Annals of the six Kings of England by Nicholas Trivet
Translation of the Annals of the Six Kings of England by that traces the rise and rule of the Angevin aka Plantagenet dynasty from the mid-12th to early 14th century. Written by the Dominican scholar Nicholas Trivet, the work offers a vivid account of English history from the reign of King Stephen through to the death of King Edward I, blending political narrative with moral reflection. Covering the reigns of six monarchs—from Stephen to Edward I—the chronicle explores royal authority, rebellion, war, and the shifting balance between crown, church, and nobility. Trivet provides detailed insight into defining moments such as baronial conflicts, Anglo-French rivalry, and the consolidation of royal power under Edward I, whose reign he describes with particular immediacy. The Annals combines careful year-by-year reporting with thoughtful interpretation, presenting history not merely as a sequence of events but as a moral and political lesson. Ideal for readers interested in medieval history, kingship, and the origins of the English state, this chronicle remains a valuable and accessible window into the turbulent world of the Plantagenet kings.
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William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle was born to William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle and Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex.
On 20th August 1179 [his grandfather] William of Blois 1st Earl Albemarle 1st Earl York [aged 78] died. His daughter [his mother] Hawise succeeded 2nd Countess Albemarle. Earl York extinct. The succession of the Earldom of York is somewhat unclear; it may have been created for life only, or for male succession only.
In 1180 William Mandeville 3rd Earl Essex Count Aumale and [his mother] Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex were married. She by marriage Countess Essex. He by marriage Count Aumale. She the daughter of [his grandfather] William of Blois 1st Earl Albemarle 1st Earl York and [his grandmother] Cecily Skipton Countess Aumale and York [aged 42]. He the son of Geoffrey Mandeville 1st Earl Essex and Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford.
After 3rd July 1190 [his father] William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle and [his mother] Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex were married. He by marriage Earl Albemarle 1C 1127. She the daughter of [his grandfather] William of Blois 1st Earl Albemarle 1st Earl York and [his grandmother] Cecily Skipton Countess Aumale and York.
In 1195 [his father] William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle died.
After 1195 Baldwin Béthune Count Aumale [aged 37] and [his mother] Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] William of Blois 1st Earl Albemarle 1st Earl York and [his grandmother] Cecily Skipton Countess Aumale and York.
On 11th March 1214 [his mother] Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex died. Her son William succeeded 3rd Earl Albemarle 1C 1127.
In September 1214 [his brother-in-law] William "The Younger" Marshal 2nd Earl Pembroke [aged 24] and [his half-sister] Alice Béthune Countess Pembroke were married. She by marriage Countess Pembroke. She the daughter of Baldwin Béthune Count Aumale and [his mother] Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex. He the son of William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke [aged 68] and Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke [aged 42].
Before 1215 [his half-sister] Alice Béthune Countess Pembroke was murdered.
On 15th June 1215 King John of England [aged 48] met with his Baron's at Runnymede [Map] where he agreed to the terms of the Magna Carta which attempted to reduce the King's authority through political reform. Those who signed as surety included:
Roger Bigod 2nd Earl Norfolk [aged 71]
his son Hugh Bigod 3rd Earl Norfolk [aged 33]
Henry Bohun 1st Earl Hereford [aged 39]
Richard Clare 3rd Earl Hertford [aged 62]
his son Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford [aged 35]
[his former brother-in-law] William "The Younger" Marshal 2nd Earl Pembroke [aged 25]
William Mowbray 6th Baron Thirsk [aged 42]
Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester [aged 45]
Robert Ros [aged 43], Richard Percy 5th Baron Percy Topcliffe [aged 45]
Robert de Vere 3rd Earl of Oxford [aged 50]
Eustace Vesci [aged 46]
John Fitzrobert 3rd Baron Warkworth [aged 25]
John Lacy Earl Lincoln [aged 23].
William de Albini [aged 64], Geoffrey Mandeville 2nd Earl Essex [aged 24]
William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle
William Hardell
William Huntingfield
William Llanvallei
William Malet 1st Baron Curry Mallet
Roger Montbegon, Richard Montfichet
Geoffrey Saye [aged 60] signed as surety the Magna Carta.
