William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Paternal Family Tree: Spencer
On 12th July 1872 Frederick Smith 1st Earl of Birkenhead was born. Winston Churchill was his godfather.
On 15th April 1874 [his father] Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill [aged 25] and [his mother] Jenny Jerome [aged 20] were married at British Embassy, Paris. Regarded by some as the original Dollar Princess although there are much earlier examples. He the son of [his grandfather] John Winston Spencer-Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough [aged 51] and [his grandmother] Frances Anne Emily Vane Duchess of Marlborough [aged 52].
On 30th November 1874 Winston Churchill was born to Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill [aged 25] and Jenny Jerome [aged 20].
On 3rd March 1891 [his grandfather] Leonard Jerome "King of Wall Street" Financier [aged 73] died in Brighton. His wife [his grandmother] Clarissa Hall [aged 66] and daughters [his aunt] Clarita "Clara" Jerome [aged 40], [his mother] Jenny Jerome [aged 37] and Leonie Blanche Jerome Lady Leslie [aged 32] were present.
On 24th January 1895 [his father] Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill [aged 45] died. He was buried at St Martin's Church, Bladon [Map].
On 2nd April 1895 [his grandmother] Clarissa Hall [aged 70] died. Her funeral was held at the Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair on 5th April 1895 attended by her daughters [his aunt] Clarita "Clara" Jerome [aged 44], [his mother] Jenny Jerome [aged 41] and Leonie Blanche Jerome Lady Leslie [aged 36], her grandsons Winston Churchill [aged 20] and John Strange "Jack" Spencer-Churchill [aged 15] and the Dowager Frances Anne Emily Vane Duchess of Marlborough [aged 72].
On 1st October 1900 Winston Churchill [aged 25] was declared MP Oldham at Oldham Town Hall.
In 1908 a fire broke out at Burley-on-the-Hill House during a party which Winston Churchill [aged 33] was attending. Part of the west end of the house was destroyed.
On 12th September 1908 Winston Churchill [aged 33] and Clementine Hozier [aged 23] were married at St Margaret's Church, Westminster [Map].
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 28th May 1911 [his son] Randolph Church was born to Winston Churchill [aged 36] and [his wife] Clementine Hozier [aged 26] at Eccleston Square, Pimlico.
On 7th October 1914 [his daughter] Sarah Churchill Baroness Audley was born to Winston Churchill [aged 39] and [his wife] Clementine Hozier [aged 29]. She married 26th April 1962 Thomas Percy Tuchet-Jesson.
25th May 1917. An Appreciation 'W. S. C.' [Winston Churchill [aged 42]] writes of the death of Major Valentine Fleming [deceased], M.P., who, as announced in The Times on Wednesday, was killed in action: "This news will cause sorrow in Oxfordshire and in the House of Commons and wherever the member of the Henley Division was well known. Valentine Fleming was one of those younger Conservatives who easily and naturally combine loyalty to party ties with a broad liberal outlook upon affairs and a total absence of class prejudice. He was most earnest and sincere in his desire to make things better for the great body of the people, and had cleared his mind of all particularist tendencies. He was a man of thoughtful and tolerant opinions, which were not the less strongly or clearly held because they were not loudly or frequently asserted. He shared the hopes to which so many of his generation respond of a better, fairer, more efficient public life and Parliamentary system arising out of these trials. But events have pursued a different course. As a Yeomanry officer he always took the greatest pains to fit himself for military duties. There was scarcely an instructional course open before the war to the Territorial Forces of which he had not availed himself, and on mobilization there were few more competent civilian soldiers of his rank. The Oxfordshire Hussars were the first or almost the first Yeomanry regiment to come under the fire of the enemy, and in the first battle of Ypres acquitted themselves with credit. He had been nearly three years in France, as squadron leader or second in command, and had been twice mentioned in dispatches, before the shell which ended his life found him. From the beginning his letters showed the deep emotions which the devastation and carnage of the struggle aroused in his breast. But the strength and buoyancy of his nature were proofs against the sombre realizations of his mind. He never for a moment flagged or wearied or lost his spirits. Alert, methodical, resolute, untiring he did his work, whether perilous or dull, without the slightest sign of strain or stress to the end. 'We all of us,' writes a brother officer, 'were devoted to him. The loss to the regiment is indescribable. He was, as you know, absolutely our best officer, utterly fearless, full of resource, and perfectly magnificent with his men.' His passion in sport was deer stalking in his much-loved native Scotland. He rode well and sometimes brilliantly to hounds, and was always a gay and excellent companion. He had everything in the world to make him happy; a delightful home life, active interesting expanding business occupations, contented disposition, a lovable and charming personality. He had more. He had that foundation of spontaneous and almost unconscious self-suppression in the discharge of what he conceived to be his duty without which happiness, however full, is precarious and imperfect. That these qualities are not singular in this generation does not lessen the loss of those in whom they shine. As the war lengthens and intensifies and the extending lists appear, it seems as if one watched at night a well-loved city whose lights, which burn so bright, which burn so true, are extinguished in the distance in the darkness one by one."
