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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: Visconti
Maternal Family Tree: Tomasina Morosini
On 27th September 1350 [her father] Bernabò Visconti (age 27) and [her mother] Beatrice Regina della Scala (age 19) were married.
Around 1380 Lucia Visconti Countess Kent was born to Bernabò Visconti (age 57) and Beatrice Regina della Scala (age 49) in Milan.
On 18th June 1384 [her mother] Beatrice Regina della Scala (age 53) died.
On 19th December 1385 [her father] Bernabò Visconti (age 62) died.
On 24th January 1407 Edmund Holland 4th Earl Kent (age 23) and Lucia Visconti Countess Kent (age 27) were married at Southwark Cathedral [Map]. She by marriage Countess Kent. He was killed eighteen month's later at the Battle of Île de Bréhat. He the son of Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Kent and Alice Fitzalan Countess Kent (age 57).
Collectanea by John Leland. [24th January 1407] In the VIII Yere of King Henry Dame Luce [Lucia Visconti Countess Kent (age 27)], the Dukes of Milaine Syster, cam to London, and there was weddid to [her husband] Edmunde Holand (age 23) Erle of Kent in the Priory of S. Mary Overeys [Map], and the Fest was kept in the Bishop of Winchester’s Place.
Chronicle of Gregory. 24th January 1407. Ande that year the [her husband] Erle of Kent (age 23) weddyd the Erlys daughter (age 27) of Mylayne, at Synt Mary Overeys in Sowtheworke [Map], the xiiij day of Juylle..
Note. Other sources say 24 Jan 1407?
On 15th September 1408 [her husband] Edmund Holland 4th Earl Kent (age 24) was killed at Île de Bréhat during the Battle of Île de Bréhat. He was buried in Bourne Abbey, Lincolnshire [Map]. Earl Kent, Baron Holand extinct. Baron Wake of Liddell abeyant.
Chronicle of Robert Fabyan [-1512]. [24th February 1421] ... and forthe I wyll precede to shewe unto you some parte of the great honour that was vsed & excercysed upon the daye of the sayd quenes coronacion, whiche was after solempnyzed in seynt Peters churche of Westmynster, upon the daye of seynt Mathy the Apostle, or the xxiiii [24th] day of February. After which solempnyzacon in yt churche endyd, she was conveyed into the great halle of Westmynster, & there sette to dyner; upon whose right hande satte, at the ende of the same table, the archebysshop of Caunterbury (age 58), and Henry (age 46), surnamed the rych cardynall of Winchester; and upon the lefte hande of ye quene sat the kynge of Scottes (age 26) in his astate, ye whiche was servyd with coveryd messe lyke unto the forenamed bysshops, but after theym. And upon the same hande & syde, nere to the borde ende, sat the duchesse of Yorke (age 54)1, and the coutesse of Huntyngdon (age 58). The erle of the Marche (age 29) holdynga ceptre in his hande, knelyd upon the right syde. The erle marshal in lyke maner knelyd upon the left hande of ye quene. The conntesse of Kent (age 41)2 sat under the table at the ryght foot, and the coutesse marshall at the left foot. The duke of Glouceter, sir Humfrey (age 30), was that daye overloker, and stode before the quene bare hedyd. Sir Richarde Neuyll was that daye carver to the quene. The erlys brother of Suffolk cupberer, sir lohn Stewarde sewar. The lord Clyfford paterer, instede of ye erle of Warwik. The lord Wyllughby boteler, in stede of ye erle of Arudell. The lorde Gray Ruthyn (age 59), or Ryffyn, naperer. The lord of Awdeley amner, in stede of the erle of Cambrydge. The erle of Worceter (age 25) was that day erle marshal, in absence of the erle marshall, the whiche rode aboute the halle upon a great courser, wt a multytude of typped stauys aboute hym, to kepe the rome in the halle.
Note 1. her husband Edward 2nd Duke of York 1st Duke Albemarle had been killed six years before at the Battle of Agincourt so correctly Dowager Duchess of York.
Note 2. her husband [her former husband] Edmund Holland 4th Earl Kent had been killed thirteen years before at the Battle of Île de Bréhat so correctly Dowager Countess of Kent.
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On 14th April 1424 Lucia Visconti Countess Kent (age 44) died.
Great x 2 Grandfather: Pope Gregory X
Great x 1 Grandfather: Matteo I Visconti
GrandFather: Stephano Visconti
Great x 2 Grandfather: Squarcino Borri
Great x 1 Grandmother: Bonacossa Borri
Father: Bernabò Visconti
GrandMother: Valentina Doria
GrandFather: Mastino II della Scala
Mother: Beatrice Regina della Scala
Great x 1 Grandfather: Jacopo I da Carrara
GrandMother: Taddea da Carrara
Great x 2 Grandfather: Pietro Gradenigo
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anna Gradenigo
Great x 2 Grandmother: Tomasina Morosini