Annals of the six Kings of England by Nicholas Trivet
Translation of the Annals of the Six Kings of England by that traces the rise and rule of the Angevin aka Plantagenet dynasty from the mid-12th to early 14th century. Written by the Dominican scholar Nicholas Trivet, the work offers a vivid account of English history from the reign of King Stephen through to the death of King Edward I, blending political narrative with moral reflection. Covering the reigns of six monarchs—from Stephen to Edward I—the chronicle explores royal authority, rebellion, war, and the shifting balance between crown, church, and nobility. Trivet provides detailed insight into defining moments such as baronial conflicts, Anglo-French rivalry, and the consolidation of royal power under Edward I, whose reign he describes with particular immediacy. The Annals combines careful year-by-year reporting with thoughtful interpretation, presenting history not merely as a sequence of events but as a moral and political lesson. Ideal for readers interested in medieval history, kingship, and the origins of the English state, this chronicle remains a valuable and accessible window into the turbulent world of the Plantagenet kings.
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Paternal Family Tree: Coventry
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Bond 1615
On 2nd April 1627 [his father] Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry [age 21] and [his mother] Mary Craven [age 25] were married.
In 1629 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry was born to [his father] Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry [age 23] and [his mother] Mary Craven [age 27].
In 1634 [his mother] Mary Craven [age 32] died.
On 14th January 1640 [his grandfather] Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry [age 62] died. His son [his father] Thomas [age 34] succeeded 2nd Baron Coventry.
On 18th July 1653 [his brother] George Coventry 3rd Baron Coventry [age 25] and [his sister-in-law] Margaret Tufton Baroness Coventry [age 17] were married. She by marriage Baroness Coventry. She the daughter of John Tufton 2nd Earl of Thanet [age 44] and Margaret Sackville Countess Isle Thanet [age 39].
Around 1660 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 31] and Winifred Edgecumbe [age 23] were married.
In April 1660 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 31] was elected MP Droitwich during the Convention Parliament.
On 8th May 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [age 30] summoned his second Parliament.
John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston [age 44] was elected MP Wallingford.
James Thynne [age 56] was elected MP Wiltshire.
Adam Browne 2nd Baronet [age 35] was elected MP Surrey.
Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne [age 30] was elected MP Northumberland.
William Compton [age 36] was elected MP Cambridge.
Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 32] was elected MP Camelford.
Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge [age 61] was elected MP Bath and Heytesbury.
Edward Hungerford [age 28] was elected MP Chippenham.
Robert Pierrepont [age 24] was elected MP Nottingham.
John Melbury Sampford Strangeways [age 75] was elected MP Weymouth.
Giles Strangeways [age 45] was elected MP Dorset.
John Strangeways [age 24] was elected MP Bridport.
William Wyndham 1st Baronet [age 29] was elected MP Taunton.
James Herbert [age 38] was elected MP Queenborough.
William Alington 1st and 3rd Baron Alington [age 21] was elected MP Cambridge.
William Bowes of Streatlam [age 4] was elected MP Durham.
Robert Brooke [age 24] was elected MP Aldeburgh.
Josiah Child [age 30] was elected MP Dartmouth.
Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet [age 73] was elected MP Nottinghamshire.
Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew [age 37] was elected MP Brackley.
Richard Jennings [age 42] was elected MP St Albans.
Robert Kemp 2nd Baronet [age 33] was elected MP Norfolk.
Edward Phelips [age 48] was elected MP Somerset.
Robert Robartes [age 27] was elected MP Bossiney.
Hender Robartes [age 25] was elected MP Bodmin.
Clement Fisher 2nd Baronet [age 48] was elected MP Coventry.
William Portman 6th Baronet [age 17] was elected MP Taunton.
John Robinson 1st Baronet [age 46] was elected MP Rye.
On 27th October 1661 [his father] Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry [age 55] died at Lincoln's Inn Fields. He was buried at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Croome D'Abitot [Map]. His son [his brother] George [age 33] succeeded 3rd Baron Coventry.
Around 1662 [his son] Thomas Coventry 2nd Earl Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 33] and [his wife] Winifred Edgecumbe [age 25]. He married 1691 his sixth cousin Anne Somerset Countess Coventry, daughter of Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort and Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort, and had issue.
Around 1668 [his son] Gilbert Coventry 4th Earl Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 39] and [his wife] Winifred Edgecumbe [age 31]. He married (1) 30th November 1694 Dorothy Keyt, daughter of William Keyt 2nd Baronet, and had issue (2) 25th June 1715 Anne Master Countess Coventry.
In 1669 Henry Savile [age 27] was sent to the Tower of London [Map] for a few days for having carried Thomas Coventry's [age 40] challenge to the Duke of Buckingham [age 40].
