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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.
19 Oct is in October.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 984. This year died the benevolent Bishop of Winchester, Athelwold (age 80), father of monks; and the consecration of the following bishop, Elfheah (age 31), who by another name was called Godwin, was on the fourteenth day before the calends of November; and he took his seat on the episcopal bench on the mass-day of the two apostles Simon and Jude, at Winchester.
On 19th October 993 Conrad I King Burgundy (age 68) died. His son Rudolph (age 22) succeeded III King Burgundy.
Chronicon ex Chronicis. 19th October 1122. Ralph, the twenty-fifth archbishop of Canterbury, departed this life at Canterbury, Kent [Map] on Thursday the fourteenth of the calends of November (19th October).
During the night of 18th and 19th October 1216 King John of England (age 49) died at Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire [Map]. His son Henry (age 9) succeeded III King of England.
John Monmouth (age 34) was present.
On his deathbed, John appointed a council of thirteen executors to help Henry reclaim the kingdom and requested that his son be placed into the guardianship of William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke (age 70).
King John's will is the earliest English royal will to survive in its original form. The document is quite small, roughly the size of a postcard and the seals of those who were present at the time would have been attached to it. Translation of the will taken from an article by Professor S.D. Church in the English Historical Review, June 2010:
I, John, by the grace of God king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, count of Anjou, hindered by grave infirmity and not being able at this time of my infirmity to itemize all my things so that I may make a testament, commit the arbitration and administration of my testament to the trust and to the legitimate administration of my faithful men whose names are written below, without whose counsel, even in good health, I would have by no means arranged my testament in their presence, so that what they will faithfully arrange and determine concerning my things as much as in making satisfaction to God and to holy Church for damages and injuries done to them as in sending succour to the land of Jerusalem and in providing support to my sons towards obtaining and defending their inheritance and in making reward to those who have served us faithfully and in making distribution to the poor and to religious houses for the salvation of my soul, be right and sure. I ask, furthermore, that whoever shall give them counsel and assistance in the arranging of my testament shall receive the grace and favour of God. Whoever shall infringe their arrangement and disposition, may he incur the curse and indignation of almighty God and the blessed Mary and all the saints.
In the first place, therefore, I desire that my body be buried in the church of St Mary and St Wulfstan at Worcester. I appoint, moreover, the following arbiters and administrators: the lord Guala, by the grace of God, cardinal-priest of the title of St Martin and legate of the apostolic see; the lord Peter bishop of Winchester; the lord Richard bishop of Chichester; the lord Silvester bishop of Worcester; Brother Aimery de St-Maur; William Marshal earl of Pembroke; Ranulf earl of Chester; William earl Ferrers; William Brewer; Walter de Lacy and John of Monmouth; Savaric de Mauléon; Falkes de Bréauté.
The signatories were:
Guala Bicchieri (ca 1150 - 1227) Papal Legate.
Bishop Peter de Roches, Bishop of Winchester.
Richard le Poer (? - 1237), Bishop of Chichester.
Sylvester of Worcester, Bishop of Worcester.
Aimery de St-Maur (? -?1219), Master of the English Templars.
William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke.
Ranulf de Blondeville Gernon 6th Earl Chester 1st Earl Lincoln (age 46).
William Ferrers 4th Earl of Derby (age 48).
William Brewer (? - 1226), 1st Baron Brewer.
Walter de Lacy (ca 1172-1241) Lord of Meath.
John: (1182 - 1248) Lord of Monmouth.
Savaric de Mauléon (? - 1236) Seneschal of Poitou from 1205.
Falkes de Bréauté (? - 1226) Seneschal of Cardiff Castle.
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Annals of Margam. 1216. King John died at Newark [Map]; he was succeeded by his son Henry III, who was crowned at Gloucester by the legate1 of the Apostolic See, Walonem.
MCCXVI. Obiit Johannes rex Angliæ apud Newerke; cui successit Henricus tertius filius suus, coronatus Gloucestriæ per Walonem legatum sedis Apostolicæ.
Note 1. The exact date of John's death is cited by the Annals of Waverley as 19th October 1216, the Annals of Tewkesbury as the 16th October 1216 and the Chronicle of Ralph of Coggeshall as the 18th October 1216.
Note 2. Cardinal Guala Bicchieri (age 66).
Annals of Waverley. In the month of October, namely on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of November [19th October 1216], King John, because things had by no means turned out according to his wishes, after being ill for only three or four days, died on the morrow of Saint Luke1, at the castle of Newark [Map], and was buried at Worcester. He reigned in England seventeen years, five months, and five days.
Mense Octobri, scilicet xiv. kal. Novembris, rex Johannes, quia res ei minime cesserant ad votum, non plus quam iii. aut iv. diebus infirmatus, in crastino Sancti Lucæ in fata discessit apud castrum de Newerc, et Wigornia sepultus est. Regnavit autem in Anglia xvii. annis, mensibus v., et diebus v.
Note 1. The Feast Day of Saint Luke is the 18th of October.
After 19th October 1216 King John of England (deceased) was buried in the Lady Chapel of Worcester Cathedral [Map]. Originally his effigy would have covered his coffin at floor level. Sometime around 1500 his tomb was moved to the Choir in front of the High Altar - the Chest Tomb similar to that of Prince Arthur's nearby. The Purbeck Marble effigy is the earliest of a King in England. Unusually carved to be life-like. His head supported by St Oswald and St Wulfstan, the two patron saints of Worcester. The base constructed in the 16th Century. The tomb was opened again on Monday 17th July 1797 at the instigation of Valentine Green (1739-1813). Inside the tomb chest, a stone coffin was discovered, containing the royal remains - see Monumental Effigies and An Account of King Johns Tomb.
On 19th October 1330 John Neville 1299-1335, William Eland, William Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton (age 20), William Clinton 1st Earl Huntingdon (age 26) and William Montagu 1st Earl Salisbury (age 29), friends of King Edward III of England (age 17) secretly entered Nottingham Castle [Map] through tunnels, met with King Edward III of England, and arrested Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 43) and his son Geoffrey Mortimer (age 21) in the presence of Isabella of France Queen Consort England (age 35).
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke [-1360]. In the year of our Lord 1330, in the fourth year of King Edward III, on the Friday following the feast of Saint Luke [19th October], a parliament was held at Nottingham,1 where Roger de Mortimer, Earl of March, shone with excessive but fading honour.2 He was considered the chief counsellor of Queen Isabella, at whose command all things were arranged. No one dared to refer to him by any title other than 'Earl of March.' He was accompanied by a greater noise and company of men than the king himself. Those he loved, he honoured. He allowed the king to rise in his presence, and arrogantly used to walk beside the king, step for step, never yielding precedence, and sometimes even walking ahead of him. When a certain official assigned to the king for arranging noble lodgings gave lodging in the town to the Earl of Lancaster, the king's cousin, the Earl of March harshly rebuked him, demanding to know who had made him so bold as to house the queen's enemy so near her. Terrified, the constable reassigned Lancaster's lodging to a place a full league outside the town, and instead gave the chamber to John de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, the Constable of England. Murmurs rose among the magnates, whispers that spread to the common people, saying in secret that Mortimer, the queen's lover and the king's master, was striving for the ruin of royal blood and the usurpation of royal majesty. This murmuring reached the royal ears and alarmed the king's friends, namely William de Montagu (age 29), Edward de Bohun, and others who, having sworn an oath for the king's safety, judged, and rightly, that it would serve the good of the realm if Mortimer were put to death.
