Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall
The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall (Chronicon Anglicanum) is an indispensable medieval history that brings to life centuries of English and European affairs through the eyes of a learned Cistercian monk. Ralph of Coggeshall, abbot of the Abbey of Coggeshall in Essex in the early 13th century, continued and expanded his community’s chronicle, documenting events from the Norman Conquest of 1066 into the tumultuous reign of King Henry III. Blending eyewitness testimony, careful compilation, and the monastic commitment to record-keeping, this chronicle offers a rare narrative of political intrigue, royal power struggles, and social upheaval in England and beyond. Ralph’s work captures the reigns of pivotal figures such as Richard I and King John, providing invaluable insights into their characters, decisions, and the forces that shaped medieval rule. More than a simple annal, Chronicon Anglicanum conveys the texture of medieval life and governance, making it a rich source for scholars and readers fascinated by English history, monastic authorship, and the shaping of the medieval world.
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Paternal Family Tree: Hervey
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Before 1753 [her father] Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol [aged 22] and [her mother] Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol [aged 19] were married. They were half fourth cousin once removed.
In 1758 Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire was born to [her father] Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol [aged 27] and [her mother] Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol [aged 25].
On 2nd October 1764 William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 44] died. His son [her future husband] William [aged 16] succeeded 5th Duke Devonshire, 8th Earl Devonshire, 8th Baron Cavendish Hardwick.
On 7th June 1774 [her future husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire [aged 26] and Georgiana Spencer Duchess Devonshire [aged 17] were married at St Mary's Church, Wimbledon. It was her 17th birthday. She by marriage Duchess Devonshire. She the daughter of John Spencer 1st Earl Spencer [aged 39] and Margaret Georgiana Poyntz Countess Spencer [aged 37]. He the son of William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire and Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington. They were fourth cousins.
In 1776 [her brother-in-law] John Crichton 1st Earl Erne [aged 45] and [her sister] Mary Caroline Hervey Countess Erne [aged 23] were married. The difference in their ages was 22 years. She the daughter of [her father] Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol [aged 45] and [her mother] Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol [aged 43].
On 23rd December 1779 [her uncle] Augustus John Hervey 3rd Earl Bristol [aged 55] died due to a gout in the stomach in St James' Square. His brother [her father] Frederick [aged 49] succeeded 4th Earl Bristol, 5th Baron Hervey of Ickworth in Suffolk. [her mother] Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol [aged 46] by marriage Countess Bristol.
Note 1. 'jactitation'. Where one person falsely asserted that he or she was married to another, the wronged party could obtain an order restraining further repetitions of the falsehood. The action was abolished in England in 1986 and in Ireland in 1995.
1786 Angelica Kauffmann [aged 44]. Portrait of Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire [aged 28].
On 26th May 1788 [her illegitimate son] Augustus Clifford 1st Baronet was born illegitimately to [her future husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire [aged 40] and Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire [aged 30]. He was illegitmate at the time of his birth. His parents subsequently married.
In 1789 [her brother-in-law] John Crichton 1st Earl Erne [aged 58] was created 1st Earl Erne of Crom Castle in County Fermanagh. [her sister] Mary Caroline Hervey Countess Erne [aged 36] by marriage Countess Erne of Crom Castle in County Fermanagh.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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On 25th March 1795 [her brother-in-law] Robert Jenkinson 2nd Earl Liverpool [aged 24] and [her sister] Louisa Theodosia Hervey Countess Liverpool [aged 28] were married at Wimbledon, Surrey. She the daughter of [her father] Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol [aged 64] and [her mother] Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol [aged 62]. He the son of Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl Liverpool [aged 65] and Amelia Watts.
Before 29th December 1798 [her brother] Frederick William Hervey 1st Marquess of Bristol [aged 29] and [her sister-in-law] Elizabeth Albana Upton [aged 23] were married. He the son of [her father] Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol [aged 68] and [her mother] Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol [aged 65].
In 1799 [her father] Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol [aged 68] abeyance terminated 5th Baron Howard de Walden.
On 19th December 1800 [her mother] Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol [aged 67] died.
On 8th July 1803 [her father] Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol [aged 72] died in Lazio. His son [her brother] Frederick [aged 33] succeeded 5th Earl Bristol, 6th Baron Hervey of Ickworth in Suffolk. H3NG0wbdHis great grandson Charles [aged 4] succeeded 6th Baron Howard de Walden.
In 1805 [her brother] Frederick William Hervey 1st Marquess of Bristol [aged 35] was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
On 30th March 1806 Georgiana Spencer Duchess Devonshire [aged 48] died at Devonshire House [Map]. She was buried at Derby Cathedral [Map]. Her husband William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire [aged 58], her mother Margaret Georgiana Poyntz Countess Spencer [aged 68], her sister Henrietta Frances Spencer Countess Bessborough [aged 44] and her eight months pregnant daughter Georgiana Cavendish Countess Carlisle [aged 22] were present, as was Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire [aged 48], her husband's mistress and future wife.
On 17th December 1808 Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl Liverpool [aged 79] died. His son [her brother-in-law] Robert [aged 38] succeeded 2nd Earl Liverpool, 2nd Baron Hawkesbury of Hawkesbury in Gloucestershire, 8th Baronet Jenkinson of Walcot in Oxfordshire and of Hawkesbury in Gloucestershire. [her sister] Louisa Theodosia Hervey Countess Liverpool [aged 41] by marriage Countess Liverpool.
