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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Paternal Family Tree: Bayntun
Before 1505 [his father] Edward Bayntun (age 12) and [his mother] Elizabeth Sulyard were married.
Around 1520 Edward Baynton was born to Edward Bayntun (age 28) and Elizabeth Sulyard.
On 18th January 1531 [his father] Edward Bayntun (age 39) and [his step-mother] Isabel Leigh were married. She the half-sister of Catherine Howard (age 8) their mother was Joyce Culpepper.
On 27th November 1544 [his father] Edward Bayntun (age 52) died.
Around 1553 Edward Baynton (age 33) and Agnes Rhys Lady Baynton were married. She the daughter of Rhys ap Gruffydd Deheubarth and Catherine Howard Countess Bridgewater (age 54).
In 1563 Edward Baynton (age 43) was elected MP Wiltshire.
In 1571 Edward Baynton (age 51) was elected MP Devizes.
In 1572 Edward Baynton (age 52) was elected MP Calne.
In 1573 [his son] Henry Bayntun was born to Edward Baynton (age 53).
In 1574 [his wife] Agnes Rhys Lady Baynton died.
Before 1593 [his son] Henry Bayntun (age 19) and [his daughter-in-law] Lucy Danvers (age 20) were married.
In 1593 Edward Baynton (age 73) died.
GrandFather: John Bayntun of Bromham
Father: Edward Bayntun
GrandFather: John Sulyard of Wetherden in Suffolk
Mother: Elizabeth Sulyard