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Published March 2025. The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin 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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Paternal Family Tree: Pelham
In 1801 [his father] Thomas Pelham 2nd Earl Chichester (age 44) and [his mother] Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne Countess Chichester (age 24) were married. The difference in their ages was 20 years. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds and [his grandmother] Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers. He the son of [his grandfather] Thomas Pelham 1st Earl Chichester (age 72) and [his grandmother] Anne Frankland Countess Chichester (age 66). She a great x 5 granddaughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland.
On 25 Aug 1804 Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester was born to Thomas Pelham 2nd Earl Chichester (age 48) and Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne Countess Chichester (age 27) at Stratton Street.
On 04 Jul 1826 [his father] Thomas Pelham 2nd Earl Chichester (age 70) died. His son Henry (age 21) succeeded 3rd Earl Chichester, 4th Baron Pelham of Stanmer in Sussex and 8th Baronet Pelham of Laughton.
On 18 Aug 1828 Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 23) and Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 22) were married at St Mary's Church Cadogan Street. She by marriage Countess Chichester. She the daughter of Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan (age 59) and Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan. He the son of Thomas Pelham 2nd Earl Chichester and Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne Countess Chichester (age 51).
In 1829 [his daughter] Harriet Mary Pelham Countess Darnley was born to Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 24) and [his wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 22).
In 1831 [his daughter] Susan Emma Pelham was born to Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 26) and [his wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 24).
In 1835 Sophia Howe 2nd Baroness Howe died. Her son Richard (age 38) succeeded 3rd Baron Howe. [his sister-in-law] Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe (age 36) by marriage Baroness Howe.
In 1836 [his daughter] Isabella Charlotte Pelham was born to Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 31) and [his wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 29).
In 1836 [his sister-in-law] Harriet Georgiana Brudenell Countess Howe (age 37) died.
On 14 Aug 1837 [his father-in-law] Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan (age 68) died at Marylebone. His son [his brother-in-law] James (age 39) succeeded 7th Earl Cardigan, 7th Baron Brudenell of Stonton in Leicestershire, 3rd Baron Brudenell Deene in Northamptonshire. Elizabeth Tollemache Countess Cardigan (age 39) by marriage Countess Cardigan.
On 22 Sep 1838 [his son] Walter John Pelham 4th Earl Chichester was born to Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 34) and [his wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 32).
Adeline Horsey Recollections. After my dear mother's death I visited a great deal with my father (age 53), and one year we went for the shooting to Lord Huntingfield's place, Heveningham Hall, Suffolk. I slept in the bedroom once occupied by the famous Chevalier d'Éon, who had been a frequent guest at Heveningham, and about whom there were many stories told. It was said that the Chevalier was the one and only lover of cross-grained Queen Charlotte, and that her son, George IV, was the result of their intimacy, although his paternity was of course admitted by King George III. The animosity always displayed by the old Queen to her grand-daughter, Princess Charlotte, was supposed to arise from the fact that as heiress to the throne she innocently dispossessed the other Royal Dukes from the succession. It is certainly a fact that the Princess's untimely death in childbirth was attributed to foul play at the time, and when later the accoucheur Sir Richard Croft, committed suicide, all classes of society were loud in condemnation of the Queen and the Prince Regent. I do not vouch for the accuracy of Queen Charlotte's love affair. I only give the Heveningham gossip as I heard it.
Note A. D'Eon was undoubtedly one of the most picturesque and mysterious personages of the eighteenth century I was naturally interested in these somewhat scandalous stories.
The Chevalier died when he was eighty-three years of age, after a most extraordinary career. He was at one time aide-de-camp to the Comte de Broglie, and fought in the French army; but later on for some mysterious reason he discarded man's attire and passed as a woman for thirty-four years. Often when I went into my room I half expected to see a ghostly figure seated at the escritoire where the Chevalier wrote his secret cipher communications, and I wondered whether the brocade crowns and frills and furbelows that he wore as a woman had ever hung in the old wardrobe which I used.
My father and I also stayed with the Westmorlands at Apethorpe Hall; we visited the Earl (age 38) and [his wife] Countess of Chichester (age 36) at Stanmer Park, and we were welcome guests at Cadlands, Silverlands, Chiswick House, West Park, and my uncle Lord Stradbroke's place, Henham Hall, which was afterwards burnt down.
