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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St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone is in Bryanston Square Marylebone.
On 9th February 1769 Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl Liverpool (age 39) and Amelia Watts (age 18) were married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone. The difference in their ages was 21 years.
On 19th May 1801 William Fitzroy (age 27) and Catherine Haughton Clarke (age 27) were married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone.
On 16th February 1818 Charles John Gardiner 1st Earl Blessington (age 36) and Marguerite Power Countess of Blessington (age 28) were married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone some four months after her first husband's death. She by marriage Countess Blessington.
On 9th January 1834 Charles Abbott (age 30) and Emily Frances Stuart were married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone.
On 16th September 1856 Gerald Wellesley (age 47) and Magdalen Robinson Montagu were married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone. He the son of Henry Wellesley 1st Baron Cowley and Charlotte Cadogan Marchioness Anglesey.
In July 1861 John Savile 4th Earl Mexborough (age 51) and Agnes Louisa Elizabeth Raphael were married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone at which time he converted to his wife's Cathloic faith. He the son of John Savile 3rd Earl Mexborough and Anne Yorke Countess Mexborough (age 78).
In 1866 Bishop Augustus Legge (age 26) was appointed Curate of St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone which office he held until 1867.
On 10th August 1871 Richard Knight Causton 1st Baron Southwark (age 27) and Selina Mary Chambers Baroness Southwark (age 19) were married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone.
On 18th June 1872 Theophilus William Biddulph 7th Baronet (age 42) and Mary Agnes Somerville Lady Biddulph (age 34) were married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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After 1875 Richard Heber Wrightson (age 75) and Albinia Thomas were married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone.