This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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Titchfield, Hampshire is in Hampshire.
After 22nd August 1591 Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 57] arrived in Titchfield, Hampshire [Map] as a guest of Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton.
On 5th November 1624 James Wriothesley [aged 19] died of fever at Roosendaal. On 28th December 1624 he was buried at Titchfield, Hampshire [Map].
On 10th November 1624 Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton [aged 51] died. He was buried at Titchfield, Hampshire [Map]. His son Thomas [aged 17] succeeded 4th Earl of Southampton.
The River Meon is a chalk stream in Hampshire. It rises at East Meon, Hampshire [Map] and flows through West Meon, Hampshire [Map], Warnford, Hampshire [Map], Exton, Hampshire [Map], Corhampton, Hampshire [Map], Meonstoke, Hampshire [Map], Droxford, Hampshire [Map], Mislingford, Hampshire [Map], Wickham, Hampshire [Map], Knowle, Hampshire [Map], Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire [Map], Titchfield, Hampshire [Map] to Hill Head, Hampshire [Map] where it reaches the Solent.
St Peter's Church, Titchfield is also in Churches in Hampshire.
St Peter's Church, Titchfield [Map]. The monuments to the Wriothesley family in Titchfield.The three main effigies are to Thomas Wriothesley 1st Earl of Southampton, his wife Jane Cheney Countess Southampton and Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 4th August 1550. The imperfect paragraph with which the Manuscript now begins relates to the funeral of Sir Thomas Wriothesley [deceased], Earl of Southampton, K,G. who died on the 31st July 1550, and was buried on the 4th of August at St. Andrew's, Holborn [Map], Sir John Hoper, priest, preaching at his funeral, - Strype, Memorials, fol. 1721, ii. (283).
Note. Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton. The first person noticed by our funereal chronicler was one of the most remarkable men of his age: one who had attained the summit of the law, and who was aspiring to the summit of the state. The historian Carte attributes his death to mortified ambition, and so does Lord Campbell in his recent Lives of the Chancellors: on this part of his history see the Archaeologia, vol. xxx. p. 468.
It should be remarked that, though the body of the earl of Southampton was at first buried in Saint Andrew's Holborn, it was afterwards removed to Tichfield [Map] in Hampshire, where a sumptuous monument with his effigy still exists. There is a fine portrait of him in Chamberlain's Holbein Heads.
Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire is also in Abbeys in England.
1232. Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire [Map] of St Mary and St John the Evangelist was founded by Bishop Peter de Roches, Bishop of Winchester, for Premonstratensian canons, an order founded at Prémontré in France and known also as the 'White Canons'. The first canons came from Halesowen Abbey, Shropshire [Map].
In 1393 King Richard II of England [aged 25] and Anne of Bohemia Queen Consort England [aged 26] stayed at Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire [Map].
Before 31st July 1415 King Henry V of England [aged 28] stayed at Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire [Map] when travelling to Southampton to commence his Agincourt campaign.
In 1434 Henry Beauchamp 1st Duke Warwick [aged 8] and Cecily Neville Duchess Warwick [aged 10] were married at Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire [Map]. A Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings. His sister Anne Beauchamp 16th Countess Warwick [aged 7] would marry her brother Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury [aged 5] two years later. She the daughter of Richard Neville Earl Salisbury [aged 34] and Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury [aged 27]. He the son of Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 51] and Isabel Despencer Countess Warwick and Worcester [aged 33]. They were third cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 23rd April 1445 King Henry VI of England and II of France [aged 23] and Margaret of Anjou Queen Consort England [aged 15] were married at Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire [Map] probably by Bishop William Ayscough [aged 50], Bishop of Salisbury. She the daughter of René Valois Anjou I Duke Anjou [aged 36] and Isabella Metz Duchess Anjou I Duchess Lorraine [aged 45]. He the son of King Henry V of England and Catherine of Valois Queen Consort England. They were third cousins.
Chronicle of Gregory. And a pon the first day of Aprylle [1545] Quene Margarete [aged 15] landed at Portysmowthe [Map], and a-pon the x day of the same monythe sche was weddyd at a lytylle velage [Map] in Hampsehyre i-namyd.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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1537. During the Suppression of the Monasteries Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire [Map] was given to Thomas Wriothesley 1st Earl of Southampton [aged 31]. He converted the main buildings into Place House.
The River Meon is a chalk stream in Hampshire. It rises at East Meon, Hampshire [Map] and flows through West Meon, Hampshire [Map], Warnford, Hampshire [Map], Exton, Hampshire [Map], Corhampton, Hampshire [Map], Meonstoke, Hampshire [Map], Droxford, Hampshire [Map], Mislingford, Hampshire [Map], Wickham, Hampshire [Map], Knowle, Hampshire [Map], Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire [Map], Titchfield, Hampshire [Map] to Hill Head, Hampshire [Map] where it reaches the Solent.
On 28th January 1832 Henry Paulet [aged 64] died at his home Westhill Lodge, Titchfield. He was buried in the family vault at St Mary's Church, Amport.