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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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Gerlach Flicke 1520-1558 is in Painters.
Around 1520 Gerlach Flicke was born in Osnabrück.
In 1544 Gerlach Flicke (age 24). Self-Portrait with his friend Henry Strangwish. The earliest known self-portrait in oils painted in England. The Latin inscription may be translated Such was the face of Gerlach Flicke when he was a painter in the City of London. This, he himself painted from a looking glass for his dear friends. So that they might have something to remember him after his death.
In 1544 Gerlach Flicke (age 24). Portrait of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (age 54).
Before 1558 Gerlach Flicke (age 37). Portrait of Peter Carew (age 44).
In 1558 Gerlach Flicke (age 38) died.