Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.
Germany is in Germany.
On 3rd December 1329 John Maltravers 1st Baron Maltravers [aged 39] escaped to Germany.
On 22nd May 1409 Blanche Lancaster Elector Palatinate [aged 17] died in childbirth at Haguenau.
In 1809 Albert Grafle was born in Freiburg.
On 14th June 1932 Arthur Lawley 6th Baron Wenlock [aged 71] died in Freiburg. Baron Wenlock of Wenlock in Shropshire and Baronet Lawley of Spoonhill in Shropshire extinct.
On 13th September 1863 Ernst Hohenlohe Langenburg II Prince was born to Herman Ernst Franz Bernhard Hohenlohe Langenburg Prince [aged 31] at Langenburg. He married 20th April 1896 Alexandra Windsor Princess, daughter of Prince Alfred Windsor and Maria Holstein Gottorp Romanov, and had issue.
On 18th January 1899 Marie Melita Hohenlohe Langenburg Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg was born to Ernst Hohenlohe Langenburg II Prince [aged 35] and Alexandra Windsor Princess [aged 20] at Langenburg. She a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. She married 5th February 1916 her fifth cousin Wilhelm Friedrich Christian Glücksburg Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg, son of Friedrich Ferdinand Glücksburg Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg and Victoria Friederike Oldenburg Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg, and had issue.
On 9th March 1913 Herman Ernst Franz Bernhard Hohenlohe Langenburg Prince [aged 80] died at Langenburg.
On 26th September 1689 August Oldenburg [aged 37] died at Bonn.
On 19th January 1856 William Strutt [aged 17] died at Bonn.
On 26th May 1722 Frederick Johann Adolf Wettin was born to Johann Adolph Wettin Duke Saxe Weissenfels [aged 36] and Johannette Antoinette Juliane Wettin [aged 24] at Dahme. He died aged two in 1724.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.
On 10th July 1724 Frederick Johann Adolf Wettin [aged 2] died at Dahme.
On 2nd May 1728 Heinrich Uhthoff was born at Bremen.
On 16th January 1401 Stephen "Magnificient Fop" Wittelsbach III Duke Bavaria [aged 64] and Elisabeth de la Marck Duchess Bavaria [aged 23] were married at Cologne. She by marriage Duchess Bavaria. The difference in their ages was 41 years. She the daughter of Adolph de la Marck and Margaret Jülich Countess Cleves and Mark [aged 51]. He the son of Stephen Wittelsbach II Duke Bavaria and Elisabeth Barcelona Duchess Bavaria.
Around 1435 Edmund Cornwall [aged 53] died in Cologne. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th September 1641. I took waggon for Dort, to be present at the reception of the Queen-mother, Marie de Medicis [aged 66], Dowager of France, widow of Henry the Great, and mother to the French King, Louis XIII [aged 39], and the Queen of England [aged 31], whence she newly arrived, tossed to and fro by the various fortune of her life. From this city, she designed for Cologne, conducted by the Earl of Arundel [aged 14] and the Herr Van Bredrod. At this interview, I saw the Princess of Orange [aged 39], and the lady her daughter [aged 13], afterwards married to the House of Brandenburgh. There was little remarkable in this reception befitting the greatness of her person; but an universal discontent, which accompanied that unlucky woman wherever she went.
John Evelyn's Diary. 18th September 1641. I went to see that most impregnable town and fort of Hysdune, where I was exceedingly obliged to one Colonel Crombe, the Keutenant-govemor, who would needs make me accept the honour of being captain of the watch, and to give the word this night. The fortification is very irregular, but esteemed one of the most considerable for strength and situation in the Netherlands. We departed towards Gorcum. Here Sir Kenelm Digby [aged 38], travelling towards Cologne, met us.
John Evelyn's Diary. 6th July 1660. The King received a congratulatory address from the city of Cologne, in Germany, where he had been some time in his exile; his Majesty [aged 30] saying they were the best people in the world, the most kind and worthy to him that he ever met with. I recommended Monsieur Messary to be Judge Advocate in Jersey, by the Vice-Chamberlain's mediation with the Earl of St. Albans; and saluted my excellent and worthy noble friend, my Lord Ossory [aged 25], son to the Marquis of Ormond [aged 49], after many years' absence returned home.
On 15th December 1626 Anna Marie Wettin [aged 37] died at Dresden.
On 18th October 1668 John George Wettin IV Elector Saxony was born to John George Wettin III Elector Saxony [aged 21] and Anna Sophie Oldenburg [aged 21] at Dresden.
On 12th May 1670 Frederick Augutus Elector Saxony King of Poland was born to John George Wettin III Elector Saxony [aged 22] and Anna Sophie Oldenburg [aged 22] at Dresden.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.
In 1683 or 1685 Christian Fredericke Zincke was born at Dresden.
