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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.
Paternal Family Tree: Oliphant
Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant was born to Colin Oliphant and Elizabeth Keith.
On 9th September 1513 at the Battle of Flodden was fought at the Branxton, Northumberland [Map]. the English army was commanded by Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 70), Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk (age 40), Edmund Howard (age 35), Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 45), Edward Stanley 1st Baron Monteagle (age 51) and Marmaduke Constable (age 56).
The English army included: Henry "Shepherd Lord" Clifford 10th Baron Clifford (age 59), William Conyers 1st Baron Conyers (age 44), Thomas Berkeley 5th Baron Berkeley (age 41) and Richard Neville 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape (age 45).
Randall Babington, John Bigod (age 38) and Thomas Fitzwilliam (age 39) were killed.
Marmaduke Constable (age 33), William Constable (age 38), George Darcy 1st Baron Darcy Aston (age 16), Edmund Walsingham (age 33), Thomas Burgh 7th Baron Cobham 5th Baron Strabolgi 1st Baron Burgh (age 25) and Walter Stonor (age 36) were knighted by Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk.
Christopher Savage, Thomas Venables (age 44) and Brian Tunstall (age 33) were killed.
Bryan Stapleton of Wighill (age 55) was killed. (Some reports have him dying in 1518).
John Booth (age 78) was killed.
Father and son Ralph ellerker of risby in yorkshire and Ralph Ellerker were knighted by Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey.
The Scottish army suffered heavy casualties:
King James IV of Scotland (age 40) was killed. His body ws taken to London, then to Sheen Priory, Richmond; thereafter it disappeared. His son James (age 1) succeeded V King Scotland.
Archbishop Alexander Stewart (age 20) was killed.
David Kennedy 1st Earl Cassilis (age 43) was killed. His son Gilbert (age 18) succeeded 2nd Earl Cassilis. Isabel Campbell Countess Cassilis by marriage Countess Cassilis.
William Sinclair 2nd Earl Caithness (age 54) was killed. His son John succeeded 3rd Earl Caithness.
Matthew Stewart 2nd Earl Lennox was killed. His son John (age 23) succeeded 3rd Earl Lennox.
William Hay 4th Earl Erroll was killed. His son William (age 18) succeeded 5th Earl Erroll.
John Douglas 2nd Earl Morton was killed. His son James succeeded 3rd Earl Morton, 6th Lord Dalkeith.
Adam Hepburn 2nd Earl Bothwell was killed. His son Patrick (age 1) succeeded 3rd Earl Bothwell.
Alexander Stewart 4th of Garlies (age 32) was killed. His son Alexander (age 6) succeeded 5th Lord Garlies.
Alexander Elphinstone 1st Lord Elphinstone was killed. His son Alexander (age 3) succeeded 2nd Lord Elphinstone.
Thomas Hay, George Hepburn Bishop Isles (age 59), Adam Hepburn Master (age 56), Thomas "Younger of Cushnie" Lumsden
William Douglas 6th Lord Drumlanrig was killed. William "Younger" Douglas 7th Lord Drumlanrig succeeded 7th Lord Drumlanrig.
George Seton 5th Lord Seton was killed. His son George succeeded 6th Lord Seton.
John Hay 2nd Lord Hay of Yester was killed. His son John (age 23) succeeded 3rd Lord Hay of Yester. Elizabeth Douglas Lady Hay by marriage Lord Hay of Yester.
[his uncle] Robert Keith Master of Marischal (age 30), Guiscard Harbottle (age 28), John Erskine, David Home (age 22), Andrew Stewart 1st Lord Avondale (age 43), Archibald Campbell 2nd Earl Argyll (age 64), Robert Douglas of Lochleven (age 89) were killed.
Henry Sinclair 3rd Lord Sinclair (age 48) was killed. His son William succeeded 4th Lord Sinclair.
James Stewart 1st Lord of Traquair (age 33) was killed. His son William (age 7) succeeded 2nd Lord Traquair.
John Maxwell 4th Lord Maxwell (age 57) was killed. His son Robert (age 20) succeeded 5th Lord Maxwell.
William Murray (age 43), [his father] Colin Oliphant (age 26), William Ruthven (age 33), George Douglas (age 44) and William Douglas (age 42) were killed.
George Home 4th Lord Home and John Stewart 2nd Earl Atholl (age 38) fought.
Brothers David Lyon of Cossins, William Lyon and George Lyon were killed.
William Graham 1st Earl Montrose (age 49) was killed. His son William (age 21) succeeded 2nd Earl Montrose.
