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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: Townshend
In 1787 [his grandfather] George Townshend 1st Marquess Townshend (age 62) and [his mother] Georgiana Anne Poyntz (age 23) were married. The difference in their ages was 39 years.
On 28th March 1798 John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend was born to [his father] John Townshend (age 41) and [his mother] Georgiana Anne Poyntz (age 34) at Balls Park, Hertford.
On 18th August 1825 John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend (age 27) and Elizabeth Jane Stuart (age 22) were married.
Before 1826 [his daughter] Audrey Jane Charlotte Townshend was born to John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend (age 27) and [his wife] Elizabeth Jane Stuart (age 22). She married (1) before 28th July 1880 Greville Theophilus Howard, son of Charles Howard 17th Earl Suffolk 10th Earl Berkshire and Isabella Catherine Mary Howard-Molyneux-Howard Countess Suffolk and Berkshire (2) 1882 General Redvers Henry Buller.
On 10th April 1831 [his son] John Villiers Stuart Townshend 5th Marquess Townshend was born to John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend (age 33) and [his wife] Elizabeth Jane Stuart (age 27). He married 17th October 1865 Anne Elizabeth Clementina Duff Marchioness Townshend, daughter of James Duff 5th Earl Fife and Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay Countess Fife, and had issue.
On 25th February 1833 [his father] John Townshend (age 76) died.
On 4th May 1851 [his mother] Georgiana Anne Poyntz (age 88) 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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On 31st December 1855 George Ferrers Townshend 3rd Marquess Townshend (age 77) died in Genoa. Earl of Leicester extinct. Baron Ferrers of Chartley and Baron Compton of Compton in Warwickshire abeyant. His first cousin John (age 57) succeeded 4th Marquess Townshend, 7th Viscount Townsend, 7th Baron Townshend of Lynn Regis in Norfolk, 9th Baronet Townshend.
In 1856 [his son-in-law] John St Aubyn 1st Baron St Levan (age 26) and [his daughter] Elizabeth Clementina Townshend Baroness St Levan were married. She the daughter of John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend (age 57) and [his wife] Elizabeth Jane Stuart (age 52). They were sixth cousins.
On 10th September 1863 John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend (age 65) died at Raynham Hall, Norfolk. He was buried at the Church of All Saints, Hertford. His son John (age 32) succeeded 5th Marquess Townshend, 8th Viscount Townsend, 8th Baron Townshend of Lynn Regis in Norfolk, 10th Baronet Townshend.
After 10th September 1863. Church of St Mary, East Raynham [Map]. Memorial to John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend (deceased) sculpted by George Gammon Adams (age 42).
In 1872 Edward Thynne (age 64) eloped with [his daughter-in-law] Anne Elizabeth Clementina Duff Marchioness Townshend (age 24) wife of John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend. She being some forty years younger than Edward Thynne.
On 27th January 1877 [his former wife] Elizabeth Jane Stuart (age 73) died.
[his daughter] Elizabeth Clementina Townshend Baroness St Levan was born to John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend and Elizabeth Jane Stuart. She married 1856 her sixth cousin John St Aubyn 1st Baron St Levan, son of Edward St Aubyn 1st Baronet and Emma Knollys, and had issue.
Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Son of Louis VII King of the Franks
Kings France: Great x 22 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Townshend 1st Baronet 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Townshend 2nd Viscount Townsend 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Joseph Ashe 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Ashe Viscountess Townshend
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Townshend 3rd Viscount Townsend 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Pelham 3rd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney Baroness Pelham Laughton 
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Pelham Viscountess Townsend 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Jones
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jones
GrandFather: George Townshend 1st Marquess Townshend 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Harrison
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Harrison 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Villiers 4th Viscount Grandison 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Audrey Villiers 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Leigh Viscountess Grandison 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Audrey aka Etheldreda Harrison 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: John Townshend 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Spencer Compton 2nd Earl of Northampton 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Compton 3rd Earl of Northampton 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Beaumont Countess of Northampton 
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Compton 4th Earl of Northampton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Baptist Noel 3rd Viscount Campden 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Noel Countess Northampton
Great x 4 Grandmother: Hester Wotton Viscountess Campden 
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Compton 5th Earl of Northampton 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fox of Farley Wiltshire 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Stephen Fox
Great x 4 Grandmother: Christian Palfreyman
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Fox Countess Northampton
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Whittle of the City of London
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Whittle
GrandMother: Charlotte Compton 16th Baroness Ferrers Chartley 7th Baroness Compton 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Shirley 4th Baronet 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Shirley 1st Earl Ferrers 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Okeover Lady Shirley
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Shirley 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Laurence Washington
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Washington Baroness Ferrers Chartley
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Shirley Countess Northampton 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ferrers 
13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Ferrers 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Ferrers 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Poyntz 
10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Newdigate Poyntz 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Poyntz 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Stephen Poyntz 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
GrandFather: William Poyntz 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Mordaunt 1st Earl Peterborough 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Mordaunt 1st Viscount Mordaunt 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Howard Countess Peterborough 
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Lewis Mordaunt 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Carey 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Carey Viscountess Mordaunt 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Smith
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anna Maria Mordaunt 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Mother: Georgiana Anne Poyntz 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England