Anno Domini MCCCXXX, ipsius regis Edwardi tercii anno iIIJ, die Veneris proxima post festum sancti Luce, fuit parliamentum apud Notyngham, ubi nimio fulsit honoure marcessibili comes Marchie, Rogerus de Mortuo mari, tamquam regine Isabelle, ad cuius nutum omnia disponebantur, conciliarius principalis. Illum non alio nomine quam titulo comitis Marchie ausus est aliquis nominare; illum maior strepitus virorum comitabatur quam personam regis; ille quos amavit honouravit; regem permittens sibi assurgere, gradiens cum rege pari passu solebat arroganter ambulare, nunquam regem preferre, set ipsum aliquando anteire. Quemdam officiarium deputatum domino regi pro ospiciis nobilium assignandis, ospicium in villa "pro comite Lancastrie regis consanguineo capescentem, vehementer increpuit iste comes Marchie, querens quis eum fecerat audacem inimicum regine Isabelle tam prope illam hospitare; unde territus constabularius ospicium comiti Lancastrie ultra villam ad unam leucam domino assignavit, et comitem Herefordie Essexieque Iohannem de Bohun, constabularium Anglie, ospicio collocavit. Fit murmur inter magnates, quod ad aures populares avolavit, secreto dicencium quod ille de Mortuo mari, amasius regine et regis magister, ad regalis sanguinis demolicionem et regie magestatis usurpacionem anelaret. Terruit iste murmur aures regales et regis amicos, scilicet Willelmum de Monte acuto, Edwardum de Bohun et alios qui, in salutem regis coniurati, arbitrati sunt, et juste, obsequium salutis se prestituros regno, si ille de Mortuo mari morti committeretur.
Note 1. Stow Annales 356, 357.
It will be seen that Stow has quite misunderstood the passage: 'a certain official,' etc.
By the side of this passage from Stow may be placed a chapter from the Brute chronicle (Harley MS. 2279).
Note 2. Compare what Knighton 2552.
The Brut. 19th October 1330. And the same nyghte sir William Mountagu and alle the lordes of his querelle and the same constable also wente hem to horse, and maden semblaunt as hit were for to wende oute of the Mortymeris sight. But anone, as the Mortymer herde this tithing, he wende that thei wolde have gone over the see for drede of him ; and anone he and his company nome councel amonges hem, for to lette hire passage, and sente lettres anone unto the portis, so that none of the grete lordes shulde wende home into hire centre, but if he were arreste and taken. And, amonge other thinges, William Elande, constable of the forsaide castel, priviliche ladde sire William Mountagu and his companye by the forsaide wey under erth, so til thei comen into the castel, and wente up into the toure, ther that the Mortymer was in. But sir Hugh of Trompetone hem ascriede hidously and seide: 'A! treytours, it is al for noughte that ye beth come into this castel. Ye shulde die yit in evel deth everichone.' And anone one of hem that was in Mountagues companye up with a mace and smote the same Hugh uppon the hede, that the brayne brake oute and fel on the ground ; and so was he dede in evel deth. Tho nomen thei the Mortymer, as he armede him at the toures dore, whan he herde the noyse of hem, for drede. And when the quene Isabel sawe that the Mortymer was taken, she made moche sorowe in herte and these wordes unto hem seide: 'Now, faire sires, I yow preye that ye done none harme unto his bodie, a worthi knyghte, our welbelovede frende, and oure dere cosyn.' Tho wente thei thens and comen and broughte the Mortymer and presente him unto the kyng Edwarde ; and he comaunded to bring him into safe warde. But anone, as they that were consente unto the Mortymeris doyng herde telle that he was taken, thei wente and hid hem, and priveliche by nyghte wente oute of the toune everych on his side, with hevy herte and mournyng, and levede uppon hire landes as wel as thei myghte. And so that same yeer that the Mortymer was take, he had atte his retenu ix score knyghtes, withoute squyers and sergeauntes of armes and fote men. And tho was the Mortymer lad to London, and sir Symound of Bereforde was ladde with him, and was take to the constable to kepe. But afterward was the Mortymeris life examynede atte Westmynstre, bifore the kyng and bifore alle the grete lordes of Engelonde, for perel that myghte falle to the reaume; and to inquere also whiche were assentyng to sir Edwardis deth, the kynges fader; and also, thurgh whome the Scottis ascaped fro Stanhope into Scotlande, withoute the wille of kyng Edwarde ; and also, how the charter of Ragman was delyvered unto the Scottis, wherin the homages and the feautees of Scotlande were conteynede that the Scottis shulde done evermore unto the kynges of Engelonde for the reame of Scotlande. Wherfor in his absence he was dempnede to bene drawe and hongede for his tresoun. And this meschief come unto him in Seint Andrewes eve and in the yeer of Incarnacion of our Lorde lesu Criste MCCC and XXX.
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Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. A parliament was held at Nottingham, where, on the morrow [19th October 1330] of Saint Luke the Evangelist, the king had Roger de Mortimer, his son Geoffrey, and the knight Sir Simon de Bereford arrested and sent to the Tower of London. On the vigil of Saint Andrew1 next following, the said Roger, lately made earl of March, was drawn through the streets of London by horses and hanged, and two days later, by the king's grace, his body was granted to the Friars Minor, and on the following day it was buried with honour.
Factum est parliamentum apud Notingham, ubi in crastino Sancti Lucæ Evangelista rex arrestari fecit Rogerum de Mortuo-mari, Galfridum filium suum, Symonem de Berford militem, et ad Turrim Londoniarum transmisit: in vigilia vero Sancti Andreæ proximo sequente dictus Rogerus, comes Marchiæ nuper factus, Londoniis tractus est equis atque suspensus, ac post duos dies de gratia regis fratribus Minoribus corpus ejus conceditur, et die sequenti honorifice sepelitur.
Note 1. The vigil of St. Andrew was the 29th of November; but we learn from the Parliament Rolls, that Mortimer Earl of March was attainted of treason at the Parliament held at Westminster on Monday, the 26th of November and executed on the Thursday following. The King summoned a parliament to meet at Westminster on the 26th of November, for the trial of the Earl of March and his accomplices. In the articles of impeachment exhibited against him (printed at full in the Rot. Parl. 2.52) he was charged with the murder of Edward II and the Earl of Kent, with having appropriated to himself the twenty thousand marks paid by Scotland, &c. The parliament declaring him notoriously guilty of the charges, he was condemned and executed without hearing: in consequence of which, in 28 Edward III, the judgment was reversed as erroneous, and his grandson Roger restored to his title and estate.
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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.
Chronicle of the Kings of England by Richard Baker. [19th October 1330] And as for Mortimer, (lying then in the Castle of Nottingham and lately created Earl of the Marches of Wales) he was seised on in this manner; the King taking with him William Montacute (age 29), Robert Holland, and others, go secretly one night by Torch-light, through a privy way under ground, till they come to the Queens (age 35) Chamber; where leaving the King without, they entred and found the Queen with Mortimer (age 43), ready to go to bed: then laying hands on him, they led him forth, after whom the Queen followed, crying, Bel fits, ayes pitie du gentil Mortimer; good fon, good fon, take pity upon the gentle Mortimer, suspecting that her son had been among them. This course was taken to apprehend him for avoiding of tumult, he having no fewer then ninescore Knights and Gentlemen, besides other meaner servants continually about him.
Scalacronica. [19th October 1330]. The council having been dissolved, the said William (age 29) said to the King that it were better to eat the dog than that the dog [should eat] them; so he advised him to speak to the constable of the castle, charging him upon his oath and allegiance to keep the plan secret, and [directing] him to leave a postern open to the park that very night, and [warning him] that if he would not do so, he [the King] would cause him to be hanged so soon as he [the King] should have the upper hand. The said William arranged with his comrades to assemble by night at a certain thicket in the park to which all should come; but they missed the trysting place, except the said William de Montacute and John de Nevill with four-and-twenty men, who kept their appointment well.
