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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Italian Duke is in Italian Lords Temporal.
Before 1430 Francesco Balzo II Duke Andria [aged 19] and Sancia Clermont Duchess Andria were married. She by marriage Duchess Andria.
Before 1482 Francesco Balzo II Duke Andria [aged 71] succeeded Duke Andria.
Francesco Baux 1st Duke Andria was appointed 1st Duke Andria.
Roger Hauteville IV Duke Apulia was appointed IV Duke Apulia.
John Capet Duke Durazzo was appointed Duke Durazzo.
Charles Durazzo Duke Durazzo was appointed Duke Durazzo.
On 15th June 1505 Ercole Este I Duke Ferrara [aged 73] died. His son Alfonso [aged 28] succeeded I Duke Ferrara.
On 31st October 1534 Alfonso Este I Duke Ferrara, Modena and Reggio [aged 58] died. His son Ercole [aged 26] succeeded II Duke Ferrara. Renée of France Duchess of Ferrara [aged 24] by marriage Duchess Ferrara.
On 3rd October 1559 Ercole Este II Duke Ferrara [aged 51] died. His son Alfonso [aged 25] succeeded II Duke Ferrara.
Ercole Este I Duke Ferrara was created I Duke Ferrara.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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Alfonso Este II Duke Ferrara and Barbara Habsburg Spain Duchess Ferrara were married. She by marriage Duchess Ferrara. She the daughter of Ferdinand I Holy Roman Emperor and Anne Jagiellon. He the son of Ercole Este II Duke Ferrara and Renée of France Duchess of Ferrara. They were third cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 11th May 1395 Gian Galeazzo Visconti 1st Duke Milan [aged 43] was created 1st Duke Milan by Wenceslaus IV of Behemia King Romans [aged 34] for 100,000 florins. Caterina Visconti Duke Milan [aged 34] by marriage Duchess Milan.
On 25th March 1450 Francesco Sforza I Duke Milan [aged 48] succeeded I Duke Milan.
On 8th March 1466 Francesco Sforza I Duke Milan [aged 64] died. His son Galeazzo [aged 22] succeeded 5th Duke Milan.
On 26th December 1476 Galeazzo Maria Sforza 5th Duke Milan [aged 32] was murdered at the Basilica di Santo Stefano Maggiore, Milan [Map]. Supported by about thirty friends, the three men waited in the church for the duke to arrive for mass. When Galeazzo Sforza arrived, Lampugnani knelt before him; after some words were exchanged, Lampugnani rose suddenly and stabbed Sforza in the groin and breast. Olgiati and Visconti soon joined in, as did a servant of Lampugnani's. Sforza was dead within a matter of seconds. All the assassins quickly escaped in the ensuing mayhem save for Lampugnani, who became entangled in some of the church's cloth and was killed by a guard. His body soon fell into the hands of a mob, which dragged the corpse through the streets, slashing and beating at it; finally, they hung the body upside-down outside Lampugnani's house. The beheaded corpse was cut down the next day and, in an act of symbolism, the "sinning" right hand was removed, burnt and put on display. His son Gian [aged 7] succeeded 6th Duke Milan.
In February 1489 Gian Galeazzo Sforza 6th Duke Milan [aged 19] and Isabella Trastámara Duchess Milan [aged 18] were married. She by marriage Duchess Milan. She the daughter of Alfonso II King Naples [aged 40] and Ippolita Maria Sforza. He the son of Galeazzo Maria Sforza 5th Duke Milan and Bona of Savoy [aged 39]. They were first cousins.
On 21st October 1494 Gian Galeazzo Sforza 6th Duke Milan [aged 25] died. His uncle Ludovico [aged 42] succeeded Duke Milan.
Alfonso Hauteville Duke Naples was appointed Duke Naples.
In 1462 Jacques Armagnac Duke Nemours [aged 29] succeeded Duke Nemours. Louise Valois Anjou Duchess Nemours [aged 17] by marriage Duchess Nemours.
In 1515 Giuliano Medici Duke Nemours [aged 35] was created 1st Duke Nemours by King Francis I of France [aged 20]. Giuliano had married into the Savoy family that had previously held the title.
On 25th November 1533 Philip of Savoy Duke Nemours [aged 43] died. His son Jacques [aged 2] succeeded Duke Nemours.
On 15th June 1585 Jacques of Savoy 2nd Duke of Nemours [aged 53] died. His son Henri [aged 12] succeeded Duke Nemours.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 10th July 1632 Henri I Duke of Nemours [aged 59] died. His son Louis [aged 17] succeeded Duke Nemours.
On 16th September 1641 Louis I Duke Nemours [aged 26] died unmarried. His brother Charles [aged 17] succeeded Duke Nemours.
On 11th July 1643 Charles Amadeus Duke of Nemours [aged 19] and Élisabeth Bourbon Vendôme [aged 28] were married. She by marriage Duchess Nemours. She the daughter of César Bourbon Vendôme 1st Duke Vendôme [aged 49] and Françoise Lorraine Duchess Vendôme [aged 50]. He the son of Henri I Duke of Nemours. They were second cousin once removed.
Louis Gonzaga Duke Nevers was appointed Duke Nevers.
Charles Gonzaga Duke Nevers Duke Rethel succeeded Duke Nevers, Duke Rethel.
Charles Gonzaga Duke Nevers Duke Rethel succeeded Duke Nevers, Duke Rethel.
In 834 Lambert Guideschi Duke Spoleto was created Duke Spoleto.
Lambert Guideschi Duke Spoleto and Itta Unknown Duchess Spoleto were married. She by marriage Duchess Spoleto.
Lambert Guideschi Duke Spoleto and Adelaide Carolingian Duchess Spoleto were married. She by marriage Duchess Spoleto.