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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Paternal Family Tree: Carolingian
Maternal Family Tree: Ansgarde Burgundy Queen Consort Aquitaine Queen Consort West Francia 880
Carloman II King West Francia and Engelberge Bivinids Queen Consort West Francia were married. He the son of Louis "Stammerer" II King Aquitaine III King West Francia and Ansgarde Burgundy Queen Consort Aquitaine Queen Consort West Francia. They were half second cousin once removed.
Before 863 [his father] Louis "Stammerer" II King Aquitaine III King West Francia (age 16) and [his mother] Ansgarde Burgundy Queen Consort Aquitaine Queen Consort West Francia were married in secret. She by marriage Queen Consort Aquitaine, Queen Consort West Francia. He the son of [his grandfather] Charles "Bald" I King West Francia (age 39) and [his grandmother] Ermentrude Orléans Queen Consort West Francia.
In 866 Carloman II King West Francia was born to Louis "Stammerer" II King Aquitaine III King West Francia (age 19) and Ansgarde Burgundy Queen Consort Aquitaine Queen Consort West Francia.
In February 875 [his father] Louis "Stammerer" II King Aquitaine III King West Francia (age 28) and [his step-mother] Adelaide Paris Queen Consort Aquitaine and West Francia (age 25) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Aquitaine, Queen Consort West Francia. He the son of [his grandfather] Charles "Bald" I King West Francia (age 51) and [his grandmother] Ermentrude Orléans Queen Consort West Francia.
On 10th April 879 [his father] Louis "Stammerer" II King Aquitaine III King West Francia (age 32) died. His son [his brother] Louis (age 16) succeeded III King West Francia. His son Carloman (age 13) succeeded King West Francia. Engelberge Bivinids Queen Consort West Francia by marriage Queen Consort West Francia.
Around 880 [his mother] Ansgarde Burgundy Queen Consort Aquitaine Queen Consort West Francia died.
Assers Life of Alfred 884. 884. 68. Death of Carloman, of Louis II, and of Louis III.147 In that same year also, Carloman (age 18), King of the West Franks, while engaged in a boar-hunt, was miserably slain by a boar, which inflicted a dreadful wound on him with its tusk. His brother [his brother] Louis, who had also been King of the Franks, had died the year before. Both these were sons of Louis148, King of the Franks, who also had died in the year above mentioned, in which the eclipse of the sun took place.149 This Louis was the son of [his grandfather] Charles150, King of the Franks, whose daughter [his aunt] Judith151 Æthelwulf, King of the West Saxons, took to queen with her father's consent.
Note 147. Chiefly from the Chronicle.
Note 148. [his father] Louis the Stammerer.
Note 149. Cf. chap. 59.
Note 150. Charles the Bald.
On 12th December 884 Carloman II King West Francia (age 18) died. His half first cousin once removed Charles (age 45) succeeded III King West Francia, King Aquitaine.
Kings Franks: Great Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 1 Grandfather: Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Great x 2 Grandmother: Hildegard Vinzgouw Queen Franks Queen Lombardy Holy Roman Empress
GrandFather: Charles "Bald" I King West Francia
Great x 2 Grandfather: Welf
Great x 1 Grandmother: Judith Welf Queen Consort Aquitaine Queen Consort Franks
Great x 3 Grandfather: Isambart "The Saxon" Saxony
Great x 2 Grandmother: Hedwig Saxony
Father: Louis "Stammerer" II King Aquitaine III King West Francia
Great x 1 Grandfather: Odi Orléans 1st Count Orléans
GrandMother: Ermentrude Orléans Queen Consort West Francia
GrandFather: Hardouin Burgundy
Mother: Ansgarde Burgundy Queen Consort Aquitaine Queen Consort West Francia