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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" 1837-1917 is in Painters.
On 4th July 1837 Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" was born.
1876. Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" (age 38). Portrait of Julia Tahl "Mademoiselle de Lancey" (age 25).
Julia Tahl "Mademoiselle de Lancey": In 1851 he was born at Baltimore.
1879. John Singer Sargent (age 22). Portrait of Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" (age 41).
1883. Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" (age 45). Portrait of Maria Pia of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal (age 35).
Maria Pia of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal: On 16th October 1847 she was born. On 6th October 1862 Luis I King Portugal and she were married. He the son of Ferdinand Saxe Coburg Gotha King Consort Portugal and Maria II Queen Portugal. On 5th July 1911 she died.
1883. Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" (age 45). Portrait of Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran".
1884. Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" (age 46). Portrait of Lucy-Lee Robbins (age 19).
Lucy-Lee Robbins: In 1865 she was born. In 1943 she died.
1890. Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" (age 52). Portrait of Mrs William Astor Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn (age 59).
Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn: On 22nd September 1830 she was born. At the time of her birth her family were living at 1 Greenwich Street. On 23rd September 1853 William Backhouse Astor Jr and she were married at Trinity Church, New York. On 30th October 1908 she died.
1891. Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" (age 53). Portrait of Margaret Helen Anderson Baroness Grevillee (age 27).
Margaret Helen Anderson Baroness Grevillee: On 20th December 1863 she was born illegitimately to William McEwan. Her parents subsequently married. On 25th April 1891 Ronald Henry Fulke Greville and she were married. On 15th September 1942 she died.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
1895. Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" (age 57). "Hebe".
On 17th February 1917 Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran" (age 79) died.
[his daughter] Marie ann Durand was born to Charles Auguste Émile Durand "Carolus Duran".