On 29th June 1921 [his mother] Jenny Jerome [aged 67] died. She was buried at St Martin's Church, Bladon [Map].
On 20th February 1930 Hugh "Bendor" Grosvenor 2nd Duke Westminster [aged 50] and Loelia Mary Ponsonby Duchess Westminster [aged 28] were married. She by marriage Duchess Westminster. His third marriage; her first. Winston Churchill [aged 55] was best man. They were married until 1947 when the marriage was dissolved. No issue. The difference in their ages was 22 years. They were fourth cousin once removed.
The Times. 21st February 1930. THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER AND MISS PONSONBY. The marriage of the Duke of Westminster [aged 50] and Miss Loelia Mary Ponsonby [aged 28], daughter of Sir Frederick [aged 62] and Lady Ponsonby, of Great Tangley Manor Guildford, and St. James's Palace [Map], took place at Prince's-row Register Office yesterday. Among those present were Mr. Winston Churchill [aged 55], Lady Serena James [aged 28], Mrs Walter Rubens, Colonel [aged 65] and Mrs. Guy Wyndham, Captain and Mrs. Cowes, Mrs. Basil Kerr, Mr. and Mrs. George Drummond, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Guinness. The Duke and Duchess left for their honeymoon in the Duke's steam yacht the Cutty Sark, wlhich was moored at Deptford [Map].
On 26th April 1962 [his son-in-law] Thomas Percy Tuchet-Jesson [aged 48] and [his daughter] Sarah Churchill Baroness Audley [aged 47] were married. She by marriage Baroness Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire.
On 24th January 1965 Winston Churchill [aged 90] died. He was buried at St Martin's Church, Bladon [Map].
On 12th December 1977 [his former wife] Clementine Hozier [aged 92] died at 7 Princes Gate. She was buried at St Martin's Church, Bladon [Map] in the same grave as her husband Winston Churchill who died in 1965.
The Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars. Valentine Fleming (back row, far right) and Winston Churchill (centre).
Kings Wessex: Great x 26 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 23 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 29 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 24 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 26 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 12 Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 30 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 22 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Spencer 3rd Duke of Marlborough 
11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Spencer 4th Duke of Marlborough 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Trevor Duchess of Marlborough 
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Spencer-Churchill 5th Duke of Marlborough 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Russell 4th Duke Bedford 
10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Caroline Russell Duchess of Marlborough 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gertrude Leveson-Gower Duchess Bedford 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: George Spencer-Churchill 6th Duke of Marlborough 9 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway 
6 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stewart 7th Earl Galloway 7 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Susan Stewart Duchess of Marlborough 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Dashwood 2nd Baronet 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Dashwood Countess Galloway
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Spencer Lady Dashwood
GrandFather: John Winston Spencer-Churchill 7th Duke of Marlborough 10 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway 6 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stewart 7th Earl Galloway 7 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Stewart 8th Earl Galloway 8 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Dashwood 2nd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Dashwood Countess Galloway
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Spencer Lady Dashwood
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Stewart Duchess of Marlborough 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Bayly 2nd Baronet Bayly of Plas Newydd in Anglesey 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Bayly-Paget 1st Earl Uxbridge 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Caroline Paget Lady Plas Newydd Anglesey 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Paget Countess Galloway 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Very Reverend Arthur Champagné
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Champagné Countess Uxbridge
Father: Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill 11 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Stewart of Ballylawn in County Donegal 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Alexander Stewart
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Stewart 1st Marquess Londonderry
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cowan
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Cowan
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles William Vane 3rd Marquess Londonderry 
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Pratt
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Pratt 1st Earl Camden
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Pratt Marchioness Londonderry
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Jeffreys of The Priory Breconshire
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jeffreys
GrandMother: Frances Anne Emily Vane Duchess of Marlborough 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Vane of Long Newton 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Vane 1st Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ann Machon
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Vane-Tempest 2nd Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tempest of Sherburne Durham 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Tempest
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Shuttleworth
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Vane Tempest Marchioness Londonderry 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Winston Churchill 12 x Great Grand Son of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Isaac Jerome
GrandFather: Leonard Jerome "King of Wall Street" Financier
Great x 1 Grandmother: Aurora Murray 
Mother: Jenny Jerome
Great x 1 Grandfather: Amos Hall
GrandMother: Clarissa Hall