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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Paternal Family Tree: Drury
On 2nd October 1527 William Drury was born to Robert Drury [aged 24] at Hawstead, Suffolk.
Around 1541 William Drury [aged 13] educated at Gonville College, Cambridge University.
In 1544 William Drury [aged 16] was captured at France.
In 1554 William Drury [aged 26] was elected MP Chipping Wycombe.
On 19th April 1557 John Williams 1st Baron Williams [aged 57] and [his future wife] Margery Wentworth were married.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 10th October 1560. The x day of October was mared in the parryche of sant Alphes at Crepullgatt master Wylliam Drure [aged 33] unto [his wife] lade Wylliams of Tame, and mared by master Frence on of the masters of Wyndsore, and after gohyng home to dener the trumpettes blohyng, and after the flutt and drum, and at the furst corse servyng the trumpettes blohyng, for ther was a gret dener and gret museke ther....
On 10th October 1560 William Drury [aged 33] and Margery Wentworth were married at St Alphege London Wall aka Cripplegate Bassishaw. They were fifth cousins.
On 6th May 1572 Henry Norreys [aged 47] was created 1st Baron Norreys of Rycote. [his step-daughter] Margery Williams Baroness Norreys Rycote [aged 51] by marriage Baroness Norreys of Rycote.
On 12th December 1573 [his daughter] Elizabeth Drury was born to William Drury [aged 46] and [his wife] Margery Wentworth.
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.'
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On 21st May 1577 [his father] Robert Drury [aged 74] died.
On 13th October 1579 William Drury [aged 52] died.
In 1580 James Croft [aged 30] and [his former wife] Margery Wentworth were married.
In 1587 [his former wife] Margery Wentworth died.
[his daughter] Jane Drury was born to William Drury and Margery Wentworth. She married Richard Chetwood.
[his daughter] Anne Drury was born to William Drury and Margery Wentworth. She married Robert Hartwell.
Kings Wessex: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 13 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 19 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 14 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 11 Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 17 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 21 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 13 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 3 Grandfather: Nicholas Drury of Thurston
Great x 2 Grandfather: Nicholas Drury
Great x 1 Grandfather: Roger Drury of Hawstead in Suffolk
GrandFather: Robert Drury
Father: Robert Drury 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Calthorpe 
5 x Great Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Calthorpe 6 x Great Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Calthorpe 7 x Great Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Calthorpe 8 x Great Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
GrandMother: Anne Calthorpe 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Miles Stapleton 
17 x Great Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 3 Grandfather: Bryan Stapleton 18 x Great Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 2 Grandfather: Miles Stapleton of Ightham in Norfolk 19 x Great Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stapleton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Michael de la Pole 2nd Earl Suffolk 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Pole 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Stafford Countess Suffolk 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine de la Pole 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
William Drury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England