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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In 1485 Alice aka Agnes Cotell was born. Cotell being the name of her first husband rather than her maiden name.
Before 26th July 1518 John Cotell and Alice aka Agnes Cotell (age 33) were married.
On 26th July 1518 [her husband] John Cotell was strangled by his wife Alice aka Agnes Cotell (age 33) at Farleigh Hungreford Castle [Map] with the aid of William Mathewe and William Inges, yeomen of Heytesbury, Wiltshire [Map]. He, John, was steward to [her future husband] Edward Hungerford who she subsequently married.
Before 1521 [her future husband] Edward Hungerford and Jane Zouche (age 40) were married. They were fifth cousin once removed.
Before 24th January 1522 Edward Hungerford and Alice aka Agnes Cotell (age 37) were married.
On 24th January 1522 [her husband] Edward Hungerford died.
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Annales of England by John Stow. 20th February 1523. The 20 of February, the ladie Alice Hungerford (age 38) a knights wife, for murdering her husband, was led from the tower of London to Holborn, and there put in a cart with one of her servants and so carried to Tyburn [Map], and both hanged. He was buried in the Greyfriers church at London.