Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Or is in Field.
Wrottesley Arms. Or, three piles sable, a canton ermine. Source.
Lisle Arms. Or a fess between two chevrons sable. Source.
Aragon Arms. Or, four pallets gules. Source.
Lowther Arms. Or, six annulets sable, three, two, one. Source.
Bigod Arms. Or a cross gules. Source.
Manners Arms. Or, two fess azure a chief gules.
Bugge Arms. Or fretty azure. Source.
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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Mohun Arms. Or a cross engrailed sable.
Butler Arms. Or, a chief indented azure. Source.
Monson Arms. Or two chevronels gules. Source.
Camden Arms. Or, a fess engrailed between six crosses crosslet fitchy sable. Source.
Monthermer Arms. Or, an eagle displayed vert beaked and membered gules. Source.
Chicheley Arms. Or, a chevron between three cinquefoils gules. Source.
Morrison Arms. Or, on a chief gules three chaplets of the first. Source.
Constable Arms. Or three bars. Source.
Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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Nelson Arms. Or, a cross flory sable a bendlet gules. Source.
Daubeney Arms. Or, two chevrons gules three griffin's heads. Source.
Fanshawe Arms. Or a chevron between three fleur de lys sable. Source.
Percy Arms. Or, a lion rampant azure. Source.
Fitzwalter Arms. Or, a fess gules between two chevrons of the last. Source.
Portman Arms. Or, a fleur-de-lis azure. Source.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Graham Arms. Or an a chief sable three escallops argent. Source.
Powys Arms. Or, a lion gules armed and langued azure. Source.
Harding Arms. Or, a bend azure three martlets argent.
Preston Arms. Or, a chief sable three crescents or.
Hornby Arms. Or, two chevronels between three bugle-horns sable stringed gules on a chief of the second as many eagle's legs erased of the first. Source.
Redvers Arms. Or, a lion rampant azure. Source.
Lacy Arms. Or, a lion rampant purpure. Source.
Rolle Arms. Or, a fess dancetté between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants. Source.
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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Bayning Arms. Or two bars sable on each as many escallops of the first. Source.
Scott Arms. Or, on a bend azure a mullet of six points between two crescents of the field. Source.
Burgh Arms. Or a cross gules. Source.
NO IMAGE. Or, on a pile gules between six fleur de lys azure three lions of England. Augmentation of honour granted to Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset when his sister Queen Jane Seymour married King Henry VIII of England and Ireland. Source.
Carew Arms. Or, three lions passant in pale sable. Source.
Sidney Arms. Or, a pheon azure.
Courtenay Arms. Or, three torteaux. Source.
Stafford Arms. Or, a chevron gules.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Dunkeld Arms. Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure a double tressure flory counter-flory gules.
Stewart Arms. Or a fess chequy. Source.
Stewart Royal Arms. Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second.
Harsick Arms. Or, a chief indented sable.
Lathom Arms. Or, on a chief indented azure three plates. Source.
Vavasour Arms. Or, a fess dancetté sable. Source.
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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NO IMAGE. Or, a chief indented azure, a crescent for difference. Source.
Verdun Arms. Or, a fret gules.
Vesci Arms. Or, a Cross sable. Source.
Hainault Arms. Or, three chevrons sable. Source.
Wake Arms. Or, two bars gules in chief three torteaux. Source.
Ferneley Arms. Or, on a bend vert three buck's heads caboshed argent.
La Marck Arms. Or, a fess chequered argent and gules. Source.
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.'
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Clare Arms. Or three chevrons gules. Source.
Walpole Arms. Or a fess between two chevrons sable three cross crosslets of the field. Source.
Willoughby Arms. Or fretty azure. Source.
Brownlow Arms. Or an escutcheon within an orle of martlets sable. Source
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