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: Parr
Maternal Family Tree: Joan Beauchamp 1370
In 1508 [her father] Thomas Parr [aged 25] and [her mother] Maud Green [aged 15] were married. They were fifth cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 11th June 1509, one month after the death of his father, [her future husband] Henry VIII [aged 17] and Catherine of Aragon [aged 23] were married at the Church of the Observant Friars, Greenwich [Map]. She had, eight years before, married his older brother Prince Arthur Tudor - see Marriage of Arthur Tudor and Catherine of Aragon. She the daughter of Ferdinand II King Aragon [aged 57] and Isabella Queen Castile. He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were half third cousin once removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In August 1512 Catherine Parr Queen Consort England was born to [her father] Thomas Parr [aged 29] and [her mother] Maud Green [aged 20].
On 1st February 1514 [her future husband] King Henry VIII of England and Ireland [aged 22] created and re-created two peerages....
Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 54] was created 1st Earl Worcester.
Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk [aged 71] was restored 2nd Duke Norfolk probably for having secured victory at the Battle of Flodden after which his arms were augmented with an inescutcheon bearing the lion of Scotland pierced through the mouth with an arrow. Some documentation describes this as a creation rather than restoration although he is always referred to as 2nd. Agnes Tilney Duchess Norfolk [aged 37] by marriage Duchess Norfolk
On 11th November 1517 [her father] Thomas Parr [aged 34] died.
Before 1520 [her future husband] John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer [aged 26] and Dorothy de Vere were married. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 4th February 1520 William Carey [aged 20] and Mary Boleyn [aged 21] were married. Around the time, possibly shortly after, Mary Boleyn became mistress to [her future husband] King Henry VIII of England and Ireland [aged 28] leading to speculation one or both of her children were fathered by Henry1. She the daughter of Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 43] and Elizabeth Howard Countess of Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 40]. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
The evidence for Mary being Henry's mistress:
Henry VIII's 1527 dispensation to marry Anne appears to seek dispensation to marry:
1. someone who was previously contracted to marry another, which might refer to either, or both, Henry Percy [aged 18] or James Butler, and
2. "or of the first degree of affinity, from any lawful or unlawful union" which can only be a reference to a sister of Queen Anne Boleyn of England [aged 19] i.e. Mary Boleyn.
Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic. 20 Oct 1537. George Throckmorton letter relating to events around 1531 where Henry responds to an accusation that he had relationships with both Anne Boleyn's mother and sister "Never with the mother". Cromwell goes on the say never with the sister either.
Defense of the Unity of the Church Book III, 1536, letter from Cardinal Reginald Pole to King Henry VIII accusing him of double standards by attempting to annul his marriage with Queen Katherine on the basis of her having previously been married, albeit unconsummated, to Henry's brother Arthur, as a means to allow Henry to marry Anne Boleyn, with whose sister Henry had had a carnal relationship.
1536 Letter from Ambassador Chapuys to the Emperor in which Chapuys writes "Others tell me that the said Archbishop had pronounced the marriage of the King and Concubine [Anne] invalid on account of the King having had connection with her sister [Mary]."
Note 1. The date given by an entry in the King's Payments for 1520. The date appears to have been inserted so may not appear in the original text?
On 18th June 1522 Gilbert Tailboys 1st Baron Tailboys [aged 24] and Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount Baroness Clinton and Tailboys [aged 24] were married. She the former mistress of [her future husband] King Henry VIII of England and Ireland [aged 30] had given birth to Henry's illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy 1st Duke Richmond and Somerset [aged 3] in June 1519.
On 18th June 1525 Henry Fitzroy [aged 6] was taken by barge to Bridewell Palace [Map] where he was enobled by his father [her future husband] King Henry VIII of England and Ireland [aged 33].
In the morning Henry Fitzroy was created 1st Earl Nottingham.
In the afternoon Henry Fitzroy was created 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
Henry Percy 5th Earl of Northumberland [aged 47] carried the Sword of State. Thomas More [aged 47] read the patents of nobility. Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 41], Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset [aged 47],
Henry Courtenay [aged 29] was created 1st Marquess Exeter. Gertrude Blount Marchioness of Exeter [aged 22] by marriage Marchioness Exeter.
Henry Clifford [aged 32] was created 1st Earl of Cumberland, Warden of the West Marches and Governor of Carlisle Castle.
Thomas Manners [aged 33] was created 1st Earl of Rutland. Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland [aged 30] by marriage Countess of Rutland. He was given the Earldom of Rutland to reflect his descent from Anne York Duchess Exeter sister of the previous Earl of Rutland. At the same time his arms 
Manners Arms were augmented with the 
Manners Augmented Arms
Henry Brandon [aged 2] was created 1st Earl Lincoln.
Robert Radclyffe [aged 42] was created 1st Viscount Fitzwalter.
Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 48] was created 1st Viscount Rochford. Elizabeth Howard Countess of Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 45] by marriage Viscountess Rochford.
Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk [aged 52], William Fitzalan 11th or 18th Earl of Arundel [aged 49] and John de Vere 14th Earl of Oxford [aged 25] attended.
Around 18th June 1525 Henry Clifford 2nd Earl of Cumberland [aged 8] and Eleanor Brandon Countess Cumberland [aged 6] were married at Bridewell Palace [Map]. [her future husband] King Henry VIII of England and Ireland [aged 33] was present. She the daughter of Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 41] and Mary Tudor Queen Consort France [aged 29]. He the son of Henry Clifford 1st Earl of Cumberland [aged 32] and Margaret Percy Baroness Clifford [aged 25]. They were half third cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 9th February 1527 [her brother] William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton [aged 15] and [her sister-in-law] Anne Bourchier 7th Baroness Bourchier [aged 10] were married. They lived apart for the first twelve years of their marriage. She the daughter of Henry Bourchier 2nd Earl Essex 3rd Count of Eu and Mary Saye Countess Essex and Eu [aged 53]. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In 1528 [her brother-in-law] William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke [aged 27] and [her sister] Anne Parr Countess Pembroke [aged 12] were married.
On 20th June 1528 [her future husband] John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer [aged 34] and Elizabeth Musgrave Baroness Latimer Snape [aged 30] were married. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In 1529 Edward Burgh and Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [aged 16] were married. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In early December 1529 [her future husband] King Henry VIII of England and Ireland [aged 38] created five Baronies...
On 1st December 1529...
Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor [aged 62] was created 1st Baron Windsor of Stanwell in Buckinghamshire. Elizabeth Blount Baroness Windsor [aged 60] by marriage Baroness Windsor of Stanwell in Buckinghamshire.
John Hussey 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford [aged 64] was created 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford. Anne Grey Baroness Hussey Sleaford [aged 39] by marriage Baroness Hussey of Sleaford.
On 2nd December 1529...
Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth [aged 28] was created 1st Baron Wentworth. Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth [aged 27] by marriage Baroness Wentworth.
[her father-in-law] Thomas Burgh 7th Baron Cobham 5th Baron Strabolgi 1st Baron Burgh [aged 41] was created 1st Baron Burgh. Agnes Tyrwhitt Baroness Cobham, Strabolgi and Burgh [aged 48] by marriage Baroness Burgh. This is regarded as a new creation rather than a continuation of the previous creation Baron Burgh since Thomas's father was never summoned to Parliament due to his insanity. Some sources refer to Thomas as the 3rd Baron Burgh.
On 4th December 1529 Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye [aged 45] was created 1st Baron Braye by writ, which means that it can descend through both male and female lines.
On 8th December 1529 [her future husband] King Henry VIII of England and Ireland [aged 38] created three Earldoms...
Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 52] was created 1st Earl Wiltshire, 1st Earl Ormonde. Elizabeth Howard Countess of Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 49] by marriage Countess Wiltshire, Countess Ormonde. His mother [aged 75] was the daughter of the last Earl Ormonde Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde.
George Hastings 1st Earl Huntingdon [aged 42] was created 1st Earl Huntingdon. Anne Stafford Countess Huntingdon [aged 46] by marriage Countess Huntingdon.
Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex [aged 46] was created 1st Earl of Sussex. Elizabeth Stafford Countess Sussex [aged 50] by marriage Countess of Sussex.
