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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Earl Traquair is in Earl.
In 1633 John Stewart 1st Earl Traquair [aged 33] was created 1st Earl Traquair. Catherine Carnegie Countess Traquair [aged 33] by marriage Countess Traquair.
Before 23rd December 1657 William Stewart 3rd Earl Traquair died. His brother Charles succeeded 4th Earl Traquair, 10th Lord Traquair.
On 27th March 1659 John Stewart 1st Earl Traquair [aged 59] died. His son John [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Earl Traquair, 8th Lord Traquair.
In April 1666 John Stewart 2nd Earl Traquair [aged 42] died. His son William succeeded 3rd Earl Traquair, 9th Lord Traquair.
After 9th January 1694 Charles Stewart 4th Earl Traquair [aged 35] and Mary Maxwell Countess Traquair [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Countess Traquair. She the daughter of Robert Maxwell 4th Earl Nithsdale and Lucy Douglas Countess Nithsdale [aged 50]. He the son of John Stewart 2nd Earl Traquair and Anne Seton. They were second cousins.
On 13th June 1741 Charles Stewart 4th Earl Traquair [aged 82] died. His son Charles [aged 44] succeeded 5th Earl Traquair, 11th Lord Traquair.
On or before 19th May 1746 Charles Stewart 5th Earl Traquair [aged 49] and Teresa Conyers Countess Trauqair were married. She by marriage Countess Traquair. He the son of Charles Stewart 4th Earl Traquair and Mary Maxwell Countess Traquair [aged 75].
On 24th April 1764 Charles Stewart 5th Earl Traquair [aged 67] died. His brother John [aged 65] succeeded 6th Earl Traquair, 12th Lord Traquair. Christian Anstruther Countess Traquair [aged 62] by marriage Countess Traquair.
On 28th March 1779 John Stewart 6th Earl Traquair [aged 80] died. His son Charles [aged 34] succeeded 7th Earl Traquair, 13th Lord Traquair.
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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On 14th October 1827 Charles Stewart 7th Earl Traquair [aged 83] died. His son Charles [aged 46] succeeded 8th Earl Traquair, 14th Lord Traquair.
On 2nd August 1861 Charles Stewart 8th Earl Traquair [aged 80] died. Earl Traquair and Lord Traquair assumed to be extinct. There may be heirs if the legitimation of 1489 is sufficient to enable the collateral male heirs of the first James Stewart of Traquair to succeed to the Earldom.