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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: Beauchamp
Maternal Family Tree: Aoife ni Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham 1145-1188
22nd July 1298 Battle of Falkirk
1299 Marriage of King Edward I and Margaret of France
Before 1263 [his father] William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick (age 25) and [his mother] Maud Fitzjohn Countess Warwick (age 24) were married. They were half fourth cousin once removed.
Around 1272 Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick was born to William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick (age 35) and Maud Fitzjohn Countess Warwick (age 34).
In 1298 [his father] William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick (age 61) died. His son Guy (age 26) succeeded 10th Earl Warwick.
On 22nd July 1298 King Edward I of England (age 59) defeated the Scottish army led by William Wallace during the 22nd July 1298 Battle of Falkirk at Falkirk [Map] using archers to firstly attack the Scottish shiltrons with the heavy cavalry with infantry completing the defeat.
John de Graham (age 31) and John Stewart of Bonkyll (age 52) were killed.
The English were described in the Falkirk Roll that lists 111 men with their armorials including:
Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 26).
[his uncle] Walter Beauchamp (age 55).
Roger Bigod 5th Earl Norfolk (age 53).
Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex (age 49).
Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 24).
Hugh "Elder" Despencer 1st Earl Winchester (age 37).
William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby (age 26).
Thomas Berkeley 6th and 1st Baron Berkeley (age 52).
Maurice Berkeley 7th and 2nd Baron Berkeley (age 27).
Henry Grey 1st Baron Grey of Codnor (age 43).
Reginald Grey 1st Baron Grey of Wilton (age 58).
John Grey 2nd Baron Grey of Wilton (age 30).
John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster (age 29).
Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 48).
Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 11).
William Ros 1st Baron Ros Helmsley (age 43).
John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 42).
Nicholas Segrave (age 42).
Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford (age 41).
Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby (age 30).
Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 20).
Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster (age 17).
John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey (age 67).
Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy (age 25).
Hugh Courtenay 1st or 9th Earl Devon (age 21).
Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel (age 31).
Henry Beaumont Earl Buchan (age 19).
John Capet II Duke Brittany (age 59).
Philip Darcy (age 40).
Robert Fitzroger.
Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter (age 51), or possiby a Roger Fitzwalter?.
Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 23).
John Wake 1st Baron Wake of Liddell (age 30), and.
Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury (age 47).
William Scrope (age 53) was knighted.
John Moels 1st Baron Moels (age 29) fought.
John Lovell 1st Baron Lovel (age 44) fought.
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Scalacronica. 22nd July 1298. The said English lords recovered the said town of Berwick, and held it until the arrival of the King, who, returning from Gascony, approached Scotland in great force, entered it by Roxburgh, advanced to Templeliston and Linlithgow, and so towards Stirling, where William Wallace, who had mustered all the power of Scotland, lay in wait and undertook to give battle to the said King of England. They fought on this side of Falkirk on the day of the Magdalene in the year of grace 1298, when the Scots were defeated. Wherefore it was said long after that William Wallace had brought them to the revel if they would have danced.
Walter, brother of the Steward of Scotland, who had dismounted [to fight] on foot among the commons, was slain with more than ten thousand of the commons.1 William Wallace, who was on horseback, fled with the other Scottish lords who were present. At this battle, Antony de Bek, Bishop of Durham, who was with King Edward of England, had such abundance of retinue that in his column there were thirty-two banners and a trio of earls — the Earl of Warwick (age 26), the Earl of Oxford (age 41), and the Earl of Angus (age 53).
Note 1. It was Sir John Stewart of Bonkill (age 52) who was thus slain, at the head of his Selkirk bowmen. Gray's estimate of the slain is more reasonable than that of clerical writers. Walsingham puts the number at 60,000, probably three times as much as Wallace's whole force: Hemingburgh reduces it to 56,000.
On 10th September 1299 King Edward I of England (age 60) and Margaret of France Queen Consort England (age 20) were married at Canterbury Cathedral [Map]. She by marriage Queen Consort England. The difference in their ages was 39 years. She the daughter of King Philip III of France and Maria of Brabant Queen Consort France (age 43). He the son of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England. They were first cousin once removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.
Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 27) was present.
Before 9th March 1301 seven Earls and 96 Barons signed a letter to the Pope refuting the Pope's claim that Scotland was subject to the Pope's feudal overlordship. The letter was never sent. Those who signed include: John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey (age 70), Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 23), Ralph Monthermer 1st Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (age 31), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 25), Roger Bigod 5th Earl Norfolk (age 56), Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel (age 34), Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 29), Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 26), William Leybourne 1st Baron Leybourne (age 59), Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster (age 20), William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby (age 58), Edmund Hastings, John Hastings 2nd Baron Hastings 14th Baron Abergavenny (age 14), Edmund Mortimer 2nd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore (age 50), Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin (age 16), Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy (age 27), Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter (age 54), John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Somerset (age 26), William de Braose 2nd Baron de Braose 10th Baron Bramber (age 41), John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort (age 36), Reginald Grey 1st Baron Grey of Wilton (age 61), John Moels 1st Baron Moels (age 32), Thomas Berkeley 6th and 1st Baron Berkeley (age 55), Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford, John Strange 1st Baron Strange Knockin (age 48), Thomas Multon 1st Baron Multon (age 25), Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 26), [his uncle] Walter Beauchamp (age 58), Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby (age 33), John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 45), William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby (age 29), Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 51), Piers Mauley, Ralph Neville 1st Baron Neville of Raby (age 38), John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster (age 32), Roger Scales 1st Baron Scales, Thomas Furnival 1st Baron Furnivall (age 41), Hugh Bardolf 1st Baron Bardolf (age 41), Gilbert Talbot 1st Baron Talbot (age 24), William Deincourt 2nd Baron Deincourt, Edmund Stafford 1st Baron Stafford (age 28), Walter Fauconberg 1st Baron Fauconberg (age 81).
Around 17th April 1301 [his mother] Maud Fitzjohn Countess Warwick (age 63) died. She was buried at Friars Manor, Worcester.
In 1307 [his illegitimate daughter] Isabella Beauchamp was born illegitimately to Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 35) and an unknown mistress.
On 7th July 1307 King Edward I of England (age 68) died at Burgh by Sands [Map] whilst on his way north to Scotland. His son Edward (age 23) succeeded II King of England. Earl Chester merged with the Crown.
Edward had gathered around him Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 29), Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 35), Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 32) and Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 33) and charged them with looking after his son in particular ensuring Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 23) didn't return from exile.
On 31st January 1308 King Edward II of England (age 23) and a group of England's leading nobles signed the Boulogne Agreement that attempted to curtail King Edward's rule. The signatories included Antony Bek, Bishop of Durham and Patriarch of Jerusalem (age 63), John Warenne 7th Earl of Surrey (age 21), Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 33), Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury (age 57) and Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 36).
In 1309 Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 37) and Alice Tosny Countess Warwick (age 24) were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. He the son of William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick and Maud Fitzjohn Countess Warwick. They were second cousin twice removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
Around 1310 [his daughter] Maud Beauchamp Baroness Say was born to Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 38) and [his wife] Alice Tosny Countess Warwick (age 25) at Warwick Castle [Map].
Around 19th March 1311 the nobility attempt to constrain King Edward II of England (age 26) by imposing a Council of Ordainers upon him. The Council included twenty-one signatories including:
Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 39).
Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 36).
Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 33).
Gilbert de Clare 8th Earl Gloucester 7th Earl Hertford (age 19).
Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury.
John Capet 4th Earl Richmond (age 45).
William Marshal 1st Baron Marshal (age 33), and.
Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 36).
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On 3rd November 1311 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 27) exiled by "The New Ordinances", a series of regulations imposed upon King Edward II by the peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England to restrict the power of the English monarch. The twenty-one signatories, consisting of eight earls, seven bishops and six barons, of the Ordinances are referred to as the Lords Ordainers:
Earls:
John Capet 4th Earl Richmond (age 45)
Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury
Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 39)
Gilbert de Clare 8th Earl Gloucester 7th Earl Hertford (age 20)
Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 36)
Bishops:
Archbishop Robert Winchelsey (age 66)
Barons:
Hugh de Vere 1st Baron Vere (age 54)
Hugh Courtenay, Baron of Okehampton (age 35).
