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, Burford, Shropshire, Welsh March, England, British Isles [Map]

St Mary's Church, Burford is in Burford, Shropshire [Map], Churches in Shropshire.

St Mary's Church, Burford [Map]. Monuments to the Rushout Family sculpted by Richard Westmacott.

St Mary's Church, Burford [Map]. Monument to Gilbert Cornwall.

On 22nd March 1354 Edmund Cornwall [aged 74] died at Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].

After 22nd March 1354. Monument to Edmund Cornwall [deceased] at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map]. Early Plate Bascinet and Gorget Period. Feet resting on a Lion. Curious laminated gorget.

Edmund Cornwall: Edmund Cornwall and Elizabeth Brampton were married. Around 1280 he was born to Richard Cornwall and Joan Fitzalan at Asthall Leigh, Oxfordshire. He a great grandson of King John of England. On 22nd March 1354 Edmund Cornwall died at Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].

On 24th November 1426 Elizabeth Lancaster Duchess Exeter [aged 63] died. She was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].

Around 1435 Edmund Cornwall [aged 53] died in Cologne. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].

On 11th November 1887 George Rushout 3rd Baron Northwick [aged 76] died. Baron Northwich of Northwick Park in Worcestershire, Baronet Rushout of Northwick Park in Worcestershire extinct. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Burford [Map].