On 23rd December 1530 Richard Neville 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape [aged 62] died. He was buried at St Michaels Church, Well. His son [her future husband] John [aged 37] succeeded 3rd Baron Latimer of Snape. Elizabeth Musgrave Baroness Latimer Snape [aged 32] by marriage Baroness Latimer of Snape.
The Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy
The Gesta Normannorum Ducum [The Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy] is a landmark medieval chronicle tracing the rise and fall of the Norman dynasty from its early roots through the pivotal events surrounding the Norman Conquest of England. Originally penned in Latin by the monk William of Jumièges shortly before 1060 and later expanded at the behest of William the Conqueror, the work chronicles the deeds, politics, battles, and leadership of the Norman dukes, especially William’s own claim to the English throne. The narrative combines earlier historical sources with firsthand information and oral testimony to present an authoritative account of Normandy’s transformation from a Viking settlement into one of medieval Europe’s most powerful realms. William’s history emphasizes the legitimacy, military prowess, and governance of the Norman line, framing their expansion, including the conquest of England, as both divinely sanctioned and noble in purpose. Later chroniclers such as Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni continued the history, extending the coverage into the 12th century, providing broader context on ducal rule and its impact. Today this classic work remains a foundational source for understanding Norman identity, medieval statesmanship, and the historical forces that reshaped England and Western Europe between 800AD and 1100AD.
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On 1st December 1531 [her mother] Maud Green [aged 39] died.
On 1st September 1532 Anne Boleyn [aged 31] was created 1st Marchioness Pembroke with [her future husband] Henry VIII [aged 41] performing the investiture at Windsor Castle [Map]. The Letter of Creation [Harley 303.1; see image] using the Latin 'marchionisse Penbrochie' i.e. "Marchioness of Pembroke". It isn't clear whether the Letter of Creation is a single page - we note the absence of any description of whether the title is to descend to her heir's, male, legitimate, otherwise. We also note the first letter contains Anne's emblem of a 'falcon on a stump' although Anne's falcon was white - age may have affected the colour of the Letter.
Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 55], Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 48], Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk [aged 59], Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland [aged 37], Jean Dinteville, Archbishop Edward Lee [aged 50], Bishop John Stokesley [aged 57] were present.
Bishop Stephen Gardiner [aged 49] read the Patent of Creation.
Mary Howard Duchess Richmond and Somerset [aged 13] carried Anne's train replacing her mother Elizabeth Stafford Duchess Norfolk [aged 35] who had been banished from Court. Anne and Mary were cousins.
Charles Wriothesley [aged 24] attended.
Jean Dinteville: he was appointed Ambassador to England. Around 1532 Jean Dinteville posed for Holbein's painting The Ambassadors.
Archbishop Edward Lee: Around 1482 he was born to Richard Lee of Lee Magna. In 1531 he was appointed Archbishop of York. On 13th September 1544 he died.
Charles Wriothesley: On 8th May 1508 he was born to Thomas Wriothesley. After 24th November 1534 he was appointed Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary. On 25th January 1562 Charles Wriothesley died.
On 25th January 1533 [her future husband] Henry VIII [aged 41] and Queen Anne Boleyn of England [aged 32] were married by Rowland Leigh [aged 46] at Whitehall Palace [Map]. Anne Savage Baroness Berkeley [aged 37], Thomas Heneage [aged 53] and Henry Norreys [aged 51] were present. She the daughter of Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 56] and Elizabeth Howard Countess of Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 53]. He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were fifth cousin once removed.
Sometime after the marriage Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland [aged 38] was appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn of England. She would go to serve Henry's next three wives.
Before April 1533 [her husband] Edward Burgh died at Gainsborough [Map].
In 1534 William Stafford [aged 26] and Mary Boleyn [aged 35] were married in secret. The marriage was discovered when she, Mary, attended Court, when pregnant, angering both the [her future husband] King [aged 42] and her sister the Queen [aged 33]. They was banished from Court. She the daughter of Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 57] and Elizabeth Howard Countess of Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 54].
Around July 1534 John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer [aged 40] and Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Baroness Latimer of Snape. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 30th May 1536 [her future husband] Henry VIII [aged 44] and Jane Seymour [aged 27] were married at Whitehall Palace [Map] by Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester [aged 53]. She by marriage Queen Consort England. He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were half fourth cousin once removed.
Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland [aged 41] and Margaret Dymoke aka Mistress Coffin [aged 36] were appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Jane Seymour.
On 22nd July 1536 or 23rd July 1536 Henry Fitzroy 1st Duke Richmond and Somerset [aged 17] died at St James's Palace [Map]. He the illegitimate son of [her future husband] King Henry VIII of England and Ireland [aged 45]. He was buried at Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham [Map]. Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Earl Nottingham extinct.
On 6th January 1540 [her future husband] Henry VIII [aged 48] and Anne of Cleves [aged 24] were married by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer [aged 50] at the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich [Map]. Anne of Cleves was crowned Queen Consort England. The difference in their ages was 24 years. She the daughter of John de la Marck III Duke Cleves and Maria Jülich Berg Duchess Cleves. He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were fifth cousin once removed.
Catherine Carey [aged 16] and Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland [aged 45] were appointed Lady in Waiting to Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England.
On 9th July 1540 [her future husband] Henry VIII's [aged 49] marriage to Anne of Cleves [aged 24] was annulled. He gave her a generous settlement including Richmond Palace [Map] and Hever Castle, Kent [Map], at an annual rent of £9-13s-3½d.. Bishop Robert Parfew aka Warton signed the delcaration. She was given precedence above all other women other than the King's wife future wives and daughters, referring to her thereafter as The King's Sister. She lived seventeen more years outliving Henry's two next wives Queen Catherine Howard of England [aged 17] and Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [aged 27], and [her future step-son] King Edward VI of England and Ireland [aged 2].
On 28th July 1540 [her future husband] Henry VIII [aged 49] and Catherine Howard [aged 17] were married at Oatlands Palace [Map] by Bishop of London Edmund Bonner [aged 40]. She by marriage Queen Consort England. The difference in their ages was 31 years. He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were fifth cousin once removed.
Catherine Carey [aged 16] and Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland [aged 45] were appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Catherine Howard of England.
The date of the marriage derived from the Baga de Secrets Pouch XIII.
On 4th September 1541 [her future husband] King Henry VIII of England and Ireland [aged 50] issued letters patent to convert Peterborough Abbey into a Cathedral [Map]. Bishop John Chambers was appointed Bishop of Peterborough.
On 2nd March 1543 [her husband] John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer [aged 49] died at London. He was buried at St Paul's Cathedral [Map]. His son [her step-son] John [aged 23] succeeded 4th Baron Latimer of Snape.
On 17th April 1543 [her brother] William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton [aged 31] and [her sister-in-law] Anne Bourchier 7th Baroness Bourchier [aged 26] were divorced by an Act of Parliament and their children declared illegitimate.
On 12th July 1543 Henry VIII [aged 52] and Catherine Parr [aged 30] were married at Hampton Court Palace [Map]. She was crowned Queen Consort England. His sixth and last marriage, her third marriage; her previous husband had died four months before. The difference in their ages was 21 years. He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were third cousin once removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Henry's two daughters Mary [aged 27] and Elizabeth [aged 9] attended, as did his niece Margaret Douglas Countess Lennox [aged 27].
Catherine's sister Anne [aged 28] attended with her husband William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke [aged 42].
On 23rd December 1543 [her husband] Henry VIII [aged 52] enobled his new wife's [aged 31] brother [aged 31] and uncle [aged 60] at ceremony in the Presence Chamber, Hampton Court Palace [Map]. Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 26] and Edward Stanley 3rd Earl of Derby [aged 34] were present. Christopher Barker read the Patents.
William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton was created 1st Baron Parr of Horton. William was sixty with five daughters. He died four years later at which time the Barony became extinct.
William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton was created 1st Earl Essex. His estranged wife Anne Bourchier 7th Baroness Bourchier [aged 26] was daughter of the last Earl of Essex of the Fifth Creation. A somewhat curious choice given his wife had eloped the year previous year with John Lyngfield, the prior of Tandbridge, Surrey [Map], by whom she had an illegitimate child.
In 1544 William Sharington [aged 49] joined the household of Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [aged 31].
In 1544 Master John. Portrait of Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [aged 31].
Before October 1546 Thomas Wendy [aged 46] had appointed physician to Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [aged 34].
