William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Grosvenor Square, Belgravia is in Belgravia.
See: 7 Grosvenor Square, Belgravia, 20 Grosvenor Square, Belgravia, 28 Grosvenor Square, Belgravia, 37 Grosvenor Square, Belgravia, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, Mount Street, Park Street, Grosvenor Square, Belgravia.
On 31st December 1738 Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis was born to Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis [aged 38] and Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. He married 14th July 1768 Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis and had issue.
On 12th July 1749 George Carpenter 2nd Baron Carpenter [aged 54] died at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. He was buried at St Andrew's Church, Owlesbury [Map]. His son George [aged 25] succeeded 3rd Baron Carpenter of Killaghy in County Tipperary. Frances Clifton Countess Tyrconnel by marriage Baroness Carpenter of Killaghy in County Tipperary.
On 17th January 1754 Catherine Tollemache died at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia.
On 5th July 1765 Charles Powlett 5th Duke Bolton [aged 47] committed suicide at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia shooting himself in the head with a pistol. His brother Harry [aged 44] succeeded 6th Duke Bolton, 11th Marquess Winchester, 11th Earl Wiltshire, 11th Baron St John. Katherine Lowther Duchess of Bolton [aged 29] by marriage Duchess Bolton.
On 25th September 1767 John Stuart was born to John Stuart 1st Marquis of the Isle of Bute [aged 23] and Charlotte Jane Windsor Marchioness Bute [aged 21] at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. He married 12th October 1792 Elizabeth Penelope Mcdouall Crichton, daughter of Patrick Mcdouall Crichton 6th Earl Dumfries, and had issue.
On 7th September 1776 Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne Countess Chichester was born to Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds [aged 25] and Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers [aged 21] at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. She married 1801 Thomas Pelham 2nd Earl Chichester, son of Thomas Pelham 1st Earl Chichester and Anne Frankland Countess Chichester, and had issue.
On 16th March 1798 Henry Gough-Calthorpe 1st Baron Calthorpe [aged 49] died in Grosvenor Square, Belgravia.
On 19th April 1798 Elizabeth Spencer Lady Dashwood [aged 82] died at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. She was buried at Woodbridge, Suffolk [Map].
In 1804 Anne Liddell Duchess Grafton [aged 67] died at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 24th February 1811 James Brudenell 5th Earl Cardigan [aged 85] died at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. His nephew Robert [aged 41] succeeded 6th Earl Cardigan, 6th Baron Brudenell of Stonton in Leicestershire, 2nd Baron Brudenell Deene in Northamptonshire. Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan [aged 41] by marriage Countess Cardigan.
On 1st May 1820 Georgiana Campbell was born to John Campbell 1st Earl Cawdor [aged 29] and Elizabeth Thynne Countess Cawdor [aged 25] at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. She married 25th June 1840 Colonel John Balfour 7th of Balbirnie and had issue.
On 10th June 1830 Edward Adolphus Seymour 12th Duke of Somerset [aged 25] and Jane Georgiana Sheridan Duchess Somerset [aged 20] were married at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. He the son of Edward Seymour 11th Duke of Somerset [aged 55] and Charlotte Hamilton Duchess Somerset.
On 15th April 1833 Samuel John Brooke-Pechell 3rd Baronet [aged 47] and Julia Maria Petre Lady Brooke-Pechell [aged 43] were married at her mother's [aged 63] house in Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. She by marriage Lady Brooke-Pechell of Paglesham in Essex.
On 16th April 1833 Henry George Herbert 2nd Earl Carnarvon [aged 60] died at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. He was buried at Burghclere, Hampshire. His son Henry [aged 32] succeeded 3rd Earl Carnarvon, 3rd Baron Porchester of Highclere in Hampshire. Henrietta Anna Howard-Molyneux-Howard Countess Carnarvon [aged 28] by marriage Countess Carnarvon.
On 7th August 1863 Beriah Botfield [aged 56] died at his home in Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. Hopton Court, Shropshire was inherited by Reverend Woodward, the son of Sarah Skelhorn who was the sister of his aunt Lucy Skelhorn.
On 25th June 1893 Frederick Gough-Calthorpe 5th Baron Calthorpe [aged 66] died unmarried at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. His brother Augustus [aged 63] succeeded 6th Baron Calthorpe of Calthorpe in Norfolk, 7th Gough-Calthorpe of Edgbaston in Warwickshire.
