Adam Murimuth's Continuation and Robert of Avesbury’s 'The Wonderful Deeds of King Edward III'
This volume brings together two of the most important contemporary chronicles for the reign of Edward III and the opening phases of the Hundred Years’ War. Written in Latin by English clerical observers, these texts provide a vivid and authoritative window into the political, diplomatic, and military history of fourteenth-century England and its continental ambitions. Adam Murimuth Continuatio's Chronicarum continues an earlier chronicle into the mid-fourteenth century, offering concise but valuable notices on royal policy, foreign relations, and ecclesiastical affairs. Its annalistic structure makes it especially useful for establishing chronology and tracing the development of events year by year. Complementing it, Robert of Avesbury’s De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii is a rich documentary chronicle preserving letters, treaties, and official records alongside narrative passages. It is an indispensable source for understanding Edward III’s claim to the French crown, the conduct of war, and the mechanisms of medieval diplomacy. Together, these works offer scholars, students, and enthusiasts a reliable and unembellished account of a transformative period in English and European history. Essential for anyone interested in medieval chronicles, the Hundred Years’ War, or the reign of Edward III.
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Paternal Family Tree: Hastings
On 3rd June 1728 [her father] Theophilus Hastings 9th Earl Huntingdon [aged 31] and [her mother] Selina Shirley Countess Huntingdon [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Countess Huntingdon. The marriage was arranged by his half-sister [her aunt] Elizabeth "Lady Betty" Hastings [aged 46]. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Washington Shirley 2nd Earl Ferrers [aged 50] and [her grandmother] Mary Levinge Countess Ferrers. He the son of Theophilus Hastings 7th Earl Huntingdon and Mary Frances Fowler Countess Huntingdon.
On 23rd March 1731 Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira was born to [her father] Theophilus Hastings 9th Earl Huntingdon [aged 34] and [her mother] Selina Shirley Countess Huntingdon [aged 24].
On 21st December 1739 [her aunt] Elizabeth "Lady Betty" Hastings [aged 57] died unmarried. [her brother] Francis Hastings 10th Earl Huntingdon [aged 10] inherited her estates including Ledston Hall.
On 10th November 1741 [her future husband] John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 21] and Helena Perceval were married.
On 13th October 1746 [her father] Theophilus Hastings 9th Earl Huntingdon [aged 49] died. His son [her brother] Francis [aged 17] succeeded 10th Earl Huntingdon, 15th Baron Botreaux, 14th Baron Hungerford, 12th Baron Moleyns and 12th Baron Hastings.
On 23rd December 1746 [her future husband] John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 26] and Anne Hill were married.
In August 1751 John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 31] and Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of Theophilus Hastings 9th Earl Huntingdon and Selina Shirley Countess Huntingdon [aged 44].
In 1753 [her daughter] Anne Elizabeth Rawdon Countess Ailesbury was born to [her husband] John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 32] and Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira [aged 21]. She married 14th February 1788 her fourth cousin twice removed Thomas Brudenell 1st Earl Ailesbury, son of George Brudenell 3rd Earl Cardigan and Elizabeth Bruce 3rd Countess Cardigan.
On 9th December 1754 [her son] Francis Rawdon-Hastings 1st Marquess Hastings was born to [her husband] John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 34] and Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira [aged 23]. He married 12th July 1804 Flora Mure-Campbell Marchioness of Hastings, daughter of James Mure-Campbell 5th Earl Loudon, and had issue.
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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On 19th November 1756 [her son] John Theophilus Rawdon was born to [her husband] John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 36] and Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira [aged 25].
On 9th April 1759 [her daughter] Selina Frances Rawdon Countess Granard was born to [her husband] John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 39] and Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira [aged 28]. She married 10th May 1779 George Forbes 6th Earl Granard, son of George Forbes 5th Earl Granard and Dorothy Bayly, and had issue.
In 1761 [her husband] John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 40] was created 1st Earl Moira. Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira [aged 29] by marriage Countess Moira.
On 10th May 1779 [her son-in-law] George Forbes 6th Earl Granard [aged 19] and Selina Frances Rawdon Countess Granard [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 59] and Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira [aged 48]. He the son of George Forbes 5th Earl Granard [aged 39] and Dorothy Bayly.
On 14th February 1788 [her son-in-law] Thomas Brudenell 1st Earl Ailesbury [aged 58] and Anne Elizabeth Rawdon Countess Ailesbury [aged 35] were married. The difference in their ages was 23 years. She the daughter of John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 67] and Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira [aged 56]. He the son of George Brudenell 3rd Earl Cardigan and Elizabeth Bruce 3rd Countess Cardigan. They were fourth cousin twice removed.
