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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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West Lothian is in Scotland.
On 7th June 1811 James Young Simpson 1st Baronet was born to David Simpson (age 50) and Mary Jarvey (age 40) at Bathgate.
On 5th April 1820 Mary Jarvey (age 49) died at Bathgate.
On 17th January 1830 David Simpson (age 69) died at Bathgate.
In August 1455 George Crichton 1st Earl Caithness (age 46) died. Earl Caithness reverted to the Crown following a disagreement between George Crichton 1st Earl Caithness and his son James Crichton from inheriting. James Crichton had imprisoned his father in Blackness Castle; he was rescued by King James II of Scotland (age 24).
On 1st November 1604 John Kennedy 5th Earl Cassilis (age 29) was imprisoned for assaulting his wife at Blackness Castle.
On 23rd January 1570 James Stewart 1st Earl of Moray Regent (age 39) was assassinated at Linlithgow by James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, a supporter of Mary Queen of Scots (age 27). His daughter Elizabeth (age 4) succeeded 2nd Countess Moray. As he was passing in a cavalcade in the main street below, Hamilton fatally wounded him with a carbine shot from a window of his uncle Archbishop Hamilton's (age 57) house. He was the first head of government to be assassinated by a firearm.
On 10th April 1512 King James V of Scotland was born to King James IV of Scotland (age 39) and Margaret Tudor Queen Scotland (age 22) at Linlithgow Palace. He a grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland. He married (1) 1st January 1537 his third cousin once removed Madeleine Valois, daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude Valois Orléans Queen Consort France (2) 18th June 1538 his third cousin Mary of Guise Queen Consort Scotland, daughter of Claude Lorraine 1st Duke Guise and Antoinette Bourbon Duchess of Guise, and had issue.
On 8th December 1542 Mary Queen of Scots was born to King James V of Scotland (age 30) and Mary of Guise Queen Consort Scotland (age 27) at Linlithgow Palace. She a great granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland. She married (1) 24th April 1558 her third cousin Francis II King France King Consort Scotland, son of King Henry II of France and Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (2) 29th July 1565 her half first cousin Henry "Lord Darnley" Stewart, son of Matthew Stewart 4th Earl Lennox and Margaret Douglas Countess Lennox, and had issue (3) 15th May 1567 her half third cousin once removed James "Lord Bothwell" Hepburn 1st Duke Orkney, son of Patrick Hepburn 3rd Earl Bothwell and Agnes Sinclair Countess Bothwell.
On 15th July 1770 Mary Jarvey was born to John Jarvey and Mary Cleland at Livingston. She married 9th January 1792 David Simpson and had issue.
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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.
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On 25th September 1860 John Hope 1st Marquess Linlithgow was born to John Alexander Hope 6th Earl Hopetoun (age 29) at South Queensferry.