They were afraid that their comrades might miss them, and they durst not sound a call because of the sentries in the castle; and so, as bold and enterprising men, they declared that, as the matter had gone so far, they would risk the adventure by themselves. They went forward, and found the postern open, as the King had commanded. They entered the castle and mounted the stairs of the second court without meeting anybody, for it was mirk night, and the followers of the [gentle] folk had left the castle for their lodgings. The Queen (age 35), Mortimer (age 43), and their confidential adherents were holding a council to take measures against this plot which had been discovered to them. They [the conspirators] entered the hall where the Queen was sitting in council. The usher cried out at their entry. Hugh de Turpington, who was steward of the King's household, [but] was of the Queen's party, rushed out of the council and met them in the middle of the hall, crying 'Down with the traitors!' and made to strike the first [of them] with a dagger, when John de Nevill ran him through the body and slew him, and an esquire [also] who offered resistance.
Then they passed forward into the chamber, and seized Mortimer and those whom they wished to have; so that before dawn none remained in the town save those who were of the King's party, who had armed themselves when the conspirators entered the castle.
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Froissart Book 1: 1307-1340. [43] It was not long after that a great rumor spread about the mother of the King of England, I do not know if it was true, that she was pregnant; and more than anyone else, Lord Mortimer was blamed for this. Then scandal began to grow greatly, until the young king was thoroughly informed of it. Along with that, he was sufficiently informed that, through false deceit and the envy of Lord Mortimer, carried out more through treason than through justice, he had caused his uncle, the Earl of Kent, to be put to death, a man whom all the people of the realm had always considered honorable and loyal. So, if the young king was saddened and angered, it is no wonder. He immediately had the said Lord Mortimer arrested [19th October 1330] and brought to London before a great number of the barons and nobles of his kingdom.
[43] Ne demora mies de puis gaires de temps que grant fame issi hors sus la mère dou roy d'Engleterre, ne sai mies se voirs estoit, que elle estoit [enchainte] []; et en encoupoit on plus de ce fait le signeur de Mortemer que nul aultre. Si commença durement chilz escandeles à montepliier, tant que li jones rois en fu enfourmés souffissamment. Et avoech tout ce il fu enfourmés souffissamment que, par fausse amise et par envie dou signeur de Mortemer, faite plus par trahison que par raison, il avoit fait mettre à mort son oncle le conte de Kent, que tout cil dou pays tenoient et avoient toutdis tenu pour preudomme et pour loyal. Dont, se li jones rois fu tristes et courouciés, ce ne fait mies à demander. Si fist tantost prendre le dit signeur de Mortemer, et le fist amener à Londres, par devant grant fuison des barons et des nobles de son royaume.
Annales of England by John Stow. [19th October 1330] There was a parliament holden at Nottingham, where Roger Mortimer was in such glory and honour that it was without all comparison. No man durst name him any other than earle of March ; a greater route of men waited at his heeles than on the kings person ; he would suffer the king to rise to him and would walke with the king equally, step by step and cheeke by cheeke, never preferring the king, but would go formost himselfe with his officers ; he greatly rebuked the earle of Lancaster, cousin to the king, for that without his consent he appointed certain lodgings for noblemen in the town, demanding who made him so bold, to take up lodgings so nigh unto the queen : with which words the constable, being greatly feared, appointed lodging for the earle of Lancaster one myle out of the towne : and likewise were lodged the earle of Hereford, John de Bohune of Estsex, high constable of England, and others. By which meanes a contention rose among the noblemen and great murmuring among the common people, who said that Roger Mortimer, the queenes paragon and the kings master, sought all the means he could to destroy the kings blood and to usurpe the regall majestic : which report troubled much the kings friends, to wit, William Montacute and other, who, for the safegard of the king, sware themselves to be true to his person, and drew unto them Robert de Holland, who had of long time been chiefe keeper of the castle, unto whome all secret corners of the same were knowne. Then upon a certaine night, the king lying without the castle, both he and his friends were brought by torch-light through a secret way under ground, beginning far off from the said castle, till they came even to the queens chamber, which they by chaunce found open : they therfore, being armed with naked swords in their hands, went forwards, leaving the king also armed without the doore of the chamber, least that his mother should espie him : they which entred in slew Hugh Turpinton, knight, who resisted them, master John Nevell of Horneby giving him his deadly wound. From thence they went toward the queene mother, whome they found with the earle of March, readie to have gone to bedde ; and having taken the said earle, they ledde him out into the hall, after whom the queene followed, crying, Bel filz, bel filz, ayes pitie de gentil Mortimer, Good sonne, good sonne, take pitie upon gentle Mortimer: for she suspected that her sonne was there, though she saw him not. Then are the keyes of tHe castle sent for, and every place with all the furniture is yeelded up into the kings hands, but in such secret wise that none without the castle, except the kings friends, understood thereof. The next day in the morning very early they bring Roger Mortimer and other his friends taken with him, with an horrible shout and crying (the earle of Lancaster,"then blind, being one of them that made the shout for joy), towards London, where he was committed to the Tower, and afterwards condemned at Westminster, in presence of the whole parliament, on S. Andrewes eeven next following, and then drawne to the Elmes, and there hanged on the common gallowes ... He was condemned by his peeres, and yet never was brought to answer before them, for it was not then the custome, after the death of the earles of Lancaster, Winchester, Glocester, and Kent : wherefore this earle had that law himselfe, which he appointed for other.
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On 19th October 1330 Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 43) taken to Leicester, Leicestershire [Map].
On 16th September 1398 King Richard II (age 31), the nobility and thousands of spectators assembled at Gosford Green [Map] to witness the duel between the future Henry IV (age 31) and Thomas Mowbray 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 30). the future Henry IV had new armour constructed. Edward 2nd Duke of York 1st Duke Albemarle (age 25) and Thomas Holland 1st Duke Surrey (age 24) managed the proceedings. Just as the duel was to commence King Richard II stopped it. After two hours of deliberation King Richard II had his decision announced; both men were to be exiled. The future Henry IV for ten years,Thomas Mowbray 1st Duke of Norfolk forever.
On 19th October 1398 Thomas Mowbray 1st Duke of Norfolk left England never to return.
See Froissart Book 4 Chapter 94.
Froissart Book 4 Chapter 96. 19th October 1398. When the two earls heard the sentence the king (age 31) had passed on them, they were much cast down, and not without cause. The earl marshal (age 30) bitterly repented what he had said and done, but he could not foresee its consequences: he had firmly relied on being otherwise supported by the king than he was, or he would not have thought of it. It was, however, necessary to make his preparations for banishment. He settled the payments of his income through the Lombards of Bruges, and, quitting England, arrived at Calais, where he had been governor. He staid there a short time, to receive part of his equipage which had been left behind. On his departure he took leave of the townsmen of Calais, and having fixed his route, would not go to France nor Hainault, for he had not any business at these places, but went to Bruges [Map], where he staid fifteen days. On leaving this town, he visited Ghent, Mechlin, Louvain, St. Tron, Utrecht, Aix and Cologne, where we will leave him, and speak of the earl of Derby (age 31), who in like manner made his preparations for obeying his sentence of banishment.
On 19th October 1432 John Mowbray 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 40) died at Epworth. His son John (age 17) succeeded 3rd Duke Norfolk, 6th Earl Norfolk, 4th Earl Nottingham, 9th Baron Mowbray, 10th Baron Segrave and Earl Marshal.
