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Events on the 4th October
In 1043 Coventry Priory was founded by Leofric Earldorman Mercia and Godgifu aka Lady Godiva. It was consecrated on 4th October 1043 by Archbishop Eadsige. Among the witnesses to this foundation charter were Edward the Confessor (age 40), the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishops of Worcester and Lichfield, the abbots of Winchcombe and Pershore, and the earls Godwin (age 42), Harold (age 21), Siward (age 33), and Ordgar.
On 4th October 1160 Alys Capet Countess Ponthieu was born to Louis VII King Franks (age 40) and Constance of Castile (age 20). Her mother died in childbirth. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.85%.
On 4th October 1190 King Richard "Lionheart" I of England (age 33) attacked and captured Messina, Sicily [Map].
On 4th October 1289 Louis X King France I Navarre was born to King Philip IV of France (age 21) and Joan Blois I Queen Navarre (age 16). Coefficient of inbreeding 2.10%.
Chronicle of Henry Knighton. [4th October 1338] And so they landed at Southampton and killed all whom they found there, plundered, and hanged many of the town's more noble inhabitants in their own homes. Then, with immense cruelty, they delivered the entire town to the flames of fire all around. But when the local countrymen came running, they boarded their ships and fled to the open sea.
Et sic applicucrunt apud Suthamptoniam et interfecerunt in ea quos repererunt et rapuerunt et plures de nobilioribus villæ in domibus propriis suspenderunt, et in flammam igrtis totam villam in circuitu immani crudelitate deSerunt ; set accurrentibus compatriotis naves ascenderunt et altum mare petierunt.
Froissart Book 1: 1307-1340. [74] As soon as Sir Hugh Quieret and his companions, who were stationed at sea, learned that hostilities had been declared and war had broken out between France and England, they rejoiced greatly. They set out with their fleet, which included about twenty thousand fighters of various kinds, and sailed toward England. One Sunday [4th October 1338] morning, while the people were at mass, they arrived at the harbor of Southampton. The said Normans and Genoese entered the town, seized it, looted it, and entirely robbed it. They killed many people, violated several women and maidens, which was a grievous wrong. They loaded their ships and vessels with the vast spoils they found in the town, which was full, prosperous, and well-supplied. Then they returned to their ships. When the tide came in, they lifted anchor and sailed quickly with the wind toward Normandy, and went to rest at Dieppe. There they divided their spoils and plunder. Now let us return to the King of England, who was staying at Mechelen and was preparing vigorously to march on Cambrai.
[74] Si tretost que messires Hues Kierés et si compagnon, qui se tenoient sus mer, entendirent que les deffiances estoient, et la guerre ouverte entre France et Engleterre, il en furent tout joiant; si se departirent avoecques leur armée, où il avoit bien vint mille combatans de toutes manières de gens, et singlèrent vers Engleterre, et vinrent un dimence au matin ou havene de Hantonne, entrues que les gens estoient à messe. Et entrèrent li dit Normant et Geneuois en le ville et le prisent et le pillièrent et robèrent tout entirement, et y tuèrent moult de gens, et violèrent pluiseurs dames et pucelles, dont ce fu damages; et chargièrent leurs naves et leurs vaissiaus dou grant pillage qu'il trouvèrent en le ville, qui estoit plainne et drue et bien garnie, et puis rentrèrent en leurs nefs. Et quant li flos de le mer fu revenus, il desancrèrent et singlèrent à l'esploit dou vent devers Normendie, et s'en vinrent rafrescir à Dièpe; et là departirent il leur butin et leur pillage. Or retourrons nous au roy englès, qui se tenoit à Malignes, et se apparilloit fort pour venir devant Cambray.
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Annales of England by John Stow. The fourth of October [1339] fiftie gallies, well manned and furnished, came to Southhampton about nine of the clocke, and sacked the towne, the townsmen running away for feare. By the break of the next day they which fled, by helpe of the countrey thereabout, came against the pyrats and fought with them, in the which skirmish were slaine to the number of three hundred pyrates, togither with their captaine, a young souldiour, the king of Sicils sonne. To this young man the French king had given whatsoever he got in the kingdome of England. But he, being beaten downe by a certaine man of the countrey, cryed "Rancon"; notwithstanding, the husbandman laid him on with his clubbe, till he had slaine him, speaking these words : " Yea (quoth he), I know well enough thou art a Francon, and therefore .shalt thou dye," for he understood not his speech, neither had he any skill to take gentlemen prisoners and to keepe them for ransome. Wherefore the residue of those Gennowayes, after they had set the towne a fire and burnt it up quite, fled to their galleyes, and in their flying certaine of them were drowned. And after this the inhabitants of the town compassed it about with a strong and great wall
On 4th October 1361 John Mowbray 3rd Baron Mowbray (age 50) died of plague. His son John (age 21) succeeded 4th Baron Mowbray.
