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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Earl Rivers is in Earldoms of England Alphabetically.
Earl Rivers is also in Earldoms of England Chronologically, Extinct Earldoms of England.
Summary
March 1466. Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers [aged 61] created.
12th August 1469. Son Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 29] succeeded. See Execution of the Woodvilles.
25th June 1483. Brother Richard Woodville 3rd Earl Rivers [aged 30] succeeded. See Execution of the Yorkists and their Affinity.
6th March 1491. Richard Woodville 3rd Earl Rivers extinct.
Before March 1466 Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers [aged 61] was created 1st Earl Rivers by King Edward IV of England [aged 23].
On 12th August 1469 Woodvilles father and son were beheaded at Kenilworth Castle [Map] by supporters of Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury [aged 40].
Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers [aged 64] was beheaded. His son Anthony [aged 29] succeeded 2nd Earl Rivers, 2nd Baron Rivers. Elizabeth Scales Countess Rivers by marriage Countess Rivers.
John Woodville [aged 24] was beheaded.
Before October 1480 Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 40] and Mary Fitzlewis Countess Rivers [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Countess Rivers. The difference in their ages was 25 years. He the son of Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford.
On 25th June 1483 supporters of the Woodvilles were executed at Pontefract Castle [Map]..
Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 43] was beheaded. His brother Richard [aged 30] succeeded 3rd Earl Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers.
Richard Grey [aged 26] and Thomas Vaughan [aged 73] were beheaded.
On 6th March 1491 Richard Woodville 3rd Earl Rivers [aged 38] died. Earl Rivers, Baron Rivers extinct.
Earl Rivers is also in Earldoms of England Chronologically, Extinct Earldoms of England.
Summary
4th November 1626. Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 61] created.
25th February 1640. Grandson John Savage 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 37] succeeded.
10th October 1654. Son Thomas Savage 3rd Earl Rivers [aged 26] succeeded.
14th September 1694. Son Richard Savage 4th Earl Rivers [aged 40] succeeded.
18th August 1712. First Cousin John Savage 5th Earl Rivers [aged 47] succeeded.
9th May 1737. John Savage 5th Earl Rivers extinct.
On 4th November 1626 Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 61] was created 1st Earl Rivers with a special remainder to his grandson John Savage 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 23]. Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 59] by marriage Countess Rivers.
On 25th February 1640 Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 75] died at Winchester House Broad Street. His grandson John [aged 37] succeeded 2nd Earl Rivers, 2nd Viscount Colchester. Baron Darcy of Chiche extinct.
Before 6th March 1647 John Savage 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 44] and Mary Ogle Countess Rivers were married. She by marriage Countess Rivers. He the son of Thomas Savage 1st Viscount Savage and Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers [aged 66].
On 10th October 1654 John Savage 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 51] died at Frodsham Castle [Map]. His son Thomas [aged 26] succeeded 3rd Earl Rivers, 3rd Viscount Colchester, 3rd Viscount Savage, 3rd Baron Darcy of Chiche, 4th Baronet Savage of Rocksavage in Cheshire. Elizabeth Scrope Countess Rivers [aged 27] by marriage Countess Rivers.
In 1684 Thomas Savage 3rd Earl Rivers [aged 56] and Arabella Bertie Countess Rivers were married. She by marriage Countess Rivers. She the daughter of Robert Bertie 3rd Earl Lindsey [aged 53] and Mary Massingberd. He the son of John Savage 2nd Earl Rivers and Catherine Parker. They were fifth cousins.
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 14th September 1694 Thomas Savage 3rd Earl Rivers [aged 66] died at Great Queen Street, St Giles' in the Fields. His son Richard [aged 40] succeeded 4th Earl Rivers, 4th Viscount Colchester, 4th Viscount Savage, 4th Baron Darcy of Chiche, 5th Baronet Savage of Rocksavage in Cheshire.
On 18th August 1712 Richard Savage 4th Earl Rivers [aged 58] died. His first cousin John [aged 47] succeeded 5th Earl Rivers, 5th Viscount Colchester, 5th Viscount Savage, 5th Baron Darcy of Chiche, 6th Baronet Savage of Rocksavage in Cheshire.
On 9th May 1737 John Savage 5th Earl Rivers [aged 72] died unmarried since he was a Catholic priest. Earl Rivers, Viscount Colchester, Viscount Savage, Baron Darcy of Chiche and Baronet Savage of Rocksavage in Cheshire extinct.
Earl Rivers is also in Earldoms of England Chronologically, Created Countesses of England, Extinct Earldoms of England.
Summary
1641. Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers [aged 60] created.
9th March 1650. Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers extinct.
In 1641 Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers [aged 60] was created 1st Countess Rivers for life by King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland [aged 40] since she had been passed over when her father's Earldom Countess Rivers passed from her father to her eldest son John Savage 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 37].
On 9th March 1650 Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers [aged 69] died. Earl Rivers extinct since it was a created for life only.