Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Paternal Family Tree: Dering
Maternal Family Tree: Emma de Dinan 1136-1208
Before 23rd June 1679 [his father] Edward Dering 3rd Baronet (age 29) and [his mother] Elizabeth Cholmley Lady Dering (age 15) were married.
On 23rd June 1679 Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet was born to [his father] Edward Dering 3rd Baronet (age 29) and [his mother] Elizabeth Cholmley Lady Dering (age 15).
On 24th June 1684 [his grandfather] Edward Dering 2nd Baronet (age 58) died. His son [his father] Edward (age 34) succeeded 3rd Baronet Dering of Surrenden Dering in Kent. [his mother] Elizabeth Cholmley Lady Dering (age 20) by marriage Lady Dering of Surrenden Dering in Kent.
On 15th October 1689 [his father] Edward Dering 3rd Baronet (age 39) died. He was buried at St Nicholas' Church, Pluckley. His son Cholmley (age 10) succeeded 4th Baronet Dering of Surrenden Dering in Kent.
On 17th July 1704 Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet (age 25) and Ellen aka Mary Fisher Lady Dering (age 17) were married. She by marriage Lady Dering of Surrenden Dering in Kent.
On 20th October 1704 [his mother] Elizabeth Cholmley Lady Dering (age 40) died. She was buried at St Nicholas' Church, Pluckley.
In 1705 Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet (age 25) was elected MP Kent which seat he held until 1708.
In 1705 [his son] Edward Dering 5th Baronet was born to Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet (age 25) and [his wife] Ellen aka Mary Fisher Lady Dering (age 18). He married (1) 24th February 1728 Elizabeth Henshaw Lady Dering and had issue (2) 11th September 1735 Mary Fotherby Lady Dering.
In 1707 [his wife] Ellen aka Mary Fisher Lady Dering (age 20) died.
On 7th December 1708 Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet (age 29) was elected MP Saltash at a by-election.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1710 Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet (age 30) was elected for both MP Kent and MP Saltash. He chose to sit for Kent.
On 9th May 1711 Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet (age 31) was killed in a duel at Tothill Fields [Map]. His son Edward (age 6) succeeded 5th Baronet Dering of Surrenden Dering in Kent. The duel, unusually with pistols rather than swords, was with Richard Thornhill with whom Dering had argued in a pub near Hampton Court Palace, Richmond [Map] two days previously; Thornhill had afterwards sent Dering a note challenging him to a duel. Both pistols were fired but only Dering was hit. Richard Thornhill was tried for murder but convicted of the lesser offence of manslaughter. Thornhill was murdered three months later.
On 20th August 1711 Richard Thornhill was murdered at Turnham Green Chiswick by two men who, as they killed him, allegedly invoked the name of Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet, who Thornhill had killed in a duel three months before.
[his son] Cholmley Dering Dering was born to Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet.
Kings Wessex: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 13 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 19 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 14 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 24 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 17 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 21 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 2 Grandfather: Anthony Dering of Surrenden Dering in Pluckley in Kent
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Dering 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Bell
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Bell
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmonde Beaupré of Beaupré Hall Norfolk
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothie Beaupré
GrandFather: Edward Dering 2nd Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Ashburnham
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Ashburnham
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Ashburnham Lady Dering 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Beaumont of Coleorton in Leicestershire 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Beaumont 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Saunders
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Beaumont 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Farnham
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Farnham
Father: Edward Dering 3rd Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Daniel Harvey
GrandMother: Mary Harvey Lady Dering
Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard "The Great Black Knight of the North" Cholmeley 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Cholmley 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Clifford Baroness Scrope Bolton 
5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Cholmley 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Babthorpe
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Babthorpe 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara Constable 
5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Hugh Cholmley 1st Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: William Cholmley 2nd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Twysden 
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Twysden 1st Baronet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Wyatt 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Wyatt 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Haute
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Twysden Lady Cholmley 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Finch 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Moyle Finch 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Moyle
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Finch Lady Twysden 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Heneage
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Heneage 1st Countess Winchelsea 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Poyntz 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Mother: Elizabeth Cholmley Lady Dering 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Savile 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Savile
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Savile
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Savile
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Ramsden
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ramsden
GrandMother: Katherine Savile Lady Cholmley 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Wentworth 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip Wentworth 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margery Despencer 3rd Baroness Despencer, Baroness Ros 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Wentworth 4th Baron Despencer 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Clifford 7th Baron Clifford 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Clifford Baroness Despencer 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Percy Countess of Westmoreland 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Dorothy Wentworth 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Saye 
7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Saye 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Saye Baroness Despencer 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lawrence Cheney
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cheney 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cockayne 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England