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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Paternal Family Tree: Reginar aka Percy
Maternal Family Tree: Helene du Donjon 1095-1189
22nd July 1298 Battle of Falkirk
1299 Edward I Creates New Barons
1301 Baron's Letter to the Pope
In 1272 [his father] Henry Percy 7th Baron Percy Topcliffe died. His son [his brother] John succeeded 8th Baron Percy of Topcliffe.
Before 25th March 1273 [his father] Henry Percy 7th Baron Percy Topcliffe and [his mother] Eleanor Warenne Baroness Percy Topcliffe were married. She by marriage Baroness Percy of Topcliffe. She the daughter of [his grandfather] John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey [aged 42] and [his grandmother] Alice Lusignan Countess of Surrey.
On 25th March 1273 Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy was born to [his father] Henry Percy 7th Baron Percy Topcliffe and [his mother] Eleanor Warenne Baroness Percy Topcliffe at Petworth.
In 1293 Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy [aged 19] and Eleanor Fitzalan Baroness Percy [aged 9] were married. She the daughter of Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel [aged 25] and Alice Saluzzo Countess Arundel. They were third cousin once removed. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King John of England.
In 1293 John Percy 8th Baron Percy [aged 19] died. His brother Henry [aged 19] succeeded 9th Baron Percy of Topcliffe.
On 22nd July 1298 King Edward I of England [aged 59] defeated the Scottish army led by William Wallace during the 22nd July 1298 Battle of Falkirk at Falkirk [Map] using archers to firstly attack the Scottish shiltrons with the heavy cavalry with infantry completing the defeat.
John de Graham [aged 31] and John Stewart of Bonkyll [aged 52] were killed.
The English were described in the Falkirk Roll that lists 111 men with their armorials including:
Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick [aged 26].
Walter Beauchamp [aged 55].
Roger Bigod 5th Earl Norfolk [aged 53].
Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex [aged 49].
Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford [aged 24].
Hugh "Elder" Despencer 1st Earl Winchester [aged 37].
William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby [aged 26].
Thomas Berkeley 6th and 1st Baron Berkeley [aged 52].
Maurice Berkeley 7th and 2nd Baron Berkeley [aged 27].
Henry Grey 1st Baron Grey of Codnor [aged 43].
Reginald Grey 1st Baron Grey of Wilton [aged 58].
John Grey 2nd Baron Grey of Wilton [aged 30].
John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster [aged 29].
Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu [aged 48].
William Ros 1st Baron Ros Helmsley [aged 43].
John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave [aged 42].
Nicholas Segrave [aged 42].
Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford [aged 41].
Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby [aged 30].
Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln [aged 20].
Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster [aged 17].
[his grandfather] John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey [aged 67].
Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy [aged 25].
Hugh Courtenay 1st or 9th Earl Devon [aged 21].
[his father-in-law] Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel [aged 31].
Henry Beaumont Earl Buchan [aged 19].
John II Duke Brittany [aged 59].
Philip Darcy [aged 40].
Robert Fitzroger.
Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter [aged 51], or possiby a Roger Fitzwalter?.
Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke [aged 23].
John Wake 1st Baron Wake of Liddell [aged 30], and.
Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury [aged 47].
William Scrope [aged 53] was knighted.
John Moels 1st Baron Moels [aged 29] fought.
John Lovell 1st Baron Lovel [aged 44] fought.
On 6th February 1299 King Edward I of England [aged 59] created a number of new Barons by writ of summons to Edward's 44th Parliament...
John Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley [aged 27] was created 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley.
John Lovell 1st Baron Lovel [aged 45] was created 1st Baron Lovel of Titchmarsh. Joan Ros Baroness Lovel [aged 39] by marriage Baroness Lovel of Titchmarsh.
William Ros 1st Baron Ros Helmsley [aged 44] was created 1st Baron Ros Helmsley. Maud Vaux Baroness Ros [aged 42] by marriage Baroness Ros Helmsley.
William Devereux 1st Baron Devereux Lyonshall [aged 55] was created 1st Baron Devereux Lyonshall. Lucy Burnell Baroness Devereux Lyonshall by marriage Baroness Devereux Lyonshall.
Adam Welles 1st Baron Welles [aged 50] was created 1st Baron Welles. Joan D'Engayne Baroness Welles and Ughtred by marriage Baroness Welles.
