The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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Paternal Family Tree: Hanbury aka Hanbury-Tracy
On 25th August 1831 [his father] Thomas Charles Hanbury-Tracy 2nd Baron Sudeley [aged 30] and [his mother] Emma Elizabeth Alicia Dawkins-Pennant Baroness Sudeley were married.
On 3rd July 1840 Charles Hanbury Tracy 4th Baron Sudeley was born to [his father] Thomas Charles Hanbury-Tracy 2nd Baron Sudeley [aged 39] and [his mother] Emma Elizabeth Alicia Dawkins-Pennant Baroness Sudeley.
On 10th February 1858 [his grandfather] Charles Hanbury-Tracy 1st Baron Sudeley [aged 79] died. His son [his father] Thomas [aged 57] succeeded 2nd Baron Sudeley of Toddington in Gloucestershire. [his mother] Emma Elizabeth Alicia Dawkins-Pennant Baroness Sudeley by marriage Baroness Sudeley of Toddington in Gloucestershire.
In 1863 Charles Hanbury Tracy 4th Baron Sudeley [aged 22] was elected MP Montgomery which seat he held until 1877 when he succeeded his brother as Baron Sudeley.
On 19th February 1863 [his father] Thomas Charles Hanbury-Tracy 2nd Baron Sudeley [aged 62] died. His son [his brother] Sudeley [aged 25] succeeded 3rd Baron Sudeley of Toddington in Gloucestershire.
In 1868 Charles Hanbury Tracy 4th Baron Sudeley [aged 27] and Ada Maria Tollemache Baroness Sudeley [aged 19] were married.
On 25th January 1869 [his daughter] Eva Isabella Hanbury-Tracy was born to Charles Hanbury Tracy 4th Baron Sudeley [aged 28] and [his wife] Ada Maria Tollemache Baroness Sudeley [aged 20]. She married 24th August 1889 Henry Torrens Anstruther.
On 19th April 1870 [his son] William Hanbury-Tracy 5th Baron Sudeley was born to Charles Hanbury Tracy 4th Baron Sudeley [aged 29] and [his wife] Ada Maria Tollemache Baroness Sudeley [aged 21]. He married (1) 24th August 1905 Edith Celandine Cecil.
On 11th April 1871 [his son] Algernon Hanbury-Tracy was born to Charles Hanbury Tracy 4th Baron Sudeley [aged 30] and [his wife] Ada Maria Tollemache Baroness Sudeley [aged 22].
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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In 1877 [his daughter] Alice Eve Hanbury-Tracy was born to Charles Hanbury Tracy 4th Baron Sudeley [aged 36] and [his wife] Ada Maria Tollemache Baroness Sudeley [aged 28]. She married 1898 Bertram William Keppel.
On 28th April 1877 Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy 3rd Baron Sudeley [aged 40] died unmarried. His brother Charles [aged 36] succeeded 4th Baron Sudeley of Toddington in Gloucestershire. Ada Maria Tollemache Baroness Sudeley [aged 28] by marriage Baroness Sudeley of Toddington in Gloucestershire.
The London Gazette 24843. St. James's Palace, May 10, 1880. THE Queen has been pleased to appoint to be Lords in Waiting in Ordinary to Her Majesty:-
Frederick Henry Paul [aged 62], Lord Methuen in the room of William, Lord Bagot [aged 69], resigned.
Lawrance [aged 35], Earl of Zetland, in the room of Charles Adolphus [aged 39], Earl of Dunmore, resigned.
William [aged 46], Earl of Listowel, in the room of Dudley Charles FitzGerald [aged 53], Lord de Ros, resigned.
Thomas [aged 25], Lord Ribblesdale, in the room of William Buller Fullerton [aged 51], Lord Elphinstone, resigned.
Charles Douglas Richard [aged 39], Lord Sudeley, in the room of John Major [aged 37], Lord Henniker, resigned.
Arthur [aged 55], Lord Wrottesley, in the room of Cornwallis [aged 63], Viscount Hawarden, resigned.
In 1882 [his son] Felix Charles Hanbury-Tracy was born to Charles Hanbury Tracy 4th Baron Sudeley [aged 41] and [his wife] Ada Maria Tollemache Baroness Sudeley [aged 33].
The London Gazette 25488. St. James's Palace, July 6, 1885. THE Queen has been pleased to appoint George William [aged 47], Earl of Coventry, to be Captain of Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, in the room of Charles Robert, Lord Carrington, G.C.M.G., resigned.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint George Florance, Lord Boston, to be one of Her Majesty's Lords in Waiting in Ordinary, in the room of Charles Douglas Richard [aged 45], Lord Sudeley, resigned.
The London Gazette 25558. St. James's Palace, February 10, 1886. THE Queen has been pleased to make the following appointments in Her Majesty's Household:— .
