The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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Paternal Family Tree: Fitzmaldred aka Neville
Maternal Family Tree: Joan Scott Viscountess Canning 1776-1837
John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University [Map].
John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny educated at Eton College [Map].
On 30th March 1909 [his father] Guy Larnach Neville 4th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 25] and [his mother] Isabel "Nellie" Larnach Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 18] were married.
On 8th November 1914 John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny was born to [his father] Guy Larnach Neville 4th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 31] and [his mother] Isabel "Nellie" Larnach Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 24].
On 3rd October 1933 [his brother-in-law] John Digby Pepys 7th Earl of Cottenham [aged 26] and [his sister] Angela Neville Countess Cottenham [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of [his father] Guy Larnach Neville 4th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 50] and [his mother] Isabel "Nellie" Larnach Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 43]. He the son of Kenelm Charles Pepys 4th Earl of Cottenham and Rose Neville Countess Cottentham. They were first cousin once removed.
On 4th January 1938 John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 23] and Mary Patricia Harrison Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 22] were married. He the son of Guy Larnach Neville 4th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 54] and Isabel "Nellie" Larnach Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 47].
The Times. 5th January 1938. MR. J. NEVILL [aged 23] AND [his wife] MISS HARRISON [aged 22].
The Duke [aged 37] and Duchess of Gloucester [aged 36] have sent a silver condiments set to Mr. John Nevill, Life Guards, elder son of Major [aged 54] and Mrs. Guy Larnach-Nevill [aged 47], of Uckfield House, and Miss Patricia Harrison, daughter of Major and the Hon. Mrs. J. F. Harrison, of Kings Walden Bury, Hitchin, whose marriage took place yesterday at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. The Rev. G. S. Shackleford officiated, assisted by the Rev. E. C. Dunford. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of ivory-tinted panne velvet, embossed with sprays of silver flowers. The bodice was fashioned with a square neckline and long sleeves, slightly full at the shoulder, and the square train was lined with silver tissue. A headdress of silver-tipped doves' wings surmounted her long tulle veil, and she carried a spray of mixed white flowers. A retinue of six little girls and four pages folowed the bride. They were Penelope Harrison (sister of the bride), the Hon. Clare Beckett, Marye Pepys (niece of the bridegroom), Margaret Rosselli, Caroline Bury, Joanna Spencer, Hugh Lawson (cousin of the bride), David Myddelton (cousin of the bridegroom), Thomas Pilkington (nephew of the bride), and Charles Smith-Bingham. The pages wore replicas of the uniform of the Life Guards of the early nineteenth century, and the little girls wore long frocks of silver lame, the high-waisted bodices cut with short, puff sleeves, and square necks. They wore caps of silver lame, trimmed with white fur, and carried white fur muffs. Lord Roderic Pratt [aged 22], Life Guards, was best man, and there was a guard of honour from the same regiment. The Hon. Mrs. J. F. Harrison afterwards held a reception at 28, Grosvenor Square, W1. The honeymoon wil be spent in Switzerland.
On 10th January 1938 Henry Neville 3rd Marquess Abergavenny [aged 83] died. His nephew [his father] Guy [aged 54] succeeded 4th Marquess Abergavenny, 8th Earl Abergavenny, 8th Viscount Neville, 4th Earl Lewes. Baron Abergavenny abeyant between David George Pratt 6th Marquess Camden [aged 7] and Delaval Thomas Harold Astley 23rd Baron Hastings. [his mother] Isabel "Nellie" Larnach Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 47] by marriage Marchioness Abergavenny.
Before 25th October 1938 [his daughter] Anne Patricia Neville was born to John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 23] and [his wife] Mary Patricia Harrison Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 23].
Before 15th February 1941 [his daughter] Vivienne Margaret Neville was born to John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 26] and [his wife] Mary Patricia Harrison Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 25].
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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On 19th July 1943 Mark Everard Pepys 6th Earl of Cottenham [aged 40] without male issue. [his brother-in-law] John Digby Pepys 7th Earl of Cottenham [aged 36] succeeded 7th Earl of Cottenham, 7th Viscount Crowhurst of Crowhurst in Surrey, 7th Baron Cottenham of Cottenham in Cambridgshire, 9th Baronet Pepys of Wimpole Street, 10th Baronet Pepys of Brook Street. [his sister] Angela Neville Countess Cottenham [aged 33] by marriage Countess of Cottenham.
In 1944 [his daughter] Jane Elizabeth Neville was born to John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 29] and [his wife] Mary Patricia Harrison Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 28].
In 1948 [his son] John Montague Neville was born to John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 33] and [his wife] Mary Patricia Harrison Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 32].
Before 15th July 1950 [his daughter] Rose Neville was born to John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 35] and [his wife] Mary Patricia Harrison Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 34].
On 5th November 1953 [his mother] Isabel "Nellie" Larnach Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 63] died.
On 30th March 1954 [his father] Guy Larnach Neville 4th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 70] died. His son John [aged 39] succeeded 5th Marquess Abergavenny, 9th Earl Abergavenny, 9th Viscount Neville, 5th Earl Lewes. [his wife] Mary Patricia Harrison Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 38] by marriage Marchioness Abergavenny.
In 1965 [his son] John Montague Neville [aged 17] died.
In 1974 John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 59] was appointed 951st Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [aged 47].
In 1980 [his sister] Angela Neville Countess Cottenham [aged 70] died.
On 23rd February 2000 John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 85] died. His nephew Christopher [aged 44] succeeded 6th Marquess Abergavenny, 10th Earl Abergavenny, 10th Viscount Neville, 6th Earl Lewes. Venetia Maynard Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 42] by marriage Marchioness Abergavenny.
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.
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On 22nd February 2005 [his former wife] Mary Patricia Harrison Marchioness Abergavenny [aged 89] died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 26 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 23 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 29 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 24 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 27 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Edward IV of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 25 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 33 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 18 Grand Son of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 30 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Neville 1st Earl Abergavenny 
11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Neville 2nd Earl Abergavenny 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Henrietta Pelham Baroness Bergavenny 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Neville 4th Earl Abergavenny 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Robinson 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Robinson Countess Abergavenny
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Neville 1st Marquess Abergavenny 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Leeke
Great x 2 Grandmother: Caroline Leeke Countess Abergavenny
GrandFather: George Montacute Neville 15 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Caroline Vanden Bempte Johnston Marchioness Abergavenny
Father: Guy Larnach Neville 4th Marquess Abergavenny 16 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Florence Soames
John Henry Guy Neville 5th Marquess Abergavenny 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England
GrandFather: James Walker Larnach
Mother: Isabel "Nellie" Larnach Marchioness Abergavenny 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Boyle 7th Earl Cork 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Boyle 8th Earl Cork 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Boyle 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Poyntz 
11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabella Henrietta Poyntz Countess Cork 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Boyle 9th Earl Cork 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
GrandMother: Isabel Lettice Theodosia Boyle 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Smith Burgh 11th Earl Clanricarde 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Thomas Burgh 13th Earl Clanricarde 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Hester Amelia Vincent Countess Clanricarde 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ulick Burgh 1st Marquess Clanricarde 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Emily Charlotte Burgh Countess Cork 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Canning Prime Mininster
Great x 2 Grandmother: Harriet Canning Marchioness Clanricarde
Great x 4 Grandfather: John "Pawky Scott" Scott 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Scott Viscountess Canning