On 1st July 1860 George Bowyer 6th and 2nd Baronet [aged 77] died at Dresden. He was buried at the Church of St James the Great, Radley. His son George [aged 48] succeeded 7th Baronet Bowyer of Denham Court, 3rd Baronet Bowyer of Radley.
On 8th November 1863 Frederick Hervey 4th Marquess of Bristol was born to Augustus Henry Charles Hervey [aged 26] in Dresden. He married 1896 Alice Wythes Marchioness of Bristol and had issue.
Maria Hervey was born to Augustus Henry Charles Hervey in Dresden. She married 1887 her second cousin Charles Glynne Earle Welby 5th Baronet, son of William Earle Welby-Gregory 4th Baronet and Victoria Alexandrina Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie.
On 22nd September 1515 Anne of Cleves was born to John de la Marck III Duke Cleves [aged 24] and Maria Jülich Berg Duchess Cleves at Dusseldorf. She married 6th January 1540 her fifth cousin once removed King Henry VIII of England and Ireland, son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England.
On 17th October 1517 Amalia de la Marck was born to John de la Marck III Duke Cleves [aged 26] and Maria Jülich Berg Duchess Cleves at Dusseldorf.
On 1st March 1586 Amalia de la Marck [aged 68] died at Dusseldorf.
Bede. The said Suidbert, being made bishop, returned from Britain, and not long after departed to the Boructuari; and by his preaching brought many of them into the way of truth; but the Boructuari being not long after subdued by the Old Saxons, those who had received the Word were dispersed abroad; and the bishop himself with certain others went to Pippin, who, at the request of his wife, Blithryda, gave him a place of abode in a certain island on the Rhine, called in their tongue, Inlitore; there he built a monastery, which his successors still possess, and for a time dwelt in it, leading a most continent life, and there ended his days.
Bede. The said Suidbert, being made bishop, returned from Britain, and not long after departed to the Boructuari; and by his preaching brought many of them into the way of truth; but the Boructuari being not long after subdued by the Old Saxons, those who had received the Word were dispersed abroad; and the bishop himself with certain others went to Pippin, who, at the request of his wife, Blithryda, gave him a place of abode in a certain island on the Rhine, called in their tongue, Inlitore; there he built a monastery, which his successors still possess, and for a time dwelt in it, leading a most continent life, and there ended his days.
On 23rd August 1800 Frederick Emil Oldenburg was born to Frederick Christian Oldenburg II Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg [aged 34] and Louise Auguste Oldenburg Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg [aged 29] . At Kiel. He a great x 2 grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland. He married 1829 Henriette Danneskjold Samsøe Danneskiold Samsøe and had issue.
On 12th October 1855 Friedrich Ferdinand Glücksburg Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg was born to Friedrich Glücksburg Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg [aged 40] and Adelheid Schasumburg Lippe Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg at Kiel. He a great x 3 grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland. He married 19th March 1885 his third cousin once removed Victoria Friederike Oldenburg Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg, daughter of Frederick Christian Oldenburg II Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg and Adelheid Hohenlohe Langenburg Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg, and had issue.
On 16th June 1269 Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 60] and Beatrice Falkenburg Countess Cornwall were married at Kaiserslautern [Map]. She by marriage Countess Cornwall. He the son of King John of England and Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.
Around 1630 Thomas Baltzar was born in Lübeck.
On 8th November 1414 Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund [aged 46] was crowned I King Germany at Aachen aka Aix le Chapelle.
In August 1730 William Glynne 5th Baronet [aged 20] died at Aachen aka Aix le Chapelle. His brother John [aged 18] succeeded 6th Baronet Glynne of Bicester aka Bisseter in Oxfordshire.
On 26th May 961 Otto "Red" II King Germany II Holy Roman Emperor II King Italy [aged 6] was crowned II King Germany at Aachen Cathedral.
Chronicon ex Chronicis by Florence and John of Worcester. 10th April 1058. Six days before Palm-Sunday [10th April], the city of Paderborn, and two monasteries, that of the cathedral and that of the monks, were destroyed by fire. In the monks' monastery there was a Scottish monk named Paternus, who had been in the cloister for a great number of years, and had foretold this fire; yet such was his desire of martyrdom that nothing could induce him to leave the place, and he was burnt to death in his cell, passing through the flames to the cool refreshment of paradise. Some blessed things are related concerning his tomb. "Within a few days after this occurrence, on the Tuesday after the octave of Easter [26th of April], as I was departing from Cologne on the road to Fulda in company with the abbot of Fulda, for the sake of seclusion, prayed on the very mat on which he was burnt." Thus saith Marianus, the Scottish recluse.
