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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: Stewart
Maternal Family Tree: Margaret Vaux 1465
In 1574 [her father] Charles Stewart 5th Earl Lennox (age 16) and [her mother] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Lennox (age 18) were married. She by marriage Countess Lennox. She the daughter of [her grandfather] William Cavendish and [her grandmother] Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford (age 47). He the son of [her grandfather] Matthew Stewart 4th Earl Lennox and [her grandmother] Margaret Douglas Countess Lennox (age 58).
In 1575 Arabella Stewart was born to Charles Stewart 5th Earl Lennox (age 17) and Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Lennox (age 19). She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
In April 1576 [her father] Charles Stewart 5th Earl Lennox (age 18) died.
On 21st January 1582 [her mother] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Lennox (age 26) died.
On 28th April 1603 Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (deceased) was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].
Helena Snakenbourg Marchioness Northampton (age 54) was Chief Mourner in the procession since Arabella Stewart (age 28) refused to take part. She was supported by Thomas Cecil 1st Earl Exeter (age 60) and Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 67).
George Bourchier (age 68) carried the Standard of the Dragon.
Philip Herbert 4th Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Montgomery (age 18) carried the Standard of the Greyhound.
Thomas Somerset carried the Standard of the Lyon.
William Segar (age 49) carried the Sword of State as Norrey King of Arms.
Admiral Richard Leveson (age 33) was one of the six knights who carried the canopy.
George Bourchier: George Bourchier and Martha Howard were married. The difference in their ages was 20 years. He the son of John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath and Eleanor Manners Countess Bath. They were fifth cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. In 1535 he was born to John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath and Eleanor Manners Countess Bath. In 1605 George Bourchier died.
Thomas Somerset: he was born to Henry Somerset 1st Marquess Worcester and Anne Russell Countess Worcester. On 30th December 1648 Thomas Somerset died at Dunkirk.
In July 1603 the Main and Bye Plots led by Henry Brooke 11th Baron Cobham (age 38) and Thomas Grey 15th Baron Grey of Wilton (age 27) sought to replace King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 37) with Arabella Stewart (age 28).
Thomas Grey 15th Baron Grey of Wilton was sentenced to death, attainted, and imprisoned in the Tower of London [Map].
In August 1603 during a plague in London the royal court moved to Basing House, Old Basing. Francis Palmes of Lindley (age 49) entertained courtiers at his house nearby at Lancelevy, Sherfield on Loddon. The party included Lady Anne Clifford (age 13), her mother Margaret Clifford (age 43), Countess of Cumberland and Elizabeth Bourchier, Countess of Bath, who used Lancelevy as a base to visit Anne of Denmark (age 28) and Arbella Stuart (age 28).
In 1605 Robert "The Elder" Peake (age 54). Portrait of Arabella Stewart (age 30).
On 5th May 1605 Princess Mary Stewart was christened at the Palace of Placentia [Map]. Elizabeth Vere Countess Derby (age 29) carried the child. The infant's clothing, a train of purple velvet, embroidered with gold and furred with Ermines, was supported by two countesses, being so long that it fell to the ground. Archbishop Richard Bancroft (age 60) performed the christening. The Queen's (age 30) brother Prince Ulrik Oldenburg (age 26), the King's (age 38) first cousin Arabella Stewart (age 30) and Dorothy Devereux Countess Northumberland (age 41) were godparents. The King presented Queen Anne (who was not present) with new jewelry.
All About History Books
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.
On 7th July 1606 William Larkin (age 24) became a Freeman of Worshipful Company of Stainers under the patronage of Arabella Stewart (age 31) and Edward Seymour 1st Earl Hertford (age 67).
On 10th January 1608 the Ben Johnson (age 36) Masque of Beauty was performed at the Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace [Map] to celebrate the completion of its refurburbishment. King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 41) attended.
The performers included:
Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland (age 33).
Alethea Talbot Countess Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk (age 23).
Catherine Brydges Countess Bedford (age 28).
Elizabeth Vere Countess Derby (age 32).
Susan Vere Countess Montgomery (age 20).
Lettice Perrot Baroness Chichester (age 48).
Audrey Shelton Lady Walsingham (age 39).
Catherine Somerset Baroness Windsor (age 33).
Anne Clifford Countess Dorset and Pembroke (age 17).
Elizabeth Barkham Lady Garrard (age 15).
Elizabeth Somerset (age 18).
Elizabeth Cecil Lady Hatton (age 30).