On 19th October 1469 Ferdinand II King Aragon (age 17) and Isabella Queen Castile (age 18) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Aragon. She the daughter of John II King Castile and Isabella Aviz Queen Consort Castile (age 41). He the son of John II King Aragon (age 71) and Juana Enríquez Queen Consort Aragon. They were second cousins. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 19th October 1505 Ferdinand II King Aragon (age 53) and Germaine Foix Queen Consort Aragon (age 17) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Aragon. The difference in their ages was 35 years. She the daughter of Jean Foix Count Étampes and Marie Valois Viscountess Narbonne. He the son of John II King Aragon and Juana Enríquez Queen Consort Aragon. They were great uncle and niece.
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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 19th October 1526 William Willoughby 11th Baron Willoughby (age 44) died at Parham, Suffolk [Map]. He was buried at All Saints Church, Mettingham Bungay [Map]. His daughter Catherine (age 7) succeeded 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk became a ward of Henry VIII (age 35).
Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic Henry VIII 1535. 19th October 1535. R.O. 639. Sir Francis Brian to Cromwell.
Sends a letter which he has received from Dr. Neckam, who has got the rule of the priory of Worcester. Neckam and his brethren are still troubled by the cellarer, notwithstanding Cromwell's letter, and Brian requests Cromwell to write again. The King's Grace is "mery;" he and the Queen (age 34) remove from the Vyne to Mr. Comptroller's to-day, and on Thursday to Bramsell House, on Friday to Esthamsted, and on Tuesday to Windsor. From the Vyne, 19 Oct. Signed.
P. 1. Add.: Secretary. Endd.
On 19th October 1537 John Habsburg Spain was born to Charles V Holy Roman Emperor (age 37) and Isabel Aviz Queen Consort Spain (age 33). Coefficient of inbreeding 10.98%.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 19th October 1559. The xix day of October the prynche of Swaythen (age 25) whent to the court agayn, for my lord Robart Dudley (age 27) gave ym a grett bankett [banquet].
On 19th October 1576 Roger Manners 5th Earl of Rutland was baptised at Kirk Deighton Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
On 19th October 1592 Anthony Maria Browne 2nd Viscount Montagu (age 18) inherited Cowdray House [Map]. During his tenure Guy Fawkes was briefly employed as a footman and, as a consequence, Anthony Maria Browne 2nd Viscount Montagu was briefly imprisoned for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot.
After 19th October 1592. St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Sussex [Map]. Monument to Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu (deceased), Jane Radclyffe and Magdalen Dacre Viscountess Montague (age 54). The monument was originally in Midhurst but was subsequently moved. As there was less room, it was re-arranged, with Lord Montague kneeling behind and above the two recumbent effigies of his wives, instead of having a wife on either side, with obelisks at the corners.
Jane Radclyffe: she was born to Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex and Margaret Stanley Countess Sussex. Before 22nd July 1552 Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu and she were married. She the daughter of Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex and Margaret Stanley Countess Sussex. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 19th October 1595 Philip Howard 13th or 20th Earl of Arundel (age 38) died of dysentery at Tower of London [Map]. He was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map], reburied at Arundel Cathedral, Sussex [Map] and then reburied in the Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle [Map]. Earl Arundel, Baron Maltravers, Baron Arundel forfeit.
He had been imprisoned for ten years and had never seen his son and heir Thomas Howard 14th or 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk (age 10) who had been born three months after he was imprisoned.
On 19th October 1605 Thomas Browne was born to Thomas Browne of Upton in Cheshire (age 45).
On 19th October 1610 James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde was born to Thomas Butler Viscount Thurles (age 29) and Elizabeth Poyntz (age 23).
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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 19th October 1633 Benedetto Gennari II was born.
On 19th October 1660 at Tyburn [Map] ...
Daniel Axtell (age 38) was hanged, drawn and quartered. His head was set on Westminster Hall [Map].
Francis Hacker was hanged. His body was returned to his friends for burial.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th October 1660. Office in the morning. This morning my dining-room was finished with green serge hanging and gilt leather, which is very handsome. This morning Hacker and Axtell (age 38) were hanged and quartered, as the rest are. This night I sat up late to make up my accounts ready against to-morrow for my Lord. I found him to be above £80 in my debt, which is a good sight, and I bless God for it.
John Evelyn's Diary. 19th October 1661. I went to London to visit my Lord of Bristol (age 48), having been with Sir John Denham (age 46) his Majesty's (age 31) surveyor) to consult with him about the placing of his palace at Greenwich, Kent [Map], which I would have had built between the river and the Queen's House, Greenwich, so as a large square cut should have let in the Thames like a bay; but Sir John was for setting it on piles at the very brink of the water, which I did not assent to; and so came away, knowing Sir John to be a better poet than architect, though he had Mr. Webb (Inigo Jones's man) to assist him.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th October 1662. Thence Tom waiting for me homewards towards my house, talking and scolding him for his folly, and telling him my mind plainly what he has to trust to if he goes this way to work, for he shall never have her upon the terms they demand of £50. He left me, and I to my uncle Wight, and there supped, and there was pretty Mistress Margt. Wight, whom I esteem very pretty, and love dearly to look upon her. We were very pleasant, I droning with my aunt and them, but I am sorry to hear that the news of the selling of Dunkirk1 is taken so generally ill, as I find it is among the merchants; and other things, as removal of officers at Court, good for worse; and all things else made much worse in their report among people than they are. And this night, I know not upon what ground, the gates of the City ordered to be kept shut, and double guards every where.
Note 1. A treaty was signed on the 27th October by which Dunkirk was sold to France for five million livres, two of which were to be paid immediately, and the remaining three by eight bills at dates varying from three months to two years; during which time the King (age 32) of England was to contribute the aid of a naval force, if necessary, for defence against Spain. Subsequently the remaining three millions were reduced to 2,500,000 to be paid at Paris, and 254,000 in London. It is not known that Clarendon (age 53) suggested the sale of Dunkirk, but it is certain that he adopted the measure with zeal. There is also no doubt that he got as much as France could be induced to give.-Lister's Life of Clarendon, ii. 173-4.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th October 1663. Back to St. James's, and there dined with my Lord Barkeley (age 61) and his lady (age 25), where Sir G. Carteret (age 53), Sir W. Batten (age 62), and myself, with two gentlemen more; my Lady, and one of the ladies of honour to the Duchesse (age 26) (no handsome woman, but a most excellent hand).
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th October 1663. Coming to St. James's, I hear that the Queen (age 24) did sleep five hours pretty well to-night, and that she waked and gargled her mouth, and to sleep again; but that her pulse beats fast, beating twenty to the King's or my Lady Suffolk's (age 41) eleven; but not so strong as it was. It seems she was so ill as to be shaved and Pigeons put to her feet, and to have the extreme unction given her by the priests, who were so long about it that the doctors were angry. The King (age 33), they all say; is most fondly disconsolate for her, and weeps by her, which makes her weep1; which one this day told me he reckons a good sign, for that it carries away some rheume from the head.