On 2nd October 1789 [her brother] Francis Hastings 10th Earl Huntingdon [aged 60] died unmarried at the home of his nephew [her son] Francis Rawdon-Hastings 1st Marquess Hastings [aged 34]. His fifth cousin once removed Theophilus [aged 60] de jure 11th Earl Huntingdon although he wasn't aware of the fact. His sister Elizabeth [aged 58] succeeded 16th Baroness Botreaux, 15th Baroness Hungerford, 13th Baroness Moleyns and 13th Baroness Hastings
On 17th June 1791 [her mother] Selina Shirley Countess Huntingdon [aged 84] died.
On 20th June 1793 [her husband] John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira [aged 73] died. His son Francis [aged 38] succeeded 2nd Earl Moira.
On 12th July 1804 Francis Rawdon-Hastings 1st Marquess Hastings [aged 49] and Flora Mure-Campbell Marchioness of Hastings [aged 24] were married. The difference in their ages was 25 years. She the daughter of James Mure-Campbell 5th Earl Loudon. He the son of John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira and Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira [aged 73].
On 11th April 1808 Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira [aged 77] died. Her son Francis [aged 53] succeeded 17th Baron Botreaux, 16th Baron Hungerford, 14th Baron Moleyns and 14th Baron Hastings.
[her daughter] Charlotte Adelaide Constantia Rawdon was born to John Rawdon 1st Earl Moira and Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira.
Letters of Horace Walpole. The Opposition set out this winter with trying to call for several negotiations during the war; but the great storm which has so much employed us of late, was stirred up by Colonel Lyttelton; (5) who, having been ill-treated by the Duke, has been dealing with the Prince. He discovered to the House some innovations in the Mutiny-bill, of which, though he could not make much, the Opposition have, and fought the bill for a whole fortnight; during the course of which the world has got much light into many very arbitrary proceedings of the Commander-in-chief,(6) which have been the more believed too by the defection of my Lord Townshend's eldest son, who is one of his aide-de-camps. Though the ministry, by the weight of numbers, have carried their point in a great measure, yet you may be sure great heats have been raised; and those have been still more inflamed by a correspondent practice in a new Navy-bill, brought in by the direction of Lord Sandwich and Lord Anson, but vehemently opposed by half the fleet, headed by Sir Peter Warren, the conqueror of Cape Breton, richer than Anson, and absurd as Vernon. The bill has even been petitioned against, and the mutinous were likely to go great lengths, if' the admiralty had not bought off some by money, and others by relaxing in the material points.- We began upon it yesterday, and are still likely to have a long affair of it-so much for politics: and as for any thing else, I scarce know any thing else. My [her mother] Lady Huntingdon,(8) the Queen of the Methodists, has got her daughter named for lady of the bedchamber to the Princesses; but it is all off again as she will not let her play at cards on Sundays. It is equally absurd on both sides, to refuse it, or to insist upon it.
(5) Richard, third son of Sir Thomas, and brother of Sir George Lyttelton: he married the Duchess-dowager of Bridgewater, and was afterwards made a knight of the Bath.
(6) William Duke of Cumberland. He was "Captain-general of the Forces," having been so created in 1745.-D.
(7) George Townshend, afterwards the first Marquis of that name and title.-D.
(8) Selina, daughter of [her grandfather] Washington, Earl Ferrers, and widow of [her father] Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon.
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Kings Wessex: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 7 Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 27 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 10 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Hastings 4th Earl Huntingdon 
6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Hastings 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Port Countess Huntingdon
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Harrington 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sarah Harrington
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney 
Great x 1 Grandfather: Ferdinando Hastings 6th Earl Huntingdon 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Stanley 4th Earl of Derby 
6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Clifford Countess Derby 
Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stanley Countess Huntingdon 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Spencer 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Spencer Countess Derby
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Kitson 
GrandFather: Theophilus Hastings 7th Earl Huntingdon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Davies of Chisgrove
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Davies
Great x 1 Grandmother: Lucy Davies Countess Huntingdon 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Tuchet 10th Baron Audley, 7th Baron Tuchet 
6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Tuchet 1st Earl Castlehaven 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sneyd Baroness Audley Heighley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Tuchet 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Mervyn
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Mervyn Baroness Audley and Tuchet
Father: Theophilus Hastings 9th Earl Huntingdon 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Francis Leveson Fowler
GrandMother: Mary Frances Fowler Countess Huntingdon
Elizabeth Hastings Countess Moira 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Shirley 1st Baronet 
12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Shirley 2nd Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Berkeley 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Shirley 4th Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Devereux Lady Shirley 
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Walsingham Countess Essex 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Shirley 1st Earl Ferrers 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Okeover
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Okeover Lady Shirley
GrandFather: Washington Shirley 2nd Earl Ferrers 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lawrence Washington
Great x 3 Grandfather: Lawrence Washington
Great x 2 Grandfather: Laurence Washington
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Washington Baroness Ferrers Chartley
Mother: Selina Shirley Countess Huntingdon 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Levinge
GrandMother: Mary Levinge Countess Ferrers