Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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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.
Murimuth and Avesbury. In this same year, on 24th April, in the year of the Lord 1342, in the eighth year of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XII, after he had governed the Church for seven years, three months, and five days, that same Pope Benedict died in his palace at Avignon, which he had enlarged at great expense; and he was buried in the church of Avignon. The Apostolic See was vacant for thirteen days, for on the sixth day of the following month of May the cardinal of Rouen was elected pope. He was by origin from Limousin, a monk of the Order of Saint Benedict, a master of theology and a distinguished preacher, formerly abbot of Fécamp in Normandy, later archbishop of Rouen, and afterward cardinal priest of Saints Nereus and Achilleus. On that sixth day of May he was unanimously elected pope; and he took the name Pope Clement VI, and was solemnly crowned on the following feast of Pentecost. He also, on the 26th day of the following June, provided for the church of York with Master William la Zouche, who had been elected amid dispute, and for the church of Lincoln with Master Thomas Bek, who had previously been unanimously elected but had long been delayed because of a claimed papal reservation, as mentioned above.
Item, hoc anno, XXIIIJ die Aprilis, anno Domini MCCCXLII, pontificatus Benedicti papæ XII anno VIIJ, postquam idem papa ecclesiam rexerat annis VIJ, mensibus IIIJ, diebus V, obiit idem Benedictus papa in palatio suo Avinoniæ, quod ipse magnis sumptibus dilatavit; et in ecclesia Avinoniæ fuit sepultus. Et vacavit sedes apostolica diebus XIIJ, quia sexto die mensis Maii sequentis fuit electus cardinalis Rothomagensis, qui fuit natione Lemovicensis, monachus ordinis sancti Benedicti, magister theologiæ et prædicator solempnis et abbas Fescamensis in Normannia, ac postmodum archiepiscopus Rothomagensis et subsequenter cardinalis tituli sanctorum Nerei et Achillei, et demum dicto die VJ Maii concorditer electus in papam; qui se fecit nominari Clementem sextum, et in die Pentecostes sequentis solempniter coronari. Qui etiam XXVJ die mensis Junii tune sequenti providit ecclesiæ Eboracensi de magistro Willelmo la Zouche, in discordia electo, et ecclesiæ Lincolniensi de magistro Thoma de Bek, prius concorditer electo, sed propter reservationem prætensam, ut præmittitur, diutius impedito.
In 1346 [his mother] Maud Lovell Baroness Zouche Harringworth died.
On 17th October 1346 at the Battle of Neville's Cross at 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. 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.