Ranulf de Blondeville Gernon 6th Earl Chester 1st Earl Lincoln [aged 45] witnessed.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Before 1234 William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Christiana Galloway were married. He the son of William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle and Aveline Montfichet.
Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris.
April 1236. About the same time, several nobles and powerful men from the various provinces of the West, namely from Galloway, the Isle of Man, and parts of Ireland, assembled at the instance of Hugh de Lacy [aged 60], whose daughter had been married to Alan of Galloway, lately deceased, and they all united together for the purpose of restoring Galloway to the illegitimate son of the aforesaid Alan, and of annulling by force the just disposition made by the king of Scots [aged 37], who had distributed the inheritance amongst the three daughters of Alan, to whom it belonged by hereditary right. In order, therefore, to revoke and annul his distribution, and to restore the territory to the aforesaid Thomas, or to the son of Thomas, Alan's brother, or at least to one of that family, these presumptuous chiefs flew to arms, and, bursting forth into insolence, endeavoured to free themselves from the authority of the king. And in order to bring their attempts to the desired result, they entered into a strange kind of treaty, by means of a certain mode of divination, yet according to an abominable custom of their ancestors. For all these barbarians and their chiefs and magistrates drew blood from a vein near the heart, and poured it into a large cup, they then stirred and mixed it up, and afterwards, drinking to one another, quaffed it off, as a token that they were from that time forth allied by an indissoluble and, as it were, kindred treaty, and indivisible both in prosperity and adversity, even at the risk of their heads. They therefore provoked the king and the kingdom to war, burning their own houses and those of their neighbours, that the king, when he arrived, might not find either shelter or food for his army, and indulged in rapine and incendiarism, heaping injury on injury. On hearing of this, the king of Scotland collected his forces from all quarters, and, marching to meet them, drew up his forces in order and engaged them in open battle; and the fortune of war turning against the Galwegians, they were put to flight, and the royal troops, pursuing them at the sword's point, slew many thousands of them, and those who were taken alive by the king and his soldiers were put to an ignominious death without any chance of ransoming themselves. Some threw themselves on the king's mercy, and were consigned to close imprisonment by him till he could consult as to what should be done with them, and all of them, together with their descendants, he, not without good reason, disinherited. Having gained this victory the king glorified God, the lord of armies, and listening to good counsel, he sent word to Roger de Quincy [aged 41], earl of Winchester, John Baliol [aged 28], and William, the son of the earl of Albemarle, that, as they had married the three sisters, the daughters of Alan of Galloway, they might now, as the disturbances were quelled, hold peaceable possession of the rights pertaining to them. This battle took place in the month of April, the fortune of war favouring the king of Scots.
Before 26th March 1242 William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle and Aveline Montfichet were married. He the son of William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle and Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex.
On 26th March 1242 William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle died. His son William succeeded 4th Earl Albemarle 1C 1127.
[his son] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle was born to William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle and Aveline Montfichet. He married (1) before 1234 Christiana Galloway (2) 1248 Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle, daughter of Baldwin Redvers 6th Earl Devon and Amice Clare Countess Devon, and had issue.
Kings Wessex: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings Scotland: Great x 4 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 12 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Father: William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle
William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle
Great x 4 Grandfather: Odo Blois II Count Blois 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ermengarde Auvergne Countess Blois
Great x 2 Grandfather: Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness
Great x 3 Grandmother: Adele Unknown
Great x 1 Grandfather: Stephen Blois Count Aumale
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard "Good" Normandy II Duke Normandy 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert "Magnificent" Normandy I Duke Normandy
Great x 4 Grandmother: Judith Penthièvre Duchess Normandy
Great x 2 Grandmother: Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu
GrandFather: William of Blois 1st Earl Albemarle 1st Earl York
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ranulph Mortimer 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Hawise Mortimer Countess Aumale
Mother: Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Duncan I of Scotland 
Great x 3 Grandfather: King Malcolm III of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bethóc Unknown Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: King Duncan II of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ingibiorg Finnsdottir Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 1 Grandfather: William FitzDuncan
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gospatrick Earl Northumbria
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ethelreda of Northumbria
GrandMother: Cecily Skipton Countess Aumale and York