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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Paternal Family Tree: Hoo
Around 1396 Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings was born to [his father] Thomas Hoo (age 26) and [his mother] Eleanor Felton (age 18).
In 1400 [his mother] Eleanor Felton (age 22) died.
On 23rd August 1420 [his father] Thomas Hoo (age 50) died at Ockley, Surrey [Map].
Around 1425 [his daughter] Ann Hoo was born to Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings (age 29) and [his future wife] Elizabeth Wychingham (age 15). She married (1) Thomas Fiennes (2) before 1442 Geoffrey Boleyn and had issue.
Before 1st July 1428 Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings (age 32) and Elizabeth Wychingham (age 18) were married.
Before 1442 [his son-in-law] Geoffrey Boleyn (age 35) and [his daughter] Ann Hoo (age 16) were married.
Before 1445 Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings (age 48) and Eleanor Welles Baroness Hoo and Hastings were married.
In 1445 Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings (age 49) was appointed 161st Knight of the Garter by King Henry VI of England and II of France (age 23).
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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Around 1447 [his daughter] Anne Hoo was born to Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings (age 51) and [his wife] Eleanor Welles Baroness Hoo and Hastings. She married (1) Roger Copley Mercer of London and had issue (2) William Greystoke.
In 1447 Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings (age 51) was created 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings. [his wife] Eleanor Welles Baroness Hoo and Hastings by marriage Baroness Hoo and Hastings.
Chronicle of Gregory. 2nd December 1450. Ande that same year, the ij day of Decembyr, the Duke of Somersett (age 44) was a-tachide in the Fryer Prechourys at London. And that day he was robbyde of alle his goodys, and his jewyllys were takyn and borne a-way by lordys mayny. Ande in the morowe they dyspoylyd the placys and longgynges of many dyvers lordys, and they bare away alle the goodys that were with ynne hem, that is to say, Syr Thomas Stodenham (age 49)a, a thenne beynge wardroper, Syr Thomas Hoo (age 54) the lord Hastynge, some tyme the Chambyrlayne of Normandy.
Note a. Todenham.
In 1451 [his wife] Elizabeth Wychingham (age 41) died.
In 1455 Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings (age 59) died. Baron Hoo and Hastings extinct.
Before 1504 [his former wife] Eleanor Welles Baroness Hoo and Hastings died.
[his father] Thomas Hoo and [his mother] Eleanor Felton were married.
[his father] Thomas Hoo and Elizabeth Echingham were married. The difference in their ages was 24 years.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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[his daughter] Eleanor Hoo was born to Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings and Eleanor Welles Baroness Hoo and Hastings. She married her fifth cousin once removed James Carew and had issue.
[his daughter] Elizabeth Hoo was born to Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings and Eleanor Welles Baroness Hoo and Hastings. She married (1) Thomas Masingbeard (2) John Devenish.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Franks: Great x 18 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 17 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Hoo
GrandFather: William Hoo
Great x 2 Grandfather: John St Leger of Offley 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel St Leger
Father: Thomas Hoo
Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Felton 1st Baron Felton
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Felton 2nd Baron Felton 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Strange 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Strange
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Tregoz
Great x 2 Grandmother: Hawise Strange 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Somery 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Nicole D'Aubigny Baroness Dudley 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
GrandFather: Thomas Felton 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Mother: Eleanor Felton 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England