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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.
Archbishop William Zouche was born to [his father] William Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Harringworth and [his mother] Maud Lovell Baroness Zouche Harringworth.
In 1308 [his father] William Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Harringworth was created 1st Baron Zouche Harringworth.
Close Rolls Edward II 1325. 8th December 1325. The Tower. [his father] William la Zouche of Haryngworth, knight, acknowledges that he owes to William la Zouche, his son, £4,000; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Wilts.
The said William la Zouche acknowledges that he owes to the aforesaid William, his son, £2,000; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Devon.
Cancelled on payment, acknowledged by Gilbert de Gretton, clerk, attorney of William son of William.
Before 26th March 1326 [his brother-in-law] William Deincourt 2nd Baron Deincourt and [his sister] Millicent Zouche Baroness Deincourt were married.
On 6th January 1327 Edmund Deincourt 1st Baron Deincourt died at Emley Wakefield. [his brother-in-law] William Deincourt 2nd Baron Deincourt succeeded 2nd Baron Deincourt. [his sister] Millicent Zouche Baroness Deincourt by marriage Baroness Deincourt.
Before 1333 [his father] William Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Harringworth and [his mother] Maud Lovell Baroness Zouche Harringworth were married. She by marriage Baroness Zouche Harringworth.
On 2nd May 1340 Archbishop William Zouche was appointed Archbishop of York.
In 1346 [his mother] Maud Lovell Baroness Zouche Harringworth died.
On 17th October 1346 at the Battle of Neville's Cross at Neville's Cross, Durham the English inflicted a heavy defeat on the Scottish army that had invaded England in compliance with their treaty with the French for mutual support against England.
The English army included: [his brother-in-law] William Deincourt 2nd Baron Deincourt, Henry Scrope 1st Baron Scrope of Masham, Ralph Hastings, Ralph Neville 2nd Baron Neville of Raby, Archbishop William Zouche, Henry Percy 10th and 2nd Baron Percy and John Mowbray 3rd Baron Mowbray.
Of the Scottish army King David II of Scotland, John Graham Earl Menteith and William "Flower of Chivalry and Knight Liddesdale" Douglas 1st Earl Atholl were captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Neil Bruce, John Randolph 3rd Earl of Moray, David Hay 6th Baron Erroll and Edward Keith of Sinton were killed.
On 11th March 1352 [his father] William Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Harringworth died at Harringworth, Northamptonshire. He was buried at Biddlesden Abbey, Buckinghamshire. William Zouche 2nd Baron Zouche Harringworth succeeded 2nd Baron Zouche Harringworth. Elizabeth Ros Baroness Zouche Harringworth by marriage Baroness Zouche Harringworth.
On 19th July 1352 Archbishop William Zouche died at Cawood, North Yorkshire. He was buried at York Minster.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke [-1360]. Moreover, in this year [1352], the lord William de la Zouche, Archbishop of York, of pious memory, departed from this world; and in his place, Master John de Thoresby, Bishop of Worcester and Chancellor of the Realm, was translated.
Preterea isto anno pie memorie dominus Willelmus de la Zowche, archiepiscopus Eboracensis, ab hoc mundo migravit; et in suum locum magister Iohannes de Thursby, episcopus Wircestrie et regni cancellarius, fuerat translatus.