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Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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Paternal Family Tree: Hill
On 27th June 1848 [his father] Arthur Edwin Hill aka Hill-Trevor 1st Baron Trevor (age 28) and [his mother] Emily Mary Sutton were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull Hill 3rd Marquess Downshire and [his grandmother] Maria Windsor Marchioness Downshire (age 58). They were fourth cousins.
On 19th November 1852 Arthur William Hill-Trevor 2nd Baron Trevor was born to [his father] Arthur Edwin Hill aka Hill-Trevor 1st Baron Trevor (age 33) and [his mother] Emily Mary Sutton.
On 24th January 1855 [his mother] Emily Mary Sutton died.
On 15th April 1858 [his father] Arthur Edwin Hill aka Hill-Trevor 1st Baron Trevor (age 38) and [his step-mother] Mary Catherine Curzon Baroness Trevor (age 20) were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull Hill 3rd Marquess Downshire and [his grandmother] Maria Windsor Marchioness Downshire.
On 11th August 1862 Arthur Hill-Trevor 3rd Viscount Dungannon (age 63) died. Viscount Dungannon extinct. [his father] Arthur Edwin Hill aka Hill-Trevor 1st Baron Trevor (age 42) inherited his estates including those at Brynkinalt, and changed his surname from Hill to Hill-Trevor.
On 15th July 1875 Robert Curzon 15th Baron Zouche (age 24) and [his future wife] Annie Mary Eleanor Fraser (age 18) were married.
On 8th December 1876 Robert Curzon 15th Baron Zouche (age 25) and [his future wife] Annie Mary Eleanor Fraser (age 19) were divorced.
On 18th February 1886 William Henry Hare Hedges-White 4th Earl Bantry (age 32) and [his future wife] Rosamund Catherine Petre Countess Bantry (age 28) were married. She by marriage Countess Bantry. He the son of William Henry Hare Hedges-White 3rd Earl Bantry.
On 30th August 1893 Arthur William Hill-Trevor 2nd Baron Trevor (age 40) and Annie Mary Eleanor Fraser (age 36) were married.
On 25th December 1894 [his father] Arthur Edwin Hill aka Hill-Trevor 1st Baron Trevor (age 75) died. His son Arthur (age 42) succeeded 2nd Baron Trevor of Brynkinalt in Denbighshire.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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On 10th May 1895 [his wife] Annie Mary Eleanor Fraser (age 38) died.
On 7th December 1897 Arthur William Hill-Trevor 2nd Baron Trevor (age 45) and Rosamund Catherine Petre Countess Bantry (age 40) were married.
In 1899 [his daughter] Mary Rosamund "Moyra" Hill-Trevor was born to Arthur William Hill-Trevor 2nd Baron Trevor (age 46) and [his wife] Rosamund Catherine Petre Countess Bantry (age 41). She died aged five in 1904.
In 1904 [his daughter] Mary Rosamund "Moyra" Hill-Trevor (age 5) died.
1906. The Trevor Mausloem, St Mary's Church, Chirk [Map] was erected to mark the loss of [his daughter] Mary Rosamund "Moyra" Hill-Trevor daughter of Arthur William Hill-Trevor 2nd Baron Trevor (age 53) and [his wife] Rosamund Catherine Petre Countess Bantry (age 48) aged five years.
Monument sculpted by Ernesto Gazzeri (age 40).
Mary Rosamund "Moyra" Hill-Trevor: In 1899 she was born to Arthur William Hill-Trevor 2nd Baron Trevor and Rosamund Catherine Petre Countess Bantry. In 1904 Mary Rosamund "Moyra" Hill-Trevor died.
After 1923. St Mary's Church, Chirk [Map]. Memorial to Arthur William Hill-Trevor 2nd Baron Trevor (age 70) commissioned by his wife [his wife] Rosamund Catherine Petre Countess Bantry (age 65).
On 19th May 1923 Arthur William Hill-Trevor 2nd Baron Trevor (age 70) died. His half brother [his half-brother] Charles (age 59) succeeded 3rd Baron Trevor of Brynkinalt in Denbighshire.
On 5th February 1942 [his former wife] Rosamund Catherine Petre Countess Bantry (age 84) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 23 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Son of Louis VII King of the Franks
Kings France: Great x 21 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Michael Hill
Great x 3 Grandfather: Trevor Hill 1st Viscount Hillsborough
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Trevor 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Wills Hill 1st Marquess Downshire
Great x 1 Grandfather: Arthur Hill 2nd Marquess Downshire 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Fitzgerald 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Fitzgerald 19th Earl of Kildare 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Clotworthy 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaretta Fitzgerald 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William O'Brien 3rd Earl Inchiquin 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary O'Brien Countess Kildare 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Villiers Countess Inchiquin 
10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull Hill 3rd Marquess Downshire 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edwin Sandes 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Samuel Sandys 1st Baron Sandes 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Rushout
Great x 2 Grandfather: Martin Sandes 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Tipping 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Letitia Tipping
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Sandys Marchioness Downshire 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Trumbull
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Trumbull
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Trumbull
Father: Arthur Edwin Hill aka Hill-Trevor 1st Baron Trevor 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Other Windsor 2nd Earl Plymouth 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Other Windsor 3rd Earl Plymouth 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Whitley 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Other Lewis Windsor 4th Earl Plymouth 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Other Windsor 5th Earl Plymouth 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Andrew Archer 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Archer 1st Baron Archer 15 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Dashwood 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Archer Countess Plymouth 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Tipping 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Tipping Baroness Archer 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Cheke 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Maria Windsor Marchioness Downshire 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Andrew Archer 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Archer 1st Baron Archer 15 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Dashwood
Great x 2 Grandfather: Andrew Archer 2nd Baron Archer 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Tipping 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Tipping Baroness Archer 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Cheke 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Sarah Archer Countess Plymouth and Amherst 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: James West 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Sarah West Baroness Archer
Arthur William Hill-Trevor 2nd Baron Trevor 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Sutton of Averham 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Sutton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Sutton 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Benjamin Tichborne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Judith Tichborne Countess Sunderland
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Sutton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Williams Baroness Sutton
GrandFather: Richard Sutton 2nd Baronet 18 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Chaplin 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Chaplin of Blankney
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Chaplin 16 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Andrew Archer 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Diana Archer 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Dashwood
Great x 1 Grandmother: Sophia Frances Chaplin 17 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Mother: Emily Mary Sutton 19 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England