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The 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." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Guisborough Priory is in Guisborough, Yorkshire, Priories in England.
On 11th May 1141 Robert Bruce 1st Lord Annandale 1st Lord Skelton (age 71) died at Guisborough Priory [Map]. His son Adam (age 36) succeeded 2nd Lord Annandale, 2nd Lord Skelton.
On 16th July 1212 William Bruce 3rd Lord Annandale (age 58) died. He was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map]. His son Robert (age 17) succeeded 4th Lord Annandale.
On 7th September 1241 Unknown Brus was born at Marseilles, France. He was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map].
In 1245 Robert Bruce 4th Lord Annandale (age 50) died. He was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map]. His son Robert (age 30) succeeded 5th Lord Annandale.
Before 1257 Bishop Ralph de Ireton became a Canon at Guisborough Priory [Map].
In 1261 Bishop Ralph de Ireton was elected Prior of Guisborough Priory [Map].
On 10th July 1264 Isabel Clare Lady Annandale (age 37) died. She was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map].
On 31st March 1295 Robert Bruce 5th Lord Annandale (age 80) died. He was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map]. His son Robert (age 51) succeeded 6th Lord Annandale.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. In the same year, in his own land of Annandale, at Lochmaben, that noble man Lord Robert de Brus the Fourth died, on Maundy Thursday [31st March 1296]. As previously mentioned, he had disputed with John Balliol before the king of England over the succession to the Scottish throne. And, as he had ordered while alive, he was buried in our house at Guisborough [Map], beside his father, on the second Sunday after Easter, the fifteenth day before the Kalends of May [17th April 1295], with the highest honour and great reverence, as was fitting. Throughout his life, he was glorious, gracious, wealthy, and generous, and he abounded in all things both in life and in death.
Eodem anno in terra sua Vallis Anandiæ apud Loghmaban obiit nobilis ille vir dominus Robertus de Bruys quartus, in Cœna Domini, qui, ut superius tactum est, circa successionem regni Scotiæ cum Johanne de Balliolo coram rege Anglorum disceptavit; et, ut vivens ipse jusserat, sepultus est in domo nostra Gisseburne juxta patrem suum, Dominica secunda post Pascha, XV kalendas Maii, cum summo honore, ut decuit, et reverentia magna. Hic toto tempore vitæ suæ gloriosus extitit, facetus, dives, et largus, et abundavit in omnibus in vita et in morte.
On 30th May 1347 John Darcy 1st Baron Darcy of Knayth (age 67) died. He was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map]. His son John (age 30) succeeded 2nd Baron Darcy of Knayth. Elizabeth Meinhill Baroness Darcy Knayth and Haversham (age 15) by marriage Baroness Darcy of Knayth.
On 29th September 1362 Walter Fauconberg 4th Baron Fauconberg (age 43) died at Guisborough Priory [Map]. His son Thomas (age 17) succeeded 5th Baron Fauconberg.
On 28th May 1381 William Latimer 4th Baron Latimer of Corby (age 51) died. He was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map]. His daughter Elizabeth (age 24) succeeded 5th Baroness Latimer of Corby.
On 9th January 1463 William Neville 1st Earl Kent (age 58) died. He was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map]. No surviving legitimate issue. Earl Kent extinct.
Around 30th May 1537 the Abbots of Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire [Map], Marmaduke Bradley, and Guisborough Priory [Map], Robert Pursglove, were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn [Map] for their role in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Their heads were displayed on London Bridge [Map].
In 1545 John Lumley 4th Baron Lumley (age 53) died. He was buried at Guisborough Priory [Map]. Baron Lumley forfeit since his son George aka William Lumley was been executed eight years previously and whose attainder (presuming there was one) prevented his grandson John Lumley (age 12) from succeeding to the title. His grandson John Lumley 1st Baron Lumley was created Baron Lumley of the third creation in 1547.
1801. Thomas Girtin (age 25). Guisborough Priory [Map].