On 4th October 1379 Henry III King Castile was born to John I King Castile (age 21) and Eleanor Barcelona Queen Consort Castile (age 21) at Burgos [Map].
Chronicle of Gregory. 4th October 1445. Ande that same year there was a pechyng i-made uppon the Erle of Ormounde (age 52) by the pryour of Kylmayn (age 24)1 for certayne poyntys of treson, the whyche was takyn in to the kyngys grace, where uppon it lykyd our sovereign lorde (age 23) to graunte a generalle pardon unto the said Erle. But nevyrtheles the said pryour appayryde in Smethefylde [Map] the iiij day of the monythe of October, as it was apoyntyde, full clenly harnyssyd, redy whythe alle his fetys and whythe alle his wepyns, kepynge the fylde tylle hyghe none.
Note 1. Thomas Fitzgerald grandson of Thomas Earl of Kildare, was at this time Prior of the Knights of St. John at Kilmainham in Ireland.
Polydore Vergil. 4th October 1497. Learning that Peter (age 23) had decamped, Henry sent out horsemen in every direction to follow him and seek his capture, but he, having covered most of the distance, was not seen before he reached the asylum. But not so his captains, who were taken in mid-flight and brought to the king. And the mob, when they could not see Peter nor his captains' standards, having no idea where he was, whether he had been killed by some trick or had fled, were unsure of what counsel to take or what was best to do. In the end, learning of his shameful flight, everybody, immediately unhinged by their common evil, their common fear, their common danger, cast aside their weapons and began to hold up their hands, and out of his kindness the king (age 40) readily forgave them. Being a victor without having had a fight, he went to Exeter, Devon [Map], where he praised the citizenry for having done its duty and extended his thanks, and while there he presided over the execution of some of the Cornishmen responsible for the recent rising. Meanwhile the king's horsemen rode as far as St. Michael's Mount, and there they found Peter's wife Catherine and brought her captive to the king. Henry, marveling at the woman's beauty, thought she was not plunder for soldiers, but worthy of an emperor, and forthwith sent her to the queen (age 31) at London with an escort of honorable matrons, as a sure harbinger of the victory he had won.
On 4th October 1497 King Henry VII of England and Ireland (age 40) received the surrender of the Cornish Army at Taunton, Somerset [Map].
Calendar of State Papers of Spain. 4th October 1501. Voyage of the Princess of Wales [Catherine of Aragon (age 15)], and arrival in England. 305. The Licentiate Alcares to Queen Isabella (age 50).
The Princess of Wales embarked1 on Monday the 27th of September. At five o'clock in the afteroon the ship weighed anchor, and set sail. The weather was favourable at first, but changed after midnight. Continued their voyage until they were off Ushant [Map], without any great inconvenience. The winds were variable, but the sea was not rough. When they had passed Ushant [Map], however, they were overtaken by a most furious vendabal2, thunderstorms, and immense waves. Had a thunderstorm every four or five hours during the rest of the voyage. "It was impossible not to be frightened."
The following Saturday [2nd October 1501], at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Princess entered the harbour of Plymouth [Map], which is the firston the coast of England. "She could not have been received with greater rejoicings, if she had been the Saviour of the world." As soon as she left the boat, she went in procession to the church [Plymouth Monastery [Map]], where, it is to be hoped, God gave her the possession of all these realms for such a period as would be long enough to enable her to enjoy life, and to leave heirs to the throne.—4th of October.
Addressed: "To the very powerful Queen of Spain, our excellent Lady." Spanish. Holograph, pp. 2.
Note 2. "Viento de abajo" (wind from below), that is, according to Castilian phraseology, south wind.
On 4th October 1536 the Lincolnshire Rising began. Dr Raynes, the chancellor of the Bishop of Lincoln, who was staying nearby at Bolingbroke, after having held a session of the commissionary's court there, was dragged from his sickbed and taken to Horncastle. Francis Aidan Gasquet writes in his book "Henry VIII and the English Monasteries": "As the chancellor rode into the field with his captors the passions of the mob were stirred, and there occurred one of the two acts of violence, which alone in this or the subsequent Yorkshire rising, disgraced the movement! "At his coming into the field," declares Brian Staines, "the rebels, whereof were many parsons and vicars, cried out with a loud voice, ‘Kill him, kill him.' And upon that one William Hutchinson, of Horncastle, and William Balderstone, by the procurement of the said parsons and vicars, pulled him violently off his horse, kneeling upon his knees, and with their staves they slew him. And being dead, this deponent saith the priests continually crying, ‘Kill him, kill him,' he also struck the said chancellor upon the arm with a staff."
