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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.
Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland is in Blanchland, Northumberland [Map], Abbeys in England.
The village of Blanchland [Map] composed of buildings of the Abbey including its Gatehouse.
Medieval Grave Slabs at Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map].
1165. Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map] was founded as a premonstratensian priory in 1165 by Walter de Bolbec II (age 25) as a daughter house of Croxden Abbey, Staffordshire [Map]. It became an abbey in the late 13th century.
Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map].
In 1539 Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map] was dissolved and granted to the Bellow and Broxholm families. It was later acquired by the Radclyffe family from whom it passed by marriage to Nicholas Forster. Part of the abbey church was altered and retained for use as the parish church, and the abbots' former residence became the manor house.
Around 10th August 1607 Jane Radclyffe of Blanchland (age 56) died. Claudius Forster 1st Baronet (age 32) inherited Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map].
Around 1623 Claudius Forster 1st Baronet (age 48) died without issue at Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map]. He was buried at St Aidan's Church, Bamburgh [Map]. Baronet Forster of Bamburgh extinct. His brother John Forster (age 46) inherited his estates including Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map].
Before 1625. Arms of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 58) at Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map].