William Marshal 1st Baron Marshal (age 34)
Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 37)
Article 20 describes at length the offences committed by Gaveston; he was once more condemned to exile and was to abjure the realm by 1 November.
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On 9th June 1312 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 28), under the protection of Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 37), stayed at The Rectory, Deddington whilst en route south. Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke left Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall there whilst he left to visit his wife. The following morning Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 40), with Edmund Fitzalan 2nd or 9th Earl of Arundel (age 27), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 36) and John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort (age 47) arrested Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall and took him to Warwick Castle [Map].
Around 15th June 1312 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 28) was tried at Warwick Castle [Map] by Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 40), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 36), Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 34) and Edmund Fitzalan 2nd or 9th Earl of Arundel (age 27). He was condemned to death.
On 19th June 1312 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 28) was taken to Blacklow Hill, Warwickshire [Map] where he was beheaded. Earl Cornwall extinct. Blacklow Hill, Warwickshire [Map] being outside of the lands of Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl of Warwick (age 40). Gaveston's body was left where it lay eventually being recovered by Dominican friars who took it to King's Langley Priory, Hertfordshire [Map].
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke [-1360]. In the year of Christ 1312,1 around the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist [24th June], for the defence of Piers Gaveston, he was removed from Bamburgh Castle [Map] and placed under the custody of Aymer de Valence (age 37), Earl of Pembroke. The Earl had sworn before the King, having taken the most sacred oath upon the altar, that he would protect Gaveston from all his enemies for a certain period, within which the King intended to reconcile him with the barons. However, envy, which corrupts even the greatest loyalties, and the desire to please Gaveston's enemies, led his guardian to abandon his oath through negligence. Eventually, Gaveston was taken against his will by one of his familiar enemies and delivered into the hands of his foes at Deddington Manor, located between Oxford and Warwick. There, neither natural hiding places nor fortifications could shield him from the proximity of the Earl of Warwick. That night, Pembroke departed from Gaveston, and at dawn, Guy de Beauchamp (age 40), Earl of Warwick, accompanied by a small force and great commotion, arrived. Gaveston was then taken to Warwick Castle, where, after deliberation with Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and Humphrey, Earl of Hereford, he was executed in their presence at a place called Blacklow Hill [Map] on the 19th June 1312. His body was entrusted to an honourable burial2 in the Dominican friary at Langley [Map] by order of the King.
Anno Christi MCCCXJ, circa festum Nativitatis Ioannis Baptiste, pro defensione Petri, Petrus revocatus a castro de Bamborgh committitur custodie Adomari de Valence, comitis Penbrochie, adiurati coram rege, inspecto sancto sanctorum sacramento altaris, quod ipsum indempnem quatenus posset contra omnes adversarios suos custodiret ad certum tempus, citra quod intendebat rex alico modo Petrum regni proceribus reconciliasse. Set fidem invidia inter summa lacescens et amor placendi inimicis Petri tutorem ipsius contra iuramentum in negligenciam abduxerunt. Ducitur tandem Petrus quo non vellet per familiarem inimicum in mediam potestatem inimicorum, in manerium videlicet Dathintone, que est inter Oxoniam et Warewyc, ubi nec latibulum naturale nec castrum aut munimentum aliquod artificiale posset a vicinitate comitis Warewyc Petrum sequestrare, Adomarus nocte ab ipso Petro recessit, et in aurora Guido Warewyc cum comitiva mediocri et cum hutesio accessit. Petrum quoque ductum ad castrum Warewyk, habita deliberacione cum Thoma comite Lancastrie et comite Herefordie, in ipsorum conspectu in loco qui dicitur Caveresich XIX die mensis Iunii fecit decapitari; cuius corpus in ecclesia fratrum ordinis Predicatorum de Langliþe rex honourifice commisit sepulture.
Note 1. Baker has entirely omitted Gaveston's movements in 1311-12. He seems to have confused Bamburgh and Scarborough. By the Ordinances, Gaveston was again banished 1st November 1311. He went to Flanders, but returned almost immediately, and rejoined Edward at York at the beginning of the new year; the king's writ declaring his banishment illegal bearing date the 18th January 1312. Rymer's Fœdera 2.153; Annales Londonienses 203.
