Adam Murimuth's Continuation and Robert of Avesbury’s 'The Wonderful Deeds of King Edward III'
This volume brings together two of the most important contemporary chronicles for the reign of Edward III and the opening phases of the Hundred Years’ War. Written in Latin by English clerical observers, these texts provide a vivid and authoritative window into the political, diplomatic, and military history of fourteenth-century England and its continental ambitions. Adam Murimuth Continuatio's Chronicarum continues an earlier chronicle into the mid-fourteenth century, offering concise but valuable notices on royal policy, foreign relations, and ecclesiastical affairs. Its annalistic structure makes it especially useful for establishing chronology and tracing the development of events year by year. Complementing it, Robert of Avesbury’s De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii is a rich documentary chronicle preserving letters, treaties, and official records alongside narrative passages. It is an indispensable source for understanding Edward III’s claim to the French crown, the conduct of war, and the mechanisms of medieval diplomacy. Together, these works offer scholars, students, and enthusiasts a reliable and unembellished account of a transformative period in English and European history. Essential for anyone interested in medieval chronicles, the Hundred Years’ War, or the reign of Edward III.
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Paternal Family Tree: Manners
Maternal Family Tree: Katherine Swynford aka Roet Duchess Lancaster 1350-1403
Around 1490 [his father] George Manners 11th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 20) and [his mother] Anne St Leger Baroness Ros of Helmsley (age 13) were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Thomas St Leger and [his grandmother] Anne York Duchess Exeter. They were half third cousins. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In or before 1508 Richard Vernon (age 30) and [his future wife] Margaret Dymoke aka Mistress Coffin (age 7) were married. The difference in their ages was 23 years. They were fourth cousin once removed.
In or before 1509 Richard Manners was born to [his father] George Manners 11th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 38) and [his mother] Anne St Leger Baroness Ros of Helmsley (age 32). He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
Around 1509 Isabel Ros died. Her nephew [his father] George Manners 11th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 39) inherited her estates.
In 1512 [his father] George Manners 11th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 42) abeyance terminated 11th Baron Ros Helmsley. [his mother] Anne St Leger Baroness Ros of Helmsley (age 35) by marriage Baroness Ros Helmsley.
On 27th October 1513 [his father] George Manners 11th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 43) died. He was buried in the St Leger Chantry, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map]. His son [his brother] Thomas (age 21) succeeded 12th Baron Ros Helmsley.
After August 1517 William Coffin (age 22) and [his future wife] Margaret Dymoke aka Mistress Coffin (age 17) were married.
Before 1523 [his brother] Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland (age 30) and [his sister-in-law] Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland (age 27) were married. She by marriage Baroness Ros Helmsley.
Before 25th May 1524 [his brother-in-law] John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath (age 25) and [his sister] Eleanor Manners Countess Bath (age 21) were married at Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds. He the son of John Bourchier 1st Earl Bath (age 53) and Cecily Daubeney Baroness Fitzwarin (age 50). They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 21st April 1526 [his mother] Anne St Leger Baroness Ros of Helmsley (age 50) died. She was buried with her husband in the St Leger Chantry, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map].
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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In 1539 Richard Manners (age 30) was knighted.
In 1539 Richard Manners (age 30) and Margaret Dymoke aka Mistress Coffin (age 39) were married. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In 1539 Richard Manners (age 30) was appointed Esquire to the Body to King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 30th April 1539 John Bourchier 1st Earl Bath (age 68) died. He was buried at St Brannock's Church, Braunton. His son [his brother-in-law] John (age 40) succeeded 2nd Earl Bath, 4th Count Eu, 12th Baron Fitzwarin. [his sister] Eleanor Manners Countess Bath (age 36) by marriage Countess Bath.
In 1540 Richard Manners (age 31) was appointed Cupbearer.
In 1542 Richard Manners (age 33) was elected MP Leicestershire.
On 20th September 1543 [his brother] Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland (age 51) died. He was buried in the Chancel of St Mary the Virgin Church, Bottesford, Leicestershire [Map]. His son [his nephew] Henry (age 16) succeeded 2nd Earl of Rutland, 13th Baron Ros Helmsley. Margaret Neville Countess Rutland by marriage Countess of Rutland.
In 1545 [his wife] Margaret Dymoke aka Mistress Coffin (age 45) died.
On or before 16th September 1547, the date she was buried at St Peter's Church, Tawstock [Map], [his sister] Eleanor Manners Countess Bath (age 44) died.
In 1549 Richard Manners (age 40) was appointed High Sheriff of Warwickshire.
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.
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In 1549 Richard Manners (age 40) was appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire.
