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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: Wilmot
Maternal Family Tree: Jane Gibbes Baroness Hawley
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 25th November 1666. The Council up, after speaking with Sir W. Coventry (age 38) a little, away home with Captain Cocke (age 49) in his coach, discourse about the forming of his contract he made with us lately for hempe, and so home, where we parted, and I find my uncle Wight (age 64) and Mrs. Wight and Woolly, who staid and supped, and mighty merry together, and then I to my chamber to even my journal, and then to bed. I will remember that Mr. Ashburnham (age 62) to-day at dinner told how the rich fortune [her mother] Mrs. Mallett (age 15) reports of her servants; that my Lord Herbert (age 25) would have had her; my Lord Hinchingbrooke (age 18) was indifferent to have her1 my Lord John Butler (age 23) might not have her; my [her father] Lord of Rochester (age 19) would have forced her2 and Sir---Popham (age 20), who nevertheless is likely to have her, would kiss her breach to have her.
Note 1. They had quarrelled (see August 26th). She, perhaps, was piqued at Lord Hinchingbroke's refusal "to compass the thing without consent of friends" (see February 25th), whence her expression, "indifferent" to have her. It is worthy of remark that their children intermarried; Lord Hinchingbroke's son married Lady Rochester's daughter. B.
Note 2. Of the lady thus sought after, whom Pepys calls "a beauty" as well as a fortune, and who shortly afterwards, about the 4th February, 1667, became the wife of the Earl of Rochester, then not twenty years old, no authentic portrait is known to exist. When Mr. Miller, of Albemarle Street, in 1811, proposed to publish an edition of the "Memoires de Grammont", he sent an artist to Windsor to copy there the portraits which he could find of those who figure in that work. In the list given to him for this purpose was the name of Lady Rochester. Not finding amongst the "Beauties", or elsewhere, any genuine portrait of her, but seeing that by Hamilton she is absurdly styled "une triste heritiere", the artist made a drawing from some unknown portrait at Windsor of a lady of a sorrowful countenance, and palmed it off upon the bookseller. In the edition of "Grammont" it is not actually called Lady Rochester, but "La Triste Heritiere". A similar falsification had been practised in Edwards's edition of 1793, but a different portrait had been copied. It is needless, almost, to remark how ill applied is Hamilton's epithet. B.
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On 29th January 1667 [her father] John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester (age 19) and [her mother] Elizabeth Malet Countess Rochester (age 16) were married at Knightsbridge Chapel. She by marriage Countess Rochester. They having eloped and married against her families wishes. Two years previously he had abducted her for which he spent three weeks in prison. Her father being dead it isn't clear whose ward she was. He the son of [her grandfather] Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester and [her grandmother] Anne St John Countess Rochester (age 52).
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 13th March 1668. Thence with our company to the King's playhouse, where I left them, and I, my head being full of to-morrow's dinner, I to my Lord Crew's (age 70), there to invite Sir Thomas Crew (age 44); and there met with my Lord Hinchingbrooke (age 20) and his lady, the first time I spoke to her. I saluted her; and she mighty civil and; with my Lady Jemimah, do all resolve to be very merry to-morrow at my house. My Lady Hinchingbroke [Note. Probably a reference to Elizabeth Wilmot Countess Sandwich the future Lady Hinchinbroke.] I cannot say is a beauty, nor ugly; but is altogether a comely lady enough, and seems very good-humoured, and I mighty glad of the occasion of seeing her before to-morrow.
Before 13th July 1674 Elizabeth Wilmot Countess Sandwich was born to John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester (age 27) and Elizabeth Malet Countess Rochester (age 23).
On 26th July 1680 [her father] John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester (age 33) died. His son [her brother] Charles (age 9) succeeded 3rd Earl Rochester, 3rd Viscount Wilmot.
On 20th August 1681 [her mother] Elizabeth Malet Countess Rochester (age 30) died.
On 8th July 1689 Edward Montagu 3rd Earl Sandwich (age 19) and Elizabeth Wilmot Countess Sandwich (age 14) were married. She by marriage Countess Sandwich. She the daughter of John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester and Elizabeth Malet Countess Rochester. He the son of Edward Montagu 2nd Earl Sandwich and Mary Anne Boyle. They were fifth cousin once removed.
On 7th July 1692 [her son] Edward Montagu Viscount Hinchingbrooke was born to [her husband] Edward Montagu 3rd Earl Sandwich (age 22) and Elizabeth Wilmot Countess Sandwich (age 17).
On 12th April 1707 [her son] Edward Montagu Viscount Hinchingbrooke (age 14) and [her daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Popham Viscountess Hinchingbrooke (age 14) were married at St James' Church, Piccadilly. She brought £12000. He the son of [her husband] Edward Montagu 3rd Earl Sandwich (age 37) and Elizabeth Wilmot Countess Sandwich (age 32). They were fourth cousin once removed.
On 3rd October 1722 [her son] Edward Montagu Viscount Hinchingbrooke (age 30) died at Abbey House. He was buried at All Saints Church, Barnwell [Map].
On 20th October 1729 [her husband] Edward Montagu 3rd Earl Sandwich (age 59) died. He was buried at All Saints Church, Barnwell [Map]. His grandson [her grandson] John (age 10) succeeded 4th Earl Sandwich.
Before 20th October 1743 Michael Dahl (age 84). Portrait of Elizabeth Wilmot Countess Sandwich (age 69).
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 1st July 1757 Elizabeth Wilmot Countess Sandwich (age 82) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Wilmot of Culham
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Wilmot 1st Viscount Wilmot
GrandFather: Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Anderson
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Anderson
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Hopton
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Hopton
Great x 1 Grandmother: Sarah Anderson
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Bowyer
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bowyer
Father: John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John St John 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Nicholas St John 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Carew 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John St John 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Blount of Mapledurham in Oxfordshire 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Blount 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John St John 1st Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Hungerford 1st Baron Hungerford Heytesbury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Hungerford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Susan Danvers
Great x 2 Grandmother: Lucy Hungerford 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Dormer
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Dormer
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Sidney
GrandMother: Anne St John Countess Rochester 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Leighton
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Leighton
Elizabeth Wilmot Countess Sandwich 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Malet
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Malet
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Malet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Popham of Huntworth in Somerset
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Popham 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane aka Joan Stradling 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Popham 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: John Malet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Tracy
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Tracy
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Tracy 1st Viscount Tracy
Great x 1 Grandmother: Ann Tracy 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Shirley 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Shirley 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Shirley 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Kempe 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Kempe 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Cheney
Mother: Elizabeth Malet Countess Rochester 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Hawley of Wiveliscombe
Great x 1 Grandfather: Francis Hawley 1st Baron Hawley 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Amias Paulett
Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Paulett
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Poulet 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Norreys 1st Baron Norreys of Rycote 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Norreys 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margery Williams Baroness Norreys Rycote 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Unton Hawley 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ralph Gibbes
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Gibbes Baroness Hawley