On 22nd July 1910 Augustus Gough-Calthorpe 6th Baron Calthorpe [aged 80] died at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. His brother Somerset [aged 79] succeeded 7th Baron Calthorpe of Calthorpe in Norfolk, 8th Gough-Calthorpe of Edgbaston in Warwickshire.
On 30th August 1923 Horace Farquhar 1st Earl Farquhar [aged 79] died unmarried at his home 7 Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. Earl Farquhar, Viscount Farquhar of Saint Marylebone in London, Baron Farquhar of Saint Marylebone in London and Baronet Townsend-Farquhar of Cavendish Square in Saint Marylebone in London extinct. In his will he left many large legacies to his friends, including members of the Royal Family, but although his estate was assessed for probate at £400,000 the entire sum was taken up by debts, leaving nothing and revealing that Farquhar had been an undisclosed bankrupt.
In 1866 Helen Venetia Duncombe Viscountess D'Abernon was born to William Duncombe 1st Earl Feversham [aged 36] and Mabel Violet Graham Countess Feversham [aged 32] at 20 Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.57%. She married 1890 Edgar Vincent 1st Viscount D'Abernon, son of Frederick Vincent 11th Baronet and Maria Copley Young.
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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The Times. 5th January 1938. MR. J. NEVILL [aged 23] AND MISS HARRISON [aged 22].
The Duke [aged 37] and Duchess of Gloucester [aged 36] have sent a silver condiments set to Mr. John Nevill, Life Guards, elder son of Major [aged 54] and Mrs. Guy Larnach-Nevill [aged 47], of Uckfield House, and Miss Patricia Harrison, daughter of Major and the Hon. Mrs. J. F. Harrison, of Kings Walden Bury, Hitchin, whose marriage took place yesterday at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. The Rev. G. S. Shackleford officiated, assisted by the Rev. E. C. Dunford. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of ivory-tinted panne velvet, embossed with sprays of silver flowers. The bodice was fashioned with a square neckline and long sleeves, slightly full at the shoulder, and the square train was lined with silver tissue. A headdress of silver-tipped doves' wings surmounted her long tulle veil, and she carried a spray of mixed white flowers. A retinue of six little girls and four pages folowed the bride. They were Penelope Harrison (sister of the bride), the Hon. Clare Beckett, Marye Pepys (niece of the bridegroom), Margaret Rosselli, Caroline Bury, Joanna Spencer, Hugh Lawson (cousin of the bride), David Myddelton (cousin of the bridegroom), Thomas Pilkington (nephew of the bride), and Charles Smith-Bingham. The pages wore replicas of the uniform of the Life Guards of the early nineteenth century, and the little girls wore long frocks of silver lame, the high-waisted bodices cut with short, puff sleeves, and square necks. They wore caps of silver lame, trimmed with white fur, and carried white fur muffs. Lord Roderic Pratt [aged 22], Life Guards, was best man, and there was a guard of honour from the same regiment. The Hon. Mrs. J. F. Harrison afterwards held a reception at 28, Grosvenor Square, W1. The honeymoon wil be spent in Switzerland.
On 20th January 1879 George Gordon 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair was born to John Hamilton-Gordon 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair [aged 31] and Isabel Marjoribanks Marchioness of Aberdeen and Ternair [aged 21] at 37 Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. He married (1) 6th August 1906 Mary Florence Clixby Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair (2) 21st December 1940 Anna Orrok Forbes Marchioness Aberdeen and Temair.
On 2nd January 1880 Lieutenant John Harley was born to John Harley of Beedlings, Pulborough at 39 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square. He was educated at Charterhouse [Map] and Trinity College, Oxford University where he was awarded Master of Arts. He was elected to the Society of Antiquaries of London. He married 8th May 1915 May Winifred Sheppee.
. Following a brief honeymoon in Paris, the couple officially set up home at 45 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square.
Before 1793 Richard Westmacott [aged 17] studied with his father Richard "The Elder" Westmacott [aged 45] at his studio at Mount Street.
On 4th November 1764 Captain William Henry Ricketts aka Jervis was born to William Henry Ricketts [aged 27] and Mary Jervis [aged 27] at Park Street, Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. He married (1) 9th November 1793 Elizabeth Jane Lambert.
On 17th June 1830 Lucas Pepys 1st Baronet [aged 88] died at Park Street, Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. His son Charles [aged 55] succeeded 2nd Baronet Pepys of Brook Street.