The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel Volume 1 Chapters 1-60 1307-1342

The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel offer one of the most vivid and immediate accounts of 14th-century Europe, written by a knight who lived through the events he describes, and experienced some of them first hand. Covering the early decades of the Hundred Years’ War, this remarkable chronicle follows the campaigns of Edward III of England, the politics of France and the Low Countries, and the shifting alliances that shaped medieval warfare. Unlike later historians, Jean le Bel writes with a strong sense of eyewitness authenticity, drawing on personal experience and the testimony of fellow soldiers. His narrative captures not only battles and sieges, but also the realities of military life, diplomacy, and the ideals of chivalry that governed noble society. A key source for Jean Froissart, Le Bel’s chronicle stands on its own as a compelling and insightful work, at once historical record and literary achievement. This translation builds on the 1905 edition published in French by Jules Viard, adding extensive translations from other sources Rymer's Fœdera, the Chronicles of Adam Murimuth, William Nangis, Walter of Guisborough, a Bourgeois of Valenciennes, Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke and Richard Lescot to enrich the original text and Viard's notes.

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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.

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.

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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Constable Arms. Or three bars. Source.

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Daubeney Arms. Or, two chevrons gules three griffin's heads. Source.

Noel Arms. Or, fretty gules a canton ermine. Source.

Earl Fife Original Arms. Or, a lion rampant gules.

Palmer Arms. Or, two bars gules each charged with three trefoils of the first in chief a greyhound currant sable. Source.

Fanshawe Arms. Or a chevron between three fleur de lys sable. Source.

Percy Arms. Or, a lion rampant azure. Source.

Adam Murimuth's Continuation and Robert of Avesbury’s 'The Wonderful Deeds of King Edward III'

This volume brings together two of the most important contemporary chronicles for the reign of Edward III and the opening phases of the Hundred Years’ War. Written in Latin by English clerical observers, these texts provide a vivid and authoritative window into the political, diplomatic, and military history of fourteenth-century England and its continental ambitions. Adam Murimuth Continuatio's Chronicarum continues an earlier chronicle into the mid-fourteenth century, offering concise but valuable notices on royal policy, foreign relations, and ecclesiastical affairs. Its annalistic structure makes it especially useful for establishing chronology and tracing the development of events year by year. Complementing it, Robert of Avesbury’s De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii is a rich documentary chronicle preserving letters, treaties, and official records alongside narrative passages. It is an indispensable source for understanding Edward III’s claim to the French crown, the conduct of war, and the mechanisms of medieval diplomacy. Together, these works offer scholars, students, and enthusiasts a reliable and unembellished account of a transformative period in English and European history. Essential for anyone interested in medieval chronicles, the Hundred Years’ War, or the reign of Edward III.

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Portman Arms. Or, a fleur-de-lis azure. Source.

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.

Bayning Arms. Or two bars sable on each as many escallops of the first. 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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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.

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.

Gerulfing Arms. Or a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure. Source.

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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Harsick Arms. Or, a chief indented sable.

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Lathom Arms. Or, on a chief indented azure three plates. Source.

Vavasour Arms. Or, a fess dancetté sable. Source.

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Verdun Arms. Or, a fret gules.

Dudley Arms. Or a lion rampant vert queue fourchy armed and langued gules. Source.

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.

The History of William Marshal, Earl of Chepstow and Pembroke, Regent of England. Book 1 of 2, Lines 1-10152.

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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Walpole Arms. Or a fess between two chevrons sable three cross crosslets of the field. Source.

Welles Arms. Or a lion rampant sable armed and langued gules. Source.

Willoughby Arms. Or fretty azure. Source.

Brownlow Arms. Or an escutcheon within an orle of martlets sable. Source