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.
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Henry Willoughby was appointed Knight of the Body to King Henry VIII of England and Ireland.
Henry Willoughby was appointed Knight of the Body to King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
In 1451 Henry Willoughby was born to [his father] Robert Willoughby [aged 24] and [his mother] Margaret Griffith.
Before 1467 Henry Willoughby [aged 15] and Margaret Markham were married.
Around 1467 [his son] Edward Willoughby was born to Henry Willoughby [aged 16] and [his wife] Margaret Markham. He married in or before 1517 Anne Filiol and had issue.
In 1474 [his father] Robert Willoughby [aged 47] died.
In or before 1486 Richard Fitzhugh 6th Baron Fitzhugh [aged 28] and [his future wife] Elizabeth Burgh Baroness Fitzhugh were married. She by marriage Baroness Fitzhugh. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In 1486 [his son] John Willoughby and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Grey were married.
On 16th June 1487 a Lancastrian army defeated a Yorkist army at the Battle of Stoke Field; considered by many to be the last battle of the Wars of the Roses.
The Lancastrian army of Henry Tudor comprised:
John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford [aged 44].
Jasper Tudor 1st Duke Bedford [aged 55].
George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 19].
Henry Willoughby [aged 36].
John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne [aged 45].
John Mordaunt [aged 31].
Richard Neville 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape [aged 19].
William Norreys [aged 46].
Edward Norreys [aged 23] wounded.
John Paston [aged 43].
George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster [aged 27].
Edward Woodville Lord Scales [aged 31].
Thomas Lovell, knighted.
Henry Marney 1st Baron Marney [aged 40].
Edward Belknapp of Blackfriars in London
William Lyttelton [aged 37] who was knighted after the battle.
The Yorksists:
John de la Pole Earl Lincoln 1st [aged 25] was killed. Earl Lincoln extinct.
Thomas Fitzgerald [aged 29] and Martin Schwartz were killed.
Lambert Simnel [aged 10] fought and was captured. He was pardoned by King Henry VII and put to work in the in the royal kitchen as a spit-turner. When he grew older, he became a falconer. Almost no information about his later life is known.
Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell [aged 31] fought and escaped. He was attainted. Viscount Lovell, Baron Deincourt, Baron Grey of Rotherfield, Baron Lovel of Titchmarsh, Baron Holand forfeit.
Edmund Peckham was granted the manors of Alford, Eccles, Alderley, Chester, and Flint.
In 1489 Henry Willoughby [aged 38] served at Flanders.
In 1491 [his mother] Margaret Griffith died.
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.
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In 1491 Henry Willoughby [aged 40] and Elizabeth Burgh Baroness Fitzhugh were married.
In 1492 Henry Willoughby [aged 41] was appointed Justice of the Peace Nottinghamshire.
Before 1495 Henry Willoughby [aged 43] and Ellen Egerton were married.
In 1495 [his son] Hugh "Navigator" Willoughby was born to Henry Willoughby [aged 44] and [his wife] Ellen Egerton.
In 1496 [his son-in-law] John Zouche [aged 18] and [his daughter] Margaret Willoughby were married.
On 17th June 1497 the Cornish rebel army was destroyed at the Battle of Blackheath aka Deptford Bridge.
Richard Guildford [aged 47] was created Knight Banneret.
Edward Stafford 2nd Earl Wiltshire [aged 27], Henry Willoughby [aged 46], Edward Belknapp of Blackfriars in London and Thomas Fiennes 8th Baron Dacre Gilsland [aged 25] fought at Deptford, Kent [Map].
Giles Brugge 6th Baron Chandos [aged 35], John Hussey 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford [aged 32], Robert Sheffield [aged 36], Edward Stanhope 1462-1487, John Peche [aged 47] and Robert Constable [aged 19] were knighted by King Henry VII of England and Ireland [aged 40].
Thomas West 8th Baron De La Warr 5th Baron West [aged 40] commanded.
James Tuchet 7th Baron Audley, 4th Baron Tuchet [aged 34] was captured by Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth [aged 19].
