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Events on the 12th December
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.
On 12th December 1098 the garrison of Ma'arrat Nu'man [Map] negotiated with Prince Bohemond I of Antioch (age 44), who promised them safe conduct if they surrendered. The Muslims surrendered, but the crusaders immediately began to massacre the population.
On 12th December 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at the Market Square, St Albans.
On Tuesday, December 12th [1290], the procession was met at St. Michael's, the entrance of the town, by the monks of the Abbey, clad in their copes, with their Abbot, John of Berkhamstead, only elected the Saturday before. The Queen's body was placed in the Abbey before the high altar, and the monks celebrated “divine offices and holy vigils ” through the night.
Close Rolls Edward II 1307-1313. 12th December 1307 King Edward II of England (age 23). Westminster Palace [Map]. To John de Brittania, Earl of Richmond, [keeper] of Scotland. Order to restore to Aymer de Valencia (age 32), Earl of Pembrok, his lands, etc., in the counties of Sellekyrk [Selkirkshire] and Twedale and in the forest of Sellekyrk, which he has seized into the king's hands because the men and tenants of the same had late traitoroursly adhered to Robert de Brus (age 33), the king's enemy and rebel.
On 12th December 1349 Joan "Lame" Burgundy Queen Consort France (age 56) died.
On 12th December 1446 Charles Valois was born to Charles "Victorious" VII King France (age 43) and Marie Valois Anjou Queen Consort France (age 42). Coefficient of inbreeding 3.89%.
Archaeologia Volume 20 Section 8. An Account of the First Battle of St. Albans from a contemporary Manuscript. Communicated by Joun Baytey, Esq. F.S.A. of His Majesty's Record Office in the Tower; in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary.
Read 19th December 1822.
His Majesty's Record Office, December 12, 1822.
DEAR SIR,
I inclose a curious Account of the first Battle of St. Albans, which may prove interesting to the Society of Antiquaries: it is copied from a manuscript, in a co-eval hand, found in the Tower, among a large quantity of private letters and accompts of Sir William Stonor, Knt [William Stonor (age 5)?] who, from his correspondence, appears at that time to have been much about the Court, and was also a Steward of the Abbot of St. Albans. The original is written in a book consisting of a few leaves of a small quarto size, and, on comparing the writing with some of the other papers, it seems to be in the hand of Sir William himself.
I remain, dear Sir, your's very faithfully,
JOHN BAYLEY.
To Henry Ex is, Esq &c. &c. &c.
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Patent Rolls. 12th December 1461. Westminster Palace [Map]. Grant for life to Richard Wydevill (age 56), lord of Ryvers, of the office of chief rider of the king's forest of Saucy. co Northampton, with all trees and profits, viz dry trees, dead trees, blown down, old hedges or copice-hedges, boughs fallen without date, cahettels, waifs, strays, pannage of swine, 'derefall wode', 'draenes' brushwood and brambles, prerquisites of courts, swainmote and other issues within the forest, from the time when he had he same by letters patent of Henry VI.
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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 12th December 1510 Charles Albret was born to Jean III King Navarre (age 41) and Catherine Grailly I Queen Navarre (age 42).
On 12th December 1546 Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk (age 73) and his son Henry Howard (age 30) were imprisoned at Tower of London [Map]. Henry was accused of having assuming the royal arms of Edward the Confessor as part of his personal heraldry; an act of treason.
On 12th December 1549 Marguerite Valois Orléans Queen Consort Navarre (age 57) died.
On 12th December 1574 Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland was born to Frederick II King of Denmark (age 40) and Sophie Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Denmark (age 17).
After 12th December 1610. Memorial to Christopher Freeman died aged fifty-one. Brass plate with semi-kneeling figures of him, his wife, fgour sons and four daughters.
On 12th December 1612 Nicholas Mosley (age 85) died. His son Edward Mosley (age 43) inherited parcels of his father's property and £1,450 in cash.
Monument at St James' Church, Didsbury [Map] with Nicholas top centre in the robes of the Lord Mayor of London, Rowland Mosley (age 54) bottom left, Nicholas's sons Edward and Edward Mosley, bottom centre, and Nicholas' wife Margery Whitbroke.
Nicholas Mosley: Around 1527 he was born to Edward Mosley. In 1599 he was appointed Lord Mayor of London.
