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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Paternal Family Tree: Anjou aka Plantagenet
Maternal Family Tree: Matilda Chateau Du Loir Countess Maine
In 1110 [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 21) and [her mother] Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou were married. She by marriage Countess Anjou. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Elias La Flèche De Baugency I Count Maine and [her grandmother] Matilda Chateau Du Loir Countess Maine. He the son of [her grandfather] Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou and [her grandmother] Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France (age 40). They were third cousin twice removed.
Around 1112 Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders was born to [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 23) and [her mother] Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou.
In 1123 William Clito Normandy Count Flanders (age 20) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 11) were married. She the daughter of Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 34) and Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou. He the son of Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy (age 72) and Sybilla Conversano Duchess Normandy. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a grandson of King William "Conqueror" I of England.
In 1124 William Clito Normandy Count Flanders (age 21) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 12) were divorced.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. After 26th March 1124. After this went the king (age 56), and won all the castles of the Earl Waleram (age 20) that were in Normandy, and all the others that his enemies held against him. All this hostility was on account of the son of the Earl Robert (age 73) of Normandy, named [her former husband] William (age 21). This same William had taken to wife the younger daughter (age 12) of [her father] Fulke, Earl of Anjou (age 35): and for this reason the King of France (age 42) and all the earls held with him, and all the rich men; and said that the king held his brother Robert wrongfully in captivity, and drove his son William unjustly out of Normandy.
In 1126 [her mother] Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou died.
In 1127 [her former husband] William Clito Normandy Count Flanders (age 24) and Joanna Monferrat Countess Essex were married. She by marriage Countess Essex. She the daughter of Rainier Aleramici Marquis of Monferrat (age 43) and Gisela Ivrea Countess Savoy (age 57). He the son of Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy (age 76) and Sybilla Conversano Duchess Normandy. They were third cousins. He a grandson of King William "Conqueror" I of England.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1127. And the King of France (age 45) brought [her former husband] William (age 24), the son of the Earl of Normandy (age 76), and gave him the earldom; and the people of that land accepted him. This same William had before taken to wife the daughter (age 15) of the Earl of Anjou; but they were afterwards divorced on the plea of consanguinity. This was all through the King Henry (age 59) of England. Afterwards took he to wife the sister1 of the king's wife of France; and for this reason the king gave him the earldom of Flanders.
Note. Maternal half-sister; their mother Gisela Ivrea Countess Savoy (age 57).
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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.
On 2nd March 1127 Charles Estrigen I Count Flanders (age 43) was murdered at Church of St Donatian. His second cousin [her former husband] William (age 24) succeeded Count Flanders. Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 15) by marriage Countess Flanders.
In 1128 [her future husband] Thierry Count Flanders (age 29) succeeded Count Flanders. Swanhilde Countess Flanders by marriage Countess Flanders.
On 17th June 1128 [her brother] Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy (age 14) and [her sister-in-law] Empress Matilda (age 26) were married. She the daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 60) and Edith aka Matilda Dunkeld Queen Consort England. He the son of [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 39) and [her mother] Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou. They were fourth cousin once removed.
Chronicon ex Chronicis. 27th July 1128. [her former husband] William (age 25), count of Flanders, surnamed The Sad, falling into an ambush, was wounded by his enemies, and, his sufferings increasing, died, amidst universal lamentations, on the sixth of the calends of August [27th July], and was buried at St. Bertin.
In 1129 [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 40) travelled to Jerusalem [Map] on pilgrimage. His son [her brother] Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy (age 15) was appointed Count Anjou.
On 2nd June 1129 [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 40) and [her step-mother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem (age 24) were married at Jerusalem [Map]. She by marriage Countess Anjou. Her father (age 54) had written to Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem requesting the marriage since he had no male heirs. She the daughter of Baldwin II King Jerusalem. He the son of [her grandfather] Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou and [her grandmother] Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France.
On 21st August 1131 Baldwin II King Jerusalem (age 56) died. [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 42) succeeded King Jerusalem. [her step-mother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem (age 26) by marriage Queen Consort Jerusalem.
After 1132 Thierry Count Flanders (age 33) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 20) were married. She by marriage Countess Flanders. She the daughter of Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 43) and Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou. He the son of Theodoric "Valiant" Metz II Duke Lorraine and Gertrude Flanders Duchess Lorraine. They were fifth cousins.
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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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On 14th January 1139 [her brother-in-law] Simon Metz I Duke Lorraine (age 63) died. His son Matthias (age 20) succeeded I Duke Lorraine.
In 1143 [her half-brother] Baldwin III King Jerusalem (age 13) was appointed III King Jerusalem.