Note 1. "The Queen was given over by her physicians,..., and the good nature of the King was much affected with the situation in which he saw! a princess whom, though he did not love her, yet he greatly esteemed. She loved him tenderly, and thinking that it was the last time she should ever speak to him, she told him 'That the concern he showed for her death was enough to make her quit life with regret; but that not possessing charms sufficient to merit his tenderness, she had at least the consolation in dying to give place to a consort who might be more worthy, of it and to whom heaven, perhaps, might grant a blessing that had been refused to her.' At these words she bathed his hands with some tears which he thought would be her last; he mingled his own with hers, and without supposing she would take him at his word, he conjured her to live for his sake".-Grammont Memoirs, chap. vii.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th October 1663. After being a little with the Duke (age 30), and being invited to dinner to my Lord Barkeley's (age 61), and so, not knowing how to spend our time till noon, Sir W. Batten (age 62) and I took coach, and to the Coffee-house in Cornhill [Map]1; where much talk about the Turk's proceedings, and that the plague is got to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier; and it is also carried to Hambrough. The Duke says the King (age 33) purposes to forbid any of their ships coming into the river. The Duke also told us of several Christian commanders (French) gone over to the Turks to serve them; and upon inquiry I find that the King of France (age 25) do by this aspire to the Empire, and so to get the Crown of Spayne also upon the death of the King, which is very probable, it seems.
Note 1. This may be the Coffee House in Exchange Alley, which had for a sign, Morat the Great, or The Great Turk, where coffee was sold in berry, in powder, and pounded in a mortar. There is a token of the house, see "Boyne's Tokens", ed. Williamson, vol. i., p. 592.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th October 1665. After dinner I did give them my accounts and letters to write against I went to the Duke of Albemarle's (age 56) this evening, which I did; and among other things, spoke to him for my wife's brother, Balty (age 25), to be of his guard, which he kindly answered that he should. My business of the Victualling goes on as I would have it; and now my head is full how to make some profit of it to myself or people. To that end, when I came home, I wrote a letter to Mr. Coventry (age 37), offering myself to be the Surveyor Generall, and am apt to think he will assist me in it, but I do not set my heart much on it, though it would be a good helpe. So back to my office, and there till past one before I could get all these letters and papers copied out, which vexed me, but so sent them away without hopes of saving the post, and so to my lodging to bed.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th October 1666. Up, and by coach to my Lord Ashly's (age 45), and thence (he being gone out), to the Exchequer chamber, and there find him and my Lord Bellasses (age 52) about my Lord Bellasses accounts, which was the business I went upon.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th October 1666. After a little more discourse, I left them, and to White Hall, where I met with Sir Robert Viner (age 35), who told me a little of what, in going home, I had seen; also a little of the disorder and mutiny among the seamen at the Treasurer's office, which did trouble me then and all day since, considering how many more seamen will come to towne every day, and no money for them. A Parliament sitting, and the Exchange [Map] close by, and an enemy to hear of, and laugh at it1. Viner too, and Backewell, were sent for this afternoon; and was before the King (age 36) and his Cabinet about money; they declaring they would advance no more, it being discoursed of in the House of Parliament for the King to issue out his privy-seals to them to command them to trust him, which gives them reason to decline trusting. But more money they are persuaded to lend, but so little that (with horrour I speake it), coming after the Council was up, with Sir G. Carteret (age 56), Sir W. Coventry (age 38), Lord Bruncker (age 46), and myself, I did lay the state of our condition before the Duke of York (age 33), that the fleete could not go out without several things it wanted, and we could not have without money, particularly rum and bread, which we have promised the man Swan to helpe him to £200 of his debt, and a few other small sums of £200 a piece to some others, and that I do foresee the Duke of York would call us to an account why the fleete is not abroad, and we cannot answer otherwise than our want of money; and that indeed we do not do the King any service now, but do rather abuse and betray his service by being there, and seeming to do something, while we do not. Sir G. Carteret asked me (just in these words, for in this and all the rest I set down the very words for memory sake, if there should be occasion) whether £50 or £60 would do us any good; and when I told him the very rum man must have £200, he held up his eyes as if we had asked a million. Sir W. Coventry told the Duke of York plainly he did rather desire to have his commission called in than serve in so ill a place, where he cannot do the King service, and I did concur in saying the same. This was all very plain, and the Duke of York did confess that he did not see how we could do anything without a present supply of £20,000, and that he would speak to the King next Council day, and I promised to wait on him to put him in mind of it. This I set down for my future justification, if need be, and so we broke up, and all parted, Sir W. Coventry being not very well, but I believe made much worse by this night's sad discourse. So I home by coach, considering what the consequence of all this must be in a little time. Nothing but distraction and confusion; which makes me wish with all my heart that I were well and quietly settled with what little I have got at Brampton, where I might live peaceably, and study, and pray for the good of the King and my country.
Note 1. The King of Denmark (age 57) was induced to conclude a treaty with the United Provinces, a secret article of which bound him to declare war against England. The order in council for the printing and publishing a declaration of war against Denmark is dated "Whitehall, Sept. 19, 1666"; annexed is "A True Declaration of all transactions between his Majesty of Great Britain and the King of Denmark, with a declaration of war against the said king, and the motives that obliged his Majesty thereunto" (Calendar of State Papers, 1666-67, p. 140).
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On 19th October 1667 The Black Prince was staged first by The King's Company at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Convent Garden. The opening performance was attended by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 37).
Edward Kynaston (age 27) played The Black Prince.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th October 1667. At the office all the morning, where very busy, and at noon home to a short dinner, being full of my desire of seeing my Lord Orrery's (age 46) new play this afternoon at the King's house, "The Black Prince", the first time it is acted; where, though we come by two o'clock, yet there was no room in the pit, but we were forced to go into one of the upper boxes, at 4s. a piece, which is the first time I ever sat in a box in my life. And in the same box come, by and by, behind me, my Lord Barkeley (age 65) [of Stratton] and his lady (age 29); but I did not turn my face to them to be known, so that I was excused from giving them my seat; and this pleasure I had, that from this place the scenes do appear very fine indeed, and much better than in the pit. The house infinite full, and the King (age 37) and Duke of York (age 34) was there.
On 19th October 1682 Thomas Browne (age 77) died.
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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 19th October 1704 Elizabeth Gell died. St Mary's Church, Wirksworth [Map]. Monument to Elizabeth Gell.
Elizabeth Gell: she was born to John Gell 2nd Baronet and Katherine Packer of Shelingford.
Between 14th September 1705 and 19th October 1705 a multinational Grand Alliance army led by Lord Peterborough (age 47) captured the city of Barcelona [Map] from its Spanish defenders, most of whom then joined the Grand Aliance army.
On 13th September 1705 Prince George of Hesse Darmstadt (age 36) was killed.
On 19th October 1714 James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos (age 41) was created 1st Earl Carnarvon, 1st Viscount Wilton. Cassandra Willoughby Duchess Chandos (age 44) by marriage Countess Carnarvon.
On 19th October 1714 Thomas Pelham Holles 1st Duke Newcastle-under-Lyne (age 21) was created 1st Earl Clare and 1st Viscount Haughton with a special remainder to his brother Henry Pelham (age 20).
On 19th October 1723 Godfrey Kneller (age 77) died.
On 19th October 1753 Caroline Ulrike Amalie Saxe Coburg Gotha was born to Ernest Frederick Saxe Coburg Saalfeld Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld (age 29) and Sophia Antonia Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Duchess Saxe Coburg Saalfeld (age 29) at Coburg.
On 19th October 1762 Bishop Frederick Keppel (age 34) graduated Doctor of Divinity at Christ Church College, Oxford University.
Between 28th September 1781 and 19th October 1781 the 1781 Battle of Yorktown was fought was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington (age 49) and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and French Army troops led by Comte de Rochambeau over British Army troops commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis (age 42).
Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis and Charles Gould aka Morgan 2nd Baronet (age 21) were captured.
On 19th October 1793 Mary Panton Duchess Ancaster and Kesteven died.
On 19th October 1859 Andrea Carlo Lucchesi was born.
