Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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Paternal Family Tree: Brooke Baron Cobham
Maternal Family Tree: Joan Lovel Baroness Maynard 1297-1337
In 1545 William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham [aged 17] and Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham [aged 20] were married. He had been a ward of her father George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny. They were half second cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 25th February 1560 [his father] William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham [aged 32] and [his mother] Frances Newton Baroness Cobham [aged 21] were married at Whitehall Palace [Map]. She by marriage Baroness Cobham. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 22nd November 1564 Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham was born to [his father] William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham [aged 37] and [his mother] Frances Newton Baroness Cobham [aged 25].
In 1589 Henry Fitzgerald 12th Earl of Kildare [aged 27] and [his future wife] Frances Howard Countess Kildare were married. She by marriage Countess Kildare. She the daughter of [his future father-in-law] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham [aged 53] and [his future mother-in-law] Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham [aged 39]. He the son of Gerald "Wizard Earl" Fitzgerald 11th Earl of Kildare and Mabel Browne Countess Kildare [aged 53]. They were fifth cousin once removed.
Before 1592 [his step-father] John Poyntz [aged 31] and [his mother] Frances Newton Baroness Cobham [aged 52] were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years; she, unusually, being older than him. They were first cousin once removed.
On 6th March 1597 [his father] William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham [aged 69] died. His son Henry [aged 32] succeeded 11th Baron Cobham.
In 1599 Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham [aged 34] was appointed 389th Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 65].
Letters of John Chamberlain Volume 1. [17th January 1599] There is a mariage spoken of twixt the Lord Cobham [aged 34]24 and the [his future wife] Countesse of Kildare,25 and betwene his lame brother Master George Brooke [aged 30]26 and the Lord Borroughs eldest daughter. Yt is saide likewise that Sir Will: Woodhouse hath married27 the Lady Southwell,28 and the Lord Marquis29 woman or concubine (before he is buried) hath married a youth not full eightene yeares old, younger sonne to Master Fleetwoode30 recever of the court of wardes.
Note 24. Henry Brooke, eighth [11th] Lord Cobham.
Note 25. Cf. Letter 10.
Note 26. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, fifth Lord Burgh.
Note 27. Contradicted in Letter 18.
Note 28. Widow of Sir Robert Southwell.
Note 29. William Paulet, third Marquis of Winchester.
Note 30. William Fleetwood (knighted, 1603).
On 16th June 1600 Henry Somerset 1st Marquess Worcester [aged 23] and Anne Russell Countess Worcester [aged 22] were married. He the son of Edward Somerset 4th Earl of Worcester [aged 50] and Elizabeth Hastings Countess of Worcester [aged 54]. They were fifth cousins.
Mary Fitton [aged 21] led a Masque in celebration at the Blackfriars residence of Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham [aged 35] with Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 66] and William Herbert 3rd Earl Pembroke [aged 20] attending. She, Mary soon afterwards became the mistress of William Herbert 3rd Earl Pembroke and soon became pregnant.
In 1601 Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham [aged 36] and Frances Howard Countess Kildare were married. She the daughter of Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham [aged 65] and Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham [aged 51]. They were third cousin once removed.
Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts. The 19th of February [1601] the Earl [of Essex] was arraigned (together with Southampton) in Westminster Hall before 25 peers, the Lord Treasurer [aged 66] [Buckhurst] sitting as Lord Steward. At the bar the Earl laboured to extenuate his ftiult, by denying that ever he meant any harm to her Majesty's person, and by pretending that he took arms principally to save himself from my Lord Cobham [aged 37] and Sir Walter Ralegh [aged 48], who (he gave out) should have murdered him in his house on Saturday night. He pretended also an intention he had to have removed me with some others from the Queen, as one who would sell the kingdom of England to the Infant of Spain, with such other hyperbolical inventions. But before he went out of the Hall, when he saw himself condemned, and found that Sir John Davys [aged 40], Sir Ferdinando Gorges [aged 37], Sir Charles Davers, and Sir Christopher Blunt had confessed all the conferences that were held at Drury House, by his directions, for the surprising of the Queen and the Tower, which argued a premeditated treason (which he laboured to have had it prove only a sudden putting himself into strength, and flying into the city for fear of being committed over night when the Lords sent for him, which upon my faith to you, to whom I will not lie, was only to have reproved him for his unlawful assemblies, and to have wislied him to leave the city and retire into the country), he then break out to divers gentlemen in these words, that his confederates wlio now had accused him had been principal inciters of him, and not he of them, even ever since August last, to work his access to the Queen with force.
In 1603 Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham [aged 38] was attainted for his part in a plot to overthrow King James I. Baron Cobham abeyant or forfeit?
In July 1603 the Main and Bye Plots led by Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham [aged 38] and Thomas Grey 15th Baron Grey of Wilton [aged 27] sought to replace King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 37] with Arabella Stewart [aged 28].
