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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Paternal Family Tree: Stewart
Maternal Family Tree: Jean Nicholson 1778
On 10th November 1868 [her father] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 22] and Amy Mary Ricardo [aged 21] were married. He the son of [her grandfather] Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke Richmond [aged 50] and [her grandmother] Frances Harriett Greville Duchess Richmond [aged 44].
In 1882 [her father] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 36] and [her mother] Isabel Sophie Craven [aged 18] were married. He the son of [her grandfather] Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke Richmond [aged 63] and [her grandmother] Frances Harriett Greville Duchess Richmond [aged 57]. They were fifth cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 13th December 1886 Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland was born to [her father] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 40] and [her mother] Isabel Sophie Craven [aged 23].
On 20th November 1887 [her mother] Isabel Sophie Craven [aged 24] died.
On 8th June 1893 [her half-brother] Charles Gordon-Lennox 8th Duke Richmond [aged 22] and [her sister-in-law] Hilda Madeline Brassey Duchess Richmond [aged 20] were married. He the son of [her father] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 47] and Amy Mary Ricardo.
On 27th September 1903 [her grandfather] Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke Richmond [aged 85] died. His son [her father] Charles [aged 57] succeeded 7th Duke Richmond, 2nd Duke Gordon, 7th Earl March, 7th Baron Settrington.
1909. Alice Hughes [aged 52]. Photograph of Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 22].
On 18th November 1911 Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 31] and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 24] were married. She the daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 65] and Isabel Sophie Craven. He the son of Henry George Percy 7th Duke Northumberland [aged 65] and Edith Campbell Duchess Northumberland [aged 62]. They were fifth cousins.
On 15th July 1912 [her son] Henry George Alan Percy 9th Duke Northumberland was born to [her husband] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 32] and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 25].
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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30th August 1912. The Morpeth Herald 30/08/1912 reports:
Earl Percy's Heir Christened In London.
Lord Warkworth, the infant son of Earl [aged 32] and Countess Percy [aged 25], was christened at St. Peter's, Eton Square, London, on Saturday morning. At the time of the service there were not a dozen people in the church, which was entirely devoid of special decoration, and the service itself was of the simplest possible description. The King, who had graciously consented to act sponsor, was represented by the Duke of Northumberland [aged 66], the other god father, on whose right hand stood Earl Percy. Others present included Countess Percy and Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox [aged 67]. Prebendary Storrs. vicar the parish, officiated, and Lord Warkworth, who raised no protest when water fell upon his forehead, was given the names of Henry George Alan Percy.
On 6th April 1914 [her son] Hugh Algernon Percy 10th Duke Northumberland was born to [her husband] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 33] and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 27]. He married 12th June 1946 his fourth cousin Elizabeth Diana Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Northumberland, daughter of Walter Scott 8th Duke Buccleuch 10th Duke Queensberry and Vreda Lascelles Duchess Buccleuch and Queensbury, and had issue.
1916. Philip de László [aged 46]. Portrait of Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 29].
On 25th May 1916 [her daughter] Elizabeth Ivy Percy was born to [her husband] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 36] and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 29].
On 23rd November 1917 [her daughter] Diana Evelyn Percy Duchess of Sutherland was born to [her husband] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 37] and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 30]. She married 29th April 1939 her fourth cousin John Sutherland Egerton 6th Duke Sutherland, son of John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton 4th Earl Ellesmere and Violet Lambton Countess Ellesmere.
On 14th May 1918 [her father-in-law] Henry George Percy 7th Duke Northumberland [aged 71] died. He was buried at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Lesbury [Map]. His son [her husband] Alan [aged 38] succeeded 8th Duke Northumberland, 5th Earl Beverley, 11th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 31] by marriage Duchess Northumberland.
On 11th February 1921 [her son] Richard Charles Percy was born to [her husband] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 40] and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 34].
On 8th July 1925 [her son] Geoffrey William Percy was born to [her husband] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 45] and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 38].
On 18th January 1928 [her father] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 82] died. His son [her half-brother] Charles [aged 57] succeeded 8th Duke Richmond, 3rd Duke Gordon, 8th Earl March, 8th Baron Settrington. [her sister-in-law] Hilda Madeline Brassey Duchess Richmond [aged 55] by marriage Duchess Richmond, Duchess Gordon.
