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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.
Blickling, Norfolk is in Norfolk.
On 2nd January 1402 Nicholas Dagworth of Blickling died without issue. His widow Eleanor Rossall (age 25) sold the Blickling, Norfolk estates and around 1409 married a second time John Mortimer (age 24).
In 1434 Isabella Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn (age 28) and Ann Hoo (age 9) at Blickling, Norfolk.
In 1434 John Fortescue was born to Richard Fortescue (age 20) in Blickling, Norfolk.
In 1451 William Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn (age 45) and Ann Hoo (age 26) at Blickling, Norfolk.
On 26th June 1458 Cecily Boleyn (age 50) died at Blickling, Norfolk. She was buried at St Andrew's Church, Blickling [Map]
On 18th November 1475 Anne Boleyn was born to William Boleyn (age 24) and Margaret Butler (age 21) at Blickling, Norfolk.
On 23rd April 1485 Isabella Boleyn (age 51) died at Blickling, Norfolk.
On 18th August 1512 Anne Wood aka Wode died in childbirth whilst visiting her sister Elizabeth at Blickling, Norfolk. St Andrew's Church, Blickling [Map]. Memorial brass to Anne Wood aka Wode depicted holding the two and female twins that she died giving birth to. The inscription:
Pray for the soul of Anne Wode, the second wife of Thomas Astley of Melton Constable (age 43), Esquire, who on the feast day of Saint Agapitus the Martyr gave birth to a male and a female child, and after the peril of childbirth, suddenly departed to the Lord in the year one thousand five hundred and twelve of Christ.
Orate p[ro] a[n]i[m]a Anne a wode ux[oris] s[e]cu[n]de Tho[m]e Asteley de Melton Constable. Armig[eri], que in die s[an]c[t]i Agapiti Martyris masculu[m] et femella[m] ad partu[m] pep[er]it et post pariendi p[er]iculu[m] subito migravit ad Domi[num] A[nn]o M[illensim]o benignissimi Vo XIIo Xpi.
Anne Wood aka Wode: she was born to John Wood aka Wode. Before 1507 Thomas Astley of Hilmorton and Melton Constable and she were married.
Thomas Astley of Hilmorton and Melton Constable: In 1469 he was born. On 19th October 1543 he died.
Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses Volume 1. Plate LI. Ann, Wife Of Thomas Asteley (age 43), at Blickling, 1512. Blomefield’s Norf. vi. 405. Gough’s Sepulch. Monum. ii. 309,
This brass, to the memory of the second wife of Thomas Asteley, is mentioned by Gough, because of the twin infants in swaddling-clothes represented in her arms: the lady having died after the birth of these children. On this account it is singular, but remarkable on no other.
In 1561 James Boleyn (age 68) died. His great-nephew Edward Clere (age 24), grandson of James' sister Alice Boleyn, inherited the estate at Blickling, Norfolk. Curiously Edward Clere's mother was Anne Tyrrell, grand-daughter of James Tyrrell who had been executed in 1502, and who had reportedly confessed to the murder of the Princes in the Tower.
He was buried at St Andrew's Church, Blickling [Map] on 6th September 1561. In his will he left he great-niece Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 27) a basin and gilt ewer and "my written book of the revelations of Saint Bridget".
All About History Books
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.
In 1671 Henry Hobart 4th Baronet (age 14) was knighted by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 40) at Blickling, Norfolk.
On 14th November 1841 John Kerr 7th Marquess Lothian (age 47) died at Blickling Hall, Norfolk [Map]. His son William (age 9) succeeded 8th Marquess Lothian. He inherited the Blickling, Norfolk estate and made significant changes.