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In January 1562 Richard Alington (age 27) died of smallpox in Long Melford, Suffolk [Map].
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On 9th February 1605 Filippo Emanuele Prince of Piedmont (age 18) died of smallpox at Valladolid [Map]. His brother Victor (age 17) succeeded Duke Savoy.
On 6th December 1618 Elizabeth Radclyffe Viscountess Haddington died of smallpox. She was buried at New Hall, Essex.
In 1620 Jane Okeover (age 46) died of smallpox. The year also reported as 1622 when her former husband remarried and 1628.
On 25th September 1621 Mary Sidney Countess Pembroke (age 59) died of smallpox at Herbert Townhouse Aldersgate Street. Her funeral was held at St Paul's Cathedral [Map]. She was buried at Salisbury Cathedral [Map].
Before 31st October 1642 Thomas Smyth (age 33) died of smallpox. His body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of All Saints, Long Ashton [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 27th February 1643 Tobias Crispe (age 43) died of smallpox. He was buried at St Mildred's Church, Bread Street.
On 3rd June 1643 Anne Sophia Herbert Countess Carnarvon died of smallpox.
On 24th June 1649 Henry Hastings (age 19) died of smallpox.
On 29th November 1649 John Leventhorpe 3rd Baronet (age 20) died of smallpox unmarried at Chancery Lane [Map]. His brother Thomas (age 13) succeeded 4th Baronet Leventhorpe of Shingey Hall in Hertfordshire.
In February 1655 George Brydges 6th Baron Chandos (age 34) died of smallpox. His brother William (age 34) succeeded 7th Baron Chandos of Sudeley.
On 7th December 1657 Johanna Saxe Gotha (age 12) died of smallpox at Gotha.
On 31st December 1657 Johann Ernest Saxe Gotha (age 16) died of smallpox at Gotha.
In 1659 Henry Lee 3rd Baronet (age 21) died of smallpox. His brother Francis (age 19) succeeded 4th Baronet Lee of Quarrendon in Buckinghamshire.
In 1660 Bassingbourne Gawdy (age 22) died of smallpox.
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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 10th August 1660 Esmé Stewart 2nd Duke Richmond 5th Duke Lennox (age 11) died of smallpox at Paris [Map]. He was buried in on 04 Sep 1660 in the Richmond Vault, Westminster Abbey. His first cousin Charles (age 21) succeeded 6th Duke Lennox, 3rd Duke Richmond, 4th Earl March. Elizabeth Rogers Duchess Richmond by marriage Duchess Richmond. His sister Mary (age 9) succeeded 5th Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire.
On 13th September 1660 Henry Stewart 1st Duke Gloucester (age 20) died of smallpox. Duke Gloucester and Earl Cambridge extinct. He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map] in the same vault as Mary Queen of Scots.
On 24th December 1660 Mary Stewart Princess Orange (age 29) died of smallpox. Her brother Henry Stewart 1st Duke Gloucester had also died of smallpox a few weeks before; she was buried in the same vault in the King Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey [Map] on 2nd January 1661.
On 4th February 1661 Charles Villiers 2nd Earl Anglesey died of smallpox without legitimate issue. Earl Anglesey, Baron Villiers of Daventry extinct.
On 5th May 1661 Charles Stewart died of smallpox at Whitehall Palace [Map].
On 17th December 1661 Charles Coote 1st Earl Mountrath (age 51) died of smallpox. He was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin [Map].
On 17th March 1665 Mary Gardiner (age 38) died of smallpox. On 1st April 1665 she was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].
On 6th January 1668 Henry Caesar (age 37) died of smallpox.
On 30th July 1671 Louis Guise Duke Guise (age 20) died of smallpox.
In 1675 William Sarsfield died of smallpox.
On 2nd March 1675 Justinian Isham 2nd Baronet (age 65) died of smallpox at Oxford, Oxfordshire [Map]. He was buried at Church of All Saints, Lamport. His son Thomas (age 17) succeeded 3rd Baronet Isham of Lamport in Northamptonshire.