Rowland Mosley: In 1558 he was born to Nicholas Mosley. 24th December 1594. Grant of property in Stockport, Offerton and Bredbury in Cheshire by Alexander Lowe of Stockport, esq to Rowland Mosley and Richard Elcocke of London, clothworkers. In 1616 Rowland Mosley died.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 12th December 1661. From thence to Westminster to my Lord's house to meet my Lord Privy Seal (age 55), who appointed to seal there this afternoon, but by and by word is brought that he is come to Whitehall, and so we are fain to go thither to him, and there we staid to seal till it was so late that though I got leave to go away before he had done, yet the office was done before I could get thither, and so to Sir W. Pen's (age 40), and there sat and talked and drank with him, and so home.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 12th December 1666. He tells me how the King (age 36) hath lately paid about £30,0001 to clear debts of my Baroness Castlemayne's (age 26); and that she and her husband (age 32) are parted for ever, upon good terms, never to trouble one another more.
Note 1. Two thousand pounds of this sum went to Alderman Edward Bakewell (age 48) for two diamond rings, severally charged £1000 and £900, bought March 14th, 1665-66 (Second addenda to Steinman's "Memoir of the Duchess of Cleveland", privately printed, 1878, p. 4.).
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 12th December 1666. Up, and to the office, where some accounts of Mr. Gawden's were examined, but I home most of the morning to even some accounts with Sir H. Cholmly (age 34), Mr. Moone, and others one after another. Sir H. Cholmly did with grief tell me how the Parliament hath been told plainly that the King (age 36) hath been heard to say, that he would dissolve them rather than pass this Bill with the Proviso; but tells me, that the Proviso is removed, and now carried that it shall be done by a Bill by itself.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 12th December 1666. They talked for certain, that now the King (age 36) do follow Mrs. Stewart (age 19) wholly, and my Baroness Castlemayne (age 26) not above once a week; that the Duke of York (age 33) do not haunt my Lady Denham (age 26) so much; that she troubles him with matters of State, being of my Lord Bristoll's (age 54) faction, and that he avoids; that she is ill still.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 12th December 1667. Thence walked to my bookseller's, and there he did give me a list of the twenty who were nominated for the Commission in Parliament for the Accounts: and it is strange that of the twenty the Parliament could not think fit to choose their nine, but were fain to add three that were not in the list of the twenty, they being many of them factious people and ringleaders in the late troubles; so that Sir John Talbott did fly out and was very hot in the business of Wildman's being named, and took notice how he was entertained in the bosom of the Duke of Buckingham (age 39), a Privy-counsellor; and that it was fit to be observed by the House, and punished. The men that I know of the nine I like very well; that is, Mr. Pierrepont (age 59), Lord Brereton (age 36), and Sir William Turner (age 52); and I do think the rest are so, too; but such as will not be able to do this business as it ought to be, to do any good with. Here I did also see their votes against my Lord Chiefe Justice Keeling (age 60), that his proceedings were illegal, and that he was a contemner of Magna Charta (the great preserver of our lives, freedoms, and properties) and an introduction to arbitrary government; which is very high language, and of the same sound with that in the year 1640. I home, and there wrote my letters, and so to supper and to bed. This day my Chancellor's (age 58) letter was burned at the 'Change [Map].'
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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 12th December 1677 Charles Stewart died of smallpox.
John Evelyn's Diary. 12th December 1680. This evening, looking out of my chamber window toward the west, I saw a meteor of an obscure bright color, very much in shape like the blade of a sword, the rest of the sky very serene and clear. What this may portend, God only knows; but such another phenomenon I remember to have seen in 1640, about the trial of the great Earl of Strafford, preceding our bloody Rebellion. I pray God avert his judgments! We have had of late several comets, which though I believe appear from natural causes, and of themselves operate not, yet I cannot despise them. They may be warnings from God, as they commonly are forerunners of his animadversions. After many days and nights of snow, cloudy and dark weather, the comet was very much wasted.
On 12th December 1696 John Hampden of Great Hampden (age 43) committed suicide.
On 12th December 1825 Elizabeth Bentinck Marchioness Bath (age 90) died. Memorial in Saints Peter and Paul Church, Longbridge Deverill [Map].
Elizabeth Bentinck Marchioness Bath: On 27th June 1735 she was born to William Bentinck 2nd Duke Portland and Margaret Cavendish Harley 2nd Duchess Portland at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire [Map]. In 1759 Thomas Thynne 1st Marquess of Bath and she were married. She by marriage Viscountess Weymouth. She the daughter of William Bentinck 2nd Duke Portland and Margaret Cavendish Harley 2nd Duchess Portland. They were third cousins.
