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The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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On 26th September 1865 Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford was born to [her father] Walter Tribe (age 33).
On 31st January 1888 Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke Bedford (age 29) and Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 22) were married at Barrackpore. He the son of Francis Russell 9th Duke Bedford (age 68) and Elizabeth Sackville-West Duchess Bedford (age 69).
On 21st December 1888 [her son] Hastings William Russell 12th Duke Bedford was born to [her husband] Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke Bedford (age 30) and Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 23). He married November 1914 Louisa Crommelin Roberta Jowitt Whitwell Duchess Bedford and had issue.
On 14th January 1891 [her father-in-law] Francis Russell 9th Duke Bedford (age 71) shot himself as a result of insanity at 81 Eaton Square, Belgravia. His son [her brother-in-law] George (age 38) succeeded 10th Duke Bedford, 10th Marquess Tavistock, 14th Earl Bedford, 14th Baron Russell of Cheneys, 12th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, 10th Baron Howland of Streatham. Adeline Marie Somers Duchess Bedford (age 38) by marriage Duchess Bedford.
Monument in the Bedford Chapel, St Michael's Church, Chenies erected by [her mother-in-law] Elizabeth Sackville-West Duchess Bedford (age 72) in 1892.
On 23rd March 1893 [her brother-in-law] George William Sackville Russell 10th Duke Bedford (age 40) died. George William Sackville Russell 10th Duke Bedford was buried at Bedford Chapel, St Michael's Church, Chenies. His brother [her husband] Herbrand (age 35) succeeded 11th Duke Bedford, 11th Marquess Tavistock, 15th Earl Bedford, 15th Baron Russell of Cheneys, 13th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, 11th Baron Howland of Streatham. Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 27) by marriage Duchess Bedford.
10th May 1898. James Lafayette (age 45). Photograph of Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 32). After leaving Woburn Abbey in a DH.60GIII Moth Major (G-ACUR), she crashed into the North Sea off Great Yarmouth. The airplane's struts were later washed up at Yarmouth, Gorleston, Lowestoft and Southwold. Her body was never recovered. On 14th May, a body of a woman in a flying suit was found in the English Channel, by a train ferry, five miles out from Dover, but Flight Lieut. Preston said there was no chance of the body being the Duchess - there were quite a few daring female aviators lost over the sea in those early years.
On 14th March 1901 [her husband] Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke Bedford (age 43) was appointed 816th Knight of the Garter by King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (age 59).
Before 19th May 1909, the date his obituary appeared in The Times, [her father] Walter Tribe (age 76) died.
In November 1914 [her son] Hastings William Russell 12th Duke Bedford (age 25) and [her daughter-in-law] Louisa Crommelin Roberta Jowitt Whitwell Duchess Bedford were married. He the son of [her husband] Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke Bedford (age 56) and Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 49).
On 2nd August 1929 Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 63) departed on a record-breaking flight of 10,000 miles from Lympne Airport to Karachi (then in India) and return to Croydon Airport in eight days. She was accompanied in her single-engined Fokker F.VII (G-EBTS, Princess Xenia, which she renamed "The Spider" for its tenacity) by her personal pilot Captain C. D. Barnard and mechanic Robert (Bob) Little.
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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.
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On 8th April 1930 Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 64) made her first solo flight, in her DH.60G Moth.
On 10th April 1930 Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 64) embarked on a record-breaking flight from Lympne Airport to Cape Town, in "The Spider", flying 9,000 miles in 91 hours and twenty minutes over 10 days, again with Barnard and Little.
On 22nd March 1937 Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford (age 71) died in a plane crash.
On 27th August 1940 [her former husband] Herbrand Arthur Russell 11th Duke Bedford (age 82) died. His son [her son] Hastings (age 51) succeeded 12th Duke Bedford, 12th Marquess Tavistock, 16th Earl Bedford, 16th Baron Russell of Cheneys, 14th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, 12th Baron Howland of Streatham. [her daughter-in-law] Louisa Crommelin Roberta Jowitt Whitwell Duchess Bedford by marriage Duchess Bedford.