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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.
William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle was born to William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle and Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex.
In 1195 [his father] William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle died.
On 11th March 1214 [his mother] Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex died. Her son William succeeded 3rd Earl Albemarle 1C 1127.
On 15th June 1215 King John of England (age 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 (age 71)
his son Hugh Bigod 3rd Earl Norfolk (age 33)
Henry Bohun 1st Earl Hereford (age 39)
Richard Clare 3rd Earl Hertford (age 62)
his son Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford (age 35)
William "The Younger" Marshal 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 25)
William Mowbray 6th Baron Thirsk (age 42)
Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester (age 45)
Robert Ros (age 43), Richard Percy 5th Baron Percy Topcliffe (age 45)
Robert de Vere 3rd Earl of Oxford (age 50)
Eustace Vesci (age 46)
John Fitzrobert 3rd Baron Warkworth (age 25)
John Lacy Earl Lincoln (age 23).
William D'Aubigny (age 64), Geoffrey Mandeville 2nd Earl Essex (age 24)
William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle
William Hardell
William Huntingfield
William Llanvallei
William Malet 1st Baron Curry Mallet
Roger Montbegon, [his future brother-in-law] Richard Montfichet
Geoffrey Saye (age 60) signed as surety the Magna Carta.
Ranulf de Blondeville Gernon 6th Earl Chester 1st Earl Lincoln (age 45) witnessed.
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Before 1234 [his son] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and [his daughter-in-law] Christiana Galloway were married. He the son of William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle and [his future wife] Aveline Montfichet.
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 (age 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 (age 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 (age 41), earl of Winchester, John Baliol (age 28), and [his son] 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.
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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 [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.
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 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