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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.
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire is in Gloucestershire.
On 24th December 1143 Miles Gloucester 1st Earl Hereford was accidentally shot and killed whilst hunting in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. He was buried in the Chapter House, Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucestershire. His son Roger (age 18) succeeded 2nd Earl Hereford, Baron Abergavenny Feudal Creation. Cecilia Fitzjohn Countess Hereford (age 23) by marriage Countess Hereford.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 21st January 1663. After dinner on board the Elias, and found the timber brought by her from the forest of Deane to be exceeding good. The Captain gave each of us two barrels of pickled oysters put up for the Queen Mother (age 24) .
Abbot's Wood Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, Welsh March, England, British Isles [Map]
In 1227 King Henry III (age 19) gave Abbot's Woods [Map] to Flaxby Abbey [Map].
Flaxley Abbey, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, Welsh March, England, British Isles [Map]
Flaxley Abbey is also in Abbeys in England.
In 1151 Roger Fitzmiles 2nd Earl Hereford (age 26) founded the Cistercia Flaxby Abbey [Map] on the spot where his father Miles Gloucester 1st Earl Hereford had been accidentally kiled whilst hunting. The Monks came from Bordesley Abbey, Worcestershire [Map].
In 1151 Roger Fitzmiles 2nd Earl Hereford (age 26) founded Flaxley Abbey [Map] believed to be at the location where his father Miles Gloucester 1st Earl Hereford died.
In 1227 King Henry III (age 19) gave Abbot's Woods [Map] to Flaxby Abbey [Map].
In 1353 King Edward III of England (age 40) granted the income from the rents and profits of the lands of the Forest of Dean to Flaxby Abbey [Map].
On 4th September 1536 Flaxby Abbey [Map] was dissolved as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
On 21st March 1537 Flaxby Abbey [Map] was granted to William Kingston (age 61).
In 1945 Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England (age 77) visited Flaxby Abbey [Map].
