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Chillingham, Northumberland is in Glendale, Northumberland [Map].
Around 1225 John Grey was born to Richard Grey (age 22) and Lucy Humez at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map]. He married Lucy Mohun.
In 1356 Elizabeth Grey Baroness Darcy Knayth was born to Thomas Grey (age 28) and Margaret Pressene at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map]. She married Philip Darcy 4th Baron Darcy of Knayth, son of John Darcy 2nd Baron Darcy of Knayth and Elizabeth Meinhill Baroness Darcy Knayth and Haversham, and had issue.
In 1432 Ralph Grey of Chillingham was born to Ralph Grey (age 26) and Elizabeth Fitzhugh at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map]. He married before 1450 Jacquetta Stanlow and had issue.
Around 1436 Jacquetta Stanlow was born to William Stanlow (age 30) at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map]. She married before 1450 Ralph Grey of Chillingham and had issue.
Around 1464 Edward Grey was born to Ralph Grey of Chillingham (age 32) at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map].
Around 1510 Ralph Grey of Chillingham was born to Edward Grey (age 46) at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map]. He married before 1550 his third cousin twice removed Isabel Grey and had issue.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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Around 1552 Ralph Grey was born to Ralph Grey of Chillingham (age 42) at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map].
On 17th December 1565 Ralph Grey of Chillingham (age 55) died at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map]. He was buried at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map].
Around August 1593 William Grey 1st Baron Grey Werke was born to Ralph Grey (age 41) in either Wark Castle, Northumberland [Map] or Chillingham, Northumberland [Map]. He married in or before 1625 Cecilia Wentworth Lady Grey, daughter of John Wentworth 1st Baronet and Catherine Finch Lady Wentworth, and had issue.
On 7th September 1623 Ralph Grey (age 71) died at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map].
In 1866 Jacob Wilson was appointed land agent to Charles Bennet 6th Earl Tankerville (age 55) for his estates at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map].
On 15th February 1922 Olivia Montagu Countess Tankerville (age 91) died at Greystones, Tunbridge Wells. She was buried at Chillingham, Northumberland [Map].
Chillingham Castle, Northumberland is also in Castles in Northumberland.
Close Rolls Edward I. 1st July 1298. Chillingham Castle, Northumberland [Map]. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Richard, bishop of Hereford, to be acquitted of the demand for the service of five knights' fees in the king's army of Wales for the tenth year of his reign, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the sheriff of Hereford that Thomas, the late bishop of Hereford, did his service in the said army by the king's order at Buelt for five knights' fees by John Tregoz and John Danyel, knights, for two fees, and by Thomas de la Mare, Nicholas le Seculer, John de Hurtesleye, Roger de Hurtesleye, John de Walford, and Robert le Venur, esquires, for three fees, to wit by each of the said knights and esquires with a barded horse, and that they continued the service fully for forty days, which service the bishop acknowledged to the king in the same army, as appears by inspection of the rolls of the marshalsea of that army. [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 787.]
To the same. Order to acquit the said Richard of scutage for five knights' fees in the kings army of Wales in the fifth, year of his reign, which the aforesaid Thomas acknowledged to him in that army, as Thomas had his service aforesaid with the king in that army, as appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of the marshalsea of that army.
Around 1560 Isabel Grey was born to Ralph Grey of Chillingham (age 50) at Chillingham Castle, Northumberland [Map]. She married before 1589 her fourth cousin once removed Francis Radclyffe 1st Baronet and had issue.
1918. St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map]. Memorial to Samuel Sanderson of the Northumberland Fusiliers who was killed in the First World War. The note at the bottom reads ... Sam went to the Village School, just beyond the ford, and was just seventeen when he was killed. Sam's father, his brother and his nephew each served as Head Gardener to the Castle [Map], as Sam surely would have done had he lived. Sam and his parents lived in the Castle East Lodge, just by this Church as did Sam's nephew, *Alan, whose sister was born in the East Lodge. *Alan restored the Castle Garden from ruin and only retired in 2012, the last of a long line of Saunderson Gardeners, maybe dating back to the 1500s. One 1500s ledger reads: "Alexander the Gardener Holdeth one Cottage at three shillings per year." Alexander's son would have been Alexanderson. Sam, Rest in Peace.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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On 9th July 1931 George Montagu Bennet 7th Earl Tankerville (age 79) died at Chillingham Castle, Northumberland [Map]. He was buried at St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map]. His son Charles (age 33) succeeded 8th Earl Tankerville, 9th Baron Ossulston of Ossulston in Middlesex.
In 1990 the Statue of Viscount Hugh Gough [Map] was moved from Phoenix Park to Chillingham Castle, Northumberland [Map] following repeated vandalised. The inscription on the status reads ... In honour of Field Marshal Hugh Viscount Gough, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., an illustrious Irishman, whose achievements in the Peninsular War, in China, and in India, have added lustre to the military glory of his country, which he faithfully served for seventy five years. This statue [cast from cannon taken by troops under his command and granted by Parliament for the purpose] is erected by friends and comrades.
