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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin 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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Biography of Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 1470-1530

Paternal Family Tree: Bourchier

Maternal Family Tree: Emma de Dinan 1136-1208

14th April 1471 Battle of Barnet

29 Jun 1541 Execution of Thomas Fiennes

Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland was appointed Lady of the Bedchamber to Catherine of Aragon Queen Consort England.

In 1466 [her father] Humphrey Bourchier (age 31) and [her mother] Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey (age 22) were married.

In 1470 Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland was born to Humphrey Bourchier (age 35) and Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey (age 26). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

14th April 1471 Battle of Barnet

On 14th April 1471 Edward IV (age 28) commanded at the Battle of Barnet supported by his brothers George (age 21) and Richard (age 18), John Babington (age 48), Wiliam Hastings (age 40) (commanded), Ralph Hastings, William Norreys (age 30), William Parr (age 37), John Savage (age 49), William Bourchier Viscount Bourchier (age 41), Thomas St Leger (age 31), John Tuchet 6th Baron Audley, 3rd Baron Tuchet (age 45), Thomas Burgh 1st Baron Burgh of Gainsborough (age 40), John Scott (age 48) and Thomas Strickland.

The Yorkists William Blount (age 29), [her father] Humphrey Bourchier (age 36), Henry Stafford (age 46) and Thomas Parr were killed.

Humphrey Bourchier 1st Baron Cromwell (age 40), was killed. Baron Cromwell extinct.

The Lancastrians ...

Warwick the Kingmaker (age 42) was killed. Earl Salisbury, Baron Montagu, Baron Montagu and Baron Monthermer forfeit on the assumption he was attainted either before or after his death; the date of his attainder is unknown. If not attainted the titles may have been abeyant between his two daughters Isabel Neville Duchess Clarence (age 19) and Anne Neville Queen Consort England (age 14).

John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu (age 40) was killed. Marquess Montagu, Baron Montagu forfeit; unclear as to when he was attainted. He was buried at Bisham Abbey [Map].

William Tyrrell was killed.

William Fiennes 2nd Baron Saye and Sele (age 43) was killed. His son Henry (age 25) succeeded 3rd Baron Saye and Sele. Anne Harcourt Baroness Saye and Sele by marriage Baroness Saye and Sele.

Henry Holland 3rd Duke Exeter (age 40) commanded the left flank, was badly wounded and left for dead, Henry Stafford and John Paston (age 27) were wounded, John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford (age 28) commanded, and John Paston (age 29) and William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont (age 33) fought.

Robert Harleston (age 36) was killed.

Thomas Hen Salusbury (age 62) was killed.

Thomas Tresham (age 51) escaped but was subsequently captured and executed on the 6th of May 1471.

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On 30th September 1472 [her step-father] Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 29) and [her mother] Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey (age 28) were married. He the son of John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 47) and Katherine Moleyns.

In 1492 Thomas Fiennes 8th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 20) and Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland (age 22) were married. She by marriage Baroness Dacre Gilsland. She the daughter of Humphrey Bourchier and Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey (age 48). They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

After 14th February 1492 Thomas Brandon and [her sister-in-law] Anne Fiennes Marchioness Berkeley were married.

In 1495 [her daughter] Mary Fiennes was born to [her husband] Thomas Fiennes 8th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 23) and Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland (age 25).

On 4th April 1497 [her mother] Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey (age 53) died.

On 10th September 1497 [her sister-in-law] Anne Fiennes Marchioness Berkeley died. She was buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map].

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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

The Antiquarian Repertory. 23rd February 1503. And after th' offring of money there were offered to the Corps by the laides xxxvij [37] palls in manner as followeth first the lady Montjoy (age 24) a pall delivered to her at the quier dore by a gent huisher and when she came to the feete of the Corps there stood two officers of Armes after that she had done her obey sauce and kissed it and layd it along the Corps In likewise the lady Dacre of the south (age 33) offred another which the said officers layde a Crosse over that other and lykewise these laides offred palls whose names follow.

The lady Fitzwater (age 24).

The lady Gordon.

The lady Scrope,

The lady Powys.

The lady Clifford,

The lady Daubeny.

The [her half-sister] lady vicountesse Lisley (age 18) ij.

The lady Anne Percy.

The lady Lucey of Montague.

The lady Herbard.

The countess of Essex iij.

The lady Elizebeth Stafford iij.

The lady marquisse iiij.

Every of the Queens sisters instead of Dutchesses v which all were layde acrosse over the Corps.

All the Ceremony of that offring doone to the sermon said by the said lord Richard Fitzjames Byshopp of Rochester which tooke to his anteme Misere mei misere mei saltern vos amici mei quia manus Dm tetigit me he spake these wordes in the name of England and the lovers and friends of the same seing the great losse of that vertuous Queene and that noble prince and th' Arch Byshop of Canterbury.

The Masse done a mynister of the Church tooke away the palls.

Then the ladyes depted.

After whose depture the Image with the Crowne and the rich robes were had to a secret place to St Edwards shrine.

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Before 1524 [her son-in-law] Henry Norreys (age 41) and [her daughter] Mary Fiennes (age 28) were married. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

On 26th October 1528 [her son] Thomas Fiennes died.

On 29th September 1530 Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland (age 60) died.

On 9th September 1534 [her former husband] Thomas Fiennes 8th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 62) died. He was buried at Herstmonceux. His grandson [her grandson] Thomas (age 19) succeeded 9th Baron Dacre Gilsland, 9th Baron Multon of Gilsland.

29 Jun 1541 Execution of Thomas Fiennes

Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic Henry VIII 1541. That afternoon [Chapus appears here to have the wrong day; other sources say 29th June 1541 i.e. St Peter's Day] two gentlemen were hung [the other being either John Mantell, John Frowds, George Roidon, Thomas Isleie, and two yeomen Richard Middleton and John Goldwell], one of whom had an income of over 12,000 ducats a year, and was the handsomest and best bred man in England, only 25 years old and married to a niece of the [her half-brother] Duke of Norfolk (age 68). He was sentenced for having belonged to a set of eight rakish youths, one of whom had killed a poor old man in an unpremeditated fray. For the same cause [her grandson] lord Dacres (age 26) also, son1 of the Duke of Norfolk's sister, and cousin of this Queen (age 18), 23 years old and possessing a property of about 5,000 ducats a year, was hung from the most ignominious gibbet, and for greater shame dragged through the streets to the place of execution, to the great pity of many people, and even of his very judges, who wept when they sentenced him, and in a body asked his pardon of the King. But the thing which astonished people most was, that, the same day lord Dacres was hung, another young man (age 28), son of the Treasurer of the Royal household (age 56), who was one of those present at the old man's death, was freely pardoned, though he had been already tried for some like misdemeanour.

At the same time in the North, Sir John Neville (deceased) and about 60 more, among whom at least 25 were ecclesiastics, were executed for the conspiracy of which Chapuys wrote some time ago. Has just heard of the arrival of a Polish gentleman with eight or ten servants. Will endeavour to discover who he is and what he comes for. London, 2 July 1541. Original at Vienna.

Note 1. Thomas Fiennes 9th Baron Dacre Gilsland, Lord Dacre, was the grandson of Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland who was the maternal half-sister of Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk; Anne and Thomas' mother was [her mother] Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey.

[her son] John Fiennes was born to Thomas Fiennes 8th Baron Dacre Gilsland and Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland.

[her son] Thomas Fiennes was born to Thomas Fiennes 8th Baron Dacre Gilsland and Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland.

Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 1470-1530 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

Royal Ancestors of Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 1470-1530

Kings Wessex: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 10 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 3 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 9 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Royal Descendants of Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 1470-1530

Diana Spencer Princess Wales

Ancestors of Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 1470-1530

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Bourchier

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier

Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen of Colchester

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Bourchier

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Prayers Baroness Bourchier

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Bourchier 1st Count of Eu

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Louvain

Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Louvaine

GrandFather: John Bourchier 1st Baron Berners Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Edward II of England Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: King Edward III of England Son of King Edward II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabella of France Queen Consort England 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas of Woodstock 1st Duke of Gloucester Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Hainault I Count Hainault III Count Avesnes III Count Holland II Count Zeeland 4 x Great Grand Son of King Stephen I England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Philippa of Hainault Queen Consort England 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Stephen I England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Valois Countess Zeeland Holland Avesnes and Hainault 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne of Gloucester Plantagenet Countess Eu and Stafford Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun 7th Earl Hereford 6th Earl Essex 2nd Earl of Northampton Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Badlesmere Countess Northampton 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Bohun Duchess Gloucester 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 3rd or 10th Earl of Arundel 8th Earl of Surrey 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Fitzalan Countess Essex, Hereford and Northampton 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Plantagenet Countess Arundel and Surrey Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Father: Humphrey Bourchier 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

GrandMother: Margery Berners Baroness Berners

Anne Bourchier Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick Tilney

Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip Tilney

Great x 2 Grandfather: Frederick Tilney

Great x 1 Grandfather: Philip Tilney

GrandFather: Frederick Tilney

Mother: Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Cheney

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Henry Cheney

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cheney

Great x 1 Grandfather: Lawrence Cheney

GrandMother: Elizabeth Cheney 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cockayne

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Cockayne

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Cockayne

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Vernon

Great x 3 Grandmother: Cecilia Vernon

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cockayne 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Grey 1st Baron Grey Ruthyn 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Reginald Grey 2nd Baron Grey Ruthyn 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hastings Baroness Grey Ruthyn 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Ida Grey 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Strange 2nd Baron Strange Blackmere 3 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alianore Strange Baroness Grey Ruthyn 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ankaret Boteler Baroness Strange Blackmere 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England