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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Biography of Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet 1661-1724

Paternal Family Tree: Strange

On 2nd December 1661 Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet was born to Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet (age 29) and Mary Coke (age 44).

Before 16th October 1662 [his father] Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet (age 30) and [his mother] Mary Coke (age 45) were married.

On 16th October 1662 [his father] Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet (age 30) and [his step-mother] Elizabeth Isham Lady Strange (age 9) were married. She by marriage Lady Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk. The difference in their ages was 20 years.

On 13th December 1669 [his father] Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet (age 37) died. His son Nicholas (age 8) succeeded 4th Baronet Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk.

In 1685 Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet (age 23) was elected MP Castle Rising.

On 2nd December 1686 Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet (age 25) and Ann Wodehouse Lady Strange were married. She by marriage Lady Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk.

In 1689 [his son] Thomas L'Estrange 5th Baronet was born to Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet (age 27) and [his wife] Ann Wodehouse Lady Strange.

On 20th April 1695 Henry Grey 1st Duke Kent (age 24) and [his sister-in-law] Jemima Crew Marchioness Kent (age 19) were married. They had five sons and seven daughters of whom only three surviving her. He the son of Anthony Grey 11th Earl Kent (age 49) and Mary Lucas Countess Kent (age 51).

All About History Books

The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Around 1699 [his daughter] Lucy L'Estrange was born to Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet (age 37) and [his wife] Ann Wodehouse Lady Strange.

On 19th August 1702 Anthony Grey 11th Earl Kent (age 57) died. His son Henry (age 31) succeeded 12th Earl Kent. [his sister-in-law] Jemima Crew Marchioness Kent (age 27) by marriage Countess Kent.

On 3rd June 1705 or 18th September 1721 Charles Butler 3rd Duke Ormond (age 33) and [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Crew Countess Arran (age 26) were married. She by marriage Countess Arran. He the son of Thomas Butler 6th Earl Ossory and Emilia Nassau Beverweert Countess Ossory.

In 1710 Henry Grey 1st Duke Kent (age 39) was created 1st Duke Kent, 1st Marquess Kent, 1st Viscount Gooderich. [his sister-in-law] Jemima Crew Marchioness Kent (age 34) by marriage Marchioness Kent.

On 27th July 1721 [his son] Thomas L'Estrange 5th Baronet (age 32) and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Calthorpe Lady Strange were married. They were second cousin once removed.

Around 21st February 1723 [his son-in-law] Jacob Astley 3rd Baronet (age 31) and [his daughter] Lucy L'Estrange (age 24) were married. They were second cousins.

On 18th December 1724 Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet (age 63) died. His son [his son] Thomas (age 35) succeeded 5th Baronet Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk. [his daughter-in-law] Anne Calthorpe Lady Strange by marriage Lady Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk.

All About History Books

The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Blomefield's Norfolk Volume 9 Gressenhale. After 18th December 1724. St Mary's Church, Gressenall.

Sir Nicholas Lestrange (deceased), baronet, son of Sir Nicholas Lestrange and Dame Mary his wife, born on the 2d of December, 1661, married to Anna, daughter of Sir Thomas Woodhouse and Dame Ann his wife on the 2d day of December, 1686, died at Gressenhall on the 2dth day of December, 1724.

On a marble monument of white marble in the chancel, Lestrange impaling Woodhouse.

[his former wife] Dame Ann, relict of Sir Nicholas L'estrange, baronet, only daughter of Sir Thomas Woodhouse of Kimberley, knight, and of Dame Ann, 2d daughter and coheiress of Sir William Airmine, of Osgodby in Lincolnshire, born the 2d of February 1688, dy'd at Gressenhall the 10th of Apr. 1727, and lyes interr'd by her late husband; she was a lady of the most extensive charity, whose memory will long outlast this monument.

In 1727 [his former wife] Ann Wodehouse Lady Strange died.

Royal Ancestors of Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet 1661-1724

Kings Wessex: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 20 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 7 Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 13 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 21 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet 1661-1724

Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Strange 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Hamon Strange 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Nicholas Strange 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Hastings 14th Baron Hastings 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hastings 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine le Strange Baroness Hastings 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Hamon Strange 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

GrandFather: Nicholas L'Estrange 1st Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Stubbe

Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Stubbe

Father: Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Lewknor of Kingston Buci 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Lewknor 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Copley 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Lewknor of Denham 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Lewknor of Denham 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

GrandMother: Anne Lewknor Lady Strange 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Neville 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Neville 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Windsor Baroness Scrope Masham 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Neville of Billingbear 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Gresham

Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances aka Elizabeth Gresham

Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Thwaytes

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Neville 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Killigrew

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Killigrew

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Killigrew 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Cooke

Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Cooke 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Fitzwilliam 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Coke of Sparham

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Coke

Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Coke

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Knightley

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Knightley

Great x 2 Grandmother: Winifred Knightley

GrandFather: John Coke 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Paston

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Paston

Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Barry

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Paston 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Beaufort 1st or 2nd Duke of Somerset Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Beaufort 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Bridget Paston 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Mother: Mary Coke 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Wheatley

Great x 1 Grandfather: Anthony Wheatley

Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Skinner of Warwick

Great x 2 Grandmother: Martha Skinner

GrandMother: Meriall Wheatley

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Armiger of North Creeke

Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Armiger