The Lincolnshire Rising was sparked off by a sermon at evensong on the 1st October at St James's Church, Louth, and by a visitation from a registrar on 2nd October. Mary Polito, author of "Governmental Arts in Tudor England" describes how Nicholas Melton, a local shoemaker who came to be known as "Captain Cobbler", seized the registrar, burned his papers and then forced him and the priests to swear an oath of loyalty to the rebel cause. The rebels then marched to the nunnery at Legbourne where they took the royal commissioners hostage. The nunnery had been formally suppressed a few weeks earlier.
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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.
On 4th October 1563 Dorothea of Saxony was born to Augustus Wettin Elector of Saxony (age 37) and Anna Oldenburg (age 30).
On 4th October 1585 Anna of Austria Holy Roman Empress was born to Ferdinand Habsburg Spain II Archduke Austria (age 56) and Anna Caterina Gonzaga Archduchess Austria (age 19). Coefficient of inbreeding 13.08%.
Diary of Anne Clifford. 4th October 1617. Upon the 4th came Sir Percival Hart (age 48) and Sir Edward to dine, and after dinner my Lord (age 28) shewed them his stables and all his great horses.
John Evelyn's Diary. 4th October 1641. The lodgings here are very handsome and convenient. I lost little time; but, with the aid of one Mr. Lewkner, our conductor, we visited divers churches, colleges, and monasteries. The Church of the Jesuits is most sumptuous and magnificent; a glorious fabric without and within, wholly incrusted with marble, inlaid and polished into divers representations of histories, landscapes, and flowers. On the high altar is placed the statue of the Blessed Virgin and our Saviour in white marble, with a boss in the girdle set mth very fair and rich sapphires, and divers other stones of price. The choir is a glorious piece of architecture; the pulpit supported by four angels, and adorned with other carvings, and rare pictures by Rubens, now lately dead, and divers votive tables and relics. Hence, to the Vrou Kirk, or N6tre Dame of Antwerp: it is a very venerable fabric, built after the Gothic manner, especially the tower, which I ascended, the better to take a view of the country adjacent; which, happening on a day when the sun shone exceedingly bright, and darted his rays without any interruption, afforded so bright a reflection to us who were above, and had a full prospect of both land and water about it, that I was much confirmed in my opinion of the moon's being of some such substance as this earthly globe. Perceiving all the subjacent country, at so small an horizontal distance, to repercuss such a light as I could hardly look against, save where the river and other large water within our view, appeared of a more dark and uniform colour, resembling those spots in the moon supposed to be seas there, according to Hevelius, and as they appear in our late telescopes. I numbered in this church thirty privileged altars, that of St. Sebastian adorned with a painting of his martyrdom.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 4th October 1660. This morning I was busy looking over papers at the office all alone, and being visited by Lieut. Lambert (age 41) of the Charles (to whom I was formerly much beholden), I took him along with me to a little alehouse hard by our office, whither my cozen Thomas Pepys the turner had sent for me to show me two gentlemen that had a great desire to be known to me, one his name is Pepys, of our family, but one that I never heard of before, and the other a younger son of Sir Tho. Bendishes, and so we all called cozens. After sitting awhile and drinking, my two new cozens, myself, and Lieut. Lambert went by water to Whitehall, and from thence I and Lieut. Lambert to Westminster Abbey, where we saw Dr. Frewen (age 72) translated to the Archbishoprick of York. Here I saw the Bishops of Winchester (age 71), Bangor (age 75), Rochester (age 79), Bath and Wells (age 80), and Salisbury (age 68), all in their habits, in King Henry Seventh's chappell [Map]. But, Lord! at their going out, how people did most of them look upon them as strange creatures, and few with any kind of love or respect.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 4th October 1665. This night comes Sir George Smith to see me at the office, and tells me how the plague is decreased this week 740, for which God be praised! but that it encreases at our end of the town still, and says how all the towne is full of Captain Cocke's (age 48) being in some ill condition about prize-goods, his goods being taken from him, and I know not what. But though this troubles me to have it said, and that it is likely to be a business in Parliament, yet I am not much concerned at it, because yet I believe this newes is all false, for he would have wrote to me sure about it.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 4th October 1667. And so to my Lord Ashly's (age 46), where after dinner Sir H. Cholmly (age 35), Creed and I, with his Lordship, about Mr. Yeabsly's business, where having come to agreement with him abating him £1000 of what he demands for ships lost, I to Westminster, to Mrs. Martin's lodging, whither I sent for her, and there hear that her husband is come from sea, which is sooner than I expected; and here I staid and drank, and so did toucher elle and away, and so by coach to my tailor's, and thence to my Lord Crew's (age 69), and there did stay with him an hour till almost night, discoursing about the ill state of my Lord Sandwich (age 42), that he can neither be got to be called home, nor money got to maintain him there; which will ruin his family. And the truth is, he do almost deserve it, for by all relation he hath, in a little more than a year and a half, spent £20,000 of the King's money, and the best part of £10,000 of his own; which is a most prodigious expence, more than ever Embassador spent there, and more than these Commissioners of the Treasury will or do allow. And they demand an account before they will give him any more money; which puts all his friends to a loss what to answer. But more money we must get him, or to be called home. I offer to speak to Sir W. Coventry (age 39) about it; but my Lord will not advise to it, without consent of Sir G. Carteret (age 57).
