Paternal Family Tree: Burdett
In 1793 [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 22) and [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett were married. She brought £25,000 to the marriage.
In 1806 Clara Burdett was born to [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 35) and [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett.
On 6th August 1837 Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans (age 59) died. Her step-grand-daughter [her sister] Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 23) inherited the Coutts fortune of around £1.8 million (equivalent to £170,000,000 in 2021).
On 13th January 1844 [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett died.
On 23rd January 1844 [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 73) died ten days after the death of his wife [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett; he had refused food after she had died. His son [her brother] Robert (age 47) succeeded 6th Baronet Burdett of Bramcote in Warwickshire.
On 28th April 1850 Reverend James Drummond Money (age 45) and Clara Burdett (age 44) were married.
On 18th September 1852 [her son] Francis Money-Coutts 5th Baron Latymer was born to [her husband] Reverend James Drummond Money (age 47) and Clara Burdett (age 46).
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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In 1871 [her sister] Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 56) was created 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex in recognition of her philanthropic work.
In 20th April 1875 [her husband] Reverend James Drummond Money (age 69) died.
On 12th February 1881 [her brother-in-law] William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Baron Burdett-Coutts (age 30) and [her sister] Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 66) were married. He by marriage Baron Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex. There were no children from the marriage. Because of her husband's American birth a clause in her step-grandmother's will forbidding her heir to marry a foreign national was invoked and Burdett-Coutts forfeited three-fifths of her income to her sister Clara Burdett (age 75). The difference in their ages was 36 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
On 22nd December 1899 Clara Burdett (age 93) died.
On 30th December 1906 [her sister] Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 92) died. Her estate was inherited by [her son] Francis Money-Coutts 5th Baron Latymer (age 54), son of her sister Clara Burdett, who adopted the name Coutts.
In 1913 [her son] Francis Money-Coutts 5th Baron Latymer (age 60) abeyance terminated 5th Baron Latimer of Snape. He was descended from John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape via Lucy Neville, Frances Cornwallis, Elizabeth Withipoll, William Withipoll, Elizabeth Withipoll, Frances Devereux, Frances Devereux, Robert Burdett 4th Baronet, [her grandfather] Francis Burdett, [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet and Clara Burdett.
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Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
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Kings Godwinson: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King of the Franks
Kings France: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Burdett 2nd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 3rd Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Walter
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Aston 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Magdalen Aston 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Willoughby Lady Aston
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 4th Baronet 10 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 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tracy 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Leicester Devereux 6th Viscount Hereford
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Devereux
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Francis Burdett 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Sedley 2nd Baronet
11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Sedley 5th Baronet
12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Savile
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Sedley 1st Baronet
13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sedley Lady Burdett
14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Father: Francis Burdett 5th Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Jones of Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire
GrandMother: Eleanor Jones
Clara Burdett 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Thomas Coutts
Mother: Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett
GrandMother: Susannah Starkey