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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Maternal Family Tree: Jane Bond 1776
John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope is in Painters.
In 1822 [his father] John Spencer-Stanhope (age 34) and [his mother] Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke (age 26) were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Thomas Coke 1st Earl of Leicester (age 67) and [his grandmother] Jane Dutton.
On 20th January 1829 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope was born to [his father] John Spencer-Stanhope (age 41) and [his mother] Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke (age 33) at Cannon Hall, South Yorkshire.
In 1850 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 20) began to study with George Frederick Watts (age 32). He assisted Watts in his mural decoration of Justice, a Hemicycle of Law-givers for Lincoln's Inn in London. In the autumn of 1853 Stanhope travelled to Italy with Watts with visits to Venice, Florence, and Padua.
On 31st August 1854 Captain George Frederick Dawson (age 27) and [his future wife] Elizabeth King (age 18) were married.
In 1856 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 26) accompanied George Frederick Watts (age 38) and Valentine Cameron Prinsep (age 17) on an expedition to Asia Minor to observe the excavations of the ruins of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus at Budrum led by Charles Newton, the Keeper of Greek Antiquities at the British Museum. Newton was a friend of Stanhope's father.
In 1857 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 27), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 28), Edward Burne-Jones (age 23) and William Morris (age 22) decorated the Oxford Union Debating Hall with murals on Arthurian themes.
Life of William Morris. In the early part of the Long Vacation of 1857, Rossetti (age 28) went down to Oxford to see his friend Benjamin Woodward, the architect. Morris, always delighted to take a day at Oxford, went with him. The long battle between the Palladian and Gothic styles for the new University Museum had been at last decided by the Oxford authorities in favour of the latter. Woodward's plans, in a style of mixed Rhenish and Venetian Gothic, had been accepted, and the museum was now in progress. Besides his principal work at the museum, he was engaged in building a debating hall for the Union Society. That hall, now the principal library, was just roofed in. In formi, the hall was a long building with apsidal ends. A narrow gallery fitted with bookshelves ran completely round it, and above the shelves was a broad belt of wall divided into ten bays, pierced by twenty six-foil circular windows, and surmounted by an open timber roof. Rossetti was at once fired with the idea of painting the space thus given. In his notions of the application of painting to architedural surfaces, Woodward, an ardent admirer and a skilled imitator of the Venetian builders, cordially concurred ; and it was at once settled that the ten bays and the whole of the ceiling should be covered with painting in tempera. The Building Committee of the Union, who had a general discretion as regards the work to be done during the Long Vacation, were induced to authorize the work without waiting to refer the matter to a general meeting of the Society. It was arranged that the paintings should forthwith be designed and carried out under Rossetti's superintendence. He himself, and other artists whom he should invite to join him, were to be the executants. The Union was to defray the expense of scaffolding and materials, and the travelling and lodging expenses of the artists, who, beyond this, were to give their services for nothing. No sooner was this settled, than Rossetti went straight back to London and issued his orders: Burne-Jones (age 23) and Morris (age 22) were to lay aside all other work and start on the new scheme at once. He had it all planned in his mind. The ten paintings on the walls were to be a series of scenes from the "Morte d' Arthur," and the roof above them was to be covered with a floriated design. For the pidures, ten men had to be found, each of whom should execute one bay, and the work, in the first enthusiasm, was estimated as a matter of six weeks or so. Arthur Hughes (age 24), Spencer Stanhope (age 27), Val Prinsep (age 18), and Hungerford Pollen (age 36), were drawn into the scheme and agreed to take a picture each; Madox Brown (age 35) was also asked to execute one, but declined. Rossetti undertook to do two, or if possible three, himself, and Morris and Burne-Jones were each to do one under his eye and with his guidance : eight or nine of the ten bays were thus accounted for, and the remainder of the space was for the moment left to chance.
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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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1859. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 29). "Thoughts of the Past".
On 10th January 1859 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 29) and Elizabeth King (age 23) were married. She the widow of Captain George Frederick Dawson. They lived at Hillhouse, Cawthorne until their house Sandroyd House, Cobham was completed.
