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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Marriage Age Gap Greater Than Fifty Years is in Marriages with Large Age Gaps.
After 14th October 1257 Richard Percy 5th Baron Percy Topcliffe and Agnes Neville [aged 36] were married. The difference in their ages was 51 years.
In 1284 Reginald Cobham [aged 47] and Joan Devereux were married. There is some confusion here as to which Joan Devereux he married since she was born six years after the supposed marriage?. The difference in their ages was 53 years.
Before 8th August 1303 Henry Ivrea [aged 73] and Juana "La Palomilla" Núñez de Lara [aged 17] were married. The difference in their ages was 55 years. He the son of Ferdinand III King Castile III King Leon and Elisabeth Hohenstaufen Queen Consort Castile Queen Consort Leon. They were half first cousin twice removed. He a great x 2 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.
In 1422 Władysław II Jagiełło [aged 70] and Sophia of Halshany [aged 17] were married. The difference in their ages was 53 years.
After 12th November 1529 Robert Drury [aged 75] and Anne Jerningham [aged 25] were married. The difference in their ages was 50 years.
In September 1603 Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham [aged 67] and Margaret Stewart 1st Countess Nottingham [aged 12] were married. She by marriage Countess Nottingham. The difference in their ages was 55 years. She the daughter of James "The Bonnie Earl" Stewart 2nd Earl of Moray and Elizabeth Stewart 2nd Countess Moray. They were half fourth cousin twice removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 20th October 1677 Samuel Sleigh of Ash and Etwall [aged 72] and Elizabeth Harpur [aged 21] were married. The difference in their ages was 51 years.
On 19th January 1818 Count Alessandro Guiccioli [aged 68] and Teresa Countess Guiccioli [aged 18] were married. His third wife. The difference in their ages was 50 years.
On 7th September 1854 Francis L'Esrange Astley [aged 44] and Florence Conyngham were married. The difference in their ages was 56 years. She the daughter of George Henry Conyngham 3rd Marquess Conyngham [aged 29] and Jane St Maur Blanche Stanhope Marchioness Conyngham [aged 21].
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 28th April 1898 Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing [aged 37] and Augusta Boyle were married. The difference in their ages was 59 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
On 23rd December 1902 George Augustus Hamilton Chichester 5th Marquess Donegal [aged 80] and Violet Gertrude Twining Marchioness Donegal [aged 22] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Donegal. The difference in their ages was 57 years. He the son of Edward Chichester 4th Marquess Donegal and Amelia Ogrady Marchioness County Donegal.
William de Valoignes and Loretta Quincy were married. The difference in their ages was 51 years. She the daughter of Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester and Margaret Beaumont Countess Winchester.
In or before Thomas Tempest of Bracewell and Elizabeth Bosvile were married. The difference in their ages was 52 years.
Bishop John Hinchliffe and Elizabeth Crew Countess Arran were married. The difference in their ages was 52 years; she, unusually, being older than him.