Robert Clinton 1st Baron Clinton [aged 41] was created 1st Baron Clinton. Ida Odingsells Baroness Clinton [aged 34] by marriage Baroness Clinton.
John Moels 1st Baron Moels [aged 30] was created 1st Baron Moels.
The next baronies may not have been created on 6th February 1299 but were created in 1299 possibly for Edward's 45th and 46th Parliaments on 10th April 1299 and 21st September 1299 respectively.
Edmund Deincourt 1st Baron Deincourt [aged 49] was created 1st Baron Deincourt.
John Strange 1st Baron Strange Knockin [aged 46] was created 1st Baron Strange Knockin. Maud Eiville Baroness Strange Knockin by marriage Baroness Strange Knockin.
John St John 1st Baron St John Lagenham [aged 49] was created 1st Baron St John of Lagenham.
Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford [aged 24] was created 1st Baron de Clifford. Maud Clare Baroness Clifford Baroness Welles [aged 23] by marriage Baroness de Clifford.
Henry Grey 1st Baron Grey of Codnor [aged 44] was created 1st Baron Grey of Codnor. Eleanor Courtenay Baroness Grey Codnor by marriage Baroness Grey of Codnor.
John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster [aged 30] was created 1st Baron Mohun of Dunster. Ada Tiptoft Baroness Dunster [aged 24] by marriage Baroness Mohun of Dunster.
Roger Scales 1st Baron Scales was created 1st Baron Scales.
John St John 1st Baron St John of Basing [aged 25] was created 1st Baron St John of Basing.
John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Somerset [aged 24] was created 1st Baron Beauchamp Somerset.
Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby [aged 31] was created 1st Baron Zouche Ashby.
Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy [aged 25] was created 1st Baron Percy of Alnwick. [his wife] Eleanor Fitzalan Baroness Percy [aged 15] by marriage Baroness Percy of Alnwick.
William Grandison 1st Baron Grandison [aged 37] was created 1st Baron Grandison. Sibylla Tregoz Baroness Grandison by marriage Baroness Grandison. His brother was also created Baron Grandison on the same day.
Otto Grandison 1st Baron Grandison [aged 61] was created 1st Baron Grandison. His brother was also created Baron Grandison on the same day.
Thomas de Multon 1st Baron Multon was created 1st Baron Multon Egremont. Eleanor Burgh Baroness Multon Egremont [aged 17] by marriage Baroness Multon Egremont.
On 6th February 1301 [his son] Henry Percy 10th and 2nd Baron Percy was born to Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy [aged 27] and [his wife] Eleanor Fitzalan Baroness Percy [aged 17]. He married in or before 1321 his half third cousin once removed Idonia Clifford Baroness Percy, daughter of Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford and Maud Clare Baroness Clifford Baroness Welles, and had issue.
Before 9th March 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: [his grandfather] John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey [aged 70], Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln [aged 23], Ralph Monthermer 1st Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [aged 31], Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex [aged 25], Roger Bigod 5th Earl Norfolk [aged 56], [his father-in-law] Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel [aged 34], Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick [aged 29], Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke [aged 26], William Leybourne 1st Baron Leybourne [aged 59], Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster [aged 20], William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby [aged 58], Edmund Hastings, John Hastings 2nd Baron Hastings 14th Baron Abergavenny [aged 14], Edmund Mortimer 2nd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore [aged 50], Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin [aged 16], Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy [aged 27], Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter [aged 54], John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Somerset [aged 26], William de Braose 2nd Baron de Braose 10th Baron Bramber [aged 41], John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort [aged 36], Reginald Grey 1st Baron Grey of Wilton [aged 61], John Moels 1st Baron Moels [aged 32], Thomas Berkeley 6th and 1st Baron Berkeley [aged 55], Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford, John Strange 1st Baron Strange Knockin [aged 48], Thomas Multon 1st Baron Multon [aged 25], Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford [aged 26], Walter Beauchamp [aged 58], Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby [aged 33], John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave [aged 45], William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby [aged 29], Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu [aged 51], Piers Mauley, Ralph Neville 1st Baron Neville of Raby [aged 38], John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster [aged 32], Roger Scales 1st Baron Scales, Thomas Furnival 1st Baron Furnivall [aged 41], Hugh Bardolf 1st Baron Bardolf [aged 41], Gilbert Talbot 1st Baron Talbot [aged 24], William Deincourt 2nd Baron Deincourt, Edmund Stafford 1st Baron Stafford [aged 28], Walter Fauconberg 1st Baron Fauconberg [aged 81].
