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Published March 2025. The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Wakefield is in West Yorkshire.
On 9th April 1436 Richard Stanhope (age 76) died at Wakefield [Map].
Henry Machyn's Diary. 5th July 1557. At Wakefeld [Map], Robert Hawgatt, skott; and all thes for enteryng in Skarborow castylle.
On 20th May 1643 Mary Witham 1st Baronetess Bolles (age 63) entertained Royalist troops to a Bowling Match at Heath Old Hall. Wakefield [Map] was taken the next day by Paliamentary troops.
Around 1676 Robert Benson 1st Baron Bingley was born at Wakefield [Map].
In 1889 Bishop William Walsham How (age 65) was was appointed the first Bishop of Wakefield.
Castleford, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles [Map]
The River Aire rises around Malham Tarn, North Yorkshire [Map] after which it travels broadley south-west past Skipton Castle [Map], Keighley, West Yorkshire [Map], Bingley [Map], Shipley, West Yorkshire [Map], Apperley Bridge, West Yorkshire [Map], Kirkstall Abbey, West Yorkshire [Map], Leeds [Map], Methley [Map], Castleford [Map], where it is joined by the River Calder, within 2km of All Saints Church, Ledsham [Map] then Brotherton [Map], Ferrybridge, where there was an historical crossing, Beal, North Yorkshire [Map], West Haddlesey, North Yorkshire [Map], Chapel Haddlesey, North Yorkshire [Map], Temple Hirst, North Yorkshire [Map], Snaith, East Yorkshire [Map], Rawcliffe, East Yorkshire [Map] before joining the River Ouse 800m north of Airmyn [Map].
The River Calder rises on Heald Moor near Todmorden [Map] after which it passes Hebden Bridge [Map], Mytholmroyd [Map], Sowerby Bridge [Map], Dewsbury [Map], Sandal Castle [Map], under Wakefield Bridge [Map] before joining the River Aire at Castleford [Map].
Emley Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles
Around 1275 Isabel Deincourt was born to Edmund Deincourt 1st Baron Deincourt (age 25) and Isabel Mohun Baroness Deincourt (age 32) at Emley Wakefield.
In 1275 William Fitzwilliam was born at Emley Wakefield.
In 1325 Isabel Deincourt (age 50) died at Emley Wakefield. She was buried at St Mary's Church, Sprotbrough [Map].
On 6th January 1326 John Deincourt (age 60) died at Emley Wakefield.
On 6th January 1327 Edmund Deincourt 1st Baron Deincourt (age 77) died at Emley Wakefield. His nephew William (age 26) succeeded 9th Lord Deincourt. Millicent Zouche Baroness Deincourt by marriage Lord Deincourt. Baron Deincourt abeyant.
Around February 1328 John Fitzwilliam was born to John Fitzwilliam (age 30) at Emley Wakefield.
Around 1346 William Fitzwilliam was born to John Fitzwilliam (age 17) at Emley Wakefield.
On 8th April 1398 William Fitzwilliam (age 52) died at Emley Wakefield.
On 5th July 1417 John Fitzwilliam (age 39) died at Emley Wakefield.
Heath, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles
Around 1636 William Jobson 2nd Baronet was born to Thomas Jobson (age 36) at Heath.
On 14th March 1666 William Jobson 2nd Baronet (age 30) died without male issue at Heath. He was buried at Church of St Peter Kirkthorpe [Map]. Baronet Bolles then Jobson of Osberton extinct.
Kirkthorpe, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles
Church of St Peter Kirkthorpe, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles [Map]
Church of St Peter Kirkthorpe is also in Churches in West Yorkshire.
Church of St Peter Kirkthorpe [Map]. The chief merit of the church is a fine collection of C18 wall monuments. The most important of these is the Stringer Monument by Guelfi: 2 detached busts on a sarcophagus with straight tapering sides; background by Kent with inscription, a frame starting from 2 big volutes and crowned by an open-segmental pediment carved coat-or-arms with putti. The Smyth chapel has numerous monuments dating from 1731; including that to John Smyth of 2 putti uncovering his portrait on an oval medallion, that to Lady Georgina Smyth and others signed by Flaxman; 1799.
On 14th March 1666 William Jobson 2nd Baronet (age 30) died without male issue at Heath. He was buried at Church of St Peter Kirkthorpe [Map]. Baronet Bolles then Jobson of Osberton extinct.
Nostell Priory, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles [Map]
Nostell Priory, Wakefield is also in Priories in England.
In 1654 Nostell Priory, Wakefield [Map] was purchased by Rowland Winn after its last owner, Sir John Wolstenholme, was declared bankrupt in 1650.
On 14th October 1805 Rowland Winn 6th Baronet (age 30) died unmarried. His second cousin once removed Edmund (age 43) succeeded 7th Baronet Winn of Nostel in Yorkshire. Nostell Priory, Wakefield [Map] was inherited by his nephew John Williamson aka Winn (age 12), son of Rowland's sister Esther Winn (age 37). All of Esther's children changed their surname to Winn.
From 1874 Rowland Winn 1st Baron St Oswald (age 53) lived at Nostell Priory, Wakefield [Map] which he had inherited from his father Charles Williamson aka Winn (age 78).
Sandal, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles
Manygates Lane, Sandal, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles [Map]
1897. Monument to Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York (age 49) on Manygates Lane [Map] at the location where he is traditionally thought to have been killed at the Battle of Wakefield.
St Helen's Church, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles
On 30th September 1850 William Pilkington 8th Baronet (age 74) died. He was buried at St Helen's Church, Sandal. His son Thomas (age 21) succeeded 9th Baronet Pilkington of Stanley in Yorkshire.
