The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel Volume 1 Chapters 1-60 1307-1342
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel offer one of the most vivid and immediate accounts of 14th-century Europe, written by a knight who lived through the events he describes, and experienced some of them first hand. Covering the early decades of the Hundred Years’ War, this remarkable chronicle follows the campaigns of Edward III of England, the politics of France and the Low Countries, and the shifting alliances that shaped medieval warfare. Unlike later historians, Jean le Bel writes with a strong sense of eyewitness authenticity, drawing on personal experience and the testimony of fellow soldiers. His narrative captures not only battles and sieges, but also the realities of military life, diplomacy, and the ideals of chivalry that governed noble society. A key source for Jean Froissart, Le Bel’s chronicle stands on its own as a compelling and insightful work, at once historical record and literary achievement. This translation builds on the 1905 edition published in French by Jules Viard, adding extensive translations from other sources Rymer's Fœdera, the Chronicles of Adam Murimuth, William Nangis, Walter of Guisborough, a Bourgeois of Valenciennes, Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke and Richard Lescot to enrich the original text and Viard's notes.
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Paternal Family Tree: Burdett
Around 1604. Unknown Painter. Portrait of Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
In 1793 [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet [aged 22] and [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett were married. She brought £25,000 to the marriage.
On 21st April 1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts was born to Francis Burdett 5th Baronet [aged 44] and Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett.
On 6th August 1837 Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans [aged 59] died. Her step-grand-daughter Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts [aged 23] inherited the Coutts fortune of around £1.8 million (equivalent to £170,000,000 in 2021).
On 13th January 1844 [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett died.
On 23rd January 1844 [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet [aged 73] died ten days after the death of his wife [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett; he had refused food after she had died. His son [her brother] Robert [aged 47] succeeded 6th Baronet Burdett of Bramcote in Warwickshire.
In 1871 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts [aged 56] was created 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex in recognition of her philanthropic work.
On 12th February 1881 William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Baron Burdett-Coutts [aged 30] and Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts [aged 66] were married. He by marriage Baron Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex. There were no children from the marriage. Because of her husband's American birth a clause in her step-grandmother's will forbidding her heir to marry a foreign national was invoked and Burdett-Coutts forfeited three-fifths of her income to her sister Clara Burdett [aged 75]. The difference in their ages was 36 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
On 30th December 1906 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts [aged 92] died. Her estate was inherited by Francis Money-Coutts 5th Baron Latymer [aged 54], son of her sister Clara Burdett, who adopted the name Coutts.
On 5th January 1907 Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts was buried near the West Door of Westminster Abbey [Map]. Nearly 30,000 people had filed past her coffin before her burial. Baron Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex extinct.
On 28th July 1921 [her former husband] William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Baron Burdett-Coutts [aged 70] died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 29 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Burdett 2nd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 3rd Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Walter
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Aston 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Magdalen Aston 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Willoughby Lady Aston 
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 4th Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tracy 3rd Viscount Tracy 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Tracy 4th Viscount Tracy 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leigh Viscountess Tracy
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tracy 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Leicester Devereux 6th Viscount Hereford 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Devereux 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Francis Burdett 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Sedley 2nd Baronet 
11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Sedley 5th Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Savile 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Sedley 1st Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sedley Lady Burdett 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Father: Francis Burdett 5th Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Jones of Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire
GrandMother: Eleanor Jones
Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Thomas Coutts
Mother: Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett
GrandMother: Susannah Starkey