On 19th October 1862 John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne (age 83) died. His son James (age 58) succeeded 3rd Baron Sherborne. He was buried in Saint Mary Magdalene's Church, Sherborne [Map]. Monument to John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne and Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne.
John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne: On 24th June 1779 he was born to James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne and Elizabeth Coke Baroness Sherborne. Before 1804 John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne and Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne were married. She by marriage Baroness Sherborne.
James Henry Legge Dutton 3rd Baron Sherborne: On 30th May 1804 he was born to John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne and Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne. On 22nd June 1826 James Henry Legge Dutton 3rd Baron Sherborne and Elizabeth Howard were married. She the daughter of Thomas Howard 16th Earl Suffolk 9th Earl Berkshire and Elizabeth Jane Dutton Countess Suffolk and Berkshire. They were first cousins. On 8th March 1883 James Henry Legge Dutton 3rd Baron Sherborne died. His son Edward succeeded 4th Baron Sherborne. Emily Theresa Stern Baroness Sherborne by marriage Baroness Sherborne.
Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne: she was born to Henry Bilson Legge 2nd Baron Stawell and Mary Curzon Baroness Stawell. On 21st October 1864 Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne died.
On 19th October 1867 Bishop John Lonsdale (age 79) died at Eccleshall Castle, Staffordshire [Map] of a rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain. He was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Eccleshall [Map].
On 19th October 1889 Adelheid Luise Glücksburg was born to Friedrich Ferdinand Glücksburg Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg (age 34) and Victoria Friederike Oldenburg Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg (age 29).
On 19th October 1914 Captain Francis Percy Campbell Pemberton (age 29) was killed in action at Moorslede, near Roulers, Belgium whilst serving with "C" Section. He was buried at Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Belgium, Grave VI. D. 17.
On 19th October 1923 Adolfo Polloni (age 68) died.
The Times. 19th October 1928. With the consent of the Dean of Westminster, the Council of the Royal Academy have arranged for the first part of the funeral of the late President, Sir Frank Dicksee, to be held in Westminster Abbey, on Tuesday October 23rd at 2:00 p m. Those wishing to attend will be admitted without ticket by the North Door, or the Poets Corner Door in the south Transept. The burial will take place afterwards at the Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune-green, NW.
On 19th October 1935 Frank Meyer 2nd Baronet (age 49) died in a hunting accident. His son Anthony (age 14) succeeded 3rd Baronet Meyer of Shortgrove.
On 19th October 1935 John Scott 7th Duke Buccleuch 9th Duke Queensberry (age 71) died at Bowhill House, Bowhill. His son Walter (age 40) succeeded 8th Duke Buccleuch, 10th Duke Queensberry, 8th Earl Doncaster, 8th Baron Scott of Tynedale. Vreda Lascelles Duchess Buccleuch and Queensbury (age 35) by marriage Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensberry.
On 19th October 1951 John Spencer-Churchill 11th Duke of Marlborough (age 25) and Susan Mary Hornby (age 22) were married. He the son of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill 10th Duke of Marlborough (age 54) and Alexandra Mary Cadogan Duchess of Marlborough (age 51).
On 19th October 1957 Vere Gordon Childe (age 65) died.
19th October 2000. St Vincent's Church, Caythorpe [Map]. The Arnhem Oak.
On 19th October 1537 John Habsburg Spain was born to Charles V Holy Roman Emperor (age 37) and Isabel Aviz Queen Consort Spain (age 33). Coefficient of inbreeding 10.98%.
On 19th October 1605 Thomas Browne was born to Thomas Browne of Upton in Cheshire (age 45).
On 19th October 1606 Garrard Napier 1st Baronet was born to Nathaniel Napier (age 19) and Elizabeth Gerrard.
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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 19th October 1610 James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde was born to Thomas Butler Viscount Thurles (age 29) and Elizabeth Poyntz (age 23).
On 19th October 1624 Robert Wright aka Villiers aka Danvers was born illegitimately to Robert Howard (age 40) and Frances Coke Viscountess Purbeck (age 22) in Cripplegate Ward. Illegitimate. His father probably Robert Howard with whom his mother was having a long term affair. His mother was married to John Villiers 1st Viscount Purbeck (age 33). He was baptised Robert Wright.
On 19th October 1626 Miles Stapleton 1st Baronet was born to Gilbert Stapleton (age 31) and Helen Gascoigne (age 31).
On 19th October 1633 Benedetto Gennari II was born.
On 19th October 1650 Charles Erskine 22nd Earl of Mar was born to John Erskine 21st Earl of Mar.
On 19th October 1716 Alice Astley Countess Tankerville was born to John Astley 2nd Baronet (age 29).
On 19th October 1732 William Molesworth was born to John Molesworth 4th Baronet (age 27) and Barbara Morice Lady Molesworth.
On 19th October 1739 Cecil Parker Perceval was born to John Perceval 2nd Earl Egmont (age 28) and Catherine Cecil Countess Egmont (age 17).
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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 19th October 1744 John Leslie 11th Earl Rothes was born to John Leslie 10th Earl Rothes (age 46) and Hannah Cole Countess Rothes.
On 19th October 1746 Thomas Graham 1st Baron Lynedoch was born to Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Christian Hope (age 32).
On 19th October 1753 Caroline Ulrike Amalie Saxe Coburg Gotha was born to Ernest Frederick Saxe Coburg Saalfeld Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld (age 29) and Sophia Antonia Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Duchess Saxe Coburg Saalfeld (age 29) at Coburg.
On 19th October 1755 Hester Pitt was born to William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham (age 46) and Hester Granville Countess Chatham (age 34).
On 19th October 1767 William Flower 3rd Viscount Ashbrook was born to William Flower 2nd Viscount Ashbrook (age 23) and Elizabeth Ridge Viscountess Ashbrook (age 21).
On 19th October 1770 Anna Maria Denison Baroness Wenlock was born to Joseph Denison (age 44).
On 19th October 1774 Charles Cornwallis 2nd Marquess Cornwallis was born to Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 35) and Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis.
On 19th October 1788 Barbara Ashley-Cooper Baroness Mauley was born to Anthony Ashley-Cooper 5th Earl Shaftesbury (age 27) and Barbara Webb Countess Shaftesbury (age 26).
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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 19th October 1796 Thomas Moreton FitzHardinge Berkeley 6th Earl of Berkeley was born to Frederick Augustus Berkeley 5th Earl Berkeley (age 51) and Mary Cole. He was the first of their children to be born after their recognised legal marriage on 16th May 1796. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 19th October 1828 Emily Charlotte Burgh Countess Cork was born to Ulick Burgh 1st Marquess Clanricarde (age 25) and Harriet Canning Marchioness Clanricarde (age 24).
On 19th October 1829 James Walker 2nd Baronet was born to James Walker 1st Baronet (age 26).
On 19th October 1832 Allen Bathurst 6th Earl Bathurst was born to Thomas Seymour Bathurst (age 37) and Julia Hankey.
On 19th October 1839 Jane Morris nee Burden was born to Robert Burden (age 29) and Ann Maizey (age 33) at St Helen's Passage, Holywell Street, Oxford. She was baptised on 28th December 1840 at St Peter-in-the-East Church, Oxford. Her father a stableman, her mother a domestic servant.
On 19th October 1859 Andrea Carlo Lucchesi was born.
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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 19th October 1864 Thomas Pakenham 5th Earl of Longford was born to William Pakenham 4th Earl of Longford (age 45) and Selina Rice Trevor Countess Longford (age 28).
On 19th October 1871 Mary Elizabeth Brinsley Sheridan Lady Stracey was born to Algernon Thomas Brinsley Sheridan (age 26).
