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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.
Paternal Family Tree: Fitzgerald
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Helena MacDonnell 1747-1796
On 17th January 1884 [his father] Gerald Fitzgerald 5th Duke Leinster (age 32) and [his mother] Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe Duchess Leinster (age 19) were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] William Duncombe 1st Earl Feversham (age 54) and [his grandmother] Mabel Violet Graham Countess Feversham (age 50). He the son of [his grandfather] Charles William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald 4th Duke Leinster (age 64) and [his grandmother] Caroline Leveson-Gower Duchess Leinster (age 56). They were sixth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 21st September 1888 Desmond Fitzgerald was born to Gerald Fitzgerald 5th Duke Leinster (age 37) and Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe Duchess Leinster (age 24) at Carton House, Maynooth.
On 1st December 1893 [his father] Gerald Fitzgerald 5th Duke Leinster (age 42) died of typhoid. His son [his brother] Maurice (age 6) succeeded 6th Duke Leinster.
On 19th March 1895 [his mother] Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe Duchess Leinster (age 30) died of tuberculosis at Menton.
On 6th February 1909 Desmond Fitzgerald (age 20) was commissioned into the Irish Guards as a 2nd Lieutenant, to Captain on 18 Oct 1913 and to Major on 15 Jul 1915.
1915. Unknown Photographer. Photograph of Desmond Fitzgerald (age 26).
On 3rd March 1916 Desmond Fitzgerald (age 27) was killed in action. He was buried in Cimetière Sud, Calais, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
New York Times, March 8, 1916, Lord Desmond "was experimenting with a new kind of bomb, when it exploded and a fragment struck him in the head. He was taken to a hospital and died an hour later."
Author and poet Rudyard Kipling whose Irish Guard son John was killed in action, wrote in The Irish Guards in the Great War (chapter The Salient to The Somme): "On March 3, during practice with live bombs, one exploded prematurely, as several others of that type had done in other battalions, and Major Lord Desmond FitzGerald was so severely wounded that he died within an hour at the Millicent Sutherland (No. 9. Red Cross Hospital). Lieutenant T. E. G. Nugent was dangerously wounded at the same time through the liver, though he did not realise this at the time, and stayed coolly in charge of a party till help came. Lieutenant Hanbury, who was conducting the practice, was wounded in the hand and leg, and Father Lane-Fox lost an eye and some fingers.
Lord Desmond FitzGerald was buried in the public cemetery at Calais on the 5th. As he himself had expressly desired, there was no formal parade, but the whole Battalion, of which he was next for the command, lined the road to his grave.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 24 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 20 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Son of Henry IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Fitzgerald 19th Earl of Kildare 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Fitzgerald 1st Duke Leinster 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary O'Brien Countess Kildare 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Robert Fitzgerald 2nd Duke Leinster 2 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Lennox 2nd Duke Richmond Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Emilia Mary Lennox Duchess Leinster Great Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sarah Cadogan Duchess Richmond
Great x 1 Grandfather: Augustus Fitzgerald 3rd Duke Leinster 3 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ussher
Great x 3 Grandfather: St George Ussher aka St George 1st Baron Saint George
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary St George
Great x 2 Grandmother: Emilia St George Duchess Leinster
GrandFather: Charles William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald 4th Duke Leinster 4 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Stanhope 1st Earl of Harrington 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Stanhope 2nd Earl of Harrington 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Griffith
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl of Harrington 2 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Fitzroy 2nd Duke Grafton Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Caroline Fitzroy Countess Harrington Great Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Henrietta Somerset Duchess Grafton 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Charlotte Augusta Stanhope Duchess Leinster 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fleming 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Fleming Countess Harrington
Father: Gerald Fitzgerald 5th Duke Leinster 5 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Duke Sutherland 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Scroop Egerton 1st Duke Bridgewater 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Louisa Egerton Countess Gower 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Rachel Russell Duchess Bridgewater 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: George Sutherland Leveson-Gower 2nd Duke Sutherland 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Sutherland 17th Earl Sutherland 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Sutherland 18th Earl Sutherland 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Wemyss Countess Sutherland 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sutherland Duchess Sutherland 19th Countess Sutherland 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
GrandMother: Caroline Leveson-Gower Duchess Leinster 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Howard 4th Earl Carlisle 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Frederick Howard 5th Earl Carlisle 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabella Byron Countess Carlisle 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Howard 6th Earl Carlisle 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower Countess Carlisle 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Louisa Egerton Countess Gower 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandmother: Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard Duchess Sutherland 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Georgiana Cavendish Countess Carlisle 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Spencer 1st Earl Spencer 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Georgiana Spencer Duchess Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Georgiana Poyntz Countess Spencer 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Desmond Fitzgerald 6 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Duncombe
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Slingsby Duncombe 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sarah Slingsby 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Duncombe 1st Baron Feversham 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Duncombe 2nd Baron Feversham 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Legge 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Legge 2nd Earl Dartmouth 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Kaye Baroness North and Guildford
Great x 2 Grandmother: Charlotte Legge Baroness Feversham Duncombe Park 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Gounter Nicoll
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Catherine Gounter Nicoll Countess Dartmouth
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Blundell
GrandFather: William Duncombe 1st Earl Feversham 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stewart 7th Earl Galloway 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Stewart 8th Earl Galloway 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Dashwood 2nd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Dashwood Countess Galloway
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Spencer Lady Dashwood
Great x 1 Grandmother: Louisa Stewart Baroness Feversham Duncombe Park 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Bayly 2nd Baronet Bayly of Plas Newydd in Anglesey
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Bayly-Paget 1st Earl Uxbridge 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Caroline Paget Lady Plas Newydd Anglesey 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Paget Countess Galloway 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Very Reverend Arthur Champagné
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Champagné Countess Uxbridge
Mother: Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe Duchess Leinster 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Very Reverend William Graham
Great x 3 Grandfather: Reverend Robert Graham
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Offley
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Graham 1st Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Graham 2nd Baronet 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stewart 7th Earl Galloway 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Stewart Lady Graham 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Dashwood 2nd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Dashwood Countess Galloway
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Spencer Lady Dashwood
GrandMother: Mabel Violet Graham Countess Feversham 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Colonel James Campbell of Ardkinglass
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances "Fanny" Callander Lady Graham 20 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Randal MacDonnell 4th Earl of Antrim
Great x 3 Grandfather: Alexander MacDonnell 5th Earl of Antrim 18 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Rachel Skeffington Countess Antrim 17 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Helena MacDonnell 19 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England