On 9th February 1551 Richard Manners (age 42) died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 14th February 1551. The xiiij day of Feybruarii was dysposyd of ys bysshoppr [icke] of Wynchestur, the old bysshope M. Stevyn Gardener (age 68), and cared in to the Towre-the v yer K. E. vjth.... and the compyny of the Clarkes ... cheyffe mornar was sir Garves Clyfftun (age 34) and M.... dyd pryche ther, and after they whent to dener unto the [earl of] Ruttland plasse in Wyttyngton Colege parryche.
Note. Funeral of sir Richard Manners (deceased). The paragraph of the diary partly defaced belongs to the funeral of an uncle of the earl of Rutland, whom we find thus noticed in another place: "Sir Rychard Manners knight dyed the ixth of February a°. r. E. vj. vto. and was beryed at Kateren Cryst churche the 14. of the same mounth; and the right honorable [his nephew] Henry erl of Rutland (age 24) was his hole executer and over-syer of his last wyll, to whom he gave all his goodes and landes." (MS. Harl. 897, f. 14.) Sir Richard Manners was twice married, as may be seen in the peerages.
King Edward III of England 1312-1377
John of Gaunt 1st Duke Lancaster 1340-1399
Ralph Neville 1st Earl of Westmoreland 1364-1425
Cecily "Rose of Raby" Neville Duchess York 1415-1495
Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmoreland 1379-1440
John Neville 3rd Baron Neville of Raby 1337-1388
Maud Percy Baroness Neville Raby
Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York 1411-1460
Kings Wessex: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 11 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 17 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 12 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 4 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 20 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 18 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Manners 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Manners
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Manners
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Manners
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Middleton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Agnes aka Anne Middleton
GrandFather: Robert Manners 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert de Ogle
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Ogle of Ogle and Bothal
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Ogle
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Ogle 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Grey 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Grey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Pressene
Great x 2 Grandmother: Matilda Grey 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Mowbray 4th Baron Mowbray Baron Segrave 
2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Mowbray 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Segrave 5th Baroness Segrave Baroness Mowbray 
Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Father: George Manners 11th Baron Ros Helmsley 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Ros 4th Baron Ros Helmsley 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Ros 6th Baron Ros Helmsley 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice Stafford Countess Desmond 
2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Ros 8th Baron Ros Helmsley 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fitzalan 1st Baron Arundel Baron Maltravers 
2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Fitzalan Baroness Ros of Helmsley 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Maltravers 2nd Baroness Maltravers Baroness Arundel and Cobham 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Ros 9th Baron Ros Helmsley 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Beauchamp 12th Earl Warwick 
5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Ferrers Countess Warwick 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Berkeley 10th and 5th Baron Berkeley, Baron Lisle 
2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Lisle Baroness Berkeley 3rd Baroness Lisle 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
GrandMother: Eleanor Ros 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tiptoft 2nd Baron Tibetot 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Pain Tiptoft
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Aspall Baroness Tibetot
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Wrothe
Great x 1 Grandmother: Philippa Tiptoft Baroness Ros of Helmsley 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Charleton 3rd Baron Cherleton 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Charleton 5th Baron Cherleton 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Stafford Baroness Cherleton and Talbot 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joyce Charleton Baroness Tiptoft 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Kent Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster 
2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Fitzalan Countess Kent 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Richard Manners 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph St Leger 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Arnold St Leger
Great x 2 Grandfather: Arnold St Leger 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Charleton 3rd Baron Cherleton 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Charleton 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Stafford Baroness Cherleton and Talbot 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John St Leger 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
GrandFather: Thomas St Leger 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Donet
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margery Donet
Mother: Anne St Leger Baroness Ros of Helmsley 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Edward III of England 
Son of King Edward II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund of Langley 1st Duke of York 
Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Philippa of Hainaut Queen Consort England 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Stephen I England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard of Conisbrough 1st Earl Cambridge Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter "Cruel" I King Castile 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabella of Castile Duchess York 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maria Padilla
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Mortimer 3rd Earl March, Earl of Ulster 
6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Mortimer 4th Earl March 3rd Earl of Ulster Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Philippa Plantagenet Countess March 2nd Countess Ulster 
Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Mortimer 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Kent Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Fitzalan Countess Kent 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
GrandMother: Anne York Duchess Exeter 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Neville 2nd Baron Neville of Raby 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Neville 3rd Baron Neville of Raby 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Audley Baroness Greystoke and Neville 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ralph Neville 1st Earl of Westmoreland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Percy 10th and 2nd Baron Percy 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Percy Baroness Neville Raby 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Idonia Clifford Baroness Percy 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Cecily "Rose of Raby" Neville Duchess York Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Edward III of England Son of King Edward II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John of Gaunt 1st Duke Lancaster Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Philippa of Hainaut Queen Consort England 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Stephen I England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmoreland 
Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Giles "Payne" Roet 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Swynford aka Roet Duchess Lancaster