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Paternal Family Tree: Cranfield
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Brett Countess Middlesex 1670
In 1599 [his father] Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex (age 24) and Elizabeth Sheppard were married.
Before 1621 [his father] Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex (age 45) and [his mother] Anne Brett Countess Middlesex were married.
In 1625 Lionel Cranfield 3rd Earl Middlesex was born to Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex (age 50) and Anne Brett Countess Middlesex.
On 18th December 1638 Henry Bourchier 5th Earl Bath (age 51) and [his future wife] Rachael Fane Countess Bath and Middlesex (age 25) were married at Church of St Bartholomew the Great. She by marriage Countess Bath, Countess Eu. The difference in their ages was 26 years. She the daughter of Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland and Mary Mildmay Countess of Westmoreland (age 56). They were second cousin twice removed.
Around 1645. Theodore Russel (age 31). Portrait of Lionel Cranfield 3rd Earl Middlesex (age 20).
On 6th August 1645 [his father] Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex (age 70) died. His son [his brother] James (age 24) succeeded 2nd Earl Middlesex, 2nd Baron Cranfield of Cranfield in Bedfordshire.
On 16th September 1651 [his brother] James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex (age 30) died. His brother Lionel (age 26) succeeded 3rd Earl Middlesex, 3rd Baron Cranfield of Cranfield in Bedfordshire.
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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 1st May 1655 Lionel Cranfield 3rd Earl Middlesex (age 30) and Rachael Fane Countess Bath and Middlesex (age 42) were married at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street. She by marriage Countess Middlesex. She the daughter of Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland and Mary Mildmay Countess of Westmoreland. He the son of Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex and Anne Brett Countess Middlesex.
On 13th June 1661 Lionel Cranfield 3rd Earl Middlesex (age 36) and Rachael Fane Countess Bath and Middlesex (age 48) were divorced by decree of the Court of Arches having previously obtained a royal warrant dated 19 Mar 1661 to retain her precedency as Countess of Bath.
On 12th February 1666 [his former brother-in-law] Mildmay Fane 2nd Earl of Westmoreland (age 64) died. His son Charles (age 31) succeeded 3rd Earl of Westmoreland, 6th Baron Despencer, 10th Baron Abergavenny, 8th Baron Abergavenny, 3rd Baron Burghesh in Suffolk.
In 1670 [his mother] Anne Brett Countess Middlesex died.
On 26th October 1674 Lionel Cranfield 3rd Earl Middlesex (age 49) died without issue. Earl Middlesex, Baron Cranfield of Cranfield in Bedfordshire extinct.
In 1675 Charles Sackville 6th Earl Dorset 1st Earl Middlesex (age 31) was created 1st Earl Middlesex, 1st Baron Cranfield of Cranfield in Middlesex. His mother [his sister] Frances Cranfield Countess Dorset (age 53) was sister to the last Earl of Middlesex of the previous creation Lionel Cranfield 3rd Earl Middlesex whose estates he had inherited.
On 11th November 1680 [his former wife] Rachael Fane Countess Bath and Middlesex (age 67) died.
GrandFather: Thomas Cranfield
Lionel Cranfield 3rd Earl Middlesex
GrandFather: James Brett
Mother: Anne Brett Countess Middlesex