In 1676 William Brydges 7th Baron Chandos (age 55) died of smallpox with no male issue. His third cousin James (age 33) succeeded 8th Baron Chandos of Sudeley. Elizabeth Barnard Baroness Chandos (age 33) by marriage Baroness Chandos of Sudeley.
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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 November 1677 James Fox (age 12) died of smallpox; some sources say smallpos. He is bured in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey [Map]. His mural monument is inscribed: "Here lies buried, near the ashes of Edward, John, and Stephen, three brothers, the most distinguished young man James Fox, the fifth son of the most honorable Sir Stephen Fox (age 50), Knight, and Elizabeth his wife, a son most worthy of his parents, and parents worthy of their son. He showed the highest piety, even as a boy, towards God; a unique devotion towards his parents; old-fashioned simplicity among all; a head most dear to Venus and Apollo, a true Adonis and Hyacinth, and by the gifts of his mind and body, a beloved of God now, once of men. O parents, take pity on parents. O children, imitate this son! O descendants, mourn your loss. Cultivated in various kinds of literature, he flourished with an admirable contrast. Under the boy lay hidden another man; in the cradle of life and in death, a Hercules, while snatched away by the treachery of measles, he seemed to have flown from the fire and painful tunic to the heavens. On the 13th day before the Calends of December, in the year of our Lord 1677, aged 12 and a half."
Hic infra situs est, juxta Edwardi, Johannis, & Stephani, trium fratrum cineres, selectissimus Adolescentulus Jacobus Fox, honoratissimi Domini Steph. Fox Equiti Aurati & Elizabethae uxoris, filius natu quintus, parentes filio & filius parentibus quam dignissimus. Summa pietate, vel puer quoad Deum; singulari studio erga parentes, prisca simplicitate inter omnes, percarum Veneri & Apollini caput, indubitatus Adonis & Hyacinthus necnon per dotes animi & corporis, nunc Dei olim hominum amasius. O parentes miseremini parentum. O filii ex illo transcribite filium! O posteri vestrum deflete damnum. Vario literaturae genere excultus admirandi sua floruit Antithesis. Sub puero vir delituit alter in vitae cunabulis & in morte Hercules, dum morbillorum perfidia sublatus, videatur ex igne & tunicâ molestâ evolasse ad coelos. A. D. 13. Cal. Decemb. Anno Dom. 1677. aetatis 12. cum semisse.
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On 12th December 1677 Charles Stewart died of smallpox.
In 1678 William Dummer (age 21) died of smallpox.
In 1680 Mary Wood Duchess Southampton (age 17) died of smallpox. She was buried with her mother Mary Gardiner (who also died of smallpox) in Westminster Abbey [Map].
On 22nd June 1680 Elisabeth Saxe Coburg Altenburg (age 1) died of smallpox at Gotha.
In 1681 Edward Turbeville (age 33) died of smallpox.
In 1685 Anne Killigrew (age 25) died of smallpox. She was buried at Savoy Chapel Royal [Map].
On 14th March 1685 Mary Evelyn (age 20) died of smallpox.
On 9th July 1685 John Hussey (age 26) died of smallpox.
On 27th August 1685 Elizabeth Evelyn (age 17) died of smallpox.
Around 18th April 1686 Archbishop John Dolben (age 61) died of smallpox. He had been returned from York to London when he came into contact with a person infected with small-pox. Becoming infected himself he died a few days later.
Around 1690 Henry Horatio O'Brien died of smallpox.
On 21st October 1690 Infanta Isabel Luísa of Portugal (age 21) died of smallpox.
On 6th August 1691 Mary Compton Countess Dorset and Middlesex (age 22) died of smallpox.
On 26th November 1691 John Barrington 4th Baronet (age 21) died of smallpox. His brother Charles (age 20) succeeded 5th Baronet Barrington of Barrington Hall.
On 21st March 1693 Walter Chetwynd (age 60) died of smallpox. He was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Ingestre [Map]. John Chetwynd of Boughton (age 50) inherited Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire.
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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 24th May 1694 Anthony Carey 5th Viscount Falkland (age 38) died of smallpox. He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map]. His second cousin Lucius (age 6) succeeded 6th Viscount Falkland.