On 23rd August 1930 [her husband] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 50] died. His son Henry [aged 18] succeeded 9th Duke Northumberland, 6th Earl Beverley, 12th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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On 7th May 1935 [her half-brother] Charles Gordon-Lennox 8th Duke Richmond [aged 64] died. His son [her nephew] Frederick [aged 31] succeeded 9th Duke Richmond, 4th Duke Gordon, 9th Earl March, 9th Baron Settrington.
1937. Philip de László [aged 67]. Portrait of Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 50] and her son Geoffrey William Percy [aged 11].
Geoffrey William Percy: On 8th July 1925 he was born to Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland. On 4th December 1984 Geoffrey William Percy died.
1937. Philip de László [aged 67]. Portrait of Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 50].
On 29th April 1939 [her son-in-law] John Sutherland Egerton 6th Duke Sutherland [aged 23] and Diana Evelyn Percy Duchess of Sutherland [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 52]. He the son of John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton 4th Earl Ellesmere [aged 66] and Violet Lambton Countess Ellesmere [aged 58]. They were fourth cousins.
On 21st May 1940 [her son] Henry George Alan Percy 9th Duke Northumberland [aged 27] was killed in action at Pecq in Belgium, serving with the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, in a brave charge against overwhelming odds that was described as suicidal. His body is interred in the Esquelmes War Cemetery. His brother Hugh [aged 26] succeeded 10th Duke Northumberland, 7th Earl Beverley, 13th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire.
On 12th June 1946 Hugh Algernon Percy 10th Duke Northumberland [aged 32] and Elizabeth Diana Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Northumberland [aged 24] were married. She by marriage Duchess Northumberland. She the daughter of Walter Scott 8th Duke Buccleuch 10th Duke Queensberry [aged 51] and Vreda Lascelles Duchess Buccleuch and Queensbury [aged 45]. He the son of Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 59]. They were fourth cousins.
On 13th June 1965 Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 78] died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 27 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 31 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of Henry IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 29 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Lennox 2nd Duke Richmond 
Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Lennox Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sarah Cadogan Duchess Richmond 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Lennox 4th Duke Richmond 2 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Henry Kerr 4th Marquess Lothian 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Louisa Kerr 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Caroline Darcy Marchioness Lothian 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Gordon-Lennox 5th Duke Richmond 3 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Cosmo George Gordon 3rd Duke Gordon 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Alexander Gordon 4th Duke Gordon 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Gordon Duchess Gordon 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Charlotte Gordon Duchess Richmond 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Maxwell 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Maxwell Duchess Gordon
GrandFather: Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke Richmond 4 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
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 Grandfather: Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Very Reverend Arthur Champagné
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Champagné Countess Uxbridge
Great x 1 Grandmother: Caroline Paget Duchess Richmond 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Villiers 3rd Earl Jersey 
12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Bussy Villiers 4th Earl Jersey 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Egerton Duchess Bedford 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bishop Philip Twysden 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Twysden
Father: Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond 5 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Algernon Greville 
10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Fulke Greville 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Somerset 
11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Greville 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Algernon Frederick Greville 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bentinck 2nd Duke Portland 
11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cavendish-Bentinck 3rd Duke Portland 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Cavendish Harley 2nd Duchess Portland 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Charlotte Cavendish-Bentinck 9 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 Grandmother: Dorothy Cavendish 3rd Duchess Portland 8 x Great Grand Daughter 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
GrandMother: Frances Harriett Greville Duchess Richmond 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandmother: Charlotte Maria Cox
Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Craven of Stanton Lacy 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Craven 6th Baron Craven
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Craven 1st Earl Craven 3 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley 
Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg-Ansbach 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent
Great x 1 Grandfather: George Augustus Craven 4 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Louisa Brunton Countess Craven
GrandFather: William George Craven 5 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Mother: Isabel Sophie Craven 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Yorke 1st Earl of Hardwicke 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Yorke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Cocks Countess Hardwicke
Great x 2 Grandfather: Admiral Joseph Sydney Yorke
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Johnson of Berkhamstead in Hertfordshire
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agneta Johnson
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Yorke 4th Earl of Hardwicke
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Rattray
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Weake Rattray
GrandMother: Mary Catherine Craven 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Liddell 
12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry George Liddell 5th Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Bowes
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Liddell 1st Baron Ravensworth 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Susan Liddell Countess Hardwicke 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Simpson
Great x 2 Grandmother: Maria Susannah Simpson Baroness Calthorpe 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Lyon 8th Earl Strathmore and Kinghorne 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Lyon 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jean Nicholson