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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Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire is in Stanwick, North Yorkshire, Churches in North Yorkshire.
On 21st October 1670 Hugh Smithson 1st Baronet (age 72) died at his home in Tottenham High Cross. His son Jerome (age 38) succeeded 2nd Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. He was buried in the Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire [Map].
Monument to Hugh Smithson 1st Baronet and Dorothy Royston sculpted by William Stanton (age 31). Note the effigies appears to have been sourced differently since hers has no mottling.
Hugh Smithson 1st Baronet: Around 1598 he was born to Antony Smithson.
Jerome Smithson 2nd Baronet: In 1632 he was born to Hugh Smithson 1st Baronet. In 1684 Jerome Smithson 2nd Baronet died. His son Hugh succeeded 3rd Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire.
On 27th November 1688 Antony Smithson died. Monument in Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire [Map].
On 22nd March 1729 Hugh Smithson 3rd Baronet (age 72) died. His grandson Hugh (age 13) succeeded 4th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. Monument in Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire [Map].
Hugh Smithson 3rd Baronet: In 1657 he was born to Jerome Smithson 2nd Baronet.
On 20th June 1844 Emily Frances Percy Baroness Goldolphin Helston (age 56) died.
Monument to the daughters of Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland in Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire [Map] sculpted by Joseph Gott (age 58).
Emily Frances Percy Baroness Goldolphin Helston: In 1788 she was born to Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland and Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland. On 19th May 1810 James Murray 1st Baron Glenlyon and she were married at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. She the daughter of Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland and Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland. He the son of John Murray 4th Duke Atholl.