Greville Memoirs. 12th December 1830. After some delay Lord Lansdowne made up his mind to fill up the vacancy in my office, and to give it to William Bathurst (age 39); but he first spoke to the King, who said it was very true he had told Lord Bathurst (age 68) that his son should have it, but that he now left the matter entirely to his decision, showing no anxiety to have William Bathurst appointed. However, he has it, but reduced to £1,200 a year. I was agreeably surprised yesterday by a communication from Lord Lansdowne that he thought no alteration could be made in my emoluments, and that he was quite prepared to defend them if anybody attacked them. Still, though it is a very good thing to be so supported, I don't consider myself safe from Parliamentary assaults. In these times it will not do to be idle, and I told Lord Lansdowne that I was anxious to keep my emoluments, but ready to work for them, and proposed that we Clerks of the Council should be called upon to act really at the Board of Trade, as we are, in fact, bound to do; by which means Lack's place when vacant need not be filled up, and a saving would be made. My predecessors Cottrell and Fawkener always acted, their successors Bailer and Chetwynd were incompetent, and Lack, the Chancellor's Clerk, was made Assistant-Secretary, and did the work. Huskisson and Hume, his director, made the business a science; new Presidents and Vice-Presidents succeeded one another in different Ministerial revolutions; they and Lack were incompetent, and Hume was made Assistant-Secretary, and it is he who advises, directs, legislates. I believe he is one of the ablest practical men who have ever served, more like an American statesman than an English official. I am anxious to begin my Trade education under him.
On 12th December 1843 George Templer (age 62) died in a hunting accident.
On 12th December 1874 the jewels of Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley (age 28) were stolen at Paddington Station. The earl offered a £1,000 reward and anonymity to the thief if the jewels should be returned but they were never seen again. The Times reported:
The robbery of Lady Dudley's jewel-case outside the Great Western Railway Station, at Paddington, on Saturday evening, just previous to the starting of the Worcester express leaving London at 6.30pm, was effected under circumstances which leave little doubt that the thief was a practised hand, and had laid his plans with an ingenuity worthy of a better purpose. Lord (age 57) and Lady Dudley arrived at the railway station in his lordship's brougham at 6.20pm, and were immediately followed by a four-wheeled cab conveying two of the Countess' waiting women, each in charge of a ponderous jewel box and other articles of a lady's toilette. Scott, one of the women, was the first who alighted, and having deposited upon the pavement the box under her care, while turning round to assist her companion, for better security and with commendable caution placed one foot upon the jewel-case. In an unlucky instant her attention was diverted by the other maid, and she removed her foot from the box. Her companion having alighted, Scott stooped to recover the box, when, to her great consternation, she found it had been removed. An instant search was made by the Earl's servants and by the railway officials in attendance, but no tidings could be gained of it. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (age 33) arrived at this moment to travel by the same train in a 'slip carriage' as far as Slough on his way to Windsor, and a desire on the part of the railway authorities to despatch the train punctually led to some little confusion, amid which the express left the station without any intelligence of the missing box having been obtained. The Worcester express made its first stoppage at Reading. On arriving there Lord Dudley alighted, and explaining to the station agent the circumstances, requited that every compartment in the train should be searched, in the hope that the missing box might have been separated from his other luggage. The search proving fruitless, his Lordship decided upon returning to London at once, which he did, accompanied by the lady's maid, in a special train as soon as the express had left Reading. On reaching Paddington, he drove direct to his jewellers, Messrs Hunt and Roskell, of New Bond Street, whither the police from Scotland Yard were immediately summoned. Under their advice a detailed list of the lost jewels was prepared and circulated among the leading metropolitan and local pawnbrokers. Among the principal articles lost may be mentioned a pearl and diamond bracelet, presented by the inhabitants of Dudley on the occasion of the marriage of the Earl and Countess; a diamond collette necklace, a diamond cross, a sapphire and diamond bracelet, a diamond necklace with pearl and diamond drops, a pair of very fine pearl earrings, two pairs of diamond earrings, five diamond stars, three diamond butterflies, a cat's-eye pendant and earrings, a diamond padlock, a ruby and diamond pendant, an emerald and diamond watch with enamelled chain, a turquoise and ruby watch, an enamelled and diamond watch, and a crystal watch. We are informed on undoubted authority that the amount of loss of Lady Dudley's jewellery is not half what it was first stated to be.
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The Athenaeum 1890. Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (age 56), Bart., R.A.