On the approach of the confederate lords Gaveston fled from Newcastle and took refuge in Scarborough early in May; was besieged, and surrendered, 19th May, to the earl of Pembroke. Annales Londonienses 204.
The Chronicle of Lanercost 217.
The story of his surrender and subsequent capture by Warwick is told by the Monk of Malmesbury, Vita Edward II, 177.
Warwick made Gaveston his prisoner at Deddington on the 10th June, Annales Londonienses 206.
He gave him over to Lancaster, who with his confederates led him out to execution, the earl of Warwick remaining in his castle. Murimuth (Rolls Series), p. 17, is evidently wrong in stating that Warwick dismissed him and that he was afterwards made prisoner again. In the following extract from the Annales Londonienses 207.
The nicknames which Gaveston gave, with such deadly offence, to certain lords are noticed by several of the chroniclers. All does not appear to have been properly explained. The Chronicle of Lanercost 216.
The prose Brute chronicle has also some interesting particulars on this point. This chronicle is extant in both a French and an English version. Of the French version there are two editions, both compiled in the reign of Edward III, and ending with the account of the battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. From the second edition of this French version the English version was translated; and to this translation further additions were subsequently made. The names of the writers are unknown, but it appears that one of the later editions of the English version is due to John Maundeville, rector of Burnham Thorp, co. Norfolk, 1427-1441 (Notes and Queries, 1856, p. 1.) To the authorship of the second edition of the French version perhaps a clue may be found in certain extracts, or rather translations, from a French chronicle, which are printed in Leland's Collectanea, 1.454. Many of these extracts prove that much of Pakington's chronicle must have been word for word the same as the revised edition of the French Brute. The English Brute chronicle was printed by Caxton in 1480, with the title Chronicles of England.
Caxton's Chronicles do not appear to have had the attention of modern historians as much as they deserve. Barnes, the writer of the History of Edward III, 1688, did not know the book; but he found in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, a MS. of the English Brute chronicle, and made ample use of it, referring to it as MS. Vet. Angl. in C.C.C. Cantab. Barnes's quotations have been cited by later writers, who have failed to recognize in them the text of Caxton. In the following notes I have printed some interesting passages from the English Brute, making use of Harley MS. 2279 and Egerton MS. 650.
Gaveston's nicknames for the barons are thus described: "Kyng Edward lovede Piers of Gavastone so moche that he mygte nougte forlete his companye; and so moche the kyng yaf and behigte to the peple of Engelonde that the exiling of the forsaide Piers shulde bene revokede atte Staunford thurj hem that him exilede. Wherfore Peris of Gavastone come ayen into Engelonde, and, when he was come ayen into this lande, he despisede the gretteste lordes of this lande, and callede sire Robert of Clare, erle of Gloucestre, horeson; and the erle of Nicole, sire Henry Lacy, brust bely; and sir Guy, erle of Warwyke, blak hounde of Arderne; and also he callede the noble erle and gentil Thomas of Lancastre cherle; and meny other scornes and shame hem saide, and by many other grete lordes of Engelonde. Wherfor thei were towardis him ful angry and sore annoyede." The terms for these names in the French version (Royal Ms. 20 A. 3) are 'filz a puteyne', 'boele crevee,' 'noir chien de Ardene,' and 'vielers.' This last word the English translator has not understood. In the extract in Leland's Collectanea there are additional words: 'vielers, porceo quil est greles et de bel entaille.' Misunderstanding the first two words of this sentence, Lingard has made out that Lancaster was called 'Old Hog.' But the words mean: 'Fiddler, because he is slim and tall.' This seems to be confirmed by Walsingham (Historia Anglicana, 1.115) who says that Gaveston called Lancaster 'histrionem,' and further that Pembroke was nicknamed 'Joseph the Jew,' the reason being 'quod pallidus erat et longus [because he was pale and tall].' The 'pallidus' and 'longus,' which do not appear to be specially descriptive of a Jew, would perhaps belong better to the 'Play-actor,' just as 'greles' and 'de bel entaille' are applied to the 'Fiddler.'
