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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Kenilworth Castle is in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, Castles in Warwickshire.
In 1209 William Cantilupe Baron was appointed High Sheriff of Warwickshire and High Sheriff of Leicestershire after which his main residence was Kenilworth Castle.
On 28th May 1265 King Edward I of England, with the help of Roger Leybourne, escaped from Kenilworth Castle whilst on a hunting trip. He had been held there as a hostage following the Battle of Lewes as a condition of the Mise of Lewes (the now lost peace treaty).
On 31st October 1266 the Dictum of Kenilworth was issued. The Dictum was a peace agreement between King Henry III of England and the rebels who were besieged in the impregnable Kenilworth Castle. The committee included: Bishop Walter Branscombe, Archbishop Walter Giffard, Bishop Nicholas Ely, Gilbert de Clare 8th Earl Gloucester 7th Earl Hertford, Humphrey Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford 1st Earl Essex, Philip Basset, John Balliol, Robert Walerand, Alan Zouche, Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley, and Warin Bassingbourne.
Robert Ferrers 6th Earl of Derby and Henry Hastings were fined seven times their annual income. The Dictum, however, required the rebels to pay their fines before being restored to their lands; something of a Catch-22 since if they weren't restored to their lands, they would have no income to pay the fine.
On 14th December 1266 the garrison at Kenilworth Castle surrendered some six weeks after the signing of the Dictum of Kenilworth.
On 24th September 1275 Humphrey Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford 1st Earl Essex died at Kenilworth Castle. He was buried at Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucestershire. Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex succeeded 3rd Earl Hereford, 2nd Earl Essex.
In 1279 Agnes Cantilupe died at Kenilworth Castle.
On 16th November 1326 King Edward II of England was captured at Pant y Brâd, Llantrisant. He was imprisoned at Llantrisant Castle, Glamorganshire. Thereafter he was taken to Kenilworth Castle, then Berkeley Castle. With him at the time of his capture were Hugh "Younger" Despencer 1st Baron Despencer, Robert Holden, controller of his wardrobe; Robert Baldock, chancellor of England; two knights, one sergeant-at-arms, one valet and one clerk.
On 24th June 1380 John Hastings 3rd Earl Pembroke and Elizabeth Lancaster Duchess Exeter were married at Kenilworth Castle. She by marriage Countess Pembroke. She the daughter of John of Gaunt 1st Duke Lancaster and Blanche Duchess of Lancaster. He the son of John Hastings 2nd Earl Pembroke and Anne Manny Countess Pembroke.
Around 1406 Eleanor Holland Baroness Audley Heighley was born illegitimately to Edmund Holland 4th Earl Kent and Constance York Countess Gloucester at Kenilworth Castle.
In 1443 Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester was imprisoned at Kenilworth Castle.
On 12th August 1469 Woodvilles father and son were beheaded at Kenilworth Castle by supporters of Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury.
Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers was beheaded. Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers succeeded 2nd Earl Rivers, 2nd Baron Rivers. Elizabeth Scales Countess Rivers by marriage Countess Rivers.
John Woodville was beheaded.
A Brief Latin Chronicle. On 12th August 1469. On the Saturday before the Assumption of the most blessed Virgin Mary, Lord de Rywans along with Lord John, his son, were captured, and they were executed together near the castle of Kenilworth.
Die Sabbati proximo ante Assumptionem beatissime semper Virginis Marie captus est Dominus de Rywans cum domino Johanne filio suo, et juxta castrum de Kelingworth pariter docollati sunt.
A Brief Latin Chronicle. 13th August 1469. On the Saturday before the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 13), Lord de Rywans and his son, Lord John, were captured and, near Kenilworth Castle, were beheaded together.
Die Sabbati proximo ante Assumptionem beatissime semper Virginis Marie captus est Dominus de Rywans cum domino Johanne filio suo, et juxta castrum de Kelingworth pariter docollati sunt.
On 21st August 1565 William Devereux of Merevale was knighted at Kenilworth Castle by Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester.
In 1566 John Lyttelton of Frankley was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I at Kenilworth Castle.
Letters of the Court of James I 1618. [5th October 1618]. The current runs strong here, that Sir Fulk Greville shall be treasurer, but the grounds of that conjecture are not certain. An assured thing they say it is, that the Marquis of Buckingham hath gotten the survivance of the Admiralty granted him, in a joint patent with the lord admiral that is; and the same hath passed the seals already. Sir Robert Cary hath now perfected his suit concerning Killingworth, and intends a new voyage thither soon after Allhallowtide. I have renewed my former motions concerning you, and he promises the accomplishment.