The painfully sudden death, on the 12th inst. [12th December 1890] of this accomplished Court sculptor and Aca demician removes one of the most able and fortunate of his class, and leaves to be completed by his brother artists a considerable body of commissions in various stages. One of those large and important works of which an unusual share fell to the lot of Sir Edgar, the effigy of the late German Emperor, was finished but a few days ago, and will, by Her Majesty's desire, shortly be set up at Windsor. The deceased had, as it was remarked in "Artists at Home," produced more public statues than any artist of this country, from Flaxman to Foley. This was true six years ago, when the statement was printed, and it is true to the present time. As the sculptor himself revised the memoir, we cannot do better than borrow its data. He was born at Vienna, July 6th, 1834, of Hungarian parents, and was educated there. His father, Herr Daniel Boehm, the Director of the Imperial Mint, was a man of distinction in art, and formed a numerous collection of examples of the finest kinds of sculpture, amid which the son had ample opportunities for studying the antique. His works, however, prove that he followed other and less severe models. With his father he travelled in Italy, and in the Renaissance statuary of that country found those types of design which, in a by no means exacting form, he adopted, adding to them much telling picturesqueness, and avoiding certain difficulties over which it is the glory of men of higher ambition to triumph.
From 1848 to 1851 the young Boehm studied in this country, largely in the Elgin Room and elsewhere at the British Museum. It was manifestly to his advantage that he did so, for it enabled him to impart style to his least serious designs. From 1851 he was in Italy; later he was in Paris, where he worked with some éclat; and about this period we find him in Vienna again, where, in 1836, he won the First Imperial Prize, his earliest important distinction. In 1862 he settled in London, and in 1865 became naturalized. His first appearance at the Academy was with a terra-cotta "Bust of a Gentleman," in 1862. Little had, at that time, been done in terra-cotta, a material which lends itself to work like Boehm's, that is more spirited than scholarly. The novelty of the material, apart from the intrinsic merit of the portrait, attracted attention to it. In 1863 he sent to Trafalgar Square the very clever statuettes of "Mr. and Mrs. Millais." He soon became the fashion, and next year exhibited at the same place not fewer than six examples, including a capital statuette of Thackeray, a spirited small bronze equestrian "Miss Edwards," and "Johnny Armstrong," a racehorse. A marble bust of Viscount Stratford de Redelitfe and a group of Mr. W. Russell and his horse came forth in 1865. Then followed the "Duke of Beaufort"; "Countess of Cardigan"; "H.M. the Queen," a terracotta statuette; the "Marquis of Lansdowne," for Westminster Abbey; a colossal equestrian group of the Prince of Wales, for Bombay; another, of "Lord Napier of Magdala," for Calcutta; "Thomas Carlyle." in bronze, for Chelsea, a capital instance of Boehm's best work; as well as portraits, of various materials and sizes, of the Queen, Lord Rosebery, Lord John Russell, Mr. Ruskin, Sir F. Burton, Mr. Gladstone, Prof. Huxley, and Sir J. E. Millais; Sir Francis Drake, for Tavistock; the late Archbishop of Canterbury, for his cathedral; Lord Derby, Lord Wolseley; Lord Shaftesbury; and a host of private commissions. Of public statues, of which the deceased seemed to have secured a monopoly, the list is too long for transcribing. The most ambitions of them, but not the best, are "The Duke of Kent," "The Queen," "The King of the Belgians," "Princess Alice and her Daughters," "Prince Leopold," "Dean Wellesley," and "The Prince Imperial," all for Windsor or Frogmore. The last, a very poor specimen, was the subject of a hot debate, which ended in its not finding a place at Westminster, as proposed. Boehm exceuted "Bunyan," for Bedford; "The Duchess of Bedford," for Woburn Abbey: a most unfortunate "Sir John Burgoyne," for Waterloo Place; "Lord Lawrence," for the same locality, which the sculptor, being dissatisfied with his first effort, very wisely replaced with a second and somewhat better statue; "Sir W. Gregory," for Colombo; "W. Tyndale," for the Northern Embankment; "Darwin," for the Natural History Museum; "Sir Ashley Eden," for Calcutta; and "Lord Beaconsfield," "Viscount Stratford de Redeliffe," and "Dean Stanley," all three for the Abbey. The last is one of Boehm's most effective works, He was by no means fortunate in the group of the Duke of Wellington and his soldiers which now fronts Apsley House. As a design it illustrates the author's weaknesses,
Boehm was elected an Associate of the Academy in January, 1878, an Academician two years later, a member of the Academy of Florence in 1875, and of that of Rome in 1880; in 1878 he received a Scecond Class Medal at Paris; at Vienna, in 1882, a gold medal, He was Sculptor in Ordinary to the Queen. He lectured on sculpture at the Royal Academy. It is understood that he was hampered in designing as well as in executing the dies for that new coinage which will not commend him to posterity, and it is said that the baronetey which was bestowed upon him in 1889 did not console Boehm for this conspicuous failure. The personal qualities of the artist made him a favourite in every circle, and justified the warm regard of many distinguished patrons; combined with fashionable indifference to the higher technique and the nobler elements of design, they fully accounted for Sir Edgar's great professional success. The Queen desires he should be buried in St. Pauls.