On 9th March 1302 [his father-in-law] Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel [aged 35] died. He was buried at Haughmond Abbey [Map]. His son [his brother-in-law] Edmund [aged 16] succeeded 2nd or 9th Earl Arundel.
Around 1303 [his son] William Percy was born to Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy [aged 29] and [his wife] Eleanor Fitzalan Baroness Percy [aged 19] at Petworth.
Before 1306 [his brother-in-law] Edmund Fitzalan 2nd or 9th Earl of Arundel [aged 20] and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel were married. She by marriage Countess Arundel. He the son of [his father-in-law] Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel and Alice Saluzzo Countess Arundel. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King John of England.
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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Close Rolls Edward II 1307-1313. 24th January 1308 King Edward II of England [aged 23]. Westminster Palace [Map]. To John Sampson [aged 61], constable of the king's castle of Scardeburgh [Map]. Order to permit Henry Percy [aged 34] and his consort and their household to dwell in the houses within the said castle, provided that the castle be safely guarded.
Close Rolls Edward II 1307-1313. On 16th January 1310 King Edward II of England [aged 25]. Stamford [Map]. To the Sheriff of York. Order to proclaim that the king does not intend to change the money current in the Kingdom in the late King's time, as had been rumoured, and to forbid anyone from thinking little of it, whereby victuals and other necessaries may be sold more dearly.
The like to all the Sheriffs of England [Ibid].
Enrolment of deed of Peter de Gavaston [aged 26], knight, surrendering to the king the castle, manor, and honour of Knaresborough [Map], with the free chase of Knaresborough, and the manors of Routheclyve and Auldburgh, lately granted to him by the King for his lifetime. Witnesses: Gilbert de Clare 8th Earl Gloucester 7th Earl Hertford [aged 18], Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury [aged 59], John Warenne 7th Earl of Surrey [aged 23], John de Brittania, Earl of Richmond, Hugh "Elder" Despencer 1st Earl Winchester [aged 48], Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy [aged 36], Robert son of Walter, Robert son of Payn, William de Burford, William Inge. Dated at Stamford [Map] July 26, 3 Edward II.
Enrolment of like surrender by the said Peter of the county of Gaure and the castles of Talanon, Tantalon, and Mauleon, the provostships (preposituras) and Camparian(um) called 'la Cointal' and of the city of Bayonne, the manor of Erebafaveyra, Born, Comtad, Salmun, Dagenes, and the island of Oleron, and the lands of Marempne and of Lancras in Saintogne, and all rights, appurtenances, etc., etc., thereto pertaining to the king, which the king lately granted him for life. Witnesses as above. Dated August 4, 3 Edward II.
Memorandum, that this deed was delivered to the king in his chamber in the House of the Friars Preachers, Stamford [Map] at Stamford, by the hands of the said Peter and the king delivered the said deed to J his chancellor, to be enrolled in the chancery, and it was afterwards delivered to Ingelard de Warle, keeper of the King's Wardrobe to be kept in the king's wardrobe, but the king's charters that the said Peter hereof were not then restored.[CONTINUES].
On 4th May 1312 King Edward II of England [aged 28] and Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 28] were at Newcastle upon Tyne Castle where they barely escaped a force led by Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln [aged 34], Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy [aged 39] and Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford [aged 38]. Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall escaped to Scarborough, North Yorkshire [Map], King Edward II of England to York [Map].
On 19th May 1312 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 28] surrendered to Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke [aged 37], John Warenne 7th Earl of Surrey [aged 25], Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy [aged 39] and Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall who were besieging the castle. The terms of the surrender were that Pembroke, Warenne and Percy would take Gaveston to York, where the barons would negotiate with the king.
Patent Rolls. 16th October 1313. Westminster.
Pardon to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster [aged 35], and his adherents, followers, and confederates, of all causes of anger, indignation, suits, accusations, &c, arisen in any manner on account of Peter de Gavaston, from the time of the king's marriage with his dear companion Isabella, whether on account of the capture, detention, or death of Peter de Gavaston, or on account of any forcible entries into any towns or castles, or any sieges of the same; or on account of having borne arms, or of having taken any prisoners, or of having entered into any confederacies whatever, or in any other manner touching or concerning Peter de Gavaston, or that which befel him. French. [Fœdera: Parl. Writs.]