John Evelyn's Diary. 4th October 1683. I went to London, on receiving a note from the Countess of Arlington (age 49), of some considerable charge or advantage I might obtain by applying myself to his Majesty (age 53) on this signal conjuncture of his Majesty entering up judgment against the city charter; the proposal made me I wholly declined, not being well satisfied with these violent transactions, and not a little sorry that his Majesty was so often put upon things of this nature against so great a city, the consequence whereof may be so much to his prejudice; so I returned home. At this time, the Lord Chief-Justice Pemberton (age 59) was displaced. He was held to be the most learned of the judges, and an honest man. Sir George Jeffreys (age 38) was advanced, reputed to be most ignorant, but most daring. Sir George Treby, Recorder of London, was also put by, and one Genner, an obscure lawyer, set in his place. Eight of the richest and chief aldermen were removed and all the rest made only justices of the peace, and no more wearing of gowns, or chains of gold; the Lord Mayor and two sheriffs holding their places by new grants as custodes, at the King's pleasure. The pomp and grandeur of the most august city in the world thus changed face in a moment; which gave great occasion of discourse and thoughts of hearts, what all this would end in. Prudent men were for the old foundations.
John Evelyn's Diary. 4th October 1683. Following his Majesty (age 53) this morning through the gallery, I went with the few who attended him, into the Duchess of Portsmouth's (age 34) Dressing Room within her bedchamber, where she was in her morning loose garment, her maids combing her, newly out of her bed, his Majesty and the gallants standing about her; but that which engaged my curiosity, was the rich and splendid furniture of this woman's apartment, now twice or thrice pulled down and rebuilt to satisfy her prodigal and expensive pleasures, while her Majesty's does not exceed some gentlemen's ladies in furniture and accommodation. Here I saw the new fabric of French tapestry, for design, tenderness of work, and incomparable imitation of the best paintings, beyond anything I had ever beheld. Some pieces had Versailles, St. Germains, and other palaces of the French King, with huntings, figures, and landscapes, exotic fowls, and all to the life rarely done. Then for Japan cabinets, screens, pendule clocks, great vases of wrought plate, tables, stands, chimney-furniture, sconces, branches, braseras, etc., all of massy silver and out of number, besides some of her Majesty's best paintings.
On or before 4th October 1684, the date she was buried at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Coleshill [Map], Frances Noel Baroness Digby (age 23) died in childbirth.
St Mary's Church, Sutton Scarsdale [Map]. Grave of Thomas Freeman who died 4th October 1684; the spelling of October as 8ber. And Eliz: Freeman his wife who died 3rd of Jan 1713.
On 4th October 1693 Charles Schomberg 2nd Duke Schomberg (age 48) fought for Spain and Savoy at Marsaglia at the Battle of Marsaglia.
On 4th October 1744 William Hamilton (age 23) drowned when Victory sank near Alderney.
On 4th October 1798 Frances Mordaunt (age 61) died. She was buried at St Elthreda's Church, Bishop's Hatfield.
Frances Mordaunt: On 29th December 1736 she was born to Charles Mordaunt 4th Earl Peterborough 2nd Earl Monmouth and Mary Cox Countess Peterborough and Monmouth. On 10th October 1765 Reverend Samuel Bulkeley and she were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. She the daughter of Charles Mordaunt 4th Earl Peterborough 2nd Earl Monmouth and Mary Cox Countess Peterborough and Monmouth.
On 4th October 1809 Prince Albert Hohenzollern was born to Frederick William III King Prussia (age 39) and Queen Louise of Prussia (age 33). He a great x 3 grandson of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland.
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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.
On 4th October 1815 Caroline Anne Julie Campbell died. Monument in St Oswald's Church, Malpas [Map]. Sculpted by Richard Westmacott (age 40).
