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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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Rowland Hill 2nd Viscount Hill 1800-1875

Paternal Family Tree: Hill of Hawkestone

On 10th May 1800 Rowland Hill 2nd Viscount Hill was born to Colonel John Hill [aged 30].

On 27th January 1814 [his father] Colonel John Hill [aged 44] died.

On 21st July 1821 Rowland Hill 2nd Viscount Hill [aged 21] and Anne Clegg Viscoutess Hill [aged 6] were married.

On 21st May 1824 [his grandfather] John Hill 3rd Baronet [aged 83] died. His grandson Rowland [aged 24] succeeded 4th Baronet Hill of Hawkestone in Shropshire. [his wife] Anne Clegg Viscoutess Hill [aged 9] by marriage Lady Hill of Hawkestone in Shropshire.

On 5th December 1833 [his son] Rowland Hill aka Clegg-Hill 3rd Viscount Hill was born to Rowland Hill 2nd Viscount Hill [aged 33] and [his wife] Anne Clegg Viscoutess Hill [aged 18]. He married 1. 3rd May 1855 Mary Madax and had issue 2. 29th April 1875 Isabella Elizabeth Wynn Viscountess Hill, daughter of Spencer Bulkeley Wynn 3rd Baron Newborough and Frances Maria De Winton Baroness Newborough, and had issue.

On 22nd September 1842 [his uncle] Rowland Hill 1st Baron Hill [aged 70] was created 1st Viscount Hill of Hawkestone and Hardwicke in Shropshire, with a special remainder, failing heirs male of his body, to his nephew, Sir Rowland Hill 4th Baronet [aged 42].

On 10th December 1842 [his uncle] Rowland Hill 1st Viscount Hill [aged 70] died. His nephew Rowland [aged 42] succeeded 2nd Viscount Hill of Hawkestone and Hardwicke in Shropshire, 2nd Baron Hill of Almaraz and of Hawkestone in Shropshire. Baron Hill of Almaraz and of Hawkestone in Shropshire extinct. [his wife] Anne Clegg Viscoutess Hill [aged 27] by marriage Viscountess Hill of Hawkestone and Hardwicke in Shropshire.

On 3rd May 1855 [his son] Rowland Hill aka Clegg-Hill 3rd Viscount Hill [aged 21] and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Madax [aged 25] were married. She the maid of his mother.

Around 1870. Eden Upton Eddis [aged 57]. Portrait of Rowland Hill 2nd Viscount Hill [aged 69].

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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 3rd January 1875 Rowland Hill 2nd Viscount Hill [aged 74] died. His son Rowland [aged 41] succeeded 3rd Viscount Hill of Hawkestone and Hardwicke in Shropshire, 3rd Baron Hill of Almaraz and of Hawkestone in Shropshire, 5th Baronet Hill of Hawkestone in Shropshire.

On 31st October 1891 [his former wife] Anne Clegg Viscoutess Hill [aged 76] died.

Rowland Hill 2nd Viscount Hill 1800-1875

Ancestors of Rowland Hill 2nd Viscount Hill 1800-1875