Note 2. Gaveston's body lay for two years at Oxford, Vita Edward II, 209: "A few days after Christmas, the lord King Edward had the body of Piers Gaveston, his former special friend, transferred from Oxford to Langley. For now more than two years had passed since Peter's beheading, and until this time he had lain unburied among the friars at Oxford. It is said that the king had intended first to avenge Peter's death, and only afterward to commit his body to burial. But now those from whom the king had once sought vengeance had been reconciled with him in friendship. So the king, at Langley, where he had previously established a house for the Dominican friars, had the body of his Peter buried with great honour.
See also Knighton 2533, Annales Londonienses 232 and Annales Paulini 273.
Lanercost Chronicle. 19th June 1312. Having surrendered, he [Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 28)] was committed to the custody of Sir Aymer de Valence (age 37), Earl of Pembroke, who had ever before been his chief enemy, and about the feast of the nativity of John the Baptist, in the absence of Aymer de Valence, he was beheaded on the high road [Map] near the town of Warwick by command of the Earl of Lancaster (age 34) and the Earl of Warwick (age 40).
In 1312 [his illegitimate daughter] Lucia Beauchamp was born illegitimately to Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 40) and an unknown mistress.
In 1312 [his illegitimate daughter] Emma Beauchamp was born illegitimately to Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 40) and an unknown mistress.
On 14th February 1313 [his son] Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick was born to Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 41) and [his wife] Alice Tosny Countess Warwick (age 28) at Warwick Castle [Map].
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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.
Patent Rolls. 16th October 1313. Westminster.
Pardon to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (age 35), and his adherents, followers, and confederates, of all causes of anger, indignation, suits, accusations, &c, arisen in any manner on account of Peter de Gavaston, from the time of the king's marriage with his dear companion Isabella, whether on account of the capture, detention, or death of Peter de Gavaston, or on account of any forcible entries into any towns or castles, or any sieges of the same; or on account of having borne arms, or of having taken any prisoners, or of having entered into any confederacies whatever, or in any other manner touching or concerning Peter de Gavaston, or that which befel him. French. [Fœdera: Parl. Writs.]
The like, word for word, to the under-mentioned persons, adherents of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for the death of Peter de Gavaston, viz.-
Humphrey de Bohun (age 37), Earl of Hereford and Essex.
Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (age 41).
Henry de Percy (age 40).
Robert de Clyfford (age 39).
John Boteturte (age 48).
Robert de Holand.
Griffith de la Pole.
John de Heselarton.
Alexander de Cave.
Thomas le fiz Johan de Heselarton.
Robert de Stepelton.
Jordan de Dalden.
Robert le Conestable of Halsham.
William du Lunde and Thomas le fiz Phelip le Mareschal of Milford.
William Trussel.
William de Dacre (age 47).
William de Holand (age 60).
William la Zusche of Haringworthe (age 48).
Continues with another two hundred or so names.
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Annals Londonienses. [1315] In the same year, the Earl of Warwick (age 43) was made chief of the king's council. Afterwards, together with the other leading members of the king's council, they convened at Westminster, from around the Feast of the Circumcision [01 Jan 1315] of the Lord until Easter, to deliberate on the state of the king's household and the kingdom of England, and these matters were proclaimed by the king's writ:
Eodem anno, comes Warwiciæ factus est princeps consilii regis. Postea cum ceteris primatibus consilii regis sederunt apud Westmonasterium, fere a Circumcisione Domini usque ad Pascham, super statu domus regis et regni Angliæ, et hic per breve regis promulgata sunt:
Thomas Walsingham [-1422]. 12th August 1315. In this year1, Lord Guy de Beauchamp (age 43), Earl of Warwick, died, who in the last Parliament had been appointed to the King's Council; but, as it is said, the King's private associates, envying him, poisoned him.
Note. The chronology here is incorrect. Guy, Earl of Warwick died on the 12 August 1315.
Hoc anno obiit Dominus Guido de Bello Campo, Comes Warwici, qui in Parliamento ultimo Consilio regio fuerat deputatus; sed privati Regis, invidentes ei, ut dicitur, eum impotionaverunt.