On 28th January 1547 [her husband] Henry VIII [aged 55] died at Whitehall Palace [Map]. His son [her step-son] Edward [aged 9] succeeded VI King of England. Earl Chester merged with the Crown.
Thomas Wendy [aged 46] attended the King. He was one of the witnesses to the King's last will and testament, for which he received £100.
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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After 31st January 1547 Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [aged 34] resided at Old Manor.
Around May 1547 Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour [aged 39] and Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [aged 34] were married in secret only four months after the death of King Henry VIII of England and Ireland. They were sixth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 10th September 1547 an English army commanded by [her brother-in-law] Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset [aged 47] defeated a Scottish army commanded by James Hamilton 2nd Earl Arran [aged 31] and Archibald Douglas 6th Earl Angus [aged 58] at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh at Musselburgh.
The English army included John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland [aged 43], Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 47], Miles Partridge and Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth [aged 22]. John Thynne [aged 32] and Edmund Brydges 2nd Baron Chandos [aged 25] were knighted.
William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley [aged 26] accompanied Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset.
Edward Shelley of Worminghurst Park [aged 44] was killed.
John Forbes 6th Lord Forbes [aged 82], Christopher Coningsby [aged 31] and Edward Clere were killed.
John Thynne was knighted after the battle.
George Sandes [aged 29] was killed.
The Scottish army included John Gordon 11th Earl Sutherland [aged 22] who commanded the Rearguard and Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis [aged 32]. John Stewart, Robert Douglas [aged 41], John Livingston, Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield and Hugh Montgomerie were killed. John Hay 4th Lord Hay was captured but soon released.
Malcolm Fleming 3rd Lord Fleming [aged 53] was killed. His son James [aged 13] succeeded 4th Lord Fleming. Barbara Hamilton Lady Fleming by marriage Lord Fleming.
Robert Graham Master of Montrose and James Gordon of Lochinvar were killed.
In 1548 [her brother] William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton [aged 36] and [her sister-in-law] Elisabeth Brooke Marchioness Northampton [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Northampton. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 30th August 1548 [her daughter] Mary Seymour was born to [her husband] Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour [aged 40] and Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [aged 36] at Sudeley Castle [Map]. Her mother died six days later.
On 5th September 1548 Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [aged 36] died from childbirth having given birth to her daughter Mary Seymour six days before. She was buried at Sudeley Castle [Map]. William Harvey [aged 38] as Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary was the only herald to attend her funeral.
On 20th March 1549 [her former husband] Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour [aged 41] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. He was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map]. Baron Seymour of Sudeley forfeit.
Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk [aged 29] became guardian to his daughter Mary Seymour.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 28th February 1552. The xxviij day of Feybruarii was bered the nobull [lady the] contes of Penbroke [deceased], and syster to the late qwyne and wyffe [to the] nobull Kyng Henry the viij. late kyng, and the good lade [the] contes of Penbroke the wyche she ded at Benard Castle [Map], and so cared unto Powlls. Ther was a C. [Note. 100] powre men and women had mantylle fryse gownes, then cam the haroldes, [then] the corse, and a-bowt her viij baners rolls of armes, and then cam the mornars boyth lordes and knyghts and gentyll men, and then cam the lades mornars and gentyll women mornars ij C. [then the] gentyll men and gentyll women, and after cam in cotts ij C. servandes and odur servandes, and she was bered by the tombe of [the duke] of Lankaster [Note. At St Paul's Cathedral [Map]], and after her banars wher sett up over her [and her] armes sett on dyvers pelers,-the vj King Edward vjth.
Note. Funeral of the countess of Pembroke. King Edward in his Diary records the death of the countess of Pembroke on the 20th Feb. 1551–2. As sister to queen Katharine Parr, she was a person of high consideration. A magnificent canopied monument to William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, and his countess Anne, with their recumbent effigies, and kneeling effigies of their three children, Henry earl of Pembroke, sir Edward Herbert knt. and Anne lady Talbot, was erected in St. Paul's cathedral, next the monument of John of Ghent, duke of Lancaster, and is represented in a plate of Dugdale's History of St. Paul's.
Around 1590 Unknown Painter. Portrait of Catherine Parr Queen Consort England.