On 28th December 1694 Mary Stewart II Queen England Scotland and Ireland (age 32) died of smallpox shortly after midnight at Kensington Palace. Her body lay in state at the Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace [Map].
On 5th March 1695 she was buried in Westminster Abbey [Map]. Archbishop Thomas Tenison (age 58) preached the sermon.
She had reigned for five years. Her husband King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 44) continued to reign for a further eight years.
In November 1695 John Guise 2nd Baronet (age 41) died of smallpox. He was buried in St John the Baptist's Church, Elmore. His son John (age 18) succeeded 3rd Baronet Guise of Elmore in Gloucestershire.
On 25th February 1699 Robert Shirley (age 25) died of smallpox.
On 30th July 1700 Prince William Duke Gloucester (age 11) died of smallpox.
On 16th September 1700 Thomas Morgan (age 36) died of smallpox. John Morgan of Tredegar (age 29) inherited Tredegar House, Monmouthshire and estates worth £7000.
On 5th June 1701 Thomas Gee died of smallpox. Buried at St Matthew's Church, Hayfield [Map].
On 8th November 1702 John Evelyn of Nutfield (age 25) died of smallpox.
On 20th February 1703 John Churchill (age 17) died of smallpox.
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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 21st November 1703 Karl Frederick Saxe Coburg Altenburg (age 1) died of smallpox (possibly) at Gotha.
On 29th November 1703 Sophie Saxe Coburg Altenburg (age 6) died of smallpox at Gotha.
On 28th March 1704 Edward Ward 8th Baron Dudley 3rd Baron Ward (age 20) died of smallpox. His son succeeded 4th Baron Ward of Birmingham, 9th Baron Dudley posthumously.
On 27th February 1705 Christian Saxe Coburg Altenburg was born to Frederick Saxe Coburg Altenburg II Duke Saxe Gotha Altenburg (age 28) and Magdalena Augusta Anhalt Zerbst Anhaltzerbst Duchess Saxe Gotha Altenburg at Gotha. He died of smallpox on 5th March 1705 at Gotha.
In 1710 Margaret Brownlow (age 23) died of smallpox. Her estate of £40,000 was divided between her four sisters: Jane Brownlow Duchess Ancaster and Kesteven, Elizabeth Brownlow Countess Exeter (age 29), Alicia Brownlow Baroness Guildford (age 26) and Eleanor Brownlow Viscountess Tyconnel (age 19).
On 16th June 1710 William Ashburnham 2nd Baron Ashburnham (age 31) died of smallpox at Ashburnham. His brother John (age 23) succeeded 3rd Baron Ashburnham of Ashburnham in Sussex.
In July 1710 Catherine Taylor died of smallpox.
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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 27th November 1710 Robert Lovett (age 43) died of smallpox.
In 1711 Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor (age 32) died of smallpox. His brother Charles (age 25) succeeded VI Holy Roman Emperor.
In 1711 William Henry Osborne (age 21) died of smallpox in Utrecht.
On 14th April 1711 Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" Bourbon Duke Burgundy (age 49) died of smallpox. Louis Bourbon Duke Burgundy (age 28) was appointed Duke Burgundy and Dauphin.
On 17th May 1711 William Henry Granville 3rd Earl of Bath (age 19) died of smallpox. Earl Bath, Baron Granville of Kilkhampton and Biddeford extinct.
On 20th March 1711 Cloberley Bromley (age 25) died of smallpox. The House of Commons, on behalf of his father, the Speaker, William Bromley (age 47) adjourbed until the 26th of March.
On 22nd February 1712 John Reade 3rd Baronet (age 21) died of smallpox unmarried at Rome in exile having become a Jacobite. He was buried on 11th June 1712 in the Brocket Chapel at St Elthreda's Church, Bishop's Hatfield; see monument here [Map]. Baronet Reade of Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire extinct.
In 1713 William Pierrepont (age 21) died of smallpox. He was buried at the Church of St Edmund, Holme Pierrepoint [Map].
On 22nd March 1713 Robert Petre 7th Baron Petre (age 24) died of smallpox. His son Robert succeeded 8th Baron Petre.