The Antiquarian Repertory. The Sunday [22nd February 1503]. That Masse done the Lords and Laides went to breakfast and in meane tyme the Corps was conveyd into the Chaire which was eniparralled as followeth:
First all the bayles sydes and Coffers were covered with black velvett and over all along of a prety depnes a Cloth of black velvett with a Crosse of White Cloth of gould well frindged drawn with vi [6] horses traped with black velvett and all the draught of the same.
And when the Corps was in the Chest there was Ordeyned an Image or a personage like a Queene Clothed in the very Roabes of Estate of the Queene having her very rich Crowne on her Head her heire about her shoulders her septer in her right Hand and her fingers well garnished with Gould and precious Stones.
And on every end of the Chair on the Coffer kneeled a Gentleman Usher by all the way to Westminster.
On the fore horse and the tyller ij [2] charriott men and on the other vij [7] horses iiij [4] henchmen in black gowns and mourning hood over their heads every horse having iiij [4] lozengs of the quenes Armes beaten in oyle rolled upon sarcenett with fine Gould and the fore horse having one on his forehead and none but he.
And by every horse there was a man of honour a foot with mourning hoods over their heads and at every corner of the Chaire a White banner of our Lady borne by a knight the banners were all White in token that she dyed in Childbed their wereordeyned and appoynted.
Certain knights and Esquires to go by the Chaire and the horse to beare the banner and every each to assist other whose names followeth Sr Edward Haward [aged 27] Sr Henery Wylongby [aged 52] Sr Thomas West [aged 46] sonne and heir of the Lord Lavarres Sr Edward Darell [aged 37] Sr John Petche [aged 53] Sr George Manners [aged 33] Sr Richard Carew [aged 34] Sr Edward Wingfield Sr William Sands [aged 49] Srr Raufe Verney [aged 48].
Sir John Hodelston Sr John Rainsford William Denton Richard Wingfuld Raphe Dacre Xtofer Wylongby [aged 22] Edward Guilford [aged 29] William West John Gawge [aged 23]
Also their were ordyned viij [8] palferys saddled traped and empelled with black velvett for the viij Laidesof honour to follow the Chaire that is to say the Lady Katherine [aged 23] The Lady Elizebeth Stafford [aged 24] The Countess of Essex [Note. Possibly Mary Saye Countess Essex and Eu [aged 29] although she is believed to have married the Earl in 1512. The previous Countess of Essex Isabel York Countess Eu and Essex died in 1484.] The Lady Harbert [aged 27] The Lady Lucey of Mountagne The Lady Anne Percy [aged 17] The Lady Lisle The Lady Scrope of Upsall.
All these Laides Roode alone in their slopps and mantles every horse led with a man a foote without hood in a demy black gowne The ij [2] Chaire drawn with vi [6] horses trapped with Black Cloth and also covered with the same having iij [3] Charriott men in that Chaire was the Lady Anne The Lady Marquesse The Lady Daubeny and the Lady Clifford following the Chaire the horses empelled with black Cloth The Lady Dacres The Lady Verney The Lady Guilford The Lady Darell The Lady Egrernonnt The Lady Risseley The Lady Petche The Lady Bryan and in like manner the iij [3] Chaire in which was the Lady Gordon The Lady Fitzwater The Lady Monjoy and the Lady Bray following that Chaire Mrs Cromer Mrs Burn Mrs, Stafford Mrs Belknappe Mrs Weston Mrs Anne Browne Mrs Brent Mrs Yon Then iiijth Chaire emparelled as before in the which, was The Lady Pudsey Mrs Catesby Mrs Lary Mrs Tendringe Mrs Florence Bruges Mrs Balstrod Mrs Ffog Mrs Fitzharbert and Mrs Jones in the lyke manner as before was the vtb Chaire apperrelled in the Avhich was Mrs Dany Mrs Skilling Mrs Elizebeth Mrs. ITrancs.
Then after them the honest persons citizens of London on horseback in a great number after them the kings servants after them the Lords Servants in great number And from the foremost horse backward they were C of the Kings servants as Marshells servants yeomen and gromes with mourning hoods over their heads bearing a hundred of staffe torches of pure wax.