Robert Erskine 4th Lord Erskine 16th Earl of Mar was killed. His son John (age 26) de jure 17th Earl Mar, Lord Erskine.
Thomas Stewart 2nd Lord Innermeath (age 52) was killed. His son Richard succeeded 3rd Lord Innermeath.
Walter Lindsay of Arden and Walter Lindsay (age 33) were killed.
William Keith of Inverugie (age 43) was killed.
David Wemyss of Wemyss (age 40) was killed.
John Somerville 1st of Cambusnethan (age 55) was killed.
Robert Crichton 2nd Lord Crichton of Sanquhar (age 41) was killed. His son Robert (age 22) succeeded 3rd Lord Crichton of Sanquhar
Father and son William Rollo (age 59) and Robert Rollo 5th of Duncrub (age 34) were killed.
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Before 1529 Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant and Margaret Sandilands Lady Oliphant were married. She by marriage Lord Oliphant.
In 1529 [his son] Laurence Oliphant 4th Lord Oliphant was born to Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant and [his wife] Margaret Sandilands Lady Oliphant.
On 25th November 1542 Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton (age 47) commanded the English forces at Battle of Solway Moss at Solway Moss, Cumberland [Map]. John Thynne (age 27) fought. Of the Scottish army Malcolm Fleming 3rd Lord Fleming (age 48), Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis (age 27) and Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant fought.
William Graham 3rd Earl Menteith (age 42) was captured. He was ransomed in 1453.
William Cunningham 4th Earl Glencairn (age 49) was captured and committed to the custody of Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk (age 69). He was released on payment of a ransom of a thousand pounds and subscribing by his own hand to support Henry VIII's (age 51) project of a marriage between the young King Edward VI of England and Ireland (age 5) and the Mary Queen of Scots.
Malcolm Fleming 3rd Lord Fleming was captured.
In December 1542 Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant reached at Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire [Map].
On 1st July 1543 Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant was ransomed.
In 1549 [his mother] Elizabeth Keith (age 49) died.
On 26th March 1566 Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant died. His son [his son] Laurence (age 37) succeeded 4th Lord Oliphant.
[his son] William Oliphant was born to Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant and Margaret Sandilands Lady Oliphant.
[his daughter] Catherine Oliphant was born to Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant and Margaret Sandilands Lady Oliphant.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
[his daughter] Margaret Oliphant was born to Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant and Margaret Sandilands Lady Oliphant.
[his daughter] Jean Oliphant was born to Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant and Margaret Sandilands Lady Oliphant.
[his daughter] Lilias Oliphant was born to Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant and Margaret Sandilands Lady Oliphant.
[his father] Colin Oliphant and [his mother] Elizabeth Keith were married. Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant succeeded 3rd Lord Oliphant.
[his son] Peter Oliphant was born to Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant and Margaret Sandilands Lady Oliphant.
Kings Wessex: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 11 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 17 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 12 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 10 Grand Son of King John of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 22 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Kings France: Great x 14 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 19 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 1 Grandfather: Laurence Oliphant 1st Lord Oliphant
GrandFather: John Oliphant 2nd Lord Oliphant 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Hay 1st Lord Hay 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gilbert Hay 6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Hay 1st Earl Erroll 7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Hay Lady Oliphant 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Archibald "Grim" Douglas 3rd Earl Douglas
Great x 3 Grandfather: James "Gross" Douglas 7th Earl Douglas 1st Earl Avondale
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joanna Strathearn Countess Douglas
Great x 2 Grandmother: Beatrice Douglas Countess Erroll 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Sinclair 2nd Earl Orkney
Great x 3 Grandmother: Beatrix Sinclair Countess Douglas and Avondale 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Egidia "Fair Maid of Nithsdale" Douglas Countess Orkney 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Father: Colin Oliphant 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Duncan Campbell 1st Lord Campbell
Great x 2 Grandfather: Archibald Campbell 6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Stewart 1st Duke Albany 4 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margery Stewart 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith
Great x 1 Grandfather: Colin Campbell 1st Earl Argyll 7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
GrandMother: Elizabeth Campbell Lady Oliphant 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Stewart of Innermeath 3rd of Lorn
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Stewart 1st Lord Lorn
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Macdougall
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Stewart 2nd Lord Lorn 6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Stewart 1st Duke Albany 4 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Stewart 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabella Stewart Countess Argyll 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Keith Great Marischal of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Keith
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Keith
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Keith 1st Earl Marischal
GrandFather: William Keith 2nd Earl Marischal
Mother: Elizabeth Keith