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.
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Around 1520 Hans Eworth was born.
In 1550 Hans Eworth [aged 30]. Portrait of Henry Fitzalan 12th or 19th Earl of Arundel [aged 37] with the motto Invidia Torquet Autorem meaning Let envy torment its author.
In 1550 Hans Eworth [aged 30]. Portrait of Mary Dudley [aged 20].
Around 1556 Hans Eworth [aged 36]. Portrait of Mary Neville Baroness Dacre of Gilsland [aged 32] with an inset portrait of husband Thomas Fiennes 9th Baron Dacre Gilsland.
Mary Neville Baroness Dacre of Gilsland: In 1524 she was born to George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny and Mary Stafford Baroness Bergavenny. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England. In 1536 Thomas Fiennes 9th Baron Dacre Gilsland and she were married. She by marriage Baroness Dacre Gilsland. He had been a ward of her father George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny. They were third cousin twice removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England. In 1576 Mary Neville Baroness Dacre of Gilsland died.
Around 1556 Hans Eworth [aged 36]. Portrait of Queen Mary I of England and Ireland [aged 39].
In 1559 Hans Eworth [aged 39]. Portrait of Mary Neville Baroness Dacre of Gilsland [aged 35] and her son Gregory Fiennes 10th Baron Dacre Gilsland [aged 19].
In 1559 Hans Eworth [aged 39]. Portrait of Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu [aged 30] wearing a Garter Collar and St George Pendant.
In 1561 Hans Eworth [aged 41]. Portrait of James Stewart 1st Earl of Moray Regent [aged 30].
In 1562 Hans Eworth [aged 42]. Portrait of Margaret Audley Duchess Norfolk [aged 22].
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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In 1563 Hans Eworth [aged 43]. Portrait of Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk [aged 26].
1563. Hans Eworth [aged 43]. Portrait of either Eleanor Brandon Countess Cumberland or her daughter Margaret Clifford Countess Derby [aged 23].
Around 1565 Hans Eworth [aged 45]. Portrait of Mary Browne Countess Southampton [aged 12].
In 1567 attrbuted to Hans Eworth [aged 47]. Portrait of Richard Knightley [aged 34].
1567. Attributed to Hans Eworth [aged 47]. Portrait of Richard Knightley [aged 34].
1568. Formerly attributed to Hans Eworth [aged 48]. Portrait of Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth [aged 43].
Around 1570 Hans Eworth [aged 50]. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 36].
In 1574 Hans Eworth [aged 54] died.