Thomas Grey 15th Baron Grey of Wilton was sentenced to death, attainted, and imprisoned in the Tower of London [Map].
In 1604 John Stewart 1st Earl Carrick [aged 38] and [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Howard Countess Carrick [aged 39] were married. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham [aged 68] and [his mother-in-law] Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham. He the son of Robert Stewart 1st Earl Orkney [aged 71] and Jean Kennedy Countess Orkney. They were half fifth cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
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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Before October 1606 Rory O'Donnell 1st Earl of Tyrconnell [aged 31] and [his step-daughter] Bridget Fitzgerald Viscountess Barnewell [aged 16] were married. She the daughter of Henry Fitzgerald 12th Earl of Kildare and [his wife] Frances Howard Countess Kildare.
Before 7th July 1617 Nicholas Barnewall 1st Viscount Barnewell [aged 25] and [his step-daughter] Bridget Fitzgerald Viscountess Barnewell [aged 27] were married. They had five sons and four daughters. She the daughter of Henry Fitzgerald 12th Earl of Kildare and [his wife] Frances Howard Countess Kildare.
Diary of Anne Clifford. 1st January 1619. The 1st of this month I began to have the curtain drawn in my chamber and to see light. This day the Child did put on her crimson velvet coat laced with silver lace, which was the 1st velevt coat she ever had. I sent the Queen a New Year's gift, a cloth of silver cushion embroidered richly with the King of Denmark's arms, and all one with stripes of tent stitch.
Note. About this time died my Lord Cobham [aged 54], he being lately come out of the Tower [Map]. He being the last of the three that was condemned for the first conspiracy [Main and Bye Plots] against the King at his first coming to England.
On 24th January 1619 Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham [aged 54] died. His nephew William [aged 20] de jure 12th Baron Cobham but he was unable to claim the title since it was suject to an attainder.
Letters of John Chamberlain Volume 2.315. [30th January 1619] The Lord Cobham [deceased] died this day sevenight. He hath ben out of the Towre above this twelvemoneth. The King comes not hither till Monday. He went lately from New-market to Sir Nicolas Bacons to dinner to see a fine younge gentlewoman his grandchild daughter to one Sir Bassingbourne Gawdye that is dead long since. The gentlewoman is marvailously commended both by the King, Prince, and Lord of Buckingham, and much made of by them all. The Prince is saide to be so far in liking that these verses I send you are fathered upon him, wherin she is compared to the late blasing-starre, but the cheife grace and curiositie (they say) consists in new and gaye which is the anagram of her name. So with the remembrance of my best service to my goode Lady I commend you to the protection of the Almighty. From London this 30 of January 1619.
Your Lordships at commaund
John Chamberlain [aged 66].
[Enclosure]
Heavens wonder late, but now earths glorious raye
With wonder shines, that's gon, this new and gaye, Anne Gawdye.
Still gazed on, in this more then the heavens light,
Day obscur'd that, this makes the day more bright.
To the right honorable Sir Dudley Carleton knight Lord Ambassador for his Majestie with the States of the United Provinces at the Hagh.
In 1628 [his former wife] Frances Howard Countess Kildare died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 13 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 19 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 14 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 22 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 17 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 20 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Brooke Baron Cobham 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Brooke 6th Baron Cobham 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Braybrooke 5th Baroness Cobham 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Brooke 7th Baron Cobham 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Tuchet 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tuchet Baroness Cobham 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Ros Baroness Audley Heighley 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Neville 1st Earl of Westmoreland 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Neville 1st Baron Abergavenny Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmoreland 
Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Neville Baroness Cobham 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Howard 
4 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Howard Baroness Bergavenny 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Mowbray Baroness Grey Ruthyn 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandFather: George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Heydon
Great x 1 Grandmother: Dorothy Heydon Baroness Cobham 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Boleyn 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Geoffrey Boleyn
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Bracton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Boleyn 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ann Hoo 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Wychingham 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Father: William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Bray of Eaton Bray 
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye
GrandMother: Anne Braye Baroness Cobham 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Halwell of Halwell in Devon
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Halwell Baroness Bray 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Norbury 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John IV Norbury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Norbury 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Newton 
GrandFather: John Newton of Hawtrey 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Theobald Gorges 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Gorges
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edmund Gorges
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Gorges 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Howard 4 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Mowbray Baroness Grey Ruthyn 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Howard 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Moleyns 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Moleyns 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Mother: Frances Newton Baroness Cobham 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Poyntz 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Poyntz
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Mill
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Poyntz
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cox
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Cox
Great x 1 Grandfather: Anthony Poyntz 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford 
5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Woodville 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Stradling
Great x 3 Grandmother: Gwenllian Stradling
GrandMother: Margaret Poyntz 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Huddersfield
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Huddersfield 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Courtenay 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip Courtenay 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Champernoun 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Courtenay 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Hungerford 1st Baron Hungerford 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hungerford 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor or Catherine Peverell 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England