Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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On 29th March 1769 Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham was born to [her father] Joseph Denison [aged 43].
On 22nd May 1787 Francis Burton aka Conyngham 2nd Baron Conyngham [aged 62] died. His son [her future husband] Henry [aged 20] succeeded 3rd Baron Conyngham.
In May 1789 [her future husband] Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham [aged 22] was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
In 1793 [her brother-in-law] Robert Lawley 1st Baron Wenlock [aged 25] and [her sister] Anna Maria Denison Baroness Wenlock [aged 22] were married. There was no issue from the marriage.
On 5th July 1794 Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham [aged 27] and Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 25] were married.
On 11th June 1797 [her son] Francis Nathaniel Conyngham 2nd Marquess Conyngham was born to [her husband] Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham [aged 30] and Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 28]. He married 23rd April 1824 Jane Paget Marchioness Conyngham, daughter of Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey and Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll, and had issue.
On 16th February 1799 [her daughter] Elizabeth Conyngham was born to [her husband] Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham [aged 32] and Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 29]. She married 2nd March 1826 Charles Gordon 10th Marquess Huntly, son of George Gordon 9th Marquess Huntly and Catherine Anne Cope.
On 21st October 1805 [her son] Albert Conygham aka Denison 1st Baron Londesborough was born to [her husband] Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham [aged 38] and Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 36]. He married (1) 6th July 1833 Henrietta Maria Weld-Forester, daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester 1st Baron Forester and Katherine Mary Manners Baroness Forester, and had issue (2) 21st December 1847 Ursula Lucy Grace Bridgeman and had issue.
On 12th December 1806 [her father] Joseph Denison [aged 80] died.
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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In January 1816 [her husband] Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham [aged 49] was created 1st Marquess Conyngham in Donegal. Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 46] by marriage Marchioness Conyngham in Donegal.
Around 1819 Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 49] replaced Isabella Anne Ingram Marchioness Hertford [aged 59] as the mistress of King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland [aged 56].
On 23rd April 1824 Francis Nathaniel Conyngham 2nd Marquess Conyngham [aged 26] and Jane Paget Marchioness Conyngham [aged 25] were married. She the daughter of Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey [aged 55] and Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll [aged 49]. He the son of Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham [aged 57] and Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 55].
On 2nd March 1826 [her son-in-law] Charles Gordon 10th Marquess Huntly [aged 34] and Elizabeth Conyngham [aged 27] were married. She the daughter of Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham [aged 59] and Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 56]. He the son of George Gordon 9th Marquess Huntly [aged 64] and Catherine Anne Cope [aged 55].
Before 1830. Thomas Lawrence [aged 60]. Portrait of Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 60].
Greville Memoirs. 21st July 1830. I came and established myself here last night after the Duchess of Bedford's ball. Lady Bathurst [aged 64] told me that the Queen spoke to her yesterday morning about the King's walk and being followed, and said that for the future he must walk early in the morning, or in some less public place, so there are hopes that his activity may be tamed. He sent George Fitzclarence off from dinner in his silk stockings and cocked hat to Boulogne to invite the King of Würtemberg to come here; he was back in fifty-six hours, and might have been in less. He employs him in everything, and I heard Fitzclarence yesterday ask the Duke of Leeds for two of his father's horses to ride about on his jobs and relieve his own, which the Duke agreed to, but made a wry face. [her husband] Mount Charles [aged 63] has refused to be Lord of the Bedchamber; his wife [aged 61] can't bear it, and he doesn't like to go to Windsor under such altered circumstances. I hardly ever record the scandalous stories of the day, unless they relate to characters or events, but what relates to public men is different from the loves and friendships of the idiots of society.
In 1831 [her brother-in-law] Robert Lawley 1st Baron Wenlock [aged 63] was created 1st Baron Wenlock of Wenlock in Shropshire. [her sister] Anna Maria Denison Baroness Wenlock [aged 60] by marriage Baroness Wenlock of Wenlock in Shropshire.
On 22nd December 1832 [her son-in-law] William Meredyth Somerville 1st Baron Meredyth and Athlumney [aged 30] and Maria Harriet Conyngham were married. She the daughter of Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham [aged 65] and Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 63].
On 28th December 1832 [her husband] Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham [aged 66] died. His son Francis [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Marquess Conyngham in Donegal, 4th Baron Conyngham, 2nd Baron Minster of Minster Abbey in Kent. Jane Paget Marchioness Conyngham [aged 34] by marriage Marchioness Conyngham in Donegal.
On 6th July 1833 Albert Conygham aka Denison 1st Baron Londesborough [aged 27] and Henrietta Maria Weld-Forester were married. He the son of Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham and Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 64].
In 1839 [her daughter] Elizabeth Conyngham [aged 39] died.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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On 3rd December 1843 [her daughter] Maria Harriet Conyngham died.
On 21st December 1847 Albert Conygham aka Denison 1st Baron Londesborough [aged 42] and Ursula Lucy Grace Bridgeman [aged 24] were married. He the son of Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham and Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 78].
On 20th August 1850 [her sister] Anna Maria Denison Baroness Wenlock [aged 79] died.
On 15th January 1860 Albert Conygham aka Denison 1st Baron Londesborough [aged 54] died. His son William [aged 25] succeeded 2nd Baron Londesborough of Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
On 11th October 1861 Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham [aged 92] died.
[her daughter] Maria Harriet Conyngham was born to Henry Conyngham 1st Marquess Conyngham and Elizabeth Denison Marchioness Conyngham. She married 22nd December 1832 William Meredyth Somerville 1st Baron Meredyth and Athlumney, son of Marcus Somerville 4th Baronet and Mary Anne Gorges-Meredyth, and had issue.