Caroline Anne Julie Campbell: she was born to Colin Campbell. On 20th October 1812 George Cholmondeley 2nd Marquess Cholmondeley and she were married at Gibraltar. He the son of George Cholmondeley 1st Marquess Cholmondeley and Georgina Charlotte Bertie Marchioness Cholmondeley.
On 4th October 1829 Arabella Hamlyn-Williams died from childbirth shortly after the birth of her fourth child Catherine Hamilton Noel.
4th October 1932. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of Margaret Whigham Duchess of Argyll (age 19).
Source: National Portrait Gallery
On 4th October 1957 Clarence Bruce 3rd Baron Aberdare (age 72) died in a car accident. He and his wife Griselda Hervey Baroness Aberdare were returning from Yugoslavia where he had attended the 53rd Session of the International Olympic Committe in Sofia, as part of their honeymoon. Their car left the road near Risan and fell into the sea. He was drowned, his wife injured.
Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce 4th Baron Aberdare (age 38) succeeded 4th Baron Aberdare of Duffryn in Glamorganshire.
Births on the 4th October
On 4th October 1160 Alys Capet Countess Ponthieu was born to Louis VII King Franks (age 40) and Constance of Castile (age 20). Her mother died in childbirth. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.85%.
On 4th October 1274 Rudolf Wittelsbach I Duke Bavaria was born to Louis "Strict" Wittelsbach II Duke Upper Bavaria (age 45) and Matilda Habsburg Duchess Bavaria (age 21). He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.
On 4th October 1282 Thomas Bardolf 2nd Baron Bardolf was born to Hugh Bardolf 1st Baron Bardolf (age 23).
On 4th October 1289 Louis X King France I Navarre was born to King Philip IV of France (age 21) and Joan Blois I Queen Navarre (age 16). Coefficient of inbreeding 2.10%.
On 4th October 1301 Thomas Monthermer 2nd Baron Monthermer was born to Ralph Monthermer 1st Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (age 31) and Joan of Acre Countess Gloucester and Hertford (age 29) at Ham Stoke, Wiltshire. He a grandson of King Edward I of England.
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The 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." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 4th October 1306 John Beauchamp 2nd Baron Beauchamp Somerset was born to John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Somerset (age 32) and Joan Cheduit Baroness Beauchamp Somerset at Stoke sub Hambdon, Somerset.
On 4th October 1331 James Butler 2nd Earl Ormonde was born to James Butler 1st Earl Ormonde (age 26) and Eleanor Bohun Countess Ormonde (age 26). He a great grandson of King Edward I of England.
On 4th October 1379 Henry III King Castile was born to John I King Castile (age 21) and Eleanor Barcelona Queen Consort Castile (age 21) at Burgos [Map].
On 4th October 1437 John Wittelsbach IV Duke Bavaria was born to Albert Wittelsbach III Duke Bavaria (age 36) and Anna Brunswick Grubenhagen Duchess Bavaria (age 23).
On 4th October 1563 Dorothea of Saxony was born to Augustus Wettin Elector of Saxony (age 37) and Anna Oldenburg (age 30).
On 4th October 1585 Anna of Austria Holy Roman Empress was born to Ferdinand Habsburg Spain II Archduke Austria (age 56) and Anna Caterina Gonzaga Archduchess Austria (age 19). Coefficient of inbreeding 13.08%.
On 4th October 1626 Richard Cromwell Lord Protector was born to Oliver Cromwell (age 27) and Elizabeth Bourchier (age 28).
On 4th October 1639 John Gawdy 2nd Baronet was born to William Gawdy 1st Baronet (age 27) and Elizabeth Duffield.
On 4th October 1652 Thomas Delves 4th Baronet was born to Thomas Delves 3rd Baronet (age 22) and Elizabeth Ravenscroft (age 23).
On 4th October 1677 Johann Wilhelm Saxe Coburg Altenburg was born to Frederick Saxe Coburg Altenburg I Duke Saxe Gotha Altenburg (age 31) and Duchess Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe Gotha Altenburg (age 29) at Gotha.
On 4th October 1678 Elizabeth Delves was born to Thomas Delves 4th Baronet (age 26) and Jane Knightley (age 25).
On 4th October 1692 Francis Willoughby 2nd Baron Middleton was born to Thomas Willoughby 1st Baron Middleton (age 20) and Elizabeth Rothwell Baroness Willoughby and Middleton.
On 4th October 1694 George Murray was born to John Murray 1st Duke Atholl (age 34) and Catherine Hamilton Duchess Atholl (age 32) at Huntingtower, Perth.
On 4th October 1699 Rachel Cavendish was born to William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire (age 27) and Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire (age 25).
On 4th October 1702 John Lindsay 20th Earl of Crawford, 4th Earl Lindsay was born to John Lindsay 19th Earl of Crawford, 3rd Earl of Lindsay.