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On 12th December 1917 Charles Stuart Cockburn (age 50) died. Memorial at St Mary's Church, Sutton Scarsdale [Map].
Charles Stuart Cockburn: On 27th October 1867 he was born. On 8th August 1894 he and Lillian Manningham-Buller were married at All Saints Church, Dilhorne [Map].
12th December 1928. The Sketch. Photograph of Diana Mitford (age 18).
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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 12th December 1942 Doris Delevigne Viscountess Castlerosse (age 42) died of an overdose of sleeping pills at the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane.
12th December 1944. St Michael's Church, Chenies [Map]. Grave of 3032911 Aircraftman 2nd Cl. John Lionel Crook. Royal Air Force. Aged 19. Admitted dangerously ill to Amersham EMS hospital on 5 December where he died of heametemesis. Served in 3 Radio School. Son of John Oliver and Phyllis Mary Crook, of Amersham.
After 12th December 2014. St Andrew's Church, Radbourne [Map]. Grave of Isla Jill, wife of Major John Chandos-Pole.
Births on the 12th December
On 12th December 1298 Albert Habsburg II Duke Austria was born to Albert Habsburg I Duke Austria (age 43) and Elizabeth Carinthia Duchess Austria.
On 12th December 1417 John Talbot 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury was born to John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (age 34) and Maud Neville 6th Baroness Furnivall (age 24) at Sheffield Castle [Map].
On 12th December 1446 Charles Valois was born to Charles "Victorious" VII King France (age 43) and Marie Valois Anjou Queen Consort France (age 42). Coefficient of inbreeding 3.89%.
On 12th December 1448 John Talbot 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury was born to John Talbot 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (age 31) and Elizabeth Butler Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford (age 24).
On 12th December 1510 Charles Albret was born to Jean III King Navarre (age 41) and Catherine Grailly I Queen Navarre (age 42).
On 12th December 1574 Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland was born to Frederick II King of Denmark (age 40) and Sophie Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Denmark (age 17).
On 12th December 1689 William Wolstenholme 5th Baronet was born to John Wolstenholme 3rd Baronet (age 40) and Mary Raynton
On 12th December 1693 Archdeacon Thomas Sharp was born to Archbishop John Sharp (age 48).
On 12th December 1704 Edward Knatchbull 7th Baronet was born to Edward Knatchbull 4th Baronet (age 30) and Alice Wyndham Lady Knatchbull (age 28).
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The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall describes the reigns of Kings Henry II, Richard I, John and Henry III, providing a wealth of information about their lives and the events of the time. Ralph's work is detailed, comprehensive and objective. We have augmented Ralph's text with extracts from other contemporary chroniclers to enrich the reader's experience. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 12th December 1712 Charles Alexander Emmanuel Lorraine was born to Leopold Duke of Lorraine (age 33) and Élisabeth Charlotte Bourbon Duchess Lorraine (age 36). He a great x 3 grandson of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland.
On 12th December 1722 Charles Wallop was born to John Wallop 1st Earl Portsmouth (age 32) and Bridget Bennet Viscountess Lymington (age 26).
On 12th December 1724 Admiral Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood was born to Samuel Hood (age 33).
On 12th December 1734 William Dalrymple Crichton was born to William Dalrymple Crichton 5th Earl Dumfries 4th Earl of Stair (age 35) and Anne Gordon Countess Dumfries (age 25).
On 12th December 1752 Edward Smith-Stanley 12th Earl of Derby was born to James Stanley "Lord Strange" (age 36) and Lucy Smith.
On 12th December 1752 Thomas Warren-Bulkeley 7th Viscount Bulkeley was born to James Bulkeley 6th Viscount Bulkeley and Emma Bridget Rowlands Viscountess Bulkeley.
