Thorold died.
In 1571 [his son] William Thorold was born to Anthony Thorold (age 51) and [his wife] Margaret Sutton (age 57). He married in or before 1587 Frances Tyrwhitt and had issue.
In 1577 [his wife] Margaret Sutton (age 63) died.
In 1581 [his son-in-law] George Clifton (age 14) and [his daughter] Winifred Thorold (age 13) were married.
In or before 1587 [his son] William Thorold (age 15) and [his daughter-in-law] Frances Tyrwhitt were married.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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Around January 1591 [his daughter] Winifred Thorold (age 23) died.
Before 26th June 1594 Anthony Thorold (age 74) and Anne Constable were married.
On 26th June 1594 Anthony Thorold (age 74) died. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Marston, South Kesteven [Map].
George Babington and Anne Constable were married.
St Mary's Church, Marston, South Kesteven [Map]. Open every day. Churchwarden Mrs Barbara Barrodale telephone: 01522 826381
In south chapel, a large dresser tomb of pink and white marble with alabaster recumbent figure flanked by corinthian columns, of Sir Anthony Thorold, died June 1594. Backing onto it at east end of south aisle, another dresser tomb of stone and marble with 3 shields in medillions below and quatrefoil frieze above, of [his father] William Thorold, died 1569. Alabaster monument on south wall to Anne, Lady Hodgson (nee Thorold), died 1719, with ornate crown and apron, flanking corinthianesque pilasters and draperies.
Father: William Thorold
GrandFather: Thomas Leke of Halloughton in Nottinghamshire
Mother: Dorothy Leke