On 12th August 1315 Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 43) died. Possibly poisoned - see Thomas Walsingham. He was buried at Bordesley Abbey, Worcestershire [Map]. His son [his son] Thomas (age 2) succeeded 11th Earl Warwick. Given his young age Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick became a ward of King Edward II of England (age 31) until 1326.
Around 1316 [his son] John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Warwick was born to Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick and [his former wife] Alice Tosny Countess Warwick (age 31).
Around 1316 [his daughter] Elizabeth Beauchamp Baroness Astley was born to Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick and [his former wife] Alice Tosny Countess Warwick (age 31) at Warwick Castle [Map].
Before 15th September 1317 William Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Mortimer (age 52) and [his former wife] Alice Tosny Countess Warwick (age 33) were married. They were sixth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
On 19th April 1319 [his son] Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick (age 6) and [his daughter-in-law] Katherine Mortimer Countess Warwick (age 5) were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. An arranged marriage although not clear who arranged it or whose ward Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick was (his father Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick had died four years before) - possibly by King Edward II of England (age 34) as a means of securing the Welsh March. The Beauchamp family established, the Mortimer family aspirational. The marriage took place after Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 31) had returned from his tenure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and before he rebelled against King Edward II of England in opposition to Hugh "Younger" Despencer 1st Baron Despencer (age 33). She the daughter of Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March and Joan Geneville Baroness Mortimer 2nd Baroness Geneville (age 33). He the son of Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick and [his former wife] Alice Tosny Countess Warwick (age 34). They were half second cousin once removed. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King John of England.
Effigy of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke. AYMER DE VALENCE was the third and youngest son of William de Valence, whose effigy has already been described, and by the death of his brothers during his father's life-time, succeeded him in the Earldom of Pembroke. He was much employed in military service by his kinsman Edward I. particularly in his Scottish wars. That King going into France in 1286 left him Regent of the Realm. In 1305 he was appointed Keeper of the Marches of Scotland about Berwick, and Commander of the Forces sent to oppose Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick. He was present with King Edward at the time of his death at Burgh upon the Sands [Note. Burgh by Sands, Cumberland is in Cumberland being on the west coast] in Northumberland, who requested him to protect his son from the contamination of the debauched foreigner Gavaston. He united with the Barons against that minion of the second Edward, besieged and took him prisoner in Scarborough Castle [Map]. According to the capitulation Gavaston was to have been allowed to have an interview with the King, and to be tried by his Peers; but the Earl of Warwick took the profligate Gascon from de Valence's custody, and summarily beheaded him on Blacklow Hill [Map], near Warwick. In 1314 the Earl of Pembroke was present at the battle of Bannockburn, so disastrous to the English arms in Scotland. He is said to have met his death in France at a tournament, which was appointed by himself in order to celebrate his marriage with his third wife Mary (age 22), daughter of Guy de Chastillon, Earl of St. Pol. She founded Pembroke Hall, in the University of Cambridge. Aymer de Valence was buried on the North side of the Choir of the Abbey Church at Westminster [Map], and his tomb is celebrated for its architecture and sculptural decorations. In the trefoil ornament which fills up the pediment on either side the monument he is represented on his barded horse. The compartments round the altar slab, on which his effigy reposes, are occupied by elegant statues representing his friends and connexions, and decorated with escutcheons of their arms.
Details. Plate 1. 1. Figures at the head of the Effigy. 2. Band or lace of the hood. 3. Band confining thesurcoat to the waist. 4. Sword belt. Effigy as originally painted: Plate If. 1. Toe of the solerette of the figure on horseback. Figure on horseback, North side of the tomb; basnet, aventaille, mantelet, surcoat, &c. Bases of the barded horse, bearing the bars and martlets of De Valence. 3. Figure on the North side of the tomb.
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On 1st January 1325 [his former wife] Alice Tosny Countess Warwick (age 40) died at Warwick, Warwickshire [Map].
1350. North Gatehouse of the former West Acre Priory adjacent to All Saints Church, West Acre [Map]. Three armorials above the arch of include Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick married [his former wife] Alice Tosny Countess Warwick whose ancestor Raoul Tosny originally founded the Priory in 1087.