In 1143 [her son] Philip I Count of Flanders was born to [her husband] Thierry Count Flanders (age 44) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 31). He married (1) his fourth cousin Theresa Burgundy Duchess Burgundy, daughter of Afonso "Conqueror Founder Great" I King Portugal and Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal (2) his third cousin once removed Elizabeth Capet, daughter of Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois and Petronilla Poitiers.
On 13th November 1143 [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 54) died in a hunting accident. His wife [her step-mother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem (age 38) continued to reign in her own right with their son [her half-brother] Baldwin III King Jerusalem (age 13).
In 1144 [her sister-in-law] Gertrude Metz Countess Holland died.
In 1144 [her brother] Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy (age 30) by conquest Duke Normandy. [her sister-in-law] Empress Matilda (age 41) by marriage Duchess Normandy.
On 7th September 1151 [her brother] Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy (age 38) died at Château du Loir [Map]. He was buried at St Julien's Cathedral [Map].
Around 1155 [her son-in-law] Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy (age 21) and [her daughter] Gertrude Metz Countess Savoy were married. She by marriage Countess Savoy. She the daughter of [her husband] Thierry Count Flanders (age 56) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 43). He the son of Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy and Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy. They were fifth cousin once removed.
In 1157 [her half-brother] Almaric I King Jerusalem (age 21) and [her sister-in-law] Agnes Courtenay Queen Jerusalem (age 21) were married. She by marriage Queen Jerusalem. She the daughter of Joscelin Courtenay II Count Edessa. He the son of [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem and [her step-mother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem (age 52).
In 1160 [her son] Matthew Metz Count Boulogne and [her daughter-in-law] Marie Blois I Countess Boulogne (age 24) were married. She the daughter of King Stephen I England and Matilda Flanders. He the son of [her husband] Thierry Count Flanders (age 61) and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 48). They were third cousins.
On 11th September 1161 [her step-mother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem (age 56) died. Her son [her half-brother] Baldwin (age 31) succeeded King Jerusalem.
On 10th February 1163 [her half-brother] Baldwin III King Jerusalem (age 33) died at Beirut. His brother [her half-brother] Almaric (age 27) succeeded I King Jerusalem.
In 1165 Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 53) died.
On 17th January 1168 [her former husband] Thierry Count Flanders (age 69) died.
[her son] Matthew Metz Count Boulogne was born to Thierry Count Flanders and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders. He married (1) 1160 his third cousin Marie Blois I Countess Boulogne and had issue.
[her daughter] Gertrude Metz Countess Savoy was born to Thierry Count Flanders and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders. She married 1155 her fifth cousin once removed Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy, son of Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy and Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy.
[her daughter] Matilda Metz Abbess Fontevraud was born to Thierry Count Flanders and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders.
[her daughter] Margaret Metz Countess Hainault and Flanders was born to Thierry Count Flanders and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders. She married (1) her third cousin Baldwin Flanders V Count Hainault, son of Baldwin Flanders IV Count Hainault and Alice Namur Countess Hainault, and had issue (2) her half third cousin once removed Ralph Capet II Count Vermandois, son of Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois and Petronilla Poitiers.
Thierry Count Flanders and Swanhilde Countess Flanders were married. He the son of Theodoric "Valiant" Metz II Duke Lorraine and Gertrude Flanders Duchess Lorraine.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
[her son] Peter Metz Bishop Cambrai was born to Thierry Count Flanders and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders.
