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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.
Before 1295 [her future husband] Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke and Béatrix de Clermont were married. He the son of William de Valence 1st Earl Pembroke and Joan Munchensi Countess Pembroke.
Around 1303 Marie Chatillon Countess Pembroke was born to [her father] Guy Chatillon IV Count Saint Pol and [her mother] Marie Capet.
On 20th September 1307 Joan Munchensi Countess Pembroke died. [her future husband] Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke succeeded 2nd Earl Pembroke.
In 1308 [her brother-in-law] Charles Valois I Count Valois and [her sister] Mahaut Chatillon Countess Valois were married. She by marriage Countess Valois. The difference in their ages was 22 years. She the daughter of [her father] Guy Chatillon IV Count Saint Pol and [her mother] Marie Capet. He the son of King Philip III of France and Isabella Barcelona Queen Consort France.
On 6th April 1317 [her father] Guy Chatillon IV Count Saint Pol died. [her brother] Jean Chatillon Count Saint Pol succeeded Count Saint Pol.
In 1321 Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke and Marie Chatillon Countess Pembroke were married. She by marriage Countess Pembroke. The difference in their ages was 28 years. She the daughter of Guy Chatillon IV Count Saint Pol and Marie Capet. He the son of William de Valence 1st Earl Pembroke and Joan Munchensi Countess Pembroke.
On 23rd June 1324 [her husband] Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke died. He was buried at Westminster Abbey where his tomb effigy can still be seen as a splendid example of late gothic architecture. Earl Pembroke extinct.
In 1339 [her mother] Marie Capet died.
In 1344 [her brother] Jean Chatillon Count Saint Pol died.
In 1347 Marie Chatillon Countess Pembroke founded Pembroke College, Cambridge University; it was originally known as he Hall of Valence-Mary.
In 1355 and 1366, Marie Chatillon Countess Pembroke acquired papal bulls to allow the Pembroke College, Cambridge University its own chapel, which was the first college chapel to be built in Cambridge.
In 1358 [her sister] Mahaut Chatillon Countess Valois died.
On 20th February 1377 Marie Chatillon Countess Pembroke drew up her will at Braxted Park, Essex.
On 16 or 17th March 1377 Marie Chatillon Countess Pembroke died.
Archaeologia Volume 22 Section XVI. Of the death of the Countesse of Pembrooke, & of her godly deedes.
[17th April 1377] The sevententh day of Aprill, dyed the Lady Mary of St. Paule, Countesse of Pembrooke, a woman of singular example, for yet lyvynge, so to the honour of God & glorye of her howse, so in releavynge poore men's necessytyes she spent her goods, that unto the dukes themselves, she showered examples of good workes, & dyeynge, she gave all her substance ether to her servaunts that wayted on her, or to dyvers churches, or to poore folcke; for unto the churche of St. Albans she gave a certein image of silver and gilded with golde of St. Vincent, which holdeth in yts handes a certein showe, where in ys conteined one bone of the same blessed martyr, & singuler reliques of all the martyrs & confessours (to whose honour they were mayde) where she had obteyned the benyfyte of her prayer.
[her father] Guy Chatillon IV Count Saint Pol and [her mother] Marie Capet were married. She the daughter of [her grandfather] John Capet II Duke Brittany and [her grandmother] Beatrice Plantagenet. He the son of [her grandfather] Guy Chatillon III Count Saint Pol and [her grandmother] Matilda Reginar Countess Saint Pol.