I had visited Deene Park, Northamptonshire [Map] with my mother in 1842, but I must deal with my future home in the chapter devoted to Deene and its associations.
On 18 Oct 1844 [his son] Francis Godolphin Pelham 5th Earl Chichester was born to Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 40) and [his wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 38).
On 21 Dec 1847 [his son] Thomas Henry William Pelham was born to Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 43) and [his wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 41).
On 31 Aug 1850 [his son-in-law] John Stuart Bligh 6th Earl Darnley (age 23) and [his daughter] Harriet Mary Pelham Countess Darnley (age 21) were married. She the daughter of Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 46) and [his wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 44). He the son of Edward Bligh 5th Earl Darnley and Emma Jane Parnell Countess Darnley.
On 28 Dec 1850 [his son] Arthur Lowther Pelham was born to Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 46) and [his wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 44).
On 20 Sep 1858 [his brother-in-law] James Brudenell 7th Earl Cardigan (age 60) and Adeline Horsey Countess Cardigan (age 33) were married; she had been his mistress since 1857. She by marriage Countess Cardigan. The marriage something of a scandal since James Brudenell 7th Earl Cardigan had left his first wife; Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 39) refused to have Adeline at court. The difference in their ages was 27 years. He the son of [his father-in-law] Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan and Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan.
In 1861 [his son] Walter John Pelham 4th Earl Chichester (age 22) and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Mary Bligh Countess Chichester were married. He the son of Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 56) and [his wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 54).
On 21 Oct 1862 [his mother] Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne Countess Chichester (age 86) died.
On 22 May 1867 [his wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester (age 60) died.
On 04 Aug 1870 [his son] Francis Godolphin Pelham 5th Earl Chichester (age 25) and [his daughter-in-law] Alice Carr Glyn Countess Chichester were married. He the son of Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 65) and [his former wife] Mary Brudenell Countess Chichester.
In 1875 [his daughter] Susan Emma Pelham (age 44) died.
Around 1886. Francis "Frank" Holl (age 40). Portrait of Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 81).
On 15 Mar 1886 Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester (age 81) died. His son [his son] Walter (age 47) succeeded 4th Earl Chichester, 5th Baron Pelham of Stanmer in Sussex and 9th Baronet Pelham of Laughton. [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Mary Bligh Countess Chichester by marriage Countess Chichester.
Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Kings Scotland: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 2nd Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Pelham 3rd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Pelham 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Sidney 2nd Earl of Leicester 
10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney Baroness Pelham Laughton 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Percy Countess Leicester 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas "Turk" Pelham 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Thomas Pelham 1st Earl Chichester 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Father: Thomas Pelham 2nd Earl Chichester 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Frankland of Thirkelby in Yorkshire
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Frankland 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Frankland 2nd Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Belasyse 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Arabella Belasyse Lady Thirkleby 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Grace Barton
Great x 1 Grandfather: Frederick Meinhardt Frankland 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Russell 2nd Baronet 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Russell 3rd Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Wheatley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Russell Lady Thirkleby 19 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Oliver Cromwell 
17 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Cromwell Baroness Russell 18 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bourchier 
GrandMother: Anne Frankland Countess Chichester 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Henry Pelham 3rd Earl Chichester 6 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds 
10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Peregrine Osborne 3rd Duke Leeds 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hyde 2nd Baronet 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Osborne 4th Duke Leeds 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Godolphin 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Sidney Godolphin 1st Earl Godolphin 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Berkeley 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Godolphin 2nd Earl Godolphin 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Blagge
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Blagge
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary North
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Godolphin Duchess Leeds 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Winston Churchill 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Drake 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Henrietta Churchill 2nd Duchess of Marlborough 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Jennings
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sarah Jennings Duchess of Marlborough
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Thornhurst
Mother: Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne Countess Chichester 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Conyers Darcy 2nd Earl Holderness 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Darcy 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Howard 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Darcy 3rd Earl Holderness 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Sutton 1st Baron Lexinton 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bridget Sutton 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary St Leger Baroness Lexington 
12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Darcy 4th Earl Holderness 3 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick Schomberg 1st Duke Schomberg 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Meinhart Schomberg 3rd Duke Schomberg 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frederica Schomberg Countess Holderness and Fitzwalter 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Louis Palatinate Simmern 
Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Karoline von der Pfalz Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maria Susanne Luise von Degenfeld
GrandMother: Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland