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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Anthony Sands is in Painters.
In 1806 Anthony Sands was born.
Before 1st May 1829 Anthony Sands (age 23) and Mary Ann Brown were married.
On 1st May 1829 [his son] Frederick Sandes was born to Anthony Sands (age 23) and [his wife] Mary Ann Brown. His birth name being Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands. He married (1) 28th May 1853 Georgiana Creed.
In 1843 [his daughter] Emma Sandes was born to Anthony Sands (age 37) and [his wife] Mary Ann Brown. Note she was some fourteen years younger than her brother [his son] Frederick Sandes (age 13). Named Mary Ann Emma Sands at birth.
1848. Anthony Sands (age 42). Portrait of his son [his son] Frederick Sandes (age 18).
1849. [his son] Frederick Sandes (age 19). Portrait of his father Anthony Sands (age 43).
On 28th May 1853 [his son] Frederick Sandes (age 24) and [his daughter-in-law] Georgiana Creed (age 28) were married at St Pancras Old Church [Map]. He the son of Anthony Sands (age 47) and [his wife] Mary Ann Brown.
In 1863 [his son] Frederick Sandes (age 33) and [his daughter-in-law] Georgiana Creed (age 37) were divorced; or, he petitioned for divorce. It may not have been completed.
In November 1877 [his daughter] Emma Sandes (age 34) died.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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In 1883 [his wife] Mary Ann Brown died.
In 1883 Anthony Sands (age 77) died.