On 12th October 1555 Peregrine Bertie 13th Baron Willoughby was born to Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby [aged 38] and Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk [aged 36] at Wesel in Germany. He was named for his parents peregrinations through Germany avoiding religious persecution. He married 25th December 1577 Mary Vere Baroness Willoughby of Eresby, daughter of John de Vere 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding Countess of Oxford, and had issue.
On 14th September 1618 Peter Lely was born Pieter van der Faes to Dutch parents in Soest.
In 1362 Geoffrey Scrope [aged 20] died at Prussia.
On 16th February 1620 Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg was born to George William Hohenzollern [aged 24] and Elisabeth Charlotte Palatinate Simmern [aged 22] at Berlin. He married (1) 7th December 1646 his half first cousin once removed Luise Henriette Orange Nassau and had issue (2) 13th June 1668 his fifth cousin Sophia Dorothea Oldenburg and had issue.
On 16th February 1655 Charles Hohenzollern was born to Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg [aged 35] and Luise Henriette Orange Nassau [aged 27] at Berlin.
On 18th February 1878 a double Royal Wedding took place at Berlin. The brides were second-cousins.
Bernhard Saxe Meiningen III Duke Saxe Meiningen [aged 26] and Charlotte Hohenzollern [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Frederick III King Prussia [aged 46] and Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia [aged 37]. He the son of Georg II Duke of Saxe Meiningen [aged 51]. They were third cousin twice removed. She a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Frederick Augustus II Grand Duke of Oldenburg [aged 25] and Elisabeth Anna Hohenzollern [aged 21] were married. They were fifth cousins.
The event was attended by King Leopold II of Belgium [aged 42] and his wife Marie Henriette of Austria, and the Prince of Wales [aged 36] and his brother Prince Arthur Windsor 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 27].
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 format.
On 8th December 1922 Lucian Freud was born to Ernest Freud [aged 30] at Berlin.
On 1st August 1759 John Waldegrave 3rd Earl Waldegrave [aged 41] fought at Minden Ravensberg during the Battle of Minden: Anglo-Hanoverian Alliance.
On 6th August 1195 Henry "Lion" Welf XII Duke Saxony III Duke Bavaria [aged 66] died at Ravensburg. Otto Wittelsbach I Duke Bavaria succeeded I Duke Bavaria.
On 28th March 1193 King Richard "Lionheart" I of England [aged 35] was handed over to Henry Hohenstaufen VI Holy Roman Emperor [aged 27] who imprisoned him in Trifels Castle [Map].
On 10th August 794 Fastrada Queen of the Franks and Lombardy, Holy Roman Empress [aged 29] died in Frankfurt. She was buried in St Alban's Abbey Mainz.
In 1486 Margaret Egmont Countess Palatinate Simmern [aged 50] died at Simmern.
On 15th July 1291 Rudolph I King Romans [aged 73] died at Speyer. He was buried at Speyer Cathedral. His son Albert [aged 36] succeeded I Duke Austria.
Chronicle of William Nangis. Emperor Henry, moved by repentance, abandoned the empire and, withdrawn from the knowledge of men, was afterwards neither seen nor recognized. Some, however, said that he was seen at Angers in a hospital for the poor and, having been recognized by his wife through confession, died and was buried there. Elsewhere it is written that, while coming to celebrate Pentecost at Utrecht, he died of the dragon's diseaseENDNOTE1ENDNOTE, to which he had been subject from birth. His body, the entrails having been removed and sprinkled with salt, was taken to Speyer.
Note 1. Henry, V Holy Roman Emperor, died at Utrecht on 23rd May 1125, leaving the empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, king of England, a widow without children.
Henricus imperator poenitentia ductus, reliquit imperium et ab hominum noticia sublatus, nee postea visus est vel cognitus. Tamen quidam dixerunt quod apud Andegavis, in hospitali pauperum visus, et per confessionem ab uxore sua cognitus, mortuus et sepultus est. Alibi vero legitur quod Pentecostem celebraturus veniens apud Ultrajectum, morbo dracunculi, qui sibi erat nativus, periit (i). Cujus corpus, ejectis intestinis, sale respersum, Spirae delatum est.
1. Henri V mourut à Utrecht le 23 mai de l'an 1125, laissant veuve sans enfants l'impératrice Mathilde, fille de Henri Ie., roi d'Angleterre.
On 15th July 1291 Rudolph I King Romans [aged 73] died at Speyer. He was buried at Speyer Cathedral. His son Albert [aged 36] succeeded I Duke Austria.
On 20th July 1235 Frederick I King Jerusalem II Holy Roman Emperor [aged 40] and Isabella Plantagenet Holy Roman Empress [aged 21] were married at Worms Cathedral [Map]. She the daughter of King John of England and Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England [aged 47]. He the son of Henry Hohenstaufen VI Holy Roman Emperor. They were fourth cousin once removed.