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Published March 2025. The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin 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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Paternal Family Tree: Gower
Maternal Family Tree: Mary Morris Countess Dover 1565-1648
Descendants Family Tree: John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower 1694-1754
In September 1692 [his father] John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower (age 17) and [his mother] Catherine Manners Baroness Gower (age 17) were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] John Manners 1st Duke Rutland (age 54) and [his grandmother] Catherine Noel Duchess Rutland (age 35).
On 10th August 1694 John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower (age 19) and Catherine Manners Baroness Gower (age 19).
On 31st August 1709 [his father] John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower (age 34) died. His son John (age 15) succeeded 2nd Baron Gower, 6th Baronet Gower of Stittenham in Yorkshire.
On 13th March 1712 John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 17) and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 21) were married. She by marriage Baroness Gower. She the daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull (age 57) and Mary Fielding Countess Kingston upon Hull. They were fourth cousins.
On 28th November 1712 [his son] John Leveson-Gower was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 18) and [his wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 21).
On 17th February 1716 [his son] William Leveson-Gower was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 21) and [his wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 25).
On 17th February 1718 Anthony Grey (age 22) and [his future wife] Mary Tufton Countess Gower were married. She the daughter of Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet (age 73) and Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet. He the son of Henry Grey 1st Duke Kent (age 47) and Jemima Crew Marchioness Kent (age 43). They were sixth cousins.
On 12th August 1720 [his daughter] Frances Leveson-Gower was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 26) and [his wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 29).
On 4th August 1721 [his son] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 26) and [his wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 30).
On 7th March 1722 [his mother] Catherine Manners Baroness Gower (age 46) died.
On 15th July 1723 [his son] John Leveson-Gower (age 10) died.
On 20th January 1724 [his daughter] Elizabeth Leveson-Gower Countess Waldegrave was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 29) and [his wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 33).
On 26th January 1725 [his daughter] Evelyn Leveson-Gower Countess Upper Ossory was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 30) and [his wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 34).
On 30th April 1726 [his son] Richard Leveson-Gower was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 31) and [his wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 35).
Around 1727 [his daughter] Catherine Leveson-Gower was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 32) and [his wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 36).
In 1727 [his wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower (age 36) died.
On 31st May 1727 [his daughter] Diana Leveson-Gower was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 32) and [his former wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
On 31st October 1733 John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 39) and Penelope Stonhouse Baroness Gower (age 28) were married. She by marriage Baroness Gower.
On 19th August 1734 [his wife] Penelope Stonhouse Baroness Gower (age 29) died.
On 16th May 1736 John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 41) and Mary Tufton Countess Gower were married. She by marriage Baroness Gower. She the daughter of Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet and Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet. They were fourth cousins.
In 1737 [his daughter] Diana Leveson-Gower (age 9) died.
In April 1737 [his son-in-law] John Russell 4th Duke Bedford (age 26) and [his daughter] Gertrude Leveson-Gower Duchess Bedford were married. She by marriage Duchess Bedford. She the daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 42) and [his former wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower. He the son of Wriothesley Russell 2nd Duke Bedford and Elizabeth Howland Duchess Bedford.
In 1739 [his son-in-law] Richard Wrottesley 7th Baronet (age 17) and [his daughter] Mary Leveson-Gower Lady Wrottesley were married. She by marriage Lady Wrottesley of Wrottesley in Staffordshire. The had five daughters. She the daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 44) and [his former wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower. They were sixth cousins.
On 4th April 1739 [his son] William Leveson-Gower (age 23) died.
On 11th July 1740 [his son] John Leveson-Gower was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 45) and [his wife] Mary Tufton Countess Gower.
In 1744 [his son] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford (age 22) and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Fazakerley were married. He the son of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 49) and [his former wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
In 1744 [his son-in-law] John Sackville (age 30) and [his daughter] Frances Leveson-Gower (age 23) were married. She had given birth to their child before the marriage. She the daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 49) and [his former wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower. He the son of Lionel Cranfield Sackville 1st Duke Dorset (age 55) and Elizabeth Colyear Duchess Dorset (age 55). They were half third cousins.
