Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.
Paternal Family Tree: Annesly
Before 2nd January 1586 Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia was born to [his father] Robert Annesley. On 2nd January 1586 Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia was baptised.
Before 1613 Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia [aged 26] and Dorothy Philipps [aged 24] were married. They had eleven children of whom three sons and several daughters reached adulthood.
On 3rd April 1613 [his daughter] Hester Annesley was born to Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia [aged 27] and [his wife] Dorothy Philipps [aged 25]. She married on or after 3rd May 1632 Roger Lort 1st Baronet and had issue.
On 10th July 1614 [his son] Arthur Annesley 1st Earl Annesley was born to Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia [aged 28] and [his wife] Dorothy Philipps [aged 26] at Dublin [Map]. He married 24th April 1638 Elizabeth Altham Countess Anglesey and had issue.
In 1622 Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia [aged 35] was created 1st Viscount Valentia with a reversionary grant that it wouldn't become effective until the death of Henry Power 1st Viscount Valentia.
After 1624 Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia [aged 37] and Jane Stanhope Viscountess Valentia [aged 18] were married. She by marriage Viscountess Valentia.
On 3rd May 1624 [his wife] Dorothy Philipps [aged 36] died.
In 1628 [his brother-in-law] Philip Stanhope 1st Earl Chesterfield [aged 44] was created 1st Earl Chesterfield. Catherine Hastings Countess Chesterfield by marriage Countess Chesterfield.
On 23rd January 1628 [his son] Francis Annesley was born to Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia [aged 42] and [his wife] Jane Stanhope Viscountess Valentia [aged 22].
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.
On or after 3rd May 1632 [his son-in-law] Roger Lort 1st Baronet [aged 24] and [his daughter] Hester Annesley [aged 19] were married by a license dated 3rd May 1632.
In 1634 [his daughter] Catherine Annesley Lady Beresford was born to Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia [aged 47] and [his wife] Jane Stanhope Viscountess Valentia [aged 28]. She married Randal Beresford 2nd Baronet, son of Tristram Beresford 1st Baronet, and had issue.
After 1636 [his brother-in-law] Philip Stanhope 1st Earl Chesterfield [aged 52] and Anne Pakington Countess Chesterfield [aged 37] were married. She by marriage Countess Chesterfield.
On 24th April 1638 [his son] Arthur Annesley 1st Earl Annesley [aged 23] and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Altham Countess Anglesey [aged 18] were married.
In 1642 Henry Power 1st Viscount Valentia died. Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia [aged 55] was created 1st Viscount Valentia with a creation date of 1622.
Before 1643 [his son-in-law] James Zouche [aged 27] and [his daughter] Beatrice Annesley were married. They were sixth cousins.
On 12th September 1656 [his brother-in-law] Philip Stanhope 1st Earl Chesterfield [aged 72] died. His grandson Philip [aged 22] succeeded 2nd Earl Chesterfield, 2nd Baron Stanhope of Shelford in Nottinghamshire.
On 22nd November 1660 Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia [aged 74] died. He was buried at Thorganby, North Yorkshire. His son Arthur [aged 46] succeeded 2nd Viscount Valentia. Elizabeth Altham Countess Anglesey [aged 40] by marriage Viscountess Valentia.
In 1683 [his former wife] Jane Stanhope Viscountess Valentia [aged 77] died. She was buried at St Mary's Church, Nottingham.
Peter Courten 1st Baronet and Jane Stanhope Viscountess Valentia were married.
[his daughter] Beatrice Annesley was born to Francis Annesley 1st Viscount Valentia and Jane Stanhope Viscountess Valentia. She married before 1643 her sixth cousin James Zouche.