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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Joseph Severn is in Painters.
On 7th December 1793 Joseph Severn was born.
1819. Joseph Severn (age 25). Portrait of John Keats (age 23).
1821 to 1823. Joseph Severn (age 27). Portrait of John Keats (age 25).
23rd February 1821. Joseph Severn (age 27). Portrait of John Keats (age 25) on his deathbed.
In 1828 Joseph Severn (age 34) and Elizabeth Montgomerie (age 24) were married.
On 17th February 1841 [his brother-in-law] Archibald William Montgomerie 13th Earl Eglinton (age 28) and Theresa Howe Newcomen (age 32) were married.
1852. Joseph Severn (age 58). A lady painting in her album.
On 4th October 1861 [his brother-in-law] Archibald William Montgomerie 13th Earl Eglinton (age 49) died. His son Archibald (age 19) succeeded 14th Earl Eglinton.
On 17th April 1862 [his wife] Elizabeth Montgomerie (age 58) died.
On 25th May 1870 [his son-in-law] Henry Furneaux (age 40) and [his daughter] Eleanor Elizabeth Severn were married. She the daughter of Joseph Severn (age 76) and [his former wife] Elizabeth Montgomerie.
On 3rd August 1879 Joseph Severn (age 85) died. He was buried at the Protestant aka English Cemetery, Rome next to the grave of John Keats.
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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] Eleanor Elizabeth Severn was born to Joseph Severn and Elizabeth Montgomerie. She married 25th May 1870 Henry Furneaux and had issue.