On 19th October 1889 Adelheid Luise Glücksburg was born to Friedrich Ferdinand Glücksburg Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg (age 34) and Victoria Friederike Oldenburg Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg (age 29).
On 19th October 1900 Marjorie Joan Mary Wentworth-Fitzwilliam was born to William Charles de Meuron "Billy" Wentworth-Fitzwilliam 7th and 5th Earl Fitzwilliam (age 28) and Maud Frederica Elizabeth Dundas Countess Fitzwilliam (age 23).
On 19th October 1909 Peter Pleydell-Bouverie was born to Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie 6th Earl Radnor (age 41) and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour.
On 19th October 1909 Silvia Beatrice Coke was born to Thomas William Coke 4th Earl of Leicester (age 29) and Marion Gertrude Trefusis Countess Leicester (age 27).
On 19th October 1928 Giles Hampden Montagu-Pollock 5th Baronet was born to George Seymour Montagu-Pollock 4th Baronet (age 28).
On 19th October 1949 Anthony Dysart Grey 7th Baronet was born to Edward Elton Grey (age 29).
On 19th October 1955 Nicholas John Monson 12th Baron Monson was born to John Monson 11th Baron Monson (age 23).
On 19th October 1961 Edward Lambton 7th Earl of Durham was born to Antony Lambton 6th Earl of Durham (age 39).
On 19th October 1979 Frederick Hervey 8th Marquess of Bristol was born to Victor Hervey 6th Marquess of Bristol (age 64) and Yvonne Marie Sutton Marchioness Bristol (age 34).
On 19th October 1469 Ferdinand II King Aragon (age 17) and Isabella Queen Castile (age 18) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Aragon. She the daughter of John II King Castile and Isabella Aviz Queen Consort Castile (age 41). He the son of John II King Aragon (age 71) and Juana Enríquez Queen Consort Aragon. They were second cousins. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III 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 19th October 1505 Ferdinand II King Aragon (age 53) and Germaine Foix Queen Consort Aragon (age 17) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Aragon. The difference in their ages was 35 years. She the daughter of Jean Foix Count Étampes and Marie Valois Viscountess Narbonne. He the son of John II King Aragon and Juana Enríquez Queen Consort Aragon. They were great uncle and niece.
On 19th October 1637 David Carnegie 2nd Earl Northesk and Jean Maule were married. She the daughter of Patrick Maule 1st Earl Panmure (age 52) and Frances Stanhope. He the son of John Carnegie 1st Earl Northesk (age 58).
On 19th October 1670 Henry Hyde 2nd Earl Clarendon and Flower Backhouse Countess Clarendon were married. She being the sole heir of her father William Backhouse brought Swallowfield House, Berkshire to the marriage which Henry had rebuilt. He the son of Edward Hyde 1st Earl Clarendon (age 61) and Frances Aylesbury Countess Clarendon.
On 19th October 1776 William Loraine 4th Baronet (age 27) and Hannah Allgood Lady Loraine (age 23) were married at St Mungo's Church, Simonburn [Map]. She by marriage Lady Loraine of Kirkharle in Northumberland.
Newcastle Courant, 26 October 1776: "Married. Saturday, at Simonburn, by the Rev. Dr. Scott, Sir William Loraine, of Kirkharle, Bart. to Miss Allgood. And at the same time, his brother, Lambton Loraine (age 24), Esq; to Miss Isabella Allgood, daughters of Sir Lancelot Allgood, of Nunwick, Knight." See Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings.
On 19th October 1777 Robert Fulke Greville (age 26) and Louisa Cathcart 2nd Countess Mansfield (age 19) were married. He the son of Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick and Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick (age 57). They were half first cousins.
On 19th October 1807 Peter Drummond Burrell 2nd Baron Gwydyr 22nd Baron Willoughby (age 25) and Clementina Sarah Drummond Baroness Gwydyr and Willoughby (age 21) were married. She the daughter of James Drummond 11th Earl Perth and Clementia Elphinstone Countess Perth (age 58).
On 19th October 1819 William Verner 1st Baronet (age 36) and Harriet Wingfield were married.
On 19th October 1826 Frederick Vincent 11th Baronet (age 28) and Louisa Norris (age 24) were married.
On 19th October 1833 Edward Crofton 2nd Baron Crofton (age 27) and Georgina Paget Lady Crofton (age 33) were married. She the daughter of Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey (age 65) and Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll (age 58).
On 19th October 1841 Thomas Neville Abdy 1st Baronet (age 30) and Harriet Alston were married. They had at least two daughters and three sons each of which succeeded to the Baronetcy.
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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 19th October 1866 Evelyn Boscawen 7th Viscount Falmouth (age 19) and Kathleen Douglas-Pennant Viscount Falmouth (age 5) were married.
On 19th October 1880 Frederick George Milner 7th Baronet (age 30) and Adeline Gertrude Denison Beckett-Denison (age 21) were married.
On 19th October 1887 Edward Albert Sassoon 2nd Baronet (age 31) and Aline Caroline de Rothschild (age 19) were married two days before her twentieth birthday in a ceremony in the synagogue at the Rue de la Victoire in Paris. The couple set up home at 25 Kensington Gore, where Aline, a talented artist, set up her own studio.
On 19th October 1914 Herbert Hervey 5th Marquess of Bristol (age 44) and Jean Cochrane (age 27) were married.
On 19th October 1951 John Spencer-Churchill 11th Duke of Marlborough (age 25) and Susan Mary Hornby (age 22) were married. He the son of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill 10th Duke of Marlborough (age 54) and Alexandra Mary Cadogan Duchess of Marlborough (age 51).
On 19th October 993 Conrad I King Burgundy (age 68) died. His son Rudolph (age 22) succeeded III King Burgundy.
On 19th October 1103 Humbert "Fat" Savoy II Count Savoy (age 38) died. His son Amadeus (age 8) succeeded III Count Savoy.
On 19th October 1175 Guy Count of Nevers died.
On 19th October 1356 Joan Geneville Baroness Mortimer 2nd Baroness Geneville (age 70) died. She was buried at Wigmore Abbey [Map].
On 19th October 1401 John Charleton 4th Baron Cherleton (age 39) died. His brother Edward (age 31) succeeded 5th Baron Cherleton. Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster (age 31) by marriage Baroness Cherleton.
On 19th October 1414 John Lovell 6th Baron Lovel (age 39) died. His son William (age 17) succeeded 7th Baron Lovel of Titchmarsh.
On 19th October 1419 Gilbert Talbot 8th Baron Strange Blackmere 5th Baron Talbot (age 36) died. His daughter Ankaret (age 3) succeeded 9th Baroness Strange Blackmere, 6th Baroness Talbot.
On 19th October 1432 John Mowbray 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 40) died at Epworth. His son John (age 17) succeeded 3rd Duke Norfolk, 6th Earl Norfolk, 4th Earl Nottingham, 9th Baron Mowbray, 10th Baron Segrave and Earl Marshal.
On 19th October 1526 William Willoughby 11th Baron Willoughby (age 44) died at Parham, Suffolk [Map]. He was buried at All Saints Church, Mettingham Bungay [Map]. His daughter Catherine (age 7) succeeded 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk became a ward of Henry VIII (age 35).
On 19th October 1556 Bishop Henry Man died. He was buried at St Andrew Undershaft Church, Aldgate Ward [Map].
On 19th October 1576 George Gordon 5th Earl Huntley died. His son George (age 14) succeeded 6th Earl Huntley.
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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 19th October 1592 Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu (age 63) died. His grandson Anthony (age 18) succeeded 2nd Viscount Montagu.