Around 1675 Mary Beale aka Cradock [age 41]. Portrait of Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 46].
On 15th December 1680 [his brother] George Coventry 3rd Baron Coventry [age 52] died. His son [his nephew] John [age 26] succeeded 4th Baron Coventry.
Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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In 1681 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 52] was elected MP Warwick.
In 1685 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 56] was elected MP Warwick.
In 1687 [his nephew] John Coventry 4th Baron Coventry [age 33] died. His uncle Thomas [age 58] succeeded 5th Baron Coventry.
In 1691 Thomas Coventry 2nd Earl Coventry [age 29] and Anne Somerset Countess Coventry [age 17] were married. She the daughter of Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort [age 62] and Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort [age 60]. He the son of Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 62] and Winifred Edgecumbe [age 54]. They were sixth cousins.
On 11th June 1694 [his wife] Winifred Edgecumbe [age 57] died.
On 30th November 1694 Gilbert Coventry 4th Earl Coventry [age 26] and Dorothy Keyt [age 23] were married. He the son of Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 65] and Winifred Edgecumbe.
On 16th July 1695 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 66] and Elizabeth Grimes Countess Coventry [age 25] were married. The difference in their ages was 41 years.
In 1697 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 68] was created 1st Earl Coventry with a special remainder to issue of Walter Coventry brother to the [his grandfather] 1st Baron Coventry. [his wife] Elizabeth Grimes Countess Coventry [age 27] by marriage Countess Coventry.
On 15th July 1699 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [age 70] died. His son Thomas [age 37] succeeded 2nd Earl Coventry, 6th Baron Coventry. Anne Somerset Countess Coventry [age 25] by marriage Countess Coventry. He was buried in St Mary Magdalene's Church, Croome D'Abitot [Map].
The Monument in St Mary the Virgin Church, Elmley [Map] was commissioned by his second wife [age 29] for installation at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Croome D'Abitot [Map] but it rejected by his son. She, apparently, being somewhat imaginative in the inscription describing her provenance to from the Graham family. She was the daughter of Richard Grimes, a mean person, by trade a Turner, and sister of Richard Grimes, a Waterman. She had been niece of the Earl's housekeep, and a servant in his household, and he had married her in his declined old age: "Elizabeth, Countess by her dower right, descended from the noble family of the Grahams, daughter of Richard, son of Richard Graham of the County of Norfolk, Esquire, who valiantly fought as a captain for King Charles I. She placed this, a token of sincere love and utmost respect, as a final pledge of her soul, mourning deeply, in gratitude for the tender affection shown to her by her lord and husband—though blessed with no children. And after her death, she desired that her body be laid here with her most beloved husband."
"Elizabeth comitissa eius dotaria e nobili Grahamorum familia prognatta Richardi filii Ricardi Graham de Com. Norff. Armi. pro rege Carolo Primo strenue dimicantis capitanei, filia; Hoc amoris sinceri, summæ observantiæ gratio demun animi pignus, pro tenerrimo dni et mariti erga se affectu nulla licet beata prole, moestissima posuit; et post obitum corpus suum cum dilectissimo marito hic recondi voluit."
Monument including a white marble figure elbow reclining on a deep chest in front of a lengthy inscription and under an arch crowned with armorial bearings. Large sub-figures flank the chest and the armorial bearings. Earl's coronet. Signed by William Stanton [age 60]. Powdered Wig. Heeled Shoes. Buckled Shoes.
Thomas Coventry 2nd Earl Coventry: Around 1662 he was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry and Winifred Edgecumbe. In 1691 Thomas Coventry 2nd Earl Coventry and Anne Somerset Countess Coventry were married. She the daughter of Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort and Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort. He the son of Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry and Winifred Edgecumbe. They were sixth cousins. In August 1710 Thomas Coventry 2nd Earl Coventry died. His son Thomas succeeded 3rd Earl Coventry, 7th Baron Coventry.
Anne Somerset Countess Coventry: On 22nd July 1673 she was born to Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort and Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort. On 14th February 1763 Anne Somerset Countess Coventry died at Snitterfield, Warwickshire.
On 6th June 1700 Thomas Savage [age 27] and [his former wife] Elizabeth Grimes Countess Coventry [age 30] were married.
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 or before 10th April 1724, the date she was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Elmley [Map], [his former wife] Elizabeth Grimes Countess Coventry [age 54] died.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Coventry 
GrandFather: Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry
Father: Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Sebright
GrandMother: Sarah Sebright
Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Craven 
GrandFather: William Craven
Mother: Mary Craven
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Whitmore of Balmes Manor in Hackney
GrandMother: Elizabeth Whitmore
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Bond