Valentine Augustus [aged 60], Earl of Kenmare, K.P., to be Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household, in the room of Edward [aged 48], Earl of Lathom, resigned.
Charles Douglas Richard [aged 45], Lord Sudeley to be Captain of Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, in the room of George William [aged 47], Earl of Coventry, resigned.
William John, Lord Monson to be Captain of Her Majesty's Guard of Yeomen of the Guard, in the room of George William [aged 61], Viscount Barrington, resigned.
The Honourable Charles Robert Spencer [aged 28], M.P., to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to Her Majesty, in the room of Sir Henry Fletcher [aged 50], Bart., M.P., resigned.
The London Gazette 25615. St. James's Palace, August 5, 1886. THE Queen has been pleased to make the following Appointments in Her Majesty's Household:
Edward, Earl of Lathom, to be Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household, in the room of Valentine Augustus, Earl of Kenmare, K.P., resigned.
William Heneage, Viscount Lewisham, to be Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household, in the room of Frederick Edward Gould, Viscount Kilcoursie, M.P., resigned.
George William [aged 62], Viscount Barrington, to be Captain of Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, in the room of Charles Douglas Richard [aged 46], Lord Sudeley, resigned.
Algernon Hawkins Thomond, Earl of Kintore, to be Captain of Her Majesty's Guard of Yeomen of the Guard, in the room of William John, Lord Monson, resigned.
On 14th July 1888 [his mother] Emma Elizabeth Alicia Dawkins-Pennant Baroness Sudeley died.
On 24th August 1889 [his son-in-law] Henry Torrens Anstruther [aged 28] and [his daughter] Eva Isabella Hanbury-Tracy [aged 20] were married.
In 1898 [his son-in-law] Bertram William Keppel [aged 22] and [his daughter] Alice Eve Hanbury-Tracy [aged 21] were married.
On 24th August 1905 [his son] William Hanbury-Tracy 5th Baron Sudeley [aged 35] and [his daughter-in-law] Edith Celandine Cecil [aged 19] were married.
On 19th December 1914 [his son] Felix Charles Hanbury-Tracy [aged 32] died. He was seriously wounded during an attack on the German trenches at Fromelles, in December 1914, but stoically refused to be carried back from the firing line, on account of the great risk to the stretcher-bearers. News of his fate was confirmed during the Christmas Truce, in the so-called "information interviews," when German officers told their British counterparts that he had subsequently been brought into the German trenches seriously wounded. He had died two days later and been buried in the German Cemetery at Fromelles.
On 3rd December 1915 Algernon Hanbury-Tracy [aged 44] died from wounds. He was buried at the Church of St Peter Petersham, Surrey. The inscription on his grave reads: "Sacred to the memory of Algernon Henry Charles Hanbury-Tracy CMG. Major Royal Horse Guards 2nd son of the 4th Baron Sudely and grandson of the Honourable Frederick Tollemache. Died Dec 3 1915 aged 44 years. Served his country with distinction in East Africa 1897-1899, South Africa 1899-1900, Somaliland 1901."
In 1922 [his son] William Hanbury-Tracy 5th Baron Sudeley [aged 51] and [his daughter-in-law] Edith Celandine Cecil [aged 35] were divorced.
On 9th December 1922 Charles Hanbury Tracy 4th Baron Sudeley [aged 82] died at Reston Lodge, Petersham. His son William [aged 52] succeeded 5th Baron Sudeley of Toddington in Gloucestershire.
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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On 6th January 1928 [his former wife] Ada Maria Tollemache Baroness Sudeley [aged 79] died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 25 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 25 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 24 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 31 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 25 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 29 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Hanbury
GrandFather: Charles Hanbury-Tracy 1st Baron Sudeley
Father: Thomas Charles Hanbury-Tracy 2nd Baron Sudeley 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tracy 3rd Viscount Tracy 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Tracy 4th Viscount Tracy 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leigh Viscountess Tracy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Tracy 5th Viscount Tracy 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Leigh
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Leigh Viscountess Tracy
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Tracy 8th Viscount Tracy 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Pakington 3rd Baronet 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Pakington 4th Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Keyt Lady Pakington
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Pakington
GrandMother: Henrietta Susanna Tracy 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Charles Hanbury Tracy 4th Baron Sudeley 15 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: George Hay Dawkins-Pennant
Mother: Emma Elizabeth Alicia Dawkins-Pennant Baroness Sudeley
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Maude 1st Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: Cornwallis Maude 1st Viscount Hawarden
GrandMother: Sophia Maria Maude
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Vernon 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Vernon of Caldewell
Great x 2 Grandfather: Bowater Vernon
Great x 1 Grandmother: Letitia Vernon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Cornwallis
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Cornwallis of Abermarles
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Cornwallis