Mary Neville 7th and 5th Baroness Abergavenny 3rd Baroness Despencer (age 54).
Catherine Somerset Baroness Windsor.
Arabella Stewart (age 33).
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On 5th June 1610 the Tethy's Festival Masque was performed at Whitehall Palace [Map] to celebrate the the investiture of Prince Frederick (age 16) as Prince of Wales. The script was written by Samuel Daniel at the request of the Queen (age 35), who appeared in person as Tethys a goddess of the sea. Inigo Jones (age 36) designed the staging and scenery.
Prince Charles (age 9) took the part of Zephyrus,.
Princess Elizabeth Stewart Queen Bohemia (age 13) appeared as the companion or daughter of Tethys, the "Nymph of Thames",.
Arabella Stewart (age 35) took the part of the "Nymph of Trent",.
Alethea Talbot Countess Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk (age 25) as "Nymph of Arun".
Elizabeth Vere Countess Derby (age 34) as "Nymph of Derwent",.
Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset (age 20) as "Nymph of Lee",.
Anne Clifford Countess Dorset and Pembroke (age 20) as "Nymph of Air",.
Susan Vere Countess Montgomery (age 23) as "Nymph of Severn",.
Elizabeth Radclyffe Viscountess Haddington as "Nymph of Rother",.
Elizabeth Talbot Countess Kent (age 28) as "Nymph of Medway",.
Four sisters, daughters of Edward Somerset 4th Earl of Worcester (age 60) and Elizabeth Hastings Countess of Worcester (age 64), danced as the rivers of Monmouthshire:
Catherine Somerset Baroness Windsor (age 35) the "Nymph of Usk".
Katherine Somerset Baroness Petre (age 35) the "Nymph of Olwy".
Elizabeth Somerset (age 20) the "Nymph of Dulesse" (Dulas), and.
Mary Wintour the "Nymph of Wye".
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Memorials of affairs of state in the reigns of Q Elizabeth and K James I Volume 3. [5th June 1610] The next Day was graced with a moft glorious Maske, which was double. In the first, came first in the little Duke of York between zwo great Sea Slaves, the cheefest of Neptune's Servants, attended upon by twelve little Ladies, all of them the Daughters of Earls or Barons. By one of these Men a Speech was made unto the King and Prince, expressing the Conceipt of the Maske; by the other, a Sword worth 20000 Crowns at the least was put into the Duke of York's Hands, who presented the same unto the Prince his Brother from the first of those Ladies which were to follow in the next Maske. This done, the Duke returned into his former Place in midst of the Stage, and the little Ladies performed their Dance to the Amazement of all the Beholders, considering the Tenderness of their Years and the many intricate Changes of the Dance; which was so disposed, that which way soever the Changes went the little Duke was still found to be in the midst of these little Dancers. These light Skirmishers having done their devoir, in came the Princesses; first the Queen, next the Lady Elizabeth's Grace, then the Lady Arbella (age 35), the Countesses of Arundell (age 25), Derby (age 34), Essex (age 20), Dorset, and Montgomery (age 23), the Lady Hadington, the Lady Elizabeth Grey, the Lady Windsor, the Lady Katherine Peter, the Lady Elizabeth Guilford, and the Lady Mary Wintour. By that time these had done, it was high time to go to Bed, for it was within half an Hour of the Sun's, not setting, but rifing: Howbeit a farther Time was to be spent in viewing and scrambling at one of the most magnificent Banquets that I have seen. The Ambassadors of Spaine; of Venice, and of the Low Countries, were present at this and all the rest of these glorious Sights, and in Truth so they were.
On 22nd June 1610 William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset (age 22) and Arabella Stewart (age 35) were married in secret at Palace of Placentia, Greenwich [Map]. For having married without permission King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 44) had Arabella Stewart imprisoned in Sir Thomas Perry's House, Lambeth and he in the Tower of London [Map]. She the daughter of Charles Stewart 5th Earl Lennox and Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Lennox. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 25th September 1615 Arabella Stewart (age 40) died at Tower of London [Map] from illnesses exacerbated by her refusal to eat.
On 29th September 1615 Arabella Stewart (deceased) was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].
