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Count Dreux

Count Dreux is in Counts of France.

In 1137 Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 14) was created I Count Dreux.

In 1139 Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 16) and Agnes Garlande Countess Dreux (age 22) were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of King Louis VI of France and Adelaide Savoy Queen Consort France.

In 1145 Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 22) and Hawise Salisbury Countess Dreux (age 27) were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of King Louis VI of France and Adelaide Savoy Queen Consort France.

In 1152 Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 29) and Agnes Baudemont Countess Dreux (age 22) were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of King Louis VI of France and Adelaide Savoy Queen Consort France.

In 1178 Robert Capet II Count Dreux (age 24) and Mahaut Burgundy Countess Dreux were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 55) and Agnes Baudemont Countess Dreux (age 48).

After 1181 Robert Capet II Count Dreux (age 27) and Yolande Coucy Countess Dreux (age 17) were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 58) and Agnes Baudemont Countess Dreux (age 51). They were third cousin once removed.

On 11th October 1188 Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 65) died. His son Robert (age 34) succeeded II Count Dreux.

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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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In or before 1212 Robert Capet III Count Dreux (age 26) and Aénor de Saint-Valéry (age 19) were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Robert Capet II Count Dreux (age 57) and Yolande Coucy Countess Dreux (age 47). They were fourth cousin once removed.

On 28th December 1218 Robert Capet II Count Dreux (age 64) died. His son Robert (age 33) succeeded III Count Dreux.

In 1234 Robert Capet III Count Dreux (age 49) died. His son John (age 19) succeeded I Count Dreux.

In 1240 John Capet I Count Dreux (age 25) and Marie Dampierre Countess Dreux were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Robert Capet III Count Dreux and Aénor de Saint-Valéry (age 48).

In 1249 John Capet I Count Dreux (age 34) died. His son Robert succeeded IV Count Dreux.

In 1309 John "Good" Capet (age 44) died. His son Robert (age 16) succeeded V Count Dreux.

On 22nd March 1329 Robert Capet V Count Dreux (age 36) died. His brother John (age 34) succeeded III Count Dreux.

In 1331 John Capet III Count Dreux (age 36) died. His brother Peter (age 33) succeeded I Count Dreux.

On 3rd November 1345 Peter Capet I Count Dreux (age 47) died. His half sister Joan (age 36) succeeded I Countess Dreux.

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Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.

In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.

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