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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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Before 11th November 1829 [her father] Hubert de Burgh and [her mother] Marianne Tollemache were married.
On 11th November 1829 Selina Constance de Burgh Baroness Ward was born to Hubert de Burgh and Marianne Tollemache.
Before 1851. After John Hayter (age 50). Drawing of Selina Constance de Burgh Baroness Ward (age 21).
On 24th April 1851 William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley (age 34) and Selina Constance de Burgh Baroness Ward (age 21) were married. She by marriage Baroness Ward of Birmingham; she died seven months later.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. The intimate history of Society is full of unsuspected tragedy, but when the veil is torn aside, the unhappiness of many a husband and wife becomes tragedy in real earnest, and the light-hearted butterflies who sip the sweets of the good things of this life are horrified at the idea of such things happening in their midst. The grim story I am about to relate concerned particular friends of mine, and it made a great impression upon me. Constance de Burgh (age 21) was one of my great friends, she was a very pretty, charming girl who married [her husband] Lord Ward (age 34), who had always been considered a great parti by mothers with marriageable daughters.
Constance was not in love with her husband; he had proposed and she was told she must accept him. A dutiful daughter of rather colourless character, Constance never dreamt of opposition, and so she became Lady Ward.
Marriage frequently means disillusion, and the Ward marriage was not a success.
William Ward was a pleasant man, but he had extraordinary ideas of how to treat a wife, ideas which could only be tolerated by a tactful woman who could laugh at them, and forget all the unpleasantness they entailed. Poor Constance was not tactful, and not accommodating. Her husband worshipped the beautiful; he had selected his wife partly on account of her beauty, and he treated her like some lovely slave he had bought. He had a strange, almost barbaric passion for precious stones, and he bought quantities of them and lavished them on his wife, who appeared at great entertainments literally ablaze with diamonds.
What pleased Lord Ward more than anything was to make Constance put on all her jewels for his special benefit when they were alone. He would admire her thus for hours, delighting in her lovely unclothed figure, and contrasting the sheen of her ropes of pearls with her delicate skin, as she sat on a black satin-covered couch.
These strange proceedings at first terrified and then disgusted Constance. She appealed to her father, but her parents decided that her husband's peculiarities came within the meaning of the marriage vows, and she was told she must submit to her husband's humours.
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Adeline Horsey Recollections. 13th July 1851Fate then threw Constance (age 21) across Lord Dupplin's (age 23) path, with the result that the tragedy began.
I knew Blanche Dupplin (age 23) very well, and often when I was lunching with her she would tell me sorrowfully about her husband's infatuation. "It is useless to expostulate", said Blanche; "Dupplin will not abandon the affair, and I don't know how it will end if [her husband] William Ward (age 34) finds out his wife's infidelity".
Matters came to a crisis at a fancy dress ball given by Lady Londonderry (age 22) at Holderness House, the chief feature being a quadrille danced by ladies representing famous European queens. I met the Wards there; Constance looked delicate, and early in the evening she said she felt ill and must go home. She came over to where her husband and I were standing, and asked him whether he intended to accompany her.
"No, I shall stay", said Lord Ward, "I mean to have several dances with Miss de Horsey. Go home by all means if you are tired".
Constance was enceinte [pregnant], so her absence excited no comment as she was far from strong. Her husband remained until nearly 3 a.m., when he departed for his house in Park Lane - it was daylight, and, as he approached the house, he suddenly noticed a man leaving it. Their eyes met; it was Lord Dupplin, who turned and ran for his life down the street.
Lord Ward entered, and startled the sleepy footman by telling him to rouse the servants and bid them assemble in the hall. He then went upstairs to his wife's bedroom.
What passed between them was told by Constance to a friend; her husband came to her bedside and accused her of committing adultery with Lord Dupplin. "Get up, madame", he continued, "my house is yours no longer; arrangements shall be made for your future, but henceforth you are no wife of mine".
Tears and entreaties were useless, and Constance was obliged to dress; William Ward then led her past the scandalised servants who were waiting downstairs, and - turned her out of doors.
The poor frightened girl managed to reach her parents' house in Grosvenor Crescent, and implored them to give her shelter, but they were as heartless as her husband, and told her they could not take her in. More dead than alive, she turned her steps to Conduit Street, where her singing-master lived, and this gentleman, full of compassion for his unfortunate pupil, allowed her to remain there until the next day, when she went to Ostend.
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On 14th November 1851 Selina Constance de Burgh Baroness Ward (age 22) died in childbirth in Ostend, Belgium having been
Adeline Horsey Recollections. From Ostend she went to Ems, where her child was prematurely born and the unhappy young mother (age 22) died. Her [her husband] husband (age 34) brought her body to England, and once again Constance Ward lay in her darkened bedroom.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. On the evening of the day before her burial, Lord Colville (age 32) came to see Lord Ward. They talked for some time and then the widower suddenly turned to his friend. "Colville - you admired my wife (deceased)?" "Yes", replied Lord Colville, "I did". "Well, come and look your last on her", said Lord Ward, and lighting a candle he led the way upstairs. The room was full of shadows, and the flickering light fell on the lovely face of the dead woman. Silently Lord Colville stood by her, and his heart ached when he thought of her fate. Ward was watching him attentively. "Still admiring my wife? Well, she was a pretty woman - but - you'd never credit she had such bad teeth". He put down the candle on a table as he spoke, and raised his wife's head from the pillow. With cold deliberation he wrenched the jaws apart. "I always told you she had bad teeth", he repeated, "look here, man". But Lord Colville had hurriedly left the room. He told me afterwards it was the most ghastly sight he had ever seen.
On 21st November 1865 [her former husband] William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley (age 48) and Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley (age 19) were married. The difference in their ages was 29 years.
On 7th May 1885 [her former husband] William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley (age 68) died at Dudley House Park Lane. His son William (age 17) succeeded 2nd Earl of Dudley of Dudley Castle in Staffordshire, 12th Baron Ward of Birmingham.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 28 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Father: Hubert de Burgh
Selina Constance de Burgh Baroness Ward 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Major John Delap-Halliday
GrandFather: Admiral John Richard Delap-Halliday aka Delap-Tollemache 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lionel Tollemache 3rd Earl Dysart 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Lionel Tollemache 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Grace Wilbraham Countess Dysart 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Lionel Tollemache 4th Earl Dysart 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Henrietta Cavendish 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Heneage
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Tollemache 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Carteret 1st Baron Carteret 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Carteret 2nd Earl Granville 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Granville Baroness Gower
Great x 2 Grandmother: Grace Carteret Countess Dysart 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Worsley 4th Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Worsley Countess Granville 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Thynne 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Mother: Marianne Tollemache 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Stratford
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Stratford 1st Earl Aldborough
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Stratford 3rd Earl Aldborough
Great x 4 Grandfather: Constantine Neale of New Ross
Great x 3 Grandfather: Venerable Benjamin O'Neale
Great x 2 Grandmother: Martha O'Neale Countess Aldborough
Great x 4 Grandfather: Colonel Joshua Paul
Great x 3 Grandmother: Hannah Paul
GrandMother: Elizabeth Stratford 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Hamilton 1st Duke Hamilton 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Archibald Hamilton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Hamilton 3rd Duchess Hamilton 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Frederic Hamilton 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Aldborough 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England