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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.
On 4th October 1716 Phoebe Hollins Lady Boothby was born to William Hollins.
On 4th October 1751 Thomas Clarges 3rd Baronet was born to Thomas Clarges (age 30).
On 4th October 1763 William Kerr 6th Marquess Lothian was born to William John Kerr 5th Marquess Lothian (age 26) and Elizabeth Fortescue 5th Marchioness Lothian (age 18).
On 4th October 1770 Charles William Oldenburg was born to Frederick Christian Oldenburg I Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg (age 49) and Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine Unknown Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg.
On 4th October 1771 John Wrottesley 1st Baron Wrottesley was born to John Wrottesley 8th Baronet (age 26) and Frances Courtenay Lady Wrottesley.
On 4th October 1781 Francis Wheler Hood was born to Henry Hood 2nd Viscount Hood (age 28) and Jane Wheler Viscountess Hood (age 27).
On 4th October 1796 Robert King 4th Earl Kingston was born to George King 3rd Earl Kingston (age 25) and Helena Moore Countess Kingston (age 23).
On 4th October 1798 Caroline Waldegrave was born to William Waldegrave 1st Baron Radstock (age 45). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 4th October 1809 Prince Albert Hohenzollern was born to Frederick William III King Prussia (age 39) and Queen Louise of Prussia (age 33). He a great x 3 grandson of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland.
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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.
On 4th October 1822 Arthur Chichester 8th Baronet was born to Arthur Chichester 7th Baronet (age 32) and Charlotte Hamlyn-Williams (age 24).
On 4th October 1831 Slingsby Bethell was born to Richard Bethell 1st Baron Westbury (age 31).
On 4th October 1834 Henry Cholmondeley was born to William Cholmondeley 3rd Marquess Cholmondeley (age 34) and Marcia Emma Georgiana Arbuthnot Marchioness Cholmondeley (age 30).
On 4th October 1835 Rear Admiral Albert Denison was born to Albert Conygham aka Denison 1st Baron Londesborough (age 29) and Henrietta Maria Weld-Forester.
On 4th October 1855 George Henry Lowther 4th Earl Lonsdale was born to Henry Lowther 3rd Earl Lonsdale (age 37).
On 4th October 1858 John Lubbock 2nd Baron Avebury was born to John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury (age 24) and Ellen Frances Horden Lady Lubbock.
On 4th October 1868 Reverend Hugh Smith-Marriott 9th Baronet was born to Hugh Forbes Smith-Marriott (age 27) and Frances Catherine Mary Cavendish.
On 4th October 1874 Maurice Egerton 4th Baron Egerton was born to Alan Egerton 3rd Baron Egerton Tatton (age 29).
On 4th October 1877 Hugh Wyndham 4th Baron Leconfield was born to Henry Wyndham 2nd Baron Leconfield (age 47) and Constance Evelyn Primrose Baroness Leconfield (age 31) at Petworth House.
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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.
On 4th October 1889 Sylvia Storey Countess Poulett was born to William Frederick Clayton Storey.
On 4th October 1891 Louisa Hazel Agnew Viscountess Combermere was born to Henry de Courcy Agnew (age 39) and Ethel Anne Goff (age 24). She a great x 2 granddaughter of King William IV of the United Kingdom.
On 4th October 1895 Ivy Mary Stapleton was born to Miles Stapleton 10th Baron Beaumont (deceased) posthumously three weeks after the death of her father.
On 4th October 1896 John Russell 3rd Baron Ampthill was born to Oliver Russell 2nd Baron Ampthill (age 27) and Margaret Lygon Baroness Ampthill (age 21).
On 4th October 1900 Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper was born to Anthony Ashley-Cooper 9th Earl of Shaftesbury (age 31) and Constance Grosvenor Countess of Shaftesbury (age 25).
On 4th October 1903 Massey Lopes 2nd Baron Roborough was born to Henry Lopes 1st Baron Roborough (age 44) and Alberta Louise Edgcumbe Baroness Roborough (age 42).
On 4th October 1904 Robert Renwick 1st Baron Renwick was born to Harry Bennedetto Renwick 1st Baronet (age 43).
On 4th October 1914 Nancy Diana Mary Lubbock Lady Schuckburgh was born to Captain Rupert Egerton Lubbock (age 28).
On 4th October 1921 Anne Rachel Pearl Douglas-Scott-Montagu was born to John Douglas-Scott-Montagu 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (age 55) and Alice Pearl Crake Baroness Montagu (age 26).
On 4th October 1940 Juliet Auriol Sally Nelson Lady Cholmeley was born to General John Nelson (age 28) and Margaret Jane Fitzroy (age 24).