On 3rd March 1617 [her former husband] William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset (age 29) and Frances Devereux Duchess of Somerset (age 17) were married at Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire [Map]. She the daughter of Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex and Frances Walsingham Countess Essex (age 50). They were fourth cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
Diary of Anne Clifford. 28th April 1619. The 28th my Lord (age 30) and I, my Coz. Sackville and Lady Windsor went to the Tower to see my Lady Somerset (age 28), where we saw her little child (age 3)1. My Lord went to see Earl of Northumberland (age 55)2 and I and the Lady Windsor went to see [her aunt] Lady Shrewsbury (age 63)3, and after supper my Lord and I went by water to Channel Row to see my Lord of Hertford (age 79)4 and his Lady (age 40) where we found my Lady Beauchamp5, my Lord Essex's (age 28) Sister, then I went to Arundel House and talked with her about Lords being made Knights of the Garter.
Note 1. "Her little Child," Anne Carr, afterwards married to William 5th Earl and 1st Duke of Bedford (age 2).
Note 2. Henry, 6th Earl, a Prisoner since the time of the Gunpowder Plot.
Note 3. Mary Cavendish, wife of Gilbert 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, was sent to the Tower in June 1611, at the same time with her niece the Lady Arabella Stuart first cousin of King James. Lady Arabella died, in the Tower, in 1615.
Note 4. Earl of Hertford son of Protector Somerset, and his 3rd wife Frances, d. of Thomas Viscount Howard of Bindon, widow of Henry Pranell, Esq., and married, 3rdly to Ludovick Stuart Duke of Lenox and Richmond (age 44).
Note 5. Lady Frances Devereux (age 19), and wife of [her former husband] William Lord Beauchamp (age 31), afterwards Marquis of Hertford; daughter of Queen Elizabeth's favourite, and sister of the Parliament's General.
On 24th October 1660 [her former husband] William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset (age 72) died. His grandson William (age 6) succeeded 3rd Duke Somerset, 2nd Marquess Hertford, 3rd Earl Hertford, 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 2 Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 5 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alan Stewart of Darnley
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stewart 1st Earl Lennox 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Seton 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Matthew Stewart 2nd Earl Lennox 11 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Montgomerie 1st Lord Montgomerie
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Montgomerie Countess Lennox
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Boyd
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Stewart 3rd Earl Lennox 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Hamilton
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Hamilton 1st Lord Hamilton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Lennox 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King James II of Scotland 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Stewart Countess Arran 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary of Guelders Queen Consort Scotland 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandFather: Matthew Stewart 4th Earl Lennox 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Stewart of Innermeath 3rd of Lorn
Great x 3 Grandfather: James "Black Knight of Lorn" Stewart
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Macdougall
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Stewart 1st Earl Atholl 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Beaufort 1st Marquess Somerset and Dorset Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Beaufort Queen Consort Scotland Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Holland Duchess Clarence 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel or Elizabeth Stewart Countess Lennox 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Sinclair 2nd Earl Orkney
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Sinclair 3rd Earl Orkney 1st Earl Caithness 6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Egidia "Fair Maid of Nithsdale" Douglas Countess Orkney 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Sinclair Countess Atholl 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Marjory Sutherland Countess Orkney and Caithness
Father: Charles Stewart 5th Earl Lennox Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Douglas 4th Earl Angus 7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Archibald "Bell the Cat" Douglas 5th Earl Angus 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabella Sibbald Countess Angus
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Douglas 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Boyd 1st Lord Boyd
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Boyd Countess Angus
Great x 1 Grandfather: Archibald Douglas 6th Earl Angus 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Drummond 1st Lord Drummond
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Drummond m Douglas
GrandMother: Margaret Douglas Countess Lennox Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Owen Tudor 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Tudor 1st Earl Richmond 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine of Valois Queen Consort England 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: King Henry VII of England and Ireland 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Beaufort 1st Duke of Somerset Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Beaufort Countess Richmond 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Beauchamp Duchess Somerset 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Tudor Queen Scotland Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: King Edward IV of England 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Cecily "Rose of Raby" Neville Duchess York Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth York Queen Consort England Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Arabella Stewart 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cavendish
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cavendish
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Clopton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Cavendish
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Staventon
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Cavendish 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Scudamore
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Scudamore 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Owain ap Gruffudd "Glyndŵr" Mathrafal Prince Powys 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alys Mathrafal 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Hamner
GrandFather: William Cavendish 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Carrington Smith
Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Smith
Mother: Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Lennox 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Harwick
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Hardwick 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Pinchbeck
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Pinchbeck 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Green 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Greene 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary aka Marina Bellers
GrandMother: Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Leeke of Gotham
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Leeke of Lakeford
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Leeke of Hasland 7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Chaworth 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Chaworth 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leeke 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Vaux
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Vaux of Harrowden
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Vaux