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.
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Before 21st July 1840 [her father] Reverend George Browne Macdonald [aged 35] and [her mother] Hannah Jones were married.
On 21st July 1840 Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones was born to [her father] Reverend George Browne Macdonald [aged 35] and [her mother] Hannah Jones at Birmingham, Warwickshire.
On 9th June 1856 [her future husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 22] and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 15] were engaged.
On 9th June 1860 Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 26] and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 19] were married at Manchester Cathedral [Map].
On 21st October 1861 [her son] Philip Burne-Jones 2nd Baronet was born to [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 28] and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 21]. He was baptised at Manchester Cathedral [Map] with his godfathers, by proxy, being John Ruskin [aged 42] and Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 33]. See Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones.
1863. [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 29]. Portrait of his wife Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 22].
1864. [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 30]. Portrait of Jane Morris nee Burden [aged 24], and his sisters-in-law Alice Macdonald [aged 26], Agnes Macdonald Lady Poynter [aged 21] and Louisa Macdonald [aged 19] listening to his wife Georgiana [aged 23] reading aloud.
Alice Macdonald: On 4th April 1837 she was born to Reverend George Browne Macdonald and Hannah Jones at Birmingham, Warwickshire. On 18th March 1865 John Lockwood Kipling and she were married at St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington. On 22nd November 1910 she died. She was buried at St John's Church, Tisbury.
Louisa Macdonald: In 1845 she was born to Reverend George Browne Macdonald and Hannah Jones at Birmingham, Warwickshire. In 1925 she died.
In 1864 [her son] Philip Burne-Jones 2nd Baronet [aged 2] contracted scarlet fever which his mother Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 23] then contracted which bring about the premature birth of her second child who died soon afterwards.
Around July 1866 [her daughter] Margaret Burne-Jones was born to [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 32] and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 25] at 41 Kensington Square.
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.
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1868. [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 34]. "Woman's Head. Study of "Le Chant D'Amour". Probably his wife Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 27].
In 1868 [her father] Reverend George Browne Macdonald [aged 63] died.
1870. Edward Poynter 1st Baronet [aged 33]. Portrait of Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 29].
1874. Frederick Hollyer [aged 35]. Photograph of the Burne-Jones and Morris families including William Morris [aged 39], Jane Morris nee Burden [aged 34], [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 40] and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 33].
Around 1882. Frederick Hollyer [aged 43]. Photograph of Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 41].
From 1883. [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 49]. Portrait of his wife Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 42] and their children [her son] Philip Burne-Jones 2nd Baronet [aged 21] and [her daughter] Margaret Burne-Jones [aged 16].
Margaret Burne-Jones: Around July 1866 she was born to Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet and Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones at 41 Kensington Square. In 1953 she died.
1884. [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 50]. "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid". Model probably the artist's wife Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 43] or Julia Prinsep Jackson [aged 37]. Inspired by Tennyson's [aged 74] poem The Beggar Maid. The painting was purchased Edward Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie 1st Earl Wharncliffe [aged 56].
The London Gazette 26509. Whitehall, May 3, 1894
The Queen [aged 74] has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom unto [her husband] Edward Coley Burne Burne-Jones [aged 60], of Rottingdean, in the county of Sussex, and of the Grange, in the parish of Fulham, in the county of London, Esquire, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. [Note. Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 53] by marriage Lady Burne-Jones of Rottingdean in Sussex and The Grange in Fulham in London]
Life of William Morris. During the last weeks he was attended, beyond his own family, by the untiring devotion of his friends. Miss Mary De Morgan [aged 46] brought to this last service all the skill born of long experience, and the intelligent sympathy of an affection which Morris had for many years cordially returned. Sir [her husband] Edward [aged 63] and Lady Burne Jones [aged 56], Mr. Webb, and Mr. Ellis were with him almost daily. Mr. Cockerell was ceaseless in his zeal and care; and Mr, Emery Walker nursed him with the patience and tenderness of a woman. On the morning of Saturday the 3rd of October [1896], between eleven and twelve o'clock, he died quietly and without visible suffering.
On 17th June 1898 [her husband] Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 64] died. His son Philip [aged 36] succeeded 2nd Baronet Burne-Jones of Rottingdean in Sussex and The Grange in Fulham in London.
On 2nd February 1920 Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones [aged 79] died.
Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones. Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones was written by his wife Georgiana Macdonald Lady Burne-Jones and published in 1906 by The Macmillan Company.
Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet aged 37 from the portrait by George Frederick Watts.