Here followeth the ordering before the Chaire through London to Westminster.
First next before the foremost horse of the first Chaire The Earle of Derby Constable of England Before him Garter andthe Maior of London The Queenes Chamberlain in manner between the Maior and the Lord Constable before them the Queens Confessor and Aumnoer and before them in manner as ensueth on the left syde the pression of London Also first next to the Corps the kings Chappell before them the quier of Poules and so forth on the same syde the generall pression of London in their ould Custome that is to say the Crossed fryers the white the Augustines and the black and in the middes as farr fourth as they might strydeing the cannells one after another in mourning habitt ijC poore men ewych bearing a weyghty torch.
The manner of the right syde next before the Confessor and aulmoner all the great Lords after there Estate ij [2] and ij [2] together and next before them ij [2] of the Cheif Judges and Mtr of the Rovvles before them knights of the Garter not lords before them the great Chapleines that be of dignitye as the secretary to the king almoner the Deane of York The archdeacon of Richmond The Dean of Windsor and such other Before them the Aldermen of London Before them all knights before them the squires for the Body before them Chapleines of dignitye before them gentlemen and squires before them The Esterlings before them the frenchmen before them the portingalls before them the Venetians before them the Jannayes before them the Lewknors before them the trumppetts and mynsterells on horseback without their instruments before them the messengers.
From Mark lane to Temple bar by estimation were beyond iiij or v thousand torches set all the street along of the parish Churches in there best manner with Crosses pressions and singing antam.es and orasons envyroned the Corps.
Att fanchers were set xxxvij [37] Virgins all in White linnen having Chappletts of white and grene on their heads eiiych houlding a breningtap of wax in the honour of our Lady and that the foresaid good quene was in xxxvijth [37th] year.
Around 1507 [his daughter] Dorothy Willoughby died.
In 1507 [his son-in-law] Anthony Fitzherbert of Hamstall Ridware [aged 41] and [his daughter] Dorothy Willoughby were married.
On 1st August 1507 [his wife] Elizabeth Burgh Baroness Fitzhugh died.
On 11th May 1509 King Henry VII of England and Ireland [deceased] was buried in the King Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey [Map]. Henry Willoughby [aged 58] and Anthony Wingfield [aged 22] attended. The ladies given mantelets and kerchiefs were as follows:
Household of Mary Tudor:
Mary Tudor Queen Consort France [aged 13].
Catherine York Countess Devon [aged 29].
Elizabeth Stafford Countess Sussex [aged 30]. Possibly Margaret Whetehill.
Anne Percy [aged 65] or Anne Percy Countess Arundel [aged 23].
Elizabeth Hussey Countess Kent.
Eleanor Pole [aged 47].
Elizabeth Empson.
Mary Scrope [aged 33].
Jane Popincourt.
Household of the Princess of Wales Catherine of Aragon:
Catherine of Aragon [aged 23].
Agnes or Inez Vanegas.
Maria de Salinas Baroness Willoughby [aged 19].
Household of Margaret Beaufort the King's Mother:
Margaret Beaufort Countess Richmond [aged 65].
Joan Vaux "Mother Guildford" [aged 46].
Mary Hussey Baroness Willoughby of Eresby [aged 25].
In 1512 Henry Willoughby [aged 61] was appointed Master of the Ordnance.
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.'
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In 1513 Henry Willoughby [aged 62] fought at France.
In or before 1517 [his son] Edward Willoughby [aged 49] and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Filiol [aged 41] were married.
In June 1520 Henry VIII [aged 28] hosted Field of the Cloth of Gold at Balinghem [Map].
Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset [aged 42] carried the Sword of State.
Bishop John Stokesley [aged 45] attended as Henry VIII's chaplain.
Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye [aged 36], Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth [aged 42], Anthony Poyntz [aged 40], William Coffin [aged 25], William "Great" Courtenay [aged 43], Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex [aged 37], William Paston [aged 41], William Denys [aged 50], Richard Cecil [aged 25], William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton [aged 37], Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmoreland [aged 22], John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt [aged 40], Henry Guildford [aged 31], Marmaduke Constable [aged 40], William Compton [aged 38], William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy [aged 42], Thomas Cheney [aged 35], Henry Willoughby [aged 69], John Rodney [aged 59], John Marney 2nd Baron Marney [aged 36], William Sidney [aged 38], John de Vere 14th Earl of Oxford [aged 20], John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford [aged 49], Edmund Walsingham [aged 40], William Skeffington [aged 55] and Thomas West 8th Baron De La Warr 5th Baron West [aged 63] attended.
William Carey [aged 20] jousted.
William Sandys 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne [aged 50] organised.
Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford [aged 15] attended.
Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham [aged 50], Robert Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby 10th Baron Latimer [aged 48], Anthony Wingfield [aged 33], William Scott [aged 61], Thomas Wriothesley [aged 32], Bishop Thomas Ruthall [aged 48], Margaret Dymoke aka Mistress Coffin [aged 20] and Edward Chamberlayne [aged 36] were present.
In 1523 [his son-in-law] Richard Draycott and [his daughter] Alice Willoughby were married.
Before 1528 Henry Willoughby [aged 76] and Alice Walleys were married.
In 1528 Henry Willoughby [aged 77] was buried at St Leonard's Church, Wollaton [Map]. A fine chest tomb monument in sandstone (rather than alabaster), somewhat damaged, with his four wives, two each side.Lancastrian Esses Collar somehwat unusual given the 1528 date of his death. Sphinx Crest. Cadaver Underneath. Henry Willoughby's Arms including Willoughby top left hand corner (Water Bougets from Willoughy family original name Bugge). Lancastrian Esses and Inter-twined Knots Collar.
In 1528 Henry Willoughby [aged 77] died.
After 1549. St Leonard's Church, Wollaton [Map]. Monument to [his grandson] Henry Willoughby [aged 32] and Henry Willoughby. Elizabethan Period.
Henry Willoughby: In 1517 he was born to Edward Willoughby and Anne Filiol at Wollaton, Nottinghamshire. Before 1540 Henry Willoughby and Anne Grey were married. She the daughter of Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset and Margaret Wotton Marchioness Dorset. On 27th August 1549 the rebels were defeated by an army led by John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland. Henry Willoughby was killed at Mousehold Heath, Norwich [Map].
[his daughter] Jane Willoughby was born to Henry Willoughby and Margaret Markham. She married Guiscard Harbottle and had issue.
[his daughter] Margaret Willoughby was born to Henry Willoughby and Margaret Markham. She married 1496 John Zouche and had issue.
[his daughter] Dorothy Willoughby was born to Henry Willoughby and Margaret Markham. She married 1507 Anthony Fitzherbert of Hamstall Ridware.
[his father] Robert Willoughby and [his mother] Margaret Griffith were married.
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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[his daughter] Mary Willoughby was born to Henry Willoughby and Margaret Markham.
[his son] John Willoughby was born to Henry Willoughby and Margaret Markham. He married 1486 Anne Grey, daughter of Edward Grey 1st Viscount Lisle and Elizabeth Talbot Viscountess Lisle.
[his daughter] Alice Willoughby was born to Henry Willoughby and Ellen Egerton. She married 1523 Richard Draycott and had issue.
Kings Wessex: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 18 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 20 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 18 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 21 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 19 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Bugge aka Willoughby 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Willoughby
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edmund Willoughby 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Grey 1st Baron Grey 
3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Grey 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Avice Marmion Baroness Grey Rotherfield 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edmund Willoughby 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Somerville
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Somerville
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Somerville
GrandFather: Hugh Willoughby 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Annesley
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh Annesley
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Clifton 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Clifton
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Annesley
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Babington 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Babington
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Boys
Great x 2 Grandmother: Benedicta Babington
Great x 4 Grandfather: Simon Warde
Great x 3 Grandmother: Benedicta Warde
Father: Robert Willoughby 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Baldwin Freville
GrandMother: Margaret Freville
Henry Willoughby 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Mother: Margaret Griffith