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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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Around March 1204 King Haakon IV of Norway was born.
In June 1217 King Haakon IV of Norway (age 13) was appointed King Norway.
On 1st May 1238 or 3rd May 1238 [his son] King Magnus VI of Norway was born to King Haakon IV of Norway (age 34).
On 11th September 1261 [his son] King Magnus VI of Norway (age 23) and [his daughter-in-law] Queen Ingeborg of Norway (age 17) were married. She the daughter of King Eric IV of Denmark and Jutta of Saxony (age 38). He the son of King Haakon IV of Norway (age 57).
On 16th December 1263 King Haakon IV of Norway (age 59) died. His son [his son] Magnus (age 25) succeeded King Norway.