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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Around 1222 Matilda Angus 6th Countess Angus was born to [her father] Maol Choluim Angus 5th Earl Angus (age 32).
In 1242 [her father] Maol Choluim Angus 5th Earl Angus (age 52) died. His daughter Matilda (age 20) succeeded 6th Countess Angus.
In 1245 [her son] Gilbert Umfraville 7th Earl Angus was born to Gilbert Umfraville (age 50) and Matilda Angus 6th Countess Angus (age 23). He married before 1277 his fourth cousin Elisabetha Comyn, daughter of Alexander Comyn 2nd Earl Buchan and Elizabeth Quincy Countess Buchan, and had issue.
Before 12th December 1247 Richard de Dover Plantagenet (age 27) and Matilda Angus 6th Countess Angus (age 25) were married. She the daughter of Maol Choluim Angus 5th Earl Angus. They were fourth cousins. He a grandson of King John of England.
In 1261 Matilda Angus 6th Countess Angus (age 39) died. Her son [her son] Gilbert (age 16) succeeded 7th Earl Angus.
On 9th August 1270 [her former husband] Richard de Dover Plantagenet (age 50) died in Carthage.
Gilbert Umfraville and Matilda Angus 6th Countess Angus were married. The difference in their ages was 27 years. She the daughter of Maol Choluim Angus 5th Earl Angus.
John Comyn Earl Angus and Matilda Angus 6th Countess Angus were married. She the daughter of Maol Choluim Angus 5th Earl Angus. He the son of William Comyn Earl Buchan and Sarah Fitzhugh.
[her daughter] Isabel Plantagenet Countess of Atholl was born to Richard de Dover Plantagenet and Matilda Angus 6th Countess Angus. She a great granddaughter of King John of England. She married before June 1266 David Strathbogie 8th Earl Atholl and had issue.
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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[her son] Richard Plantagenet was born to Richard de Dover Plantagenet and Matilda Angus 6th Countess Angus. He a great grandson of King John of England.
Kings Wessex: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 5 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 7 Grand Daughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gille Críst Angus 4th Earl Angus
GrandFather: Donnchad Angus 5th Earl Angus
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Malcolm III of Scotland 
Great x 3 Grandfather: King David I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Wessex Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Dunkeld 3rd Earl Huntingdon 1st Earl of Northumbria
Great x 4 Grandfather: Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon
Great x 1 Grandmother: Marjorie Dunkeld Countess Angus
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Warenne 1st Earl of Surrey 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gundred Countess of Surrey
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ada Warenne Countess Huntingdon and Northumbria
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh "Great" Capet 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelaide I Countess Vermandois
Father: Maol Choluim Angus 5th Earl Angus