On 12th December 1753 William Beechey was born.
On 12th December 1758 George Ludlow 3rd Earl Ludlow was born to Peter Ludlow 1st Earl Ludlow (age 28) and Frances Lumley-Saunderson Countess Ludlow.
On 12th December 1767 Charles Henry Somerset was born to Henry Somerset 5th Duke Beaufort (age 23) and Elizabeth Boscawen Duchess Beaufort (age 20) at Badminton, Gloucestershire.
On 12th December 1773 Lieutenant-General William Fitzroy was born to Charles Fitzroy 1st Baron Southampton (age 36) and Anne Warren Baroness Southampton (age 35). She was baptisd at St George's Church, Hanover Square on 30th July 1767. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 12th December 1773 William Fitzroy was born to Charles Fitzroy 1st Baron Southampton (age 36) and Anne Warren Baroness Southampton (age 35). He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 12th December 1787 Francis Needham 2nd Earl Kilmorley was born to Francis Needham 1st Earl Kilmorley (age 39).
On 12th December 1792 Franz Maximilian Ludwig Saxe Coburg Gotha was born to Francis Saxe Coburg Gotha I Duke Saxe Coburg Gotha (age 42) and Augusta Reuss Duchess Saxe Coburg Gotha (age 35).
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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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On 12th December 1837 Edward Bootle Wibraham 1st Earl Lathom was born to Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (age 36) and Jessy Brooke in Blythe Hall, Lathom.
On 12th December 1848 Jane Grimston Lady Jodrell was born to James Walter Grimston 2nd Earl Verulam (age 39) and Elizabeth Joanna Weyland Countess Verulam (age 23).
On 12th December 1853 Patrick George Bellew was born to Edward Joseph Bellew 2nd Baron Bellew (age 23) and Augusta Mary Bryan (age 19).
On 12th December 1853 Alice Fitzgerald was born to Charles William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald 4th Duke Leinster (age 34) and Caroline Leveson-Gower Duchess Leinster (age 26) at Carton House, Carton, Kildare, County Kildare.
On 12th December 1859 Richard Nelson Rycroft 5th Baronet was born to Nelson Rycroft 4th Baronet (age 28) and Juliana Ogilvy Lady Rycroft.
On 12th December 1860 Henry FitzWalter Plumptre 20th Baron FitzWalter was born to Major John Bridges Plumptre (age 28) and Elizabeth Wright (age 25).
On 12th December 1869 Sydney Maitland was born to Frederick Maitland 13th Earl of Lauderdale (age 28).
On 12th December 1876 Helen Katharine Lowther Lady Blackett was born to George William Lowther (age 39).
On 12th December 1890 Lieutenant-Colonel Piers Walter Legh was born to Thomas Wodehouse Leigh 2nd Baron Newton (age 33) and Evelyn Caroline Davenport Baroness Newton.
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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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On 12th December 1905 Pascoe Grenfell 2nd Baron Grenfell was born to Francis Grenfell 1st Baron Grenfell (age 64).
On 12th December 1906 Betty Ann Torrens Lady Wilbraham was born to William Matt Torrens of Hayes in Kent.
On 12th December 1917 Mary Cecilia Leveson-Gower was born to William Leveson-Gower 4th Earl Granville (age 37) and Rose Constance Bowes-Lyon Countess Granville (age 27).
On 12th December 1936 David Robert Clayton 12th Baronet was born to Arthur Harold Clayton 11th Baronet (age 33)
On 12th December 1956 William Ralph Worsley was born to William Marcus Worsley 5th Baronet (age 31) and Bridget Assheton Lady Worsley (age 30).
On 12th December 1991 James Stourton 25th Baron Stourton, 27th Baron Segrave, 26th Baron Mowbray was born to Edward Stourton 24th Baron Stourton, 26th Baron Segrave, 25th Baron Mowbray (age 38).
Marriages on the 12th December
On 12th December 1414 William Bonville 1st Baron Bonville (age 22) and Margaret Grey (age 17) were married. They were sixth cousins. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.
On 12th December 1574 Thomas Fane (age 64) and Mary Neville 7th and 5th Baroness Abergavenny 3rd Baroness Despencer (age 20) were married at Birling, Kent [Map]. The difference in their ages was 44 years.
On 12th December 1594 Edward Russell 3rd Earl Bedford (age 21) and Lucy Harrington Countess Bedford (age 14) were married at St Dunstan's Church Stepney. She by marriage Countess Bedford. She brought an enormous dowry of £10000 and the estate of Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire [Map].
