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Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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Norbury, Derbyshire is in Derbyshire Dales.
Around 1320 Piers Legh was born at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map].
In 1330 William Fitzherbert was born to William Fizherbert [aged 22] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. He married before 1364 Alice Longford and had issue.
Around 1365 Henry Fitzherbert was born to William Fitzherbert [aged 35] and Alice Longford [aged 35] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. He married Isabella Downes and had issue.
In 1400 Nicholas Fitzherbert was born to Henry Fitzherbert [aged 35] and Isabella Downes [aged 31] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. He married 1. in or before 1424 Alice Booth and had issue 2. in or after 1453 Isabel aka Elizabeth Ludlow.
Around 1428 Ralph Fitzherbert was born to Nicholas Fitzherbert [aged 28] and Alice Booth [aged 14] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. He married in or before 1450 Elizabeth Marshall and had issue.
Around 1435 Joanna Fitzherbert was born to Nicholas Fitzherbert [aged 35] and Alice Booth [aged 21] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. She married 1. John Cotton of Ridware 2. after 1469 John Cotton and had issue.
Around 1450 Agnes Fitzherbert was born to Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 22] and Elizabeth Marshall [aged 13] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map].
Around 1457 Edith Fitzherbert was born to Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 29] and Elizabeth Marshall [aged 20] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. She married before 1476 Thomas Babington of Dethick and had issue.
In 1464 Henry Fitzherbert was born to Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 36] and Elizabeth Marshall [aged 27] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. He married Elizabeth Goodwin.
Around 1466 Anthony Fitzherbert of Hamstall Ridware was born to Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 38] and Elizabeth Marshall [aged 29] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. He married 1. 1507 Dorothy Willoughby 2. after 1507 Maud aka Matilda Cotton and had issue.
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Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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Around 1468 Dorothy Fitzherbert was born to Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 40] and Elizabeth Marshall [aged 31] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. She married Thomas Comberford.
In 1470 Richard Fitzherbert was born to Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 42] and Elizabeth Marshall [aged 33] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map].
In 1472 Thomas Fitzherbert was born to Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 44] and Elizabeth Marshall [aged 35] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map].
In 1474 Margaret Fitzherbert was born to Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 46] and Elizabeth Marshall [aged 37] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. She married Thomas Purefoy and had issue.
In 1474 William Fitzherbert was born to Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 46] and Elizabeth Marshall [aged 37] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map].
Around September 1480 Elizabeth Fitzherbert was born to John Fitzherbert [aged 18] and Benedicta Bradbourne [aged 20] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. She married Philip Draycott and had issue.
In 1483 Alice Fitzherbert was born to Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 55] and Elizabeth Marshall [aged 46] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map].
On 2nd March 1484 Ralph Fitzherbert [aged 56] died at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. He was buried at Church of St Barlok, Norbury [Map].
On 20th October 1490 Elizabeth Marshall [aged 53] died. She was buried at Church of St Barlok, Norbury [Map].
Monument to Ralph and Elizabeth. Finely made in Chellaston alabaster of the Fluted Period. Possibly Harpur and Moorecock of Burton on Trent. Fitzherbert Clenched Fist Crest. His effigy notable for being the only remaining with the Yorkist Boar Pendant (boar of Richard III) on his Suns and Roses Collar.
Ralph Fitzherbert: Around 1428 he was born to Nicholas Fitzherbert and Alice Booth at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. In or before 1450 he and Elizabeth Marshall were married. They had seven sons and five daughters.
Elizabeth Marshall: Around 1437 she was born to John Marshall.











Around 1515 Elizabeth Fitzherbert was born to Anthony Fitzherbert of Hamstall Ridware [aged 49] and Maud aka Matilda Cotton [aged 27] at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map]. She married William Bassett and had issue.
In 1521 Lawrence Hyde was born at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map].
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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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On 27th May 1538 Anthony Fitzherbert of Hamstall Ridware [aged 72] died at Norbury, Derbyshire [Map].
The River Dove rises on Axe Edge Moor, Derbyshire [Map] after which it travels broadly south past Longnor, Saffordshire [Map], Pilsbury [Map], Hartington, Derbyshire [Map], Milldale, Derbyshire [Map], Thorpe, Derbyshire [Map], just before whic it is joined by the River Manifold, Mapleton, Derbyshire [Map], Mayfield, Staffordshire [Map], Norbury, Derbyshire [Map], Rocester, Staffordshire [Map], Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire [Map] and Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire [Map] before joining the River Trent at Newton Solney, Derbyshire [Map].