On 4th October 1957 Philip Roland Anson 8th Baronet was born to Rear-Admiral Peter Anson 7th Baronet (age 33).
Marriages on the 4th October
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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.
On 4th October 1570 Henry 1st Duke Guise (age 19) and Catherine of Cleves (age 22) were married. He the son of Francis II Duke Guise and Anna d'Este (age 38). They were second cousins.
On 4th October 1633 John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester (age 35) and Honora Burke Marchioness Winchester (age 28) were married. She by marriage Marchioness Winchester. She the daughter of Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans (age 61) and Frances Walsingham Countess Essex. He the son of William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester and Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester.
On 4th October 1655 Nicholas Knollys 3rd Earl Banbury (age 24) and Anne or Abigail Sherard (age 22) were married. He the son of William Knollys 1st Earl Banbury and Elizabeth Howard Countess Banbury (age 72).
On 4th October 1750 John Anstruther 2nd Baronet (age 31) and Janet "Queen of the Gypsies" Fall (age 33) were married.
On 4th October 1849 John George Brabazon Ponsonby 5th Earl Bessborough (age 39) and Caroline Amelia Gordon-Lennox Countess Bessborough (age 30) were married. She by marriage Countess Bessborough. She the daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox 5th Duke Richmond (age 58) and Caroline Paget Duchess Richmond (age 53). He the son of John Ponsonby 4th Earl Bessborough and Maria Fane. They were fifth cousins. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 4th October 1864 Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton 1st Earl (age 32) and Edith Villiers Countess Lytton (age 23) were married.
On 4th October 1870 Clotworthy Skeffington 11th Viscount Massereene, 5th Viscount Ferrard (age 27) and Florence Elizabeth Whyte-Melville Viscountess Massereene and Ferrard were married.
On 4th October 1883 Ernest William Beckett 2nd Baron Grimthorpe (age 26) and Lucy Tracy Lee were married.
On 4th October 1933 John Verney 28th Baron Latimer 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke (age 37) and Rachel Wrey Baroness Latimer and Willoughby were married. She by marriage Baroness Latimer of Corby, Baroness Willoughby Broke.
On 4th October 1945 Gavin Astor 2nd Baron Astor (age 27) and Irene Haig Baroness Astor (age 25) were married.
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On 4th October 1221 William Montgomery IV Count Ponthieu (age 42) died. His daughter Marie (age 22) succeeded Countess Ponthieu.
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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.
On 4th October 1290 John Dampierre Bishop Metz Bishop Liège (age 40) died.
On 4th October 1305 Dietrich Cleves VII Count Cleves (age 49) died. His son Otto (age 27) succeeded Count Cleves.
On 4th October 1325 John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 69) died at Chacombe Priory [Map]. His son Stephen (age 40) succeeded 3rd Baron Segrave.
On 4th October 1361 John Mowbray 3rd Baron Mowbray (age 50) died of plague. His son John (age 21) succeeded 4th Baron Mowbray.
On 4th October 1581 Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton (age 36) died. His son Henry (age 7) succeeded 3rd Earl of Southampton. His wardship was sold by the Queen to her kinsman, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham (age 45), for £1000. Howard then transferred his wardship to William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (age 61).
On 4th October 1637 John Holles 1st Earl de Clare (age 73) died. He was buried at St Mary's Church Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. His son John (age 42) succeeded 2nd Earl Clare, 2nd Baron Haughton.
On 4th October 1646 Thomas Howard 14th or 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk (age 61) died. His son Henry (age 38) succeeded 14th or 22nd Earl Arundel, 5th Earl Surrey, 2nd Earl Norfolk, 12th Baron Maltravers, 12th Baron Arundel, 15th Baron Mowbray, 16th Baron Segrave. Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk (age 36) by marriage Countess Arundel, Countess Norfolk, Countess Norfolk.
On 4th October 1679 Richard Byron 2nd Baron Byron (age 73) died at Rochdale, Lancashire. His son William (age 43) succeeded 3rd Baron Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire.
On 4th October 1738 Edmund Bacon 5th Baronet (age 45) died in Bath, Somerset [Map]. His son Edmund (age 13) succeeded 6th Baronet Bacon of Mildenhall in Suffolk.
On 4th October 1743 John Campbell 2nd Duke Argyll (age 62) died. His brother Archibald (age 61) succeeded 3rd Duke Argyll.
On 4th October 1752 Ralph Verney 1st Earl Verney (age 69) died. His son Ralph (age 38) succeeded 2nd Earl Verney, 3rd Viscount Fermanagh, 3rd Baron Verney of Belturbet in Cavan, 4th Baronet Verney of Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire.
