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.
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Paternal Family Tree: Fitzwaring
Around 1285 Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin was born to Fulk Fitzwarin 1st Baron Fitzwarin (age 33).
Before 09 Mar 1301 seven Earls and 96 Barons signed a letter to the Pope refuting the Pope's claim that Scotland was subject to the Pope's feudal overlordship. The letter was never sent. Those who signed include: John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey (age 70), Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 23), Ralph Monthermer 1st Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (age 31), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 25), Roger Bigod 5th Earl Norfolk (age 56), Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel (age 34), Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 29), Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 26), William Leybourne 1st Baron Leybourne (age 59), Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster (age 20), William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby (age 58), Edmund Hastings, John Hastings 2nd Baron Hastings 14th Baron Abergavenny (age 14), Edmund Mortimer 2nd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore (age 50), Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin (age 16), Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy (age 27), Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter (age 54), [his future brother-in-law] John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Somerset (age 26), William de Braose 2nd Baron de Braose 10th Baron Bramber (age 41), John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort (age 36), Reginald Grey 1st Baron Grey of Wilton (age 61), John Moels 1st Baron Moels (age 32), Thomas Berkeley 6th and 1st Baron Berkeley (age 55), Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford, John Strange 1st Baron Strange Knockin (age 48), Thomas Multon 1st Baron Multon (age 25), Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 26), Walter Beauchamp (age 58), Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby (age 33), John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 45), William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby (age 29), Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 51), Piers Mauley, Ralph Neville 1st Baron Neville of Raby (age 38), John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster (age 32), Roger Scales 1st Baron Scales, Thomas Furnival 1st Baron Furnivall (age 41), Hugh Bardolf 1st Baron Bardolf (age 41), Gilbert Talbot 1st Baron Talbot (age 24), William Deincourt 2nd Baron Deincourt, Edmund Stafford 1st Baron Stafford (age 28), Walter Fauconberg 1st Baron Fauconberg (age 81).
In or before 1315 Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin (age 29) and Eleanor Beauchamp Baroness Fitzwarin (age 36) were married. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
Around 1315 [his son] Fulk Fitzwarin 3rd Baron Fitzwarin was born to Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin (age 30) and [his wife] Eleanor Beauchamp Baroness Fitzwarin (age 37).
On 24 Nov 1315 [his father] Fulk Fitzwarin 1st Baron Fitzwarin (age 64) died. His son Fulk (age 30) succeeded 2nd Baron Fitzwarin. [his wife] Eleanor Beauchamp Baroness Fitzwarin (age 37) by marriage Baroness Fitzwarin.
In or after 1316 [his son] William Fitzwarin was born to Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin (age 31) and [his wife] Eleanor Beauchamp Baroness Fitzwarin (age 38). The date of his birth sometimes described as 1310 whereas his elder brother [his son] Fulk Fitzwarin 3rd Baron Fitzwarin (age 1), who inherited the title, was born in 1315.
. 17 Mar 1328. Then the earl marshal (age 27) and the earl of Kent (age 26), the king's uncle, made a peace between the king (age 15) and the earl of Lancaster (age 47), on whose part was sir Henry lord Beaumont (age 49), sir Fulke Fitz-Warin (age 43), sir Thomas Rocelin, sir William Trussel (age 48), sir Thomas Wither and about a hundred knights, who were all expelled out of England by the counsel of queen Isabel and the earl Mortimer: for he was so covetous, that he thought to have the most part of all their lands into his own hands, as it is more plainly shewed in the English chronicle, the which I pass over and follow mine author.
In 1337 Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin (age 52) died. His son [his son] Fulk (age 22) succeeded 3rd Baron Fitzwarin.
On 18 Nov 1341 [his former wife] Eleanor Beauchamp Baroness Fitzwarin (age 63) died at Thornbury, Gloucestershire.
Kings Wessex: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 10 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 12 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 10 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings England: Great x 5 Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Franks: Great x 15 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King of the Franks
Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 13 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 2 Grandfather: Fulk Fitzwarin
Great x 1 Grandfather: Fulk Fitzwarin
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey de Dinan
Great x 3 Grandfather: Josce de Dinan
Great x 4 Grandmother: Radegonde Orieldis
Great x 2 Grandmother: Hawise de Dinan
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sybil de Lacy 
GrandFather: Fulk IV Fitzwarin
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Vavasour 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Vavasour
Great x 1 Grandmother: Maud Vavasour
Father: Fulk Fitzwarin 1st Baron Fitzwarin 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Tosny 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Tosny
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ida aka Gertrude Hainault 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Tosny IV Lord Flamstead
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Beaumont
Great x 4 Grandmother: Amice Gael Countess Leicester
Great x 1 Grandfather: Ralph Tosny VI Lord Flamstead 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roscelin Beaumont Sarthe 7th Viscount Beaumont
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Beaumont Sarthe I Viscount Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Constance Fitzroy Viscountess Beaumont 
Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Constance Beaumont Sarthe Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucie Aigle Viscountess
GrandMother: Constance Tosny 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert de Lacy 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Lacy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Walter Lacy Lord Meath
Great x 4 Grandfather: Baderon Monmouth Lord Monmouth
Great x 3 Grandmother: Rohese Monmouth Baroness Lacy
Great x 4 Grandmother: Rohese de Clare 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Petronilla Lacy
Great x 4 Grandfather: William de Braose 3rd Baron Bramber
Great x 3 Grandfather: William de Braose 4th Baron Bramber
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bertha Gloucester Baroness Bramber
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret de Braose
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bernard St Valery
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud "Lady of Hay" St Valery Baroness Bramber
Great x 4 Grandmother: Matilda Unknown
Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin 1285-1337 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England