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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In 1806 Anthony Sands was born.
Before 1st May 1829 Anthony Sands [aged 23] and Mary Ann Brown were married.
On 1st May 1829 [his son] Frederick Sandes was born to Anthony Sands [aged 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 [aged 37] and [his wife] Mary Ann Brown. Note she was some fourteen years younger than her brother [his son] Frederick Sandes [aged 13]. Named Mary Ann Emma Sands at birth.
1848. Anthony Sands [aged 42]. Portrait of his son Frederick Sandes [aged 18].
1849. [his son] Frederick Sandes [aged 19]. Portrait of his father Anthony Sands [aged 43].
On 28th May 1853 Frederick Sandes [aged 24] and Georgiana Creed [aged 28] were married at St Pancras Old Church [Map]. He the son of Anthony Sands [aged 47] and Mary Ann Brown.
In 1863 [his son] Frederick Sandes [aged 33] and [his daughter-in-law] Georgiana Creed [aged 37] were divorced; or, he petitioned for divorce. It may not have been completed.
In November 1877 [his daughter] Emma Sandes [aged 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 [aged 77] died.