St Michael and Our Lady's Church, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles [Map]
St Michael and Our Lady's Church, Wragby is also in Churches in West Yorkshire.
St Michael and Our Lady's Church, Wragby [Map]. Wall monument to Sir Rowland Winn 4th baronet by John Flaxman, 1806.
Stafford Arms, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles
In 1759 George Gordon 3rd Earl Aberdeen (age 36) and Catherine Elizabeth Hanson Couness Aberdeen (age 29) were married. She, apparently, being the cook at the Stafford Arms, Wakefield, blackmailed him into marriage with a loaded pistol after he had seduced her. He the son of William Gordon 2nd Earl Aberdeen and Susan Murray.
Wakefield Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles [Map]
On 30th December 1460 the Lancastrian army took their revenge for the defeats of the First Battle of St Albans and the Battle of Northampton at the Battle of Wakefield near Sandal Castle [Map]. The Lancastrian army was commanded by Henry Holland 3rd Duke Exeter (age 30), Henry Beaufort 2nd or 3rd Duke of Somerset (age 24) and Henry Percy 3rd Earl of Northumberland (age 39), and included John Courtenay 15th Earl Devon (age 25) and William Gascoigne XIII (age 30), both knighted, and James Butler 1st Earl Wiltshire 5th Earl Ormonde (age 40), John "Butcher" Clifford 9th Baron Clifford (age 25), John Neville 1st Baron Neville of Raby (age 50), Thomas Ros 9th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 33), Henry Roos and Thomas St Leger (age 20).
The Yorkist army was heavily defeated.
Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York (age 49) was killed. His son Edward (age 18) succeeded 4th Duke York, 7th Earl March, 9th Earl of Ulster, 3rd Earl Cambridge, 9th Baron Mortimer of Wigmore.
Thomas Neville (age 30), and Edward Bourchier were killed.
Father and son Thomas Harrington (age 60) and John Harrington (age 36) were killed, the former dying of his wounds the day after.
William Bonville 6th Baron Harington (age 18) was killed. His daughter Cecily succeeded 7th Baroness Harington.
Thomas Parr (age 53) fought in the Yorkist army.
Following the battle Richard Neville Earl Salisbury (age 60) was beheaded by Thomas "Bastard of Exeter" Holland. William Bonville (age 40) was executed.
Edmund York 1st Earl of Rutland (age 17) was killed on Wakefield Bridge [Map] by John "Butcher" Clifford. Earl of Rutland extinct.
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Chronicle of England by William of Worcester. On the 29th of December1, at Wakefield, while the soldiers of the Duke of York (age 49) were wandering through the country seeking provisions, a dreadful battle occurred between the said Duke of Somerset (age 24), the Earl of Northumberland (age 39), and Lord Neville (age 50) with a large army, and the opposing party, where the Duke of York, Thomas Neville (age 30), son of the Earl of Salisbury (age 60), Thomas Harington (age 60), Thomas Parr, Edward Bourchier, James Pickering, and Henry Radford, as well as many other knights and esquires, and about two thousand commoners, were killed on the field. In the retreat after the battle, Lord Clifford killed, some say murdered, Lord Edmund, Earl of Rutland (age 17), son of the Duke of York, on the bridge at Wakefield [Map]. And on the same night, the Earl of Salisbury was captured by the servant of Andrew Trollope. On the next day, at Pontefract, the Bastard of Exeter killed the said Earl of Salisbury, where, by the counsel of the lords, the lifeless bodies of the Duke of York, the Earl of Salisbury, and Rutland, Thomas Neville, Edward Bowcher, Thomas Harington, Thomas Parre, James Pykeryng, and John Harrowe of London, mercer, were beheaded, and their heads were placed on various parts of York. They crowned the head of the Duke of York with a paper crown in mockery.
xxix. die mensis Decembris apud Wakfelde, gentibus ducis Eborum vagantibus per patriam pro victualibus quærendis, factum est execrabile bellum inter dictum ducem Somercetiæ, comitem Northumbriæ ac dominum Nevylle cum magno exercitu et partem aliam; ubi occubuerunt in campo dux Eboracensis, Thomas Nevil, filius comitis Sarum, Thomas Haryngtone, Thomas Parre, Edwardus Bowcher, Jacobus Pykeryng, et Henricus Rathforde, ac etiam multi alii milites et armigeri, et plebs ad duo millia. Et in fugiendo post campum super pontem apud Wakefelde dominus de Clyfforde occidit dominum Edmundum, comitem de Rutlande, filium ducis Eboraci. Et eadem nocte comes Sarum captus est per servientem Andreæ Trolloppe. Et in crastino apud Pountfrett bastardus Exoniæ occidit dictum comitem Sarum, ubi per consilium dominorum decollaverunt corpora mortua ducis Eboracensis, et comitis Sarum et Ruttland, Thomas Nevyle, Edwardi Boucher, Thomas Haryngton, Thomæ Parre, Jacobi Pykeryng, et Johannis Harrowe de London, mercer, posueruntque capita eorum super diversas partes Eboraci. Caput quoque ducis Eboraci in despectu coronaverunt carta.
Note. The Battle of Wakefield took place on the 30th of December 1460.
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The River Calder rises on Heald Moor near Todmorden [Map] after which it passes Hebden Bridge [Map], Mytholmroyd [Map], Sowerby Bridge [Map], Dewsbury [Map], Sandal Castle [Map], under Wakefield Bridge [Map] before joining the River Aire at Castleford [Map].
West Bretton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, British Isles
Around 1500 Matthew Witham of Bretonby was born to Thomas Witham of Bretonby (age 46) at West Bretton, Wakefield.