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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 November 1655 Charles XI King Sweden was born to Charles Gustav X King Sweden (age 33).
On 13th February 1660 [his father] Charles Gustav X King Sweden (age 37) died. His son Charles (age 4) succeeded XI King Sweden.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 29th November 1666. "I doubt not of your lordship's hearing of Sir Thomas Clifford's (age 36) succeeding Sir H. Pollard (deceased) in the Comptrollership of the King's house but perhaps our ill, but confirmed, tidings from the Barbadoes may not [have reached you] yet, it coming but yesterday; viz., that about eleven ships, whereof two of the King's, the Hope and Coventry, going thence with men to attack St. Christopher's, were seized by a violent hurricane, and all sunk-two only of thirteen escaping, and those with loss of masts, &c. My Lord Willoughby himself is involved in the disaster, and I think two ships thrown upon an island of the French, and so all the men, to 500, become their prisoners. 'Tis said, too, that eighteen Dutch men-of-war are passed the Channell, in order to meet with our Smyrna ships; and some, I hear, do fright us with the King of Sweden's (age 11) seizing our mast-ships at Gottenburgh. But we have too much ill newes true, to afflict ourselves with what is uncertain. That which I hear from Scotland is, the Duke of York's (age 33) saying, yesterday, that he is confident the Lieutenant-Generall there hath driven them into a pound, somewhere towards the mountains".
In 1668 Charles XI King Sweden (age 12) was appointed 469th Knight of the Garter by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 37).
On 6th May 1680 Charles XI King Sweden (age 24) and Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 23) were married. She the daughter of Frederick III King Denmark and Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark (age 52).
On 26th June 1681 [his daughter] Hedvig Sophia of Sweden was born to Charles XI King Sweden (age 25) and [his wife] Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 24).
On 17th June 1682 [his son] Charles XII King of Sweden was born to Charles XI King Sweden (age 26) and [his wife] Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 25).
On 28th July 1683 [his brother-in-law] Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland (age 30) and Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland (age 18) were married at Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. She the daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 49) and Anne Hyde Duchess of York. He the son of Frederick III King Denmark and [his mother-in-law] Sophie Amalie Hanover Queen Consort Denmark (age 55). They were second cousin once removed.
On 1st January 1684 [his brother-in-law] Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland (age 30) was appointed 487th Knight of the Garter by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 53).
On 23rd January 1688 [his daughter] Ulrika Eleonora Palatinate Zweibrücken Queen Consort Sweden was born to Charles XI King Sweden (age 32) and [his wife] Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 31).
In 1689 [his brother-in-law] Prince George of Denmark 1st Duke Cumberland (age 35) was created 1st Duke Cumberland by his father-in-law King James II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 55). Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland (age 23) by marriage Duchess Cumberland.
On 26th July 1693 [his wife] Ulrika Eleonora Oldenburg (age 36) died.
On 5th April 1697 Charles XI King Sweden (age 41) died.