Brief Lives: Elizabeth Danvers. [716]His[CY] mother, an Italian, prodigious parts for a woman. I have heard my father's mother say that she had Chaucer at her fingers' ends.
A great politician; great witt and spirit, but revengefull[717].
Knew how to manage her estate as well as any man; understood jewells as well as any jeweller.
Very beautifull, but only short-sighted. To obtain pardons for her sonnes[718] she maryed Sir Edmund Carey, cosen-german to queen Elizabeth, but kept him to hard meate.
Smyth of Smythcotes-Naboth's vineyard-digitus Dei[CZ].
The arcanum-'traditio lampadis' in the family of Latimer[DA] of poysoning king Henry 8-from my lady Purbec.
Notes.
Note 716. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.
Note 717. Aubrey, in the margin, notes 'Anne Bulleyn.'
Note 718. For the murder of Henry Long.
[CY]. i.e. Henry, earl of Danby's. She was Elizabeth, daughter of John Nevill, the last lord Latimer. 'An Italian' may mean that she knew that language, among her other accomplishments. I can make nothing of a note added by Aubrey here, which seems to read '... Cowley, crop-ear'd.'
[CZ]. I do not know to what circumstance, in the history of the Danvers family, Aubrey here applies 1 Kings xxi. 19.
[DA]. Catherine Parr, last consort of Henry VIII, was widow of John, 3rd lord Latimer; and step-mother of John, 4th lord Latimer, the father of this Elizabeth Danvers, whose grand-daughter ('viscountess Purbeck') was Aubrey's informant.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 5 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Parr 
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Parr
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ros 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ros
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Latimer
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Parr 7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Crophull
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Crophull 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Verdun Baroness Hussey 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Agnes Crophull 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
GrandFather: William Parr 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Tunstall
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Tunstall
Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Tunstall
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harrington of Farleton 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Nicholas Harrington of Hornby
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Banastre
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabella Harrington
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel English
Father: Thomas Parr 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Fitzhugh 2nd Baron Fitzhugh 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Fitzhugh 3rd Baron Fitzhugh
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Scrope Baroness Fitzhugh 
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Fitzhugh 4th Baron Fitzhugh 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Grey 
4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Grey Baroness Fitzhugh 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Fitzhugh 5th Baron Fitzhugh 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Willoughby 4th Baron Willoughby 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Willoughby 5th Baron Willoughby 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margery Zouche Baroness Willoughby of Eresby 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margery Willoughby Baroness Fitzhugh 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Strange 5th Baron Strange Knockin 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Strange Baroness Willoughby Eresby 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Aline Fitzalan Baroness Strange Knockin 
5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
GrandMother: Elizabeth Fitzhugh Baroness Vaux Harrowden 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Neville 3rd Baron Neville of Raby 
4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Neville 1st Earl of Westmoreland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Percy Baroness Neville Raby 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Neville Earl Salisbury Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John of Gaunt 1st Duke Lancaster Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmoreland 
Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Swynford aka Roet Duchess Lancaster 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Neville Baroness Fitzhugh 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury 
2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Montagu 1st Count Perche 4th Earl Salisbury 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Francis Countess of Salisbury
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Kent Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Holland 
2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Fitzalan Countess Kent 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Catherine Parr Queen Consort England 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Green 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Green
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Green 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Talbot 7th Baron Strange Blackmere 4th Baron Talbot 
2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Talbot 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ankaret Strange 7th Baroness Strange Blackmere, Baroness Talbot 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Green 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ferrers 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Ferrers 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stafford Baroness Cobham, Ferrers and Strange 
2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Philippa Ferrers 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Despencer 1st Baron Despencer, Baron Burghesh 
2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Despencer Baroness Ferrers of Chartley 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Burghesh 3rd Baron Burghesh 
5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
GrandFather: Thomas Green 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Throckmorton of Fladbury 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Maud Throckmorton
Mother: Maud Green 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Fogge
GrandMother: Joan aka Jane Fogge
Great x 3 Grandfather: Nicholas Haute
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Haute
Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Haute
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Woodville 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Woodville
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Woodville
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Bittelsgate
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Bittelsgate
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Beauchamp 