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Saxony is in Germany.
In 1129 Henry "Lion" Welf XII Duke Saxony III Duke Bavaria was born to Henry "Proud" Welf X Duke Bavaria (age 21) and Gertrude Süpplingenburg Duchess Bavaria at Brunswick [Map].
On 9th April 1806 William Orange Nassau V Prince Orange (age 58) died at Brunswick [Map]. His son William (age 33) succeeded I Prince Orange.
On 28th June 1189 Matilda Plantagenet Duchess Saxony (age 33) died. She was buried at Brunswick Cathedral [Map].
On 1st August 1821 at 10:25 p.m Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort England (age 53) died at Brandenburgh House, Hammersmith. She was buried at Brunswick Cathedral [Map].
On 16th May 1746 Johann Adolph Wettin Duke Saxe Weissenfels (age 60) died at Leipzig.
On 9th March 1879 Karl Franz Viktor Vonalten died at Leipzig.
On 20th June 1743 Frances Worsley Countess Granville (age 50) died at Hanover Lower Saxony.
On 27th November 1833 Princess Mary Adelaide Hanover was born to Adolphus Hanover 1st Duke Cambridge (age 59) and Princess Augusta Hesse-Kassel Duchess Cambridge (age 36) at Hanover Lower Saxony. She a granddaughter of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.64%.
On 22nd July 1852 William Drogo Montagu 7th Duke Manchester (age 28) and Louisa Vonalten Duchess Devonshire and Manchester (age 20) were married at Hanover Lower Saxony. He the son of George Montagu 6th Duke Manchester (age 53) and Millicent Sparrow Duchess Manchester.
Around 1520 Gerlach Flicke was born in Osnabrück.
In 1660 John Closterman was born in Osnabrück.
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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.
On 23rd June 1593 Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg was born to Henry Julius Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Elizabeth Oldenburg (age 19) at Wolfenbüttel.
On 7th October 1548 Augustus Wettin Elector of Saxony (age 22) and Anna Oldenburg (age 15) were married at Torgau. She the daughter of Christian III King Denmark (age 45) and Dorothea of Saxe Lauenburg Queen Consort Denmark and Norway. They were third cousin once removed.