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Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich 1510-1558
Around 1510 Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich was born to William Jenks (age 26).
Around 1530 [her daughter] Audrey Rich was born to [her future husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (age 33) and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich (age 20).
Around 1532 [her daughter] Elizabeth Rich was born to [her future husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (age 35) and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich (age 22).
Before 1537 Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (age 39) and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich (age 26) were married.
Around 1537 Hans Holbein The Younger (age 40). Drawing of Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich (age 27).
In 1537 [her son] Robert Rich 2nd Baron Rich of Leez was born to [her husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (age 40) and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich (age 27).
In 1539 [her daughter] Frances Rich was born to [her husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (age 42) and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich (age 29).
After 1539 [her son-in-law] Thomas Wroth (age 21) and [her daughter] Mary Rich were married.
Around 1540 [her son] Hugh Rich was born to [her husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (age 43) and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich (age 30).
On 26th February 1547 [her husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (age 50) was created 1st Baron Rich of Leez. Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich (age 37) by marriage Baroness Rich of Leez.
Before 8th March 1550 [her son-in-law] Robert Drury (age 26) and [her daughter] Audrey Rich (age 20) were married.
Before 1st November 1554 [her son] Hugh Rich (age 14) and [her daughter-in-law] Anne Wentworth were married.
On 1st November 1554 [her son] Hugh Rich (age 14) died.
On 16th December 1558 Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich (age 48) died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 16th December 1558. The xvj day of December was cared in a charett from sant Baythelmuw the grett unto Essex to be bered, with baners and banerrolles abowt her, my lade Ryche (age 48), and so to the plasse wher she dwelyd.
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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.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 18th December 1558. The xviij day of Desember was [buried] my lade Ryche (deceased), the wyff of the [her former husband] lord Ryche (age 61), with a herse of v prynsepalles and a viij dosen penselles and a viij dosen skochyons and a grett baner of my lordes and my lades armes and iiij baner rolles, and iiij baner(s) of santtes; and grett whytt branchys and vj dosen of torchys; and xxiiij pore men had gownes; and the morow masse and a grett dener, and ij haroldes and mony morners.
Note. P. 184. Funeral of lady Rich. Elizabeth, sister of Thomas Jenks of London, was the wife of the successful lawyer (himself of a London family) who founded the family of Rich, afterwards earls of Warwick and Holland. Richard first lord Rich survived until 1568, and was buried at Felstead, Essex. See Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 388.
On 12th June 1567 [her former husband] Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (age 70) died at Rochford, Essex. His son [her son] Robert (age 30) succeeded 2nd Baron Rich of Leez. [her daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Baldry Baroness Rich Leez (age 29) by marriage Baroness Rich of Leez.
[her daughter] Mary Rich was born to Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich and Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich.
GrandFather: Rowland Jenks
Father: William Jenks