Around 1860. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 30). "Robins of Modern Times".
In 1860 [his daughter] Mary Spencer-Stanhope was born to John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 30) and [his wife] Elizabeth King (age 24). She died aged seven in 1867.
1863. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 33). "Juliet and her Nurse".
1864. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 34). "Rispah". See The Athenæum, Second Book of Samuel, Chapter 21, Verses 8-11 and The Illustrated London News.
1864. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 34). "Penelope". See The Athenæum and The Illustrated London News
The Athenaeum 1864. 14th May 1864. Mr. R. S. Stanhope (age 35) may be styled the youngest in the list of artists who establish themselves this: year. His Rispa (No. 33) is a very expressive and poetical representation of the well known theme of the daughter of Aiah watching the bodies of her sons and those of the sons of Michal, the daughter of Saul. The face of the woman is admirably conceived. Penelope (476), by the same, — wife of Ulysses at her loom, — has much execellent colour in its flesh; the treatment of the draperies, although rather thin, is original and careful. The face of the woman in blue does Mr. Stanhope great credit [?] in painting and conception. In these pictures the artist has been eminently successful with the backgrounds, not alone in the vigorous colour they exhibit, but in the pathetic and apt expressiveness which fits them to the subjects.
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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In 1867 [his daughter] Mary Spencer-Stanhope (age 7) died of scarlet fever. She was buried at the English Cemetery, Florence. Her headstone was designed by her father.
Around 1872. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 42). "Procris and Cephalus".
On 30th October 1873 [his mother] Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke (age 78) died.
On 8th November 1873 [his father] John Spencer-Stanhope (age 86) died. [his brother] Walter Spencer-Stanhope (age 45) inherited Cannon Hall, South Yorkshire.
Between 1875 and 1879 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 45) was involved with his most important artistic accomplishment, the twelve mural decorations for the Chapel of St. Michael and All Angels at Marlborough College.
Around 1877. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 47). "Love and the Maiden".
1880. Evelyn de Morgan aka Mary Evelyn Pickering (age 24). Portrait of her uncle "John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 50)".
In 1880 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 50) moved to Florence, Tuscany.
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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Around 1880. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 50). "Morgan le Fay".
Before 1908. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 78). "Patience Smiling at Grief".
Before 1908. John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 78). "Andromeda".
On 2nd August 1908 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 79) died at the Villa Nutti, Bellosguardo [Map]. He was buried in the Cimitero degli Allori, Florence.
In 1920 [his former wife] Elizabeth King (age 84) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 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 Godwinson: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 29 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 24 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 1 Grandfather: Walter Stanhope 
GrandFather: Walter Spencer-Stanhope
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Spencer of Cannon Hall
Great x 1 Grandmother: Ann Spencer
Father: John Spencer-Stanhope
Great x 2 Grandfather: Wingate Pulleine of Carleton Hall
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Babington Pulleine
GrandMother: Mary Winifred Pulleine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Collingwood
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Collingwood
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Collingwood of Byker and Dissington
Great x 1 Grandmother: Winifred Collingwood
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Roddam of Roddam and Chirton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Roddam
John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Roberts
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gabriel Roberts
Great x 4 Grandmother: Martha Dashwood 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Roberts 15 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Wenman 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Wenman 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fettiplace 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Wenman Roberts aka Coke 
10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Coke 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Coke 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Osborne 
10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Coke 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Newton 3rd Baronet 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Carey Newton 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Abigail Heveningham 
10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Thomas Coke 1st Earl of Leicester 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Chamberlayne of Wardington
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Chamberlayne
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Chamberlayne
Great x 3 Grandfather: Rear-Admiral Thomas Hardy
Great x 2 Grandmother: Constance Hardy
Mother: Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Naper
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Naper
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Lenox Dutton 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Dutton 
12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Dutton 1st Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Duncombe 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Dutton 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Barwick
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Barwick Lady Dutton
GrandMother: Jane Dutton 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Christopher Bond
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Bond