Kings Franks: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Agnes La Marck Queen Consort Navarre [7]
Isabelle Flanders Queen Consort France [1]
Matilda Dammartin Queen Consort Portugal [1]
Blanche Capet Queen Navarre [1]
Maria of Brabant Queen Consort France [1]
Henry Luxemburg VII Holy Roman Emperor [1]
Joan of Burgundy Queen Consort France [1]
Blanche of Burgundy Queen Consort France [1]
Philip "Noble" III King Navarre [1]
Joan Évreux Queen Consort France [1]
Margaret Hainault Holy Roman Empress [2]
Philippa of Hainault Queen Consort England [2]
Blanche Valois Holy Roman Empress Luxemburg [1]
Blanche Dampierre Queen Consort Norway and Sweden [2]
Joan Auvergne Queen Consort France [1]
Joanna Bourbon Queen Consort France [3]
Blanche Bourbon Queen Consort Castile [3]
Yolande of Bar Queen Consort Aragon [1]
Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford [3]
Margaret of Anjou Queen Consort England [2]
Mary of Guelders Queen Consort Scotland [7]
Christina Queen Consort Denmark Norway and Sweden [1]
Bianca Maria Sforza Holy Roman Empress [4]
Anne of Brittany Queen Consort France [1]
Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile [11]
Germaine Foix Queen Consort Aragon [7]
Marguerite Valois Orléans Queen Consort Navarre [11]
Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England [12]
Mary of Guise Queen Consort Scotland [28]
Antoine King Navarre [15]
Maximilian Habsburg Spain II Holy Roman Emperor [2]
Louise Lorraine Queen Consort France [21]
Maximilian "The Great" Wittelsbach I Duke Bavaria I Elector Bavaria [31]
Maria Anna Wittelsbach Holy Roman Empress [31]
Marie de Medici Queen Consort France [2]
Electress Louise Juliana of the Palatine Rhine [6]
Ferdinand of Spain II Holy Roman Emperor [11]
Margaret of Austria Queen Consort Spain [11]
Anna of Austria Holy Roman Empress [10]
Eleonora Gonzaga Queen Consort Bohemia [22]
Maria Leopoldine Habsburg Spain Queen Consort Bohemia [11]
Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal [35]
Victor Amadeus King Sardinia [41]
Maria Anna Neuburg Queen Consort Spain [14]
Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor [14]
Charles Habsburg Spain VI Holy Roman Emperor [14]
Francis I Holy Roman Emperor [22]
Elisabeth Therese Lorraine Queen Consort Sardinia [22]
King George III of Great Britain and Ireland [16]
Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England [16]
Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway [16]
Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort England [16]
Frederica Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort Hanover [16]
King Christian I of Norway and VIII of Denmark [32]
Frederick William IV King Prussia [16]
Caroline Amalie Oldenburg Queen Norway [2]
Frederick VII King of Denmark [48]
Queen Louise Hesse-Kassel of Denmark [32]
King Christian IX of Denmark [3]
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [32]
Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway [17]
Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia [96]
King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [96]
Frederick Charles I King Finland [32]
Constantine I King Greece [17]
Alexandrine Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Denmark [65]
Victoria Eugénie Mountbatten Queen Consort Spain [96]
Louise Mountbatten Queen Consort Sweden [96]
Ingrid Bernadotte Queen Consort Denmark [112]
Philip Mountbatten Duke Edinburgh [113]
Sophia Glücksburg Queen Consort Spain [2]
Constantine II King Hellenes [2]
Carl XVI King Sweden [213]
Great x 3 Grandfather: Fulcuich Count Mortagne au Perche
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh de Perche Count Gâtinais
Great x 3 Grandmother: Melisende Viscountess Châteaudun
Great x 1 Grandfather: Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais
Great x 3 Grandfather: Albéric II Count Mâcon
Great x 2 Grandmother: Béatrice de Mâcon Countess Gâtinais
GrandFather: Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou
Great x 4 Grandfather: Fulk "Good" Ingelger 2nd Count Anjou
Great x 3 Grandfather: Geoffrey "Greygown" Ingelger 1st Count Anjou
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gerberge Unknown Viscountess Anjou
Great x 2 Grandfather: Fulk "Black" Ingelger III Count Anjou
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Vermandois Count Meaux Count Châlons
Great x 3 Grandmother: Adele Vermandois Countess Anjou
Great x 1 Grandmother: Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy
Great x 2 Grandmother: Hildegarde Sundgau Countess Anjou
Father: Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem
Great x 4 Grandfather: Aumary Reginarids
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Reginarids
Great x 2 Grandfather: Aumary Reginarids
Great x 1 Grandfather: Simon Montfort
Great x 2 Grandmother: Bertrade Unknown
GrandMother: Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard "Fearless" Normandy I Duke Normandy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Normandy Archbishop of Rouen
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gunnora Countess Ponthieu
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux
Great x 3 Grandmother: Herleva Countess Évreux
Great x 1 Grandmother: Agnès of Normandy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ramon Borrell Count of Barcelona
Great x 2 Grandmother: Adelaide or Godehildis Ramon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger I of Carcasonne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ermesinde of Carcassonne
Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders
Great x 1 Grandfather: Jean de la Flèche La Flèche De Baugency
GrandFather: Elias La Flèche De Baugency I Count Maine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Maine II Count Maine
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Maine III Count Maine
Great x 2 Grandfather: Herbert "Wakedog" Maine I Count Maine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Conan "Crooked" Penthièvre III Duke Brittany
Great x 3 Grandmother: Unamed Penthièvre Countess Maine
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ermengarde Gerberga Ingelger Duchess Brittany
Great x 1 Grandmother: Paula Maine
Mother: Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gervais II Lord Chateau Du Loir
GrandMother: Matilda Chateau Du Loir Countess Maine