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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.

Biography of Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Prussia 1685-1735

Paternal Family Tree: Mecklenburg

Before 1680 [her future husband] Frederick I King Prussia (age 22) and Elisabeth Henriëtte Hesse-Kassel (age 18) were married. She the daughter of Wilhelm "The Just" VI Hesse-Kassel and Hedwig Sophia Hohenzollern (age 56). He the son of Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg (age 59) and Luise Henriette Orange Nassau. They were first cousins.

Before 1685 [her future husband] Frederick I King Prussia (age 27) and Sophia Charlotte Hanover Queen Consort Prussia (age 16) were married. She the daughter of Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg (age 55) and Electress Sophia Palatinate Simmern (age 54). He the son of Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg (age 64) and Luise Henriette Orange Nassau. They were second cousins. She a great granddaughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland.

On 6th May 1685 Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Prussia was born to Frederick I Duke of Mecklenburg Grabow (age 47).

On 28th April 1688 [her father] Frederick I Duke of Mecklenburg Grabow (age 50) died.

In 1708 Frederick I King Prussia (age 50) and Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Prussia (age 22) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Prussia. The difference in their ages was 27 years. He the son of Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg and Luise Henriette Orange Nassau. They were fourth cousins.

On 25th February 1713 [her husband] Frederick I King Prussia (age 55) died. His son [her step-son] Frederick (age 24) succeeded I King Prussia. Sophia Dorothea Hanover Queen Consort Prussia (age 25) by marriage Queen Consort Prussia.

On 29th July 1735 Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Prussia (age 50) died.

Royal Ancestors of Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Prussia 1685-1735

Kings Wessex: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings England: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Prussia 1685-1735

Great x 4 Grandfather: Magnus II Duke of Mecklenburg

Great x 3 Grandfather: Albrecht VII Duke Mecklenburg

Great x 2 Grandfather: Duke John Albert I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Joachim "Nestor" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anna Hohenzollern Duchess Mecklenburg 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Duke John VII of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anna Sophia Hohenzollern 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Frederick I of Denmark

Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothea Oldenburg 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna of Brandenburg 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

GrandFather: Duke Adolphus Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Christian I King Denmark

Great x 3 Grandfather: King Frederick I of Denmark

Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothea of Brandenburg

Great x 2 Grandfather: Duke Adolph Oldenburg of Holstein-Gotorp

Great x 4 Grandfather: Bogislaw X Duke of Pomerania

Great x 3 Grandmother: Sophie of Pomerania Queen Consort of Denmark and Sweden

Great x 1 Grandmother: Sophia Oldenburg 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William II Landgrave of Hesse 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Landgrave Philip I of Hesse 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Christine Hesse 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Duke of Saxony 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Christine of Saxony 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara Jagiellon 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Father: Frederick I Duke of Mecklenburg Grabow 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry I Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Ernest I Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry V Duke of Mecklenburg

Great x 3 Grandmother: Sophie of Mecklenburg

Great x 1 Grandfather: Julius Ernst Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

GrandMother: Maria Katharina 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Sophia Louise Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Prussia 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England