On 19th October 1595 Philip Howard 13th or 20th Earl of Arundel (age 38) died of dysentery at Tower of London [Map]. He was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map], reburied at Arundel Cathedral, Sussex [Map] and then reburied in the Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle [Map]. Earl Arundel, Baron Maltravers, Baron Arundel forfeit.
He had been imprisoned for ten years and had never seen his son and heir Thomas Howard 14th or 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk (age 10) who had been born three months after he was imprisoned.
On 19th October 1646 Thomas Lawley 1st Baronet (age 65) died. His son Francis (age 16) succeeded 2nd Baronet Lawley of Spoonhill in Shropshire.
On 19th October 1667 Hugh Hare 1st Baron Coleraine (age 61) died. His son Henry (age 31) succeeded 2nd Baron Coleraine. Constantia Lucy Baroness Coleraine by marriage Baroness Coleraine.
On 19th October 1678 William Paget 5th Baron Paget Beaudasert (age 69) died. His son William (age 41) succeeded 6th Baron Paget Beaudasert. Frances Pierrepont Baroness Geneville Beaudasert by marriage Baroness Paget Beaudasert.
On 19th October 1681 Randal Beresford 2nd Baronet (age 45) died. His son Tristram (age 12) succeeded 3rd Baronet Beresford of Coleraine in Londonderry.
On 19th October 1682 Thomas Browne (age 77) died.
On 19th October 1721 Randal MacDonnell 4th Earl of Antrim (age 41) died. His son Alexander (age 8) succeeded 5th Earl Antrim 1C.
On 19th October 1723 Godfrey Kneller (age 77) died.
On 19th October 1725 Richard Anguish aka Allin 1st Baronet (age 66) died. His son Thomas (age 14) succeeded 2nd Baronet Allin of Somerleyton in Suffolk.
On 19th October 1733 Thomas Molyneux 1st Baronet (age 72) died. His son Daniel (age 25) succeeded 2nd Baronet Molyneux of Castle Dillon in Armagh.
On 19th October 1739 John Lawson 3rd Baronet (age 50) died. His son Henry (age 27) succeeded 4th Baronet Lawson of Brough Hall in Yorkshire.
On 19th October 1765 Edward Blount 5th Baronet (age 41) died. His brother Walter (age 40) succeeded 6th Baronet Blount of Sodington.
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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 19th October 1768 Thomas Archer 1st Baron Archer (age 73) died. His son Andrew (age 32) succeeded 2nd Baron Archer of Umberslade. Sarah West Baroness Archer by marriage Baroness Archer of Umberslade.
On 19th October 1789 Francis Samuel Drake 1st Baronet (age 60) died without issue. Baronet Drake of Prospect in Devon extinct.
On 19th October 1793 Mary Panton Duchess Ancaster and Kesteven died.
On 19th October 1842 William Rae 3rd Baronet (age 73) died. Baronet Rae of Esk Grove extinct.
On 19th October 1855 John Vesey 2nd Viscount Vesci (age 84) died. His son Thomas (age 52) succeeded 3rd Viscount Vesci of Abbeyleix in Queen's County, 4th Baron Knapton, 5th Baronet Vesey of Abbeyleix.
On 19th October 1862 John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne (age 83) died. His son James (age 58) succeeded 3rd Baron Sherborne. He was buried in Saint Mary Magdalene's Church, Sherborne [Map]. Monument to John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne and Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne.
John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne: On 24th June 1779 he was born to James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne and Elizabeth Coke Baroness Sherborne. Before 1804 John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne and Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne were married. She by marriage Baroness Sherborne.
James Henry Legge Dutton 3rd Baron Sherborne: On 30th May 1804 he was born to John Dutton 2nd Baron Sherborne and Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne. On 22nd June 1826 James Henry Legge Dutton 3rd Baron Sherborne and Elizabeth Howard were married. She the daughter of Thomas Howard 16th Earl Suffolk 9th Earl Berkshire and Elizabeth Jane Dutton Countess Suffolk and Berkshire. They were first cousins. On 8th March 1883 James Henry Legge Dutton 3rd Baron Sherborne died. His son Edward succeeded 4th Baron Sherborne. Emily Theresa Stern Baroness Sherborne by marriage Baroness Sherborne.
Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne: she was born to Henry Bilson Legge 2nd Baron Stawell and Mary Curzon Baroness Stawell. On 21st October 1864 Mary Bilson Legge Baroness Sherborne died.
On 19th October 1862 Henry Benedict Arundell 11th Baron Arundel (age 57) died. His son John (age 30) succeeded 12th Baron Arundel of Wardour in Wiltshire.
On 19th October 1867 Bishop John Lonsdale (age 79) died at Eccleshall Castle, Staffordshire [Map] of a rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain. He was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Eccleshall [Map].
On 19th October 1883 George Philip Stanhope 8th Earl Chesterfield (age 60) died without issue. His fourth cousin Henry (age 62) succeeded 9th Earl Chesterfield, 9th Baron Stanhope of Shelford in Nottinghamshire.
On 19th October 1887 George Leicester aka Warren 2nd Baron Tabley (age 75) died. His son John (age 52) succeeded 3rd Baron Tabley, 7th Baronet Leicester of Timogue in Queen's County.
On 19th October 1904 Astley Paston Paston-Cooper 3rd Baronet (age 80) died. His son Charles (age 37) succeeded 4th Baronet Paston-Cooper of Gadebridge in Hertfordshire.
On 19th October 1922 Gavin Campbell 1st Marquess Breadalbane (age 71) died.
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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 19th October 1923 Adolfo Polloni (age 68) died.
On 19th October 1935 John Scott 7th Duke Buccleuch 9th Duke Queensberry (age 71) died at Bowhill House, Bowhill. His son Walter (age 40) succeeded 8th Duke Buccleuch, 10th Duke Queensberry, 8th Earl Doncaster, 8th Baron Scott of Tynedale. Vreda Lascelles Duchess Buccleuch and Queensbury (age 35) by marriage Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensberry.
On 19th October 1935 Frank Meyer 2nd Baronet (age 49) died in a hunting accident. His son Anthony (age 14) succeeded 3rd Baronet Meyer of Shortgrove.
On 19th October 1937 Ernest Rutherford 1st Baron Rutherford Physicist (age 66) died. Baron Rutherford of Nelson of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire extinct.
On 19th October 1948 Richard Hely-Hutchinson 6th Earl of Donoughmore (age 73) died. His son John (age 45) succeeded 7th Earl of Donoughmore, 7th Viscount Hutchinson of Knocklofty in Tipperary, 7th Viscount Donoughmore of Knocklofty in Tipperary, 8th Baron Donoughmore of Knocklofty in Tipperary.
On 19th October 1951 Harold Dudley Clayton 10th Baronet (age 74) died. His son Arthur (age 48) succeeded 11th Baronet Clayton of Marden Park in Surrey.
On 19th October 1957 Vere Gordon Childe (age 65) died.
On 19th October 1964 Christopher Vane 10th Baron Barnard (age 75) died. His son Harry (age 41) succeeded 11th Baron Barnard. Davina Mary Cecil Baroness Barnard (age 33) by marriage Baroness Barnard.
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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 19th October 1977 Geoffrey Hope-Morley 2nd Baron Hollenden (age 92) died without male issue. His nephew Gordon (age 63) succeeded 3rd Baron Hollenden of Leigh in Kent.
On 19th October 1991 Harold Tennyson 4th Baron Tennyson (age 72) died unmarried. His brother Mark (age 71) succeeded 5th Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight. Deline Celeste Budler Baroness Tennyson by marriage Baroness Tennyson of Aldworth in Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight.