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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Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Dinley 1495-1550
On 26th November 1635 [her father] Henry Murray of Berkhampstead and [her mother] Anne Bayning Viscountess Bayning [aged 16] were married.
Around 1650 Elizabeth Murray was born to [her father] Henry Murray of Berkhampstead and [her mother] Anne Bayning Viscountess Bayning [aged 30].
Before September 1672 [her father] Henry Murray of Berkhampstead died.
Around 1st May 1673 Randolph Egerton of Betley [aged 54] and Elizabeth Murray [aged 23] were married. The difference in their ages was 31 years.
In 1674 [her mother] Anne Bayning Viscountess Bayning [aged 54] was created 1st Viscountess Bayning for life.
Before 1678 [her step-father] John Baber [aged 52] and [her mother] Anne Bayning Viscountess Bayning [aged 58] were married.
In October 1678 [her mother] Anne Bayning Viscountess Bayning [aged 59] died. Viscount Bayning extinct.
On 20th October 1681 Randolph Egerton of Betley [aged 62] died. His wife Elizabeth Murray [aged 31] remarried Charles Egerton of Newborough [aged 27]. His relationship to her first husband is unknown.
In or before 1693 [her son-in-law] William Paulett [aged 26] and [her daughter] Anne Egerton were married. He the son of Charles Paulet 1st Duke Bolton [aged 62] and Mary Scrope 6th Marchioness Winchester. They were fifth cousins.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 30th January 1712 Elizabeth Murray [aged 62] died.
Before 11th December 1717 Charles Egerton of Newborough [aged 63] and Elizabeth Murray were married. He the son of John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater and Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater.
On 11th December 1717 [her former husband] Charles Egerton of Newborough [aged 63] died.
In 1797 [her great grandson] Charles Townshend 1st Baron Bayning [aged 67] was created 1st Baron Bayning of Foxley in Berkshire. He was a decendant on his mother's side of Anne Bayning Viscountess Bayning by her daughter Elizabeth Murray and her daughter Anne Egerton mother of Henrietta Paulett who was his mother. Annabella Smith-Powlett [aged 42] by marriage Baroness Bayning of Foxley in Berkshire.
[her daughter] Anne Egerton was born to Charles Egerton of Newborough and Elizabeth Murray. She married in or before 1693 her fifth cousin William Paulett, son of Charles Paulet 1st Duke Bolton and Mary Scrope 6th Marchioness Winchester, and had issue.
Kings Wessex: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Father: Henry Murray of Berkhampstead 
Elizabeth Murray 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandFather: Paul Bayning 1st Viscount Bayning 
Mother: Anne Bayning Viscountess Bayning 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Glemham
GrandMother: Anne Glemham Viscountess Bayning 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Sackville 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Sackville 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Boleyn 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Sackville 1st Earl Dorset 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Brydges
Great x 3 Grandmother: Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester
Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Ayloffe
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Sackville 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Baker
Great x 2 Grandmother: Cicely Baker Countess Dorset
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Dinley
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Dinley