On 1st December 1713 Richard Lowther 2nd Viscount Lonsdale (age 19) died of smallpox. His brother Henry (age 19) succeeded 3rd Viscount Lonsdale in Westmoreland.
On 17th April 1714 Baptist Noel 3rd Earl Gainsborough (age 30) died of smallpox. His son Baptist (age 6) succeeded 4th Earl Gainsborough, 7th Viscount Campden, 7th Baron Hicks of Ilmington in Warwickshire.
On 5th July 1714 Robert Shirley (age 21) died of smallpox. Monument in Holy Trinity Church Staunton Harold, Leicestershire [Map]. Elbow Reclining Figure. Powdered Wig. Heeled Shoes. Possibly by John Michael Rysbrack (age 20).
Robert Shirley: On 28th December 1692 he was born to Robert Shirley and Anne Ferrers.
On 30th January 1719 John Egerton (age 14) died of smallpox at Eton College [Map]. He was buried at St Peter and St Paul Church, Little Gaddesden on 5th February 1719.
In 1721 Helen Froggatt (age 22) died of smallpox during an epidemic at Kinder.
In 1721 Elizabeth Booth died of smallpox.
On 21st May 1721 Francis Gee (age 17) died of smallpox. He was buried at St Matthew's Church, Hayfield [Map].
On 23rd May 1721 Essex Finch (age 34) died of smallpox.
On 4th July 1721 Percy Seymour (age 25) died of smallpox.
Before 19th August 1721 John Booth of Kinder died of smallpox. He was buried at St Matthew's Church, Hayfield [Map]. His son Thomas Booth (age 2) inherited Booth Farm, Kinder [Map].
On 21st September 1721 John Froggat (age 19) died of smallpox.
Before 24th July 1722 Robert Nightingale 4th Baronet died of smallpox unmarried. His brother Edward (age 64) de jure 5th Baronet Nightingale of Newport Pond in Essex.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 4th June 1723 Léopold Clement Charles Lorraine (age 16) died of smallpox.
On 31st August 1724 Louis I King Spain (age 17) died of smallpox. He was buried at the El Escorial Palace. Philippe V King Spain (age 40) returned to the Spanish throne.
On 23rd May 1731 John Chaplin 2nd Baronet (age 20) died of smallpox. Baronet Chaplin of the Inner Temple in London extinct.
In 1732 Elizabeth Tenison died of smallpox.
On 13th May 1737 William Wodehouse (age 31) died of smallpox without issue. He was buried in St James'.
In 23rd February 1738 Edmund Quincy (age 56) died of smallpox.
On 1st July 1741 Mary Fairfax Viscountess Fairfax died of smallpox.
On 2nd July 1742 Robert Petre 8th Baron Petre (age 29) died of smallpox at Ingatestone Hall, Essex. His son Robert succeeded 9th Baron Petre.
In 1746 Elizabeth Fazakerley died of smallpox.
On 1st April 1750 Francis Scott (age 29) died of smallpox. He was buried at Buccleuch Crypt, St Nicholas Church, Dalkeith.
On 24th August 1751 James Aston 5th Baronet (age 28) died of smallpox without male issue. His fourth cousin once removed Philip (age 40) succeeded 6th Baronet Aston of Tixall.
In 1752 Margaret Cecil died of smallpox at Earl of Egmont's House Pall Mall.
On 23rd December 1753 Thomas Gresley 5th Baronet (age 30) died of smallpox. His brother Nigel (age 26) succeeded 6th Baronet Gresley of Drakelow in Derbyshire. Elizabeth Wynn Lady Gresley by marriage Lady Gresley of Drakelow in Derbyshire.
On 6th June 1759 Bluett Wallop (age 33) died of smallpox.
On 31st January 1760 Mary Radclyffe (age 46) died of smallpox in Brussels [Map].
On 23rd December 1762 Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria (age 12) died of smallpox.
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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 10th May 1774 Louis XV King France (age 64) died of smallpox. His grandson Louis (age 19) succeeded XVI King France: Capet Valois Bourbon.
On 20th April 1848 Katherine Isabella Manners (age 39) died of smallpox at 47 Eaton Place, Kensington.