In 1809 William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire [aged 61] and Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire [aged 51] were married. She by marriage Duchess Devonshire. She the daughter of Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol and Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol. He the son of William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire and Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington. They were sixth cousins.
On 17th May 1809 [her son-in-law] George Lamb [aged 24] and [her illegitimate daughter] Caroline St Jules were married. She the illegitmate daughter of [her husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire [aged 61] and Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire [aged 51].
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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On 24th December 1809 Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Granville [aged 36] and [her step-daughter] Harriet Cavendish Countess Granville [aged 24] were married. She the daughter of [her husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire [aged 61] and Georgiana Spencer Duchess Devonshire. He the son of Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford and Susanna Stewart Marchioness Stafford. They were half fourth cousin once removed.
Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville. To the [her step-son] Marquis of Hartington [aged 19]. London. April 12, 1810.
Dearest Hartington, — You must think me a brute for having been so long without writing to you, but I have been for some time the idlest of human beings. We keep terrible late hours, and I do nothing from morning till night but think what an angel my husband is, which is more pleasant than profitable. Your absence furnishes me with conversation wherever I go. I really cannot explain your leaving London just now, your thinking Bath the best place for mathematics or Doctor Randolph's attractions. Poor worn-out Lady Warwick rien peut plus with it, but with a tremulous voice, like cowards just before they dip into the sea, follows me about — 'Where is he gone, my dear Lady Harriet, what can he be gone about?' There are shoals of Miss Mildmays, and the good-natured Dowager quite like a hen. Sir Henry and his wife go about in attitudes, but they match so well and look so handsome that one forgives them for it.
You will have seen in the papers all that has been going on about Sir Francis Burdett [aged 40]. London is quiet and dull again. The mob entirely dispersed and nothing but soldiers to be seen. These riots have been very animating to different people in different ways. Lord Carlisle [aged 61]1 - got well pelted with mud and dirt. Think of the nose of nice nobility. Little 02. was obliged to explain his politics to the mob, who were going to swallow him, I believe. He is so factious that if he was not so small and inarticulate he might some day or other get into mischief. As it is he is never heard and scarcely seen. So passe, passe, petit bonhomme, very harmless and very ridiculous.
We all go to Court the day after to-morrow. Lady Stafford [aged 44]3 presents me, [her sister] Lady Liverpool [aged 43] the Duchess [aged 52]4.
Note 1. He married Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, a daughter of the first Marquis of Stafford and half-sister to Lord Granville [aged 36]. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1780 to 1782. He wrote indifferent poetry, and was sneered at in English Bards amd Scotch Beviewers by his relative and ward, Lord Byron [aged 22].
Note 2. Lord Ossulston [aged 33], who succeeded his father, Lord Tankerville [aged 66], in 1822,. He married in 1806 Mlle. Corisande de Gramont [aged 27], of whom there is frequent mention in these letters.
Note 3. Countess of Sutherland, married in 1785 to the second Marquis of Stafford [aged 52], half-brother to Lord Granville. He was Ambassador in Paris from 1790 to 1792. She did what she could for Marie Antoinette when in prison.
Note 4. Elizabeth.Duchess of Devonshire.
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On 29th July 1811 [her husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire [aged 63] died. His son [her step-son] William [aged 21] succeeded 6th Duke Devonshire, 9th Earl Devonshire, 9th Baron Cavendish Hardwick, 8th Baron Clifford.
On 20th October 1813 [her illegitimate son] Augustus Clifford 1st Baronet [aged 25] and [her daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Frances Townshend [aged 24] were married. He the illegitmate son of [her former husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire and Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire [aged 55]. They were fifth cousins.
In 1821 [her sister] Louisa Theodosia Hervey Countess Liverpool [aged 54] died.
In 1824 Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire [aged 66] died.
[her illegitimate daughter] Caroline St Jules was born illegitimately to William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire and Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire. She was illegitmate at the time of his birth. His parents subsequently married.
Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 28 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Hervey 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Hervey
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Jermyn 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Susan Jermyn
Great x 4 Grandmother: Judith Blagge
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Hervey 1st Earl Bristol
GrandFather: John Hervey 2nd Baron Hervey 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Felton 1st Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Felton 2nd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Gawdy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Felton 4th Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lionel Tollemache 2nd Baronet 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Susanna Tollemache Lady Felton 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stanhope Lady Talmash 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Felton Countess Bristol 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Theophilus Howard 2nd Earl Suffolk 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Howard 3rd Earl Suffolk 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Home Countess Suffolk 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Howard Lady Felton 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Villiers 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Barbara Villiers Countess Suffolk 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara St John 
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Nicholas Wedig Lepell
GrandMother: Mary Lepell Baroness Hervey
Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Davers 1st Baronet 
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Davers 2nd Baronet
GrandFather: Jermyn Davers 4th Baronet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Jermyn
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Jermyn
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Killigrew 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Jermyn 2nd Baron Jermyn
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Jermyn Lady Davers
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Merry
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Merry Baroness Jermyn
Mother: Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Green
GrandMother: Margaretta Green