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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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Maternal Family Tree: Emmeline Riddlesford 1223-1276
Before 17th June 1386 [his father] James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde and [his mother] Anne Welles Countess Ormonde were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde. He the son of [his grandfather] James Butler 2nd Earl Ormonde and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Darcy Countess Ormonde.
On 23rd May 1393 James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde was born to James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde and Anne Welles Countess Ormonde at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny.
On 13th November 1397 [his mother] Anne Welles Countess Ormonde died.
In 1399 [his father] James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde and Katherine Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde. He the son of [his grandfather] James Butler 2nd Earl Ormonde and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Darcy Countess Ormonde.
On 7th September 1405 [his father] James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde died. James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde succeeded 4th Earl Ormonde.
In 1413 James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde. He the son of James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde and Anne Welles Countess Ormonde.
On 24th November 1420 [his son] James Butler 1st Earl Wiltshire 5th Earl Ormonde was born to James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and [his wife] Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny.
Before 1422 [his son] John Butler 6th Earl Ormonde was born to James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and [his wife] Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde in Kilkenny, Ireland.
In 1424 [his daughter] Elizabeth Butler Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford was born to James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and [his wife] Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde at County Tipperary.
In 1426 [his son] Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde was born to James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and [his wife] Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde.
On 18th July 1432 James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and Joan or Elizabeth Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde. She the daughter of Gerald Fitzgerald 5th Earl of Kildare and Margaret Rocheford Countess Kildare. He the son of James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde and Anne Welles Countess Ormonde.
Chronicle of Gregory. 16th May 1441. Ande the xvj day of May the Duke of Yorke, the Erle of Oxynforde, the Erle of Ewe, the Erle of Ormounde, and Syr Richard Woodevyle, whythe many othyr knyghtys and squyers, toke the way towarde Fraunce, and they schippyd at Portysmouthe.
Before 1445 [his son-in-law] John Talbot 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and [his daughter] Elizabeth Butler Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford were married. She the daughter of James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and [his wife] Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde. He the son of John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Maud Neville 6th Baroness Furnivall.
In 1445 [his son] Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde were married. She the daughter of Richard Hankford and Anne Montagu Duchess Exeter. He the son of James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and [his wife] Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde.
Chronicle of Gregory. 4th October 1445. Ande that same year there was a pechyng i-made uppon the Erle of Ormounde by the pryour of Kylmayn1 for certayne poyntys of treson, the whyche was takyn in to the kyngys grace, where uppon it lykyd our sovereign lorde to graunte a generalle pardon unto the said Erle. But nevyrtheles the said pryour appayryde in Smethefylde the iiij day of the monythe of October, as it was apoyntyde, full clenly harnyssyd, redy whythe alle his fetys and whythe alle his wepyns, kepynge the fylde tylle hyghe none.
Note 1. Thomas Fitzgerald grandson of Thomas Earl of Kildare, was at this time Prior of the Knights of St. John at Kilmainham in Ireland.
In July 1452 [his wife] Joan or Elizabeth Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde died.
On 23rd August 1452 James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde died at Dublin. He was buried at St Mary's Abbey, Dublin. [his son] James Butler 1st Earl Wiltshire 5th Earl Ormonde succeeded 5th Earl Ormonde.
[his daughter] Anne Butler was born to James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde.