Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses

Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.

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Ermine

Ermine is in Field.

Weston Arms. Ermine, on a chief azure five bezants.

Fox Arms. Ermine, on a chevron azure three fox's heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur de lys of the third. The canton is an augmentation of honour to his paternal arms, granted out of the Royal Arms as a mark of esteem to him and his heirs forever, by King Charles II following the Restoration of the Monarchy. Source.

Adams Arms. Ermine three cats argent. Source

Ingram Arms. Ermine on a fess gules three escallops or. Source.

Bagot Arms. Ermine, two chevronels azure. Source.

Jodrell Arms. Ermine. Source.

Calthorpe Arms. Ermine, a maunch gules. Source.

Knightley Arms. Quarterly 1&4 Ermine, 2&3 Unknown. Source.

Chudleigh Arms. Ermine, three lions rampant gules. Source.

William of Worcester's Chronicle of England

William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.

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Lister Arms. Ermine, a fess sable three mullets or. Source.

Denison Arms. Ermine, a bend azure cotised sable between a unicorn's head erased in chief and a cross crosslet fitchy in base gules. Source.

Pye Arms. Ermine, a bend lozengy gules. Source.

Chaplin Arms. Ermine a chief azure three griffin's heads erased or.

Dagworth Arms. Ermine, a fess gules three torteaux. Source.

Dorward Arms. Ermine on a chevron sable, three crescents or.

Boscawen Arms. Ermine, a rose gules barbed and seeded proper. Source.

Strode Arms. Ermine on a canton sable a crescent argent. Source.

Tuchet Arms. Ermine, a chevron gules. Source.

Wendesley Arms. Ermine, on a bend gules three escallops argent. Source.

Arden Arms. Ermine, a fess chequy or and azure. Source.