The like, word for word, to the under-mentioned persons, adherents of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for the death of Peter de Gavaston, viz.-
Humphrey de Bohun [aged 37], Earl of Hereford and Essex.
Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick [aged 41].
Henry de Percy [aged 40].
Robert de Clyfford [aged 39].
John Boteturte [aged 48].
Robert de Holand.
Griffith de la Pole.
John de Heselarton.
Alexander de Cave.
Thomas le fiz Johan de Heselarton.
Robert de Stepelton.
Jordan de Dalden.
Robert le Conestable of Halsham.
William du Lunde and Thomas le fiz Phelip le Mareschal of Milford.
William Trussel.
William de Dacre [aged 47].
William de Holand [aged 60].
William la Zusche of Haringworthe [aged 48].
Continues with another two hundred or so names.
In 1314 Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy [aged 40] died. He was buried at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire [Map]. His son Henry [aged 12] succeeded 2nd Baron Percy of Alnwick, 10th Baron Percy of Topcliffe.
Around August 1328 [his former wife] Eleanor Fitzalan Baroness Percy [aged 44] died. Monument in Beverley Minster [Map].
Eleanor Fitzalan Baroness Percy: Around 1284 she was born to Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel and Alice Saluzzo Countess Arundel. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King John of England. In 1293 Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy and she were married. She the daughter of Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel and Alice Saluzzo Countess Arundel. They were third cousin once removed. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King John of England.
Kings Wessex: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings Franks: Great x 13 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 12 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
King Richard III of England [1]
Anne Neville Queen Consort England [2]
Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [1]
Jane Grey I Queen England and Ireland [1]
George Wharton [16]
Brigadier-General Charles Fitz-Clarence [45]
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [188]
Queen Consort Camilla Shand [66]
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Reginar II Count Louvain
Great x 3 Grandfather: Godfrey Reginar I Count Louvain
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adela Thuringa Countess Louvain
Great x 2 Grandfather: Jocelin Percy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Otto Chiny 2nd Count Chiny
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ida Chiny Countess Louvain
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Percy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alan Percy 2nd Baron Percy Topcliffe 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Percy 3rd Baron Percy Topcliffe
Great x 4 Grandmother: Emma Gaunt Baroness Percy Topcliffe
Great x 2 Grandmother: Agnes Percy 4th Baroness Percy Topcliffe
GrandFather: William Percy 6th Baron Percy Topcliffe
Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ermengarde of Maine Countess of Anjou
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hamelin Warenne Earl of Surrey
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mistress Unknown
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Warenne 5th Earl of Surrey
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Warenne 3rd Earl of Surrey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabella Warenne Countess Boulogne 4th Countess of Surrey
Great x 4 Grandfather: William "Talvas" Montgomery III Count Ponthieu
Great x 3 Grandmother: Adela Montgomery Countess of Salisbury and Surrey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helie Burgundy Countess Ponthieu
GrandFather: John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert Giffard 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fitzgilbert
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter of Salisbury 2nd Baron Chitterne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sybil of Salisbury
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sybilla Chaworth Baroness Chitterne 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Maud Marshal Countess Norfolk and Surrey
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert de Clare 1st Earl Pembroke 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard "Strongbow" Clare 2nd Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Beaumont Countess Pembroke 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandfather: Diarmait Macmurrough
Great x 3 Grandmother: Aoife ni Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham
Mother: Eleanor Warenne Baroness Percy Topcliffe
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh VIII of Lusignan 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Lusignan
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bourgogne Dame de Fontenay Taillebourg Countess Lusignan
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh IX of Lusignan IV Count of La Marche
Great x 1 Grandfather: Hugh X of Lusignan V Count La Marche
GrandMother: Alice Lusignan Countess of Surrey
Great x 4 Grandfather: Wulfgrin Angoulême II Count Angoulême
Great x 3 Grandfather: William "Taillefer" Angoulême VI Count Angoulême
Great x 4 Grandmother: Pontia La Marche Countess Angoulême
Great x 2 Grandfather: Aymer Angoulême I Count Angoulême
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis VI King of the Franks
Great x 3 Grandfather: Peter Courtenay
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelaide Savoy Queen Consort France
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Courtenay Countess Angoulême
Great x 4 Grandfather: Renaud Courtenay 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Courtenay
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helene du Donjon