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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Earl Bute is in Earl.
On 14th April 1703 James Stuart 1st Earl Bute (age 37) was created 1st Earl Bute.
On 4th June 1710 James Stuart 1st Earl Bute (age 44) died. His son James (age 14) succeeded 2nd Earl Bute. Anne Campbell Countess Bute (age 24) by marriage Countess Bute.
On 28th January 1723 James Stuart 2nd Earl Bute (age 27) died. His son John (age 9) succeeded 3rd Earl Bute. Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute (age 4) by marriage Countess Bute.
On 10th March 1792 John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute (age 78) died. His son John (age 47) succeeded 4th Earl Bute. Charlotte Jane Windsor Marchioness Bute (age 46) by marriage Countess Bute.
On 16th November 1814 John Stuart 1st Marquis of the Isle of Bute (age 70) died. His grandson John (age 21) succeeded 2nd Marquis of the Isle of Bute, 5th Earl Bute, 2nd Earl of Windsor, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy of the Isle of Wight.
On 18th March 1848 John Crichton-Stuart 2nd Marquis of the Isle of Bute (age 54) died at Cardiff. His son John succeeded 3rd Marquis of the Isle of Bute, 6th Earl Bute, 3rd Earl of Windsor, 3rd Viscount Mountjoy of the Isle of Wight.
On 9th October 1900 John Crichton-Stuart 3rd Marquis of the Isle of Bute (age 53) died. His son John (age 19) succeeded 4th Marquis of the Isle of Bute, 7th Earl Bute, 4th Earl of Windsor, 4th Viscount Mountjoy of the Isle of Wight.
On 25th April 1947 John Crichton-Stuart 4th Marquis of the Isle of Bute (age 65) died. His son John Crichton-Stuart (age 39) succeeded 5th Marquis of the Isle of Bute, 8th Earl Bute, 5th Earl of Windsor, 5th Viscount Mountjoy of the Isle of Wight. Eileen Forbes (age 35) by marriage Marchioness of the Isle of Bute.
On 14th August 1956 John Crichton-Stuart 5th Marquess of Bute (age 49) died. His son John (age 23) succeeded 6th Marquis of the Isle of Bute, 9th Earl Bute, 6th Earl of Windsor, 6th Viscount Mountjoy of the Isle of Wight.
On 21st July 1993 John Crichton-Stuart 6th Marquess of Bute (age 60) died. His son John (age 35) succeeded 7th Marquis of the Isle of Bute, 10th Earl Bute, 7th Earl of Windsor, 7th Viscount Mountjoy of the Isle of Wight.
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 22nd March 2021 John Crichton-Stuart 7th Marquess of Bute (age 62) died. His son John (age 31) succeeded 8th Marquis of the Isle of Bute, 11th Earl Bute, 8th Earl of Windsor, 8th Viscount Mountjoy of the Isle of Wight.