On 9th May 1744 Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester (age 46) was created 1st Earl of Leicester. [his sister-in-law] Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester (age 43) by marriage Countess of Leicester.
On 29th June 1744 [his son-in-law] John Fitzpatrick 1st Earl Upper Ossory (age 25) and [his daughter] Evelyn Leveson-Gower Countess Upper Ossory (age 19) were married. She by marriage Baroness Gowran of Bowran in County Kilkenny. She the daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 49) and [his former wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
On 8th July 1746 John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 51) was created 1st Earl Gower. [his wife] Mary Tufton Countess Gower by marriage Countess Gower.
In 1748 [his son] Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford (age 26) and [his daughter-in-law] Louisa Egerton Countess Gower (age 24) were married. She the daughter of Scroop Egerton 1st Duke Bridgewater and Rachel Russell Duchess Bridgewater (age 41). He the son of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 53) and [his former wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower. They were fifth cousins.
On 7th May 1751 [his son-in-law] John Waldegrave 3rd Earl Waldegrave (age 33) and [his daughter] Elizabeth Leveson-Gower Countess Waldegrave (age 27) were married. She the daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 56) and [his former wife] Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower. He the son of James Waldegrave 1st Earl Waldegrave and Mary Webb. They were sixth cousins. He a great grandson of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland.
Letters of Horace Walpole. 23rd June 1752. Arlington Street. To The Hon H S Conway (age 31).
By a letter that I received from my Lady Ailesbury (age 31) two days ago, I flatter myself I shall not have occasion to write to you any more; yet I shall certainly see you with less pleasure than ever, as our meeting is to be attended with a resignation of my little charge (age 3).316 She is vastly well, and I think you will find her grown fat. I am husband enough to mind her beauty no longer, and perhaps you will say husband enough too, in pretending that my love is converted into friendship; but I shall tell you some stories at Park-place of her understanding that will please you, I trust, as much as they have done me.
My Lady Ailesbury says I must send her news, and the whole history of Mr. Seymour (age 22) and Lady Di. Egerton (age 21), and their quarrel, and all that is said on both sides. I can easily tell her all that is said on one side, Mr. Seymour's, who says, the only answer he has ever been able to get from the Duchess or Mr. Lyttelton was, that Di. has her caprices. The reasons she gives, and gave him, were, the badness of his temper and imperiousness of his letters; that he scolded her for the overfondness of her epistles, and was even so unsentimental as to talk of desiring to make her happy, instead of being made so by her. He is gone abroad, in despair, and with an additional circumstance, which would be very uncomfortable to any thing but a true lover; his father refuses to resettle the estate on him, the entail of which was cut off by mutual consent, to make way for the settlements on the marriage.
The Speaker told me t'other day, that he had received a letter from Lord Hyde, which confirms what Mr. Churchill writes me, the distress and poverty of France and the greatness of their divisions. Yet the King's expenses are incredible; Madame de Pompadour (age 30) is continually busied in finding out new journeys and diversions to keep him from falling into the hands of the clergy. The last party of pleasure she made for him, was a stag-hunting; the stag was a man in a skin and horns, worried by twelve men dressed like bloodhounds! I have read of Basilowitz, a Czar of Muscovy, who improved on such a hunt, and had a man in a bearskin worried by real dogs; a more kingly entertainment!
I shall make out a sad Journal of other news; yet I will be like any gazette, and scrape together all the births, deaths, and marriages in the parish. Lady Hartington (age 32) and Lady Rachel Walpole (age 25) are brought to bed of sons; Lord Burlington (age 58) and Lord Gower (age 57) have had new attacks of palsies: Lord Falkland (age 45) is to marry the Southwark Lady Suffolk;317 and Mr. Watson (age 23), Miss Grace Pelham (age 17). Lady Coventry (age 19) has miscarried of one or two children, and is going on with one or two more, and is gone to France to-day. Lady Townshend (age 44) and Lady Caroline Petersham (age 30) have had their anniversary quarrel, and the Duchess of Devonshire (age 53) has had her secular assembly, which she keeps once in fifty years: she was more delightfully vulgar at it than you can imagine; complained of the wet night, and how the men would dirty the rooms with their shoes; called out at supper to the Duke (age 53), "Good God! my lord, don't cut the ham, nobody will eat any!" and relating her private menage to Mr. Obnir, she said, "When there's only my lord and I, besides a pudding we have always a dish of Yeast!" I am ashamed to send you such nonsense, or to tell you how the good women at Hampton Court are scandalized at Princess Emily's (age 41) coming to chapel last Sunday in riding-clothes with a dog under her arm; but I am bid to send news: what can we do -,it such a dead time of year? I must conclude, as my [his wife] Lady Gower did very well t'other day in a letter into the country, "Since the two Misses318 were hanged, and the two Misses319 were married, there is nothing at all talked of." Adieu! My best compliments and my wife's to your two ladies.