On 12th December 1752 Edmund Pytts of Kyre in Worcestershire (age 56) and Anne Master Countess Coventry (age 61) were married.
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On 12th December 1780 Admiral John Borlase Warren 1st Baronet (age 27) and Caroline Clavering Lady Warren were married. She by marriage Lady Warren of Little Marlow in Buckinghamshire.
On 12th December 1805 Henry Devereux 14th Viscount Hereford (age 28) and Frances Elizabeth Cornewall Viscountess Hereford (age 22) were married. They had five sons and one daughter. She by marriage Viscountess Hereford.
On 12th December 1807 William Craven 1st Earl Craven (age 37) and Louisa Brunton Countess Craven (age 22) were married at his house in Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He the son of William Craven 6th Baron Craven and Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach (age 56).
On 12th December 1814 Richard Paul Jodrell 2nd Baronet (age 33) and Amelia Caroline Morison King (age 24) were married. She the illegitmate daughter of George King 3rd Earl Kingston (age 43).
On 12th December 1839 Henry Roper-Curzon 15th Baron Teynham (age 50) and Sarah Rudd Baroness Teynham were married.
On 12th December 1848 Richard Brooke 7th Baronet (age 33) and Louisa Tollemache Duff (age 24) were married at St Peter's Church, Pimlico.
On 12th December 1868 William Smith-Marriott 5th Baronet (age 33) and Elizabeth Dorothy Cavendish were married.
On 12th December 1895 Oswald Mosley 5th Baronet (age 21) and Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote (age 21) were married.
On 12th December 1900 George Yarburgh-Bateson 4th Baron Deramore (age 30) and Muriel Katharine Duncombe (age 20) were married.
On 12th December 1914 Geoffrey Hope-Morley 2nd Baron Hollenden (age 29) and Mary Sidney Katharine Almina Gardner (age 18) were married. They were divorced in 1928.
On 12th December 1916 Reginald Mowbray Chichester Huddleston (age 22) and Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings 12th Countess Loudon (age 33) were married.
On 12th December 1927 Ian Campbell 11th Duke of Argyll (age 24) and Janet Gladys Aitken (age 19) were married.
Deaths on the 12th December
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.
On 12th December 1204 Waleran Beaumont 4th Earl Warwick (age 51) died. His son Henry (age 12) succeeded 5th Earl Warwick. Philipa Basset Countess Warwick by marriage Countess Warwick.
On 12th December 1212 Archbishop Geoffrey Plantagenet (age 60) died at Normandy [Map]. He was buried at Notre Dame du Parc, Rouen.
On 12th December 1349 Joan "Lame" Burgundy Queen Consort France (age 56) died.
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On 12th December 1534, some sources say the 13th, Gerald Fitzgerald 9th Earl of Kildare (age 47) died whilst imprisoned at the Tower of London [Map]. He was buried at the St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map]. His son Thomas (age 21) succeeded 10th Earl Kildare. His son, and five of his brothers were executed just over two years later - see Execution of the Fitzgeralds.
On 12th December 1549 Marguerite Valois Orléans Queen Consort Navarre (age 57) died.
On 12th December 1561 Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 52) died at Stoke Newington [Map]. She was buried on 11th January 1562 at the Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave; see Henry Machyn's Diary.
On 12th December 1562 William Grey 13th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 53) died. His son Arthur (age 26) succeeded 14th Baron Grey of Wilton.
On 12th December 1631 John Bamburgh 3rd Baronet (age 18) died unmarried. Baronet Bamburgh of Howsham in Yorkshire extinct.
On 12th December 1671 William Seymour 3rd Duke of Somerset (age 17) died. His uncle John (age 26) succeeded 4th Duke Somerset, 3rd Marquess Hertford, 4th Earl Hertford, 4th Baron Beauchamp of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset. Sarah Alston Duchess Somerset (age 29) by marriage Duchess Somerset.
On 12th December 1679 John Crew 1st Baron Crew (age 81) died. His son Thomas (age 55) succeeded 2nd Baron Crew of Stene in Northamptonshire.
On 12th December 1718 Marmaduke Langdale 3rd Baron Langdale (age 62) died. His son Marmaduke (age 33) succeeded 4th Baron Langdale of Holme in Yorkshire.
On 12th December 1726 Mary Lumley Countess Halifax (age 35) died.
