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.
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Count Guînes is in Counts of France.
Around 1169 Baldwin Guines II Count Guînes [aged 34] succeeded II Count Guînes. Christine Viscountess Ardres and Guînes by marriage Countess Guînes.
In 1205 Arnoul Guines II Count Guînes [aged 35] succeeded II Count Guînes.
In or before 1220 Arnoul Guines II Count Guînes [aged 49] and Beatrix Bourborg Countess Guînes were married. She by marriage Countess Guînes. He the son of Baldwin Guines II Count Guînes and Christine Viscountess Ardres and Guînes.
In 1220 Baldwin Guines III Count Guînes [aged 20] succeeded III Count Guînes.
Before 1233 Baldwin Guines III Count Guînes [aged 32] and Mauhaut Fiennes Countess Guînes [aged 22] were married. She by marriage Countess Guînes. He the son of Arnoul Guines II Count Guînes and Beatrix Bourborg Countess Guînes.
Before 2nd February 1283 Arnoul Guines III Count Guînes [aged 53] and Alix Coucy Countess Guînes [aged 61] were married. She by marriage Countess Guînes. He the son of Baldwin Guines III Count Guînes and Mauhaut Fiennes Countess Guînes. They were half third cousin once removed.
On 2nd February 1283 Arnoul Guines III Count Guînes [aged 53] died at Guines Castle, Guines. His brother Baldwin [aged 40] succeeded 4th Count Guînes.
In 1332 Raoul Brienne I Count of Eu I Count Guînes succeeded I Count Guînes. Jeanne Melo Countess Eu and Guines by marriage Countess Guînes.
On 19th January 1344 Raoul Brienne I Count of Eu I Count Guînes was killed in a tournament at Paris [Map]. His son Raoul [aged 29] succeeded II Count Eu, II Count Guînes. Catherine Countess Eu and Guînes [aged 20] by marriage Countess Eu, Countess Guînes.
Arnoul Guines III Count Guînes succeeded III Count Guînes.
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.'
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Arnoul Guines II Count Guînes succeeded II Count Guînes. Mahaut St Omer Countess Guînes by marriage Countess Guînes.
Jeanne Guines Countess Eu I and Guînes succeeded I Countess Guînes.