Note 315. Now first published.
Note 316. Their daughter, Ann Seymour Conway.
Note 317. Sarah, Duchess-dowager of Suffolk, daughter of Thomas Unwen, Esq. of Southwark.-E.
Note 318. Miss Blandy and Miss Jefferies.
Note 319. The Gunnings. [Maria Gunning Countess Coventry and Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 18)]
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On 19th October 1753 [his son] Richard Leveson-Gower (age 27) died.
On 25th December 1754 John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower (age 60) died. His son [his son] Granville (age 33) succeeded 2nd Earl Gower, 3rd Baron Gower, 7th Baronet Gower of Stittenham in Yorkshire. [his daughter-in-law] Louisa Egerton Countess Gower (age 31) by marriage Countess Gower.
On 12th February 1785 [his former wife] Mary Tufton Countess Gower died.
[his daughter] Mary Leveson-Gower Lady Wrottesley was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
[his daughter] Gertrude Leveson-Gower Duchess Bedford was born to John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower.
Kings Wessex: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 16 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 12 Grand Son of Philip IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 24 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Gower
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Gower 1st Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Gower 2nd Baronet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Doyley
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Doyley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Doyley Baroness Gower
GrandFather: William Leveson-Gower 4th Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Leveson
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Leveson
Great x 4 Grandmother: Denise or Dionyse Bodley
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Leveson
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Gresham
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ursula Gresham
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Ipswell
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Leveson Baroness Gower 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Mildmay
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Mildmay
Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Read
Great x 2 Grandmother: Christian Mildmay 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Walsingham
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Walsingham 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joyce Denny 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Father: John Leveson-Gower 1st Baron Gower 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Grenville
Great x 3 Grandfather: Bernard Grenvlle
Great x 2 Grandfather: Bevil Grenville
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Granville 1st Earl Bath
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Smith
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Smith of Exeter
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Muttleberry
Great x 2 Grandmother: Grace Smith
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Viell of Trevorder
Great x 3 Grandmother: Grave Viell
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Arundell
GrandMother: Jane Granville Baroness Gower
Great x 2 Grandfather: Peter Wyche
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Wyche
John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Manners 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Manners 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Vernon "King of the Peak" 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Vernon 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Tailboys 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Manners 8th Earl of Rutland 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Pierrepont 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Winifred Thwaites
Great x 2 Grandmother: Grace Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Cavendish 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandFather: John Manners 1st Duke Rutland 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen Roper
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Harrington
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harrington
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Montagu Countess Rutland 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cotton
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Cotton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Cotton 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Shirley 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Shirley 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Giffard
Mother: Catherine Manners Baroness Gower 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Andrew Noel
Great x 3 Grandfather: Andrew Noel
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hopton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Harrington
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mabel Harrington
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney
Great x 1 Grandfather: Baptist Noel 3rd Viscount Campden
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Hicks
Great x 3 Grandfather: Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden
Great x 2 Grandmother: Juliana Hicks Viscountess Campden
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard May
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden
GrandMother: Catherine Noel Duchess Rutland 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peregrine Bertie 13th Baron Willoughby 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Bertie 1st Earl Lindsey 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Vere Baroness Willoughby of Eresby 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Montagu Bertie 2nd Earl Lindsey 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Montagu Countess Lindsey 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jeffrey
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bertie Viscountess Campden 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cockayne
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cockayne
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Medcalf
Great x 2 Grandmother: Martha Cockayne Countess Holderness
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Morris
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Morris Countess Dover