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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St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Sussex, Easebourne Midhurst, South-East England, British Isles [Map]

St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Sussex is in Easebourne Midhurst [Map], Churches in Sussex.

1535 Sweating Sickness Outbreak

Around 1535 David Owen [aged 76] died. Possibly of the sweating sickness since letters of the time refer to sickness and plague. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Sussex [Map]. Esses and Roses Collar.

After 19th October 1592. St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Sussex [Map]. Monument to Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu [deceased], Jane Radclyffe and Magdalen Dacre Viscountess Montague [aged 54]. The monument was originally in Midhurst but was subsequently moved. As there was less room, it was re-arranged, with Lord Montague kneeling behind and above the two recumbent effigies of his wives, instead of having a wife on either side, with obelisks at the corners.

Jane Radclyffe: she was born to Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex and Margaret Stanley Countess Sussex. Before 22nd July 1552 Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu and she were married. She the daughter of Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex and Margaret Stanley Countess Sussex. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.

On 8th April 1608 Magdalen Dacre Viscountess Montague [aged 70] died at Battle Abbey [Map]. She was buried at Midhurst; subsequently moved to St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Sussex [Map].

On 23rd April 1767 Anthony Browne 6th Viscount Montagu [aged 81] died. His son Anthony [aged 37] succeeded 7th Viscount Montagu. Frances Falconer Mackworth Viscountess Montague [aged 35] by marriage Viscountess Montagu.

Grave slab to Anthony Browne 6th Viscount Montagu and Barbara Webb Viscountess Montague [aged 70] in St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Sussex [Map].

On 30th December 1830 Elizabeth Mary Browne [aged 63] died. Monument sculpted by Francis Leggatt Chantrey [aged 49] in St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Sussex [Map].

Elizabeth Mary Browne: On 5th December 1767 she was born to Anthony Joseph Browne 7th Viscount Montagu and Frances Falconer Mackworth Viscountess Montague. On 1st September 1794 William Stephen Poyntz and she were married. On 7th July 1815 two sons of William Stephen Poyntz and Elizabeth Mary Brownedrowned at Bognor Regis, West Sussex.

On 8th April 1840 William Stephen Poyntz [aged 70] died. Monument sculpted by Rafaelle Monti [aged 22] in 1848 in St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Sussex [Map].

Rafaelle Monti: In 1818 he was born in Milan. In 1881 he died.