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The 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." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 4th October 1815 Caroline Anne Julie Campbell died. Monument in St Oswald's Church, Malpas [Map]. Sculpted by Richard Westmacott (age 40).
Caroline Anne Julie Campbell: she was born to Colin Campbell. On 20th October 1812 George Cholmondeley 2nd Marquess Cholmondeley and she were married at Gibraltar. He the son of George Cholmondeley 1st Marquess Cholmondeley and Georgina Charlotte Bertie Marchioness Cholmondeley.
On 4th October 1823 Frances Charlotte Chetwynd-Talbot Countess Dartmouth (age 22) died.
On 22nd September 1828 or 4th October 1828 Thomas Whichcote 5th Baronet (age 65) died. He was buried at St Denys' Church, Aswarby. His son Thomas (age 41) succeeded 6th Baronet Whichcote of the Inner Temple in the City of London. Sophia Sherard Lady Whichcote (age 32) by marriage Lady Whichcote of the Inner Temple in the City of London.
On 4th October 1828 Thomas Hanmer 2nd Baronet (age 81) died. His son John (age 18) succeeded 3rd Baronet Hamner of Hamner in Flintshire.
On 4th October 1834 Henry Maturin Farrington 3rd Baronet (age 56) died. His son Henry (age 23) succeeded 4th Baronet Farrington of Blackheath in Kent.
On 4th October 1851 George William Stafford-Jerningham 8th Baron Stafford (age 80) died. His son Henry (age 49) succeeded 9th Baron Stafford, 8th Baronet Jerningham of Cossey.
On 4th October 1857 Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam 5th and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam (age 71) died. His son William (age 41) succeeded 6th Earl Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, 8th Baron Fitzwilliam of Liffer in Donegal. Frances Harriet Douglas Countess Fitzwilliam by marriage Countess Fitzwilliam.
On 4th October 1861 Archibald William Montgomerie 13th Earl Eglinton (age 49) died. His son Archibald (age 19) succeeded 14th Earl Eglinton.
On 4th October 1862 Reverend William Marriott Smith-Marriott 4th Baronet (age 61) died. His son William (age 27) succeeded 5th Baronet Smith of Sydling St Nicholas.
On 4th October 1872 Charles Mills 1st Baronet (age 80) died. His son Charles (age 42) succeeded 2nd Baronet Mills of Hillingdon.
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The 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." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 4th October 1891 Isaac Newton Wallop 5th Earl of Portsmouth (age 66) died. His son Newton (age 35) succeeded 6th Earl Portsmouth, 6th Viscount Lymington, 6th Baron Wallop of Farley Wallop Hampshire.
On 4th October 1911 Frederick Edward Baker aka Rhodes 4th Baronet (age 68) died unmarried. His brother George (age 66) succeeded 5th Baronet Baker of Loventor in Totnes in Devon. Katharine Frances Wilbraham Lady Wilbraham (age 62) by marriage Lady Baker of Loventor in Totnes in Devon.
On 4th October 1922 John Henry Thorold 12th Baronet (age 80) died. His son John (age 52) succeeded 13th Baronet Thorold of Marston in Lincolnshire.
On 4th October 1925 Arthur John Henniker-Hughan 6th Baronet (age 59) died. His second cousin once removed Robert (age 37) succeeded 7th Baronet Henniker of Newton Hall in Essex.
On 4th October 1927 Margaret Francis Graham Countess Verulam (age 74) died.
On 4th October 1933 Gerald Oakley Cadogan 6th Earl Cadogan (age 64) died. His son William (age 19) succeeded 7th Earl Cadogan, 7th Viscount Chelsea, 9th Baron Cadogan.
On 4th October 1940 Charles John Hubert Miller 8th Baronet (age 82) died. His first cousin Henry (age 73) succeeded 9th Baronet Miller of Chichester in Sussex.
On 4th October 1957 Clarence Bruce 3rd Baron Aberdare (age 72) died in a car accident. He and his wife Griselda Hervey Baroness Aberdare were returning from Yugoslavia where he had attended the 53rd Session of the International Olympic Committe in Sofia, as part of their honeymoon. Their car left the road near Risan and fell into the sea. He was drowned, his wife injured.
Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce 4th Baron Aberdare (age 38) succeeded 4th Baron Aberdare of Duffryn in Glamorganshire.
On 4th October 1973 Walter Scott 8th Duke Buccleuch 10th Duke Queensberry (age 78) died. His son Walter (age 50) succeeded 9th Duke Buccleuch, 11th Duke Queensberry, 9th Earl Doncaster, 9th Baron Scott of Tynedale. Jane McNeill Duchess of Buccleuch (age 43) by marriage Duchess Buccleuch.