On 12th December 1738 Richard Molyneux 5th Viscount Molyneux (age 59) died without surviving male issue. His brother Caryll (age 55) succeeded 6th Viscount Molyneux, 7th Baronet Molyneux of Sefton.
On 12th December 1751 Henry St John 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (age 73) died. He was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Bucklebury. His nephew Frederick (age 18) succeeded 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke.
On 5th December 1754 Henry Nassau 1st Earl Grantham (age 81) died without surviving male issue. Earl Grantham extinct. On 12th December 1754 Henry Nassau 1st Earl Grantham was buried at St James' Church, Piccadilly.
On 12th December 1792 William Hoare (age 85) died.
On 12th December 1817 John Henderson (age 65) died.
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On 12th December 1825 Elizabeth Bentinck Marchioness Bath (age 90) died. Memorial in Saints Peter and Paul Church, Longbridge Deverill [Map].
Elizabeth Bentinck Marchioness Bath: On 27th June 1735 she was born to William Bentinck 2nd Duke Portland and Margaret Cavendish Harley 2nd Duchess Portland at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire [Map]. In 1759 Thomas Thynne 1st Marquess of Bath and she were married. She by marriage Viscountess Weymouth. She the daughter of William Bentinck 2nd Duke Portland and Margaret Cavendish Harley 2nd Duchess Portland. They were third cousins.
On 12th December 1829 Philip Egerton 9th Baronet (age 62) died. His son Philip (age 23) succeeded 10th Baronet Egerton and Oulton.
On 12th December 1866 Charles Henry John Rich 3rd Baronet (age 53) died. His son Charles (age 7) succeeded 4th Baronet Rich of Shirley House in Hampshire.
On 12th December 1870 Beaumont Hotham 3rd Baron Hotham (age 76) died unmarried without issue. His nephew Charles (age 34) succeeded 4th Baron Hotham of South Dalton in Yorkshire, 14th Baronet Hotham of Scorborough in Yorkshire.
On 12th December 1890 Joseph Boehm (age 56) died suddenly at his home 76 Fulham Road. Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll (age 42), his pupil, was either present, leading to speculation in the press about their relationship, or found his body shortly after his death. His son Edgar (age 21) succeeded 2nd Baronet Boehm of Wetherby Gardens in Kensington.
On 12th December 1915 William Neville 1st Marquess Abergavenny (age 89) died. His son Reginald (age 62) succeeded 2nd Marquess Abergavenny, 6th Earl Abergavenny, 6th Viscount Neville, 2nd Earl Lewes, 22nd Baron Abergavenny, 20th Baron Abergavenny.
On 12th December 1923 Wentworth Canning Blackett Beaumont 1st Viscount Allendale (age 63) died. His son Wentworth (age 33) succeeded 2nd Viscount Allendale of Allendale and Hexham in Northumberland, 3rd Baron Allendale of Allendale and Hexham in Northumberland. Violet Lucy Emily Seely Viscountess Allendale (age 26) by marriage Viscountess Allendale of Allendale and Hexham in Northumberland.
On 12th December 1940 Philip Kerr 11th Marquess Lothian (age 58) died at Washington DC.
On 12th December 1953 Eloise Lawrence Breese Countess Ancaster (age 71) died.
On 12th December 1957 Charles George Grey 4th Baronet (age 77) died. His brother Harry (age 75) succeeded 5th Baronet Grey of Fallodon.
On 12th December 1957 Margaret Lygon Baroness Ampthill (age 83) died.
On 12th December 1960 Harry Martin Grey 5th Baronet (age 78) died. His first cousin Robin (age 74) succeeded 6th Baronet Grey of Fallodon.
On 12th December 1974 Elizabeth Frances Abney-Hastings Viscountess St Davids (age 90) died. Her son Jestyn (age 57) succeeded 15th Baron Strange Knockin, 23rd Baron Hungerford and 21st Baron Moleyns, 11th Baron Mohun of Dunster.
On 12th December 2004 Walter Edward Alpin Blount 12th Baronet (age 87) died. Baronet Blount of Sodington extinct.
On 12th December 2006 Charles Stourton 23rd Baron Stourton 25th Baron Segrave 24th Baron Mowbray (age 83) died. His son Edward (age 53) succeeded 24th Baron Stourton, 26th Baron Segrave and 25th Baron Mowbray.
On 12th December 2008 David Charteris 12th Earl of Wemyss (age 96) died. His son James (age 60) succeeded 13th Earl Wemyss, 6th Baron Wemyss of Wemyss in Fife.