Alice Tosny Countess Warwick: On 26th April 1284 she was born to Ralph Tosny at Flamstead, Hertfordshire. In 1309 Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick and she were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. He the son of William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick and Maud Fitzjohn Countess Warwick. They were second cousin twice removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. Before 15th September 1317 William Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Mortimer and she were married. They were sixth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. On 1st January 1325 Alice Tosny Countess Warwick died at Warwick, Warwickshire [Map].
Raoul Tosny: he was born to Roger "The Spaniard" Tosny and Adelaide or Godehildis Ramon. Raoul Tosny and Isabelle Montfort were married. He the son of Roger "The Spaniard" Tosny and Adelaide or Godehildis Ramon. On 9th April 1102 Raoul Tosny died.
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 10 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 12 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 10 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings Franks: Great x 15 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 7 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 12 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Anne Neville Queen Consort England
Queen Catherine Howard of England
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Jane Grey I Queen England and Ireland
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Ferdinand of Spain II Holy Roman Emperor
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Maria Anna Neuburg Queen Consort Spain
Charles Habsburg Spain VI Holy Roman Emperor
King George III of Great Britain and Ireland
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King Christian I of Norway and VIII of Denmark
Frederick William IV King Prussia
Queen Louise Hesse-Kassel of Denmark
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway
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King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
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Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Beauchamp
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp
Great x 4 Grandmother: Emmeline d'Abetot
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Beauchamp
Great x 4 Grandfather: William de Braose 3rd Baron Bramber
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bertha de Braose Baroness Beauchamp
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bertha Gloucester Baroness Bramber
Great x 1 Grandfather: Walter Beauchamp
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jeanne de Saint Valéry
GrandFather: William Beauchamp
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Mortimer
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Mortimer
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Mortimer
Great x 4 Grandfather: William le Meschin Gernon
Great x 3 Grandmother: Matilda Gernon
Great x 4 Grandmother: Cecily Rumily
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Mortimer
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Ferrers
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walchelin Ferrers
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Ferrers
Father: William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Maudit
GrandMother: Isabel Maudit
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Beaumont 1st Earl Warwick
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Beaumont 2nd Earl Warwick
Great x 4 Grandmother: Marguerite Chateaudun Countess Warwick
Great x 2 Grandfather: Waleran Beaumont 4th Earl Warwick
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey
Great x 3 Grandmother: Gundred Warenne Countess Warwick
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey
Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Beaumont
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Harcourt Countess Warwick
Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick
Great x 1 Grandfather: Geoffrey Fitzpeter 1st Earl Essex
GrandFather: John Fitzgeoffrey
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert de Clare
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard de Clare
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adeliza Claremont
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Clare 2nd Earl Hertford
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ranulf le Meschin Gernon 3rd Earl Chester
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Gernon
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Bolingbroke Countess Chester
Great x 1 Grandmother: Aveline Clare Countess Essex
Great x 2 Grandmother: Maud St Hilary Countess Hertford
Mother: Maud Fitzjohn Countess Warwick
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Bigod
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Bigod 1st Earl Norfolk
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelisa Todeni
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Bigod 2nd Earl Norfolk
Great x 4 Grandfather: Aubrey II de Vere
Great x 3 Grandmother: Juliana de Vere
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelize de Clare
Great x 1 Grandfather: Hugh Bigod 3rd Earl Norfolk
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Tosny
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Tosny
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ida aka Gertrude Hainault
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ida Tosny Countess Norfolk
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Beaumont
Great x 4 Grandmother: Amice Gael Countess Leicester
GrandMother: Isabel Bigod
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert Giffard
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fitzgilbert
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter of Salisbury 2nd Baron Chitterne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sybil of Salisbury
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sybilla Chaworth Baroness Chitterne
Great x 1 Grandmother: Maud Marshal Countess Norfolk and Surrey
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert de Clare 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard "Strongbow" Clare 2nd Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Beaumont Countess Pembroke
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandfather: Diarmait Macmurrough
Great x 3 Grandmother: Aoife ni Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham