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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.
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Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard was born to Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond and Mary Brereton Countess Thomond.
After 18th May 1625 [her future husband] Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard (age 12) and Mary Fane Baroness Gerard (age 19) were married. She by marriage Baroness Gerard of Gerard's Bromley. She the daughter of Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland (age 45) and Mary Mildmay Countess of Westmoreland (age 43).
On 21st August 1636 Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard (age 23) and Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard were married. She by marriage Baroness Gerard of Gerard's Bromley. She the daughter of Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond (age 48) and Mary Brereton Countess Thomond (age 56).
On 26th July 1639 [her father] Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond (age 51) died. His brother [her uncle] Barnabas succeeded 6th Earl Thomond.
In 1640 [her mother] Mary Brereton Countess Thomond (age 60) died.
On 24th April 1640 [her husband] Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard (age 27) died. His son [her step-son] Charles (age 6) succeeded 4th Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley.
John Evelyn's Diary. 19th March 1652. Invited by Lady Gerrard, I went to London, where we had a great supper; all the vessels, which were innumerable, were of porcelain, she having the most ample and richest collection of that curiosity in England.
John Evelyn's Diary. 21st June 1653. My Lady Gerrard, and one Esquire Knight, a very rich gentleman, living in Northamptonshire, visited me.
John Evelyn's Diary. 28th October 1653. Went to London, to visit my Lady Gerrard, where I saw that cursed woman called the Lady Norton, of whom it was reported that she spit in our King's face as he went to the scaffold. Indeed, her talk and discourse was like an impudent woman.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th May 1654. My Lady Gerrard treated us at Mulberry Garden [Map], now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at; Cromwell and his partisans having shut up and seized on Spring Garden, which, till now, had been the usual rendezvous for the ladies and gallants at this season.
Around 1657 Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard died.
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The 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." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
[her daughter] Elizabeth Gerard was born to Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard and Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard.
Kings Wessex: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandfather: Connor O'Brien King of Thomond
Great x 2 Grandfather: Donough O'Brien 2nd Earl of Thomond
Great x 1 Grandfather: Connor O'Brien 3rd Earl of Thomond 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Butler 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Piers "Red" Butler 8th Earl Ormonde 1st Earl Ossory 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sabh Macmurrough Kavanagh
Great x 2 Grandmother: Helen Butler 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gerald Fitzgerald 8th Earl of Kildare
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Fitzeustace Countess Kildare
GrandFather: Donogh O'Brien 4th Earl Thomond 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Father: Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Fitzgerald 7th Earl of Kildare
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gerald Fitzgerald 8th Earl of Kildare
Great x 2 Grandfather: Gerald Fitzgerald 9th Earl of Kildare
Great x 4 Grandfather: Rowland Fitzeustace 1st Baron Portlester
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Fitzeustace Countess Kildare
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gerald "Wizard Earl" Fitzgerald 11th Earl of Kildare 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Grey 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Grey Countess Kildare 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bonville 6th Baron Harington 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Neville Baroness Bonville and Hastings 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Elizabeth Fitzgerald Countess Thomond 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Browne
Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Fitzalan 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Neville 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Ingaldsthorpe 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mabel Browne Countess Kildare 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Gage
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Gage
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Gage
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Guildford
Great x 3 Grandmother: Philippa Guildford
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ann Pympe
Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Andrew Brereton
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Brereton
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Brereton 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Savage 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Savage 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Vernon
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Brereton 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
GrandFather: William Brereton 1st Baron Brereton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Warburton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Peter Warburton of Arley
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Warburton 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Winnington 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Winnington 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Winnington 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Randall Grosvenor
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Anne Grosvenor
Mother: Mary Brereton Countess Thomond 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England