Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Paternal Family Tree: Herbert
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Ratclyffe 1539 1603
In July 1654 [her father] William Herbert 1st Marquess Powis [aged 28] and [her mother] Elizabeth Somerset Marchioness Powis [aged 19] were married. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Edward Somerset 2nd Marquess Worcester [aged 52] and [her grandmother] Elizabeth Dormer. They were fourth cousins.
In 1661 Mary Herbert Viscountess Montague was born to William Herbert 1st Marquess Powis [aged 35] and Elizabeth Somerset Marchioness Powis [aged 26].
On 19th January 1667 [her grandfather] Percy Herbert 2nd Baron Powis [aged 69] died. His son [her father] William [aged 41] succeeded 3rd Baron Powis of Powis Castle in Powys, 2nd Baronet Powis of Red Castle in Montgomeryshire. [her mother] Elizabeth Somerset Marchioness Powis [aged 32] by marriage Baroness Powis of Powis Castle in Powys.
In 1674 [her father] William Herbert 1st Marquess Powis [aged 48] was created 1st Earl Powis. [her mother] Elizabeth Somerset Marchioness Powis [aged 39] by marriage Countess Powis.
On 2nd November 1682 Francis Browne 3rd Viscount Montagu [aged 72] died. His son Francis succeeded 4th Viscount Montagu. Mary Herbert Viscountess Montague [aged 21] by marriage Viscountess Montagu.
In 1687 [her father] William Herbert 1st Marquess Powis [aged 61] was created 1st Marquess Powis. [her mother] Elizabeth Somerset Marchioness Powis [aged 52] by marriage Marchioness Powis.
Around 1688. Francois de Troy [aged 42]. Portrait of Mary Herbert Viscountess Montague [aged 27].
On 16th March 1691 [her mother] Elizabeth Somerset Marchioness Powis [aged 56] died.
Around 1693. Francois de Troy [aged 47]. Portrait of Mary Herbert Viscountess Montague [aged 32].
Around 1695 [her brother] William Herbert 2nd Marquess Powis [aged 35] and [her sister-in-law] Mary Preston Marchioness Powis were married. He the son of [her father] William Herbert 1st Marquess Powis [aged 69] and [her mother] Elizabeth Somerset Marchioness Powis. They were third cousins.
On 2nd June 1696 [her father] William Herbert 1st Marquess Powis [aged 70] died. His son [her brother] William [aged 36] succeeded 2nd Marquess Powis, 2nd Earl Powis, 4th Baron Powis of Powis Castle in Powys, 3rd Baronet Powis of Red Castle in Montgomeryshire. [her sister-in-law] Mary Preston Marchioness Powis by marriage Marchioness Powis. Mary Preston Marchioness Powis by marriage Marchioness Powis.
On 2nd March 1699 [her brother-in-law] William Maxwell 5th Earl Nithsale and [her sister] Winifred Herbert Countess Nithsdale [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Countess Nithsdale. She the daughter of [her father] William Herbert 1st Marquess Powis and [her mother] Elizabeth Somerset Marchioness Powis. He the son of Robert Maxwell 4th Earl Nithsdale and Lucy Douglas Countess Nithsdale [aged 55].
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 30th October 1744 Mary Herbert Viscountess Montague [aged 83] died.
Francis Browne 4th Viscount Montagu and Mary Herbert Viscountess Montague were married. She the daughter of William Herbert 1st Marquess Powis and Elizabeth Somerset Marchioness Powis. They were first cousin once removed.
Kings Wessex: Great x 19 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 Godwinson: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 25 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 23 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Herbert 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Cradock
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Herbert 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Parr 
4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Parr Countess Pembroke 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Green 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Herbert 1st Baron Powis 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Stanley of Dalgarth in Cumberland 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Stanley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Stanley
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Barrett of Aveley in Essex
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joyce Barrett
GrandFather: Percy Herbert 2nd Baron Powis 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Percy 5th Earl of Northumberland 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Percy 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Spencer Countess Northumberland 
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Percy 8th Earl of Northumberland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Guiscard Harbottle 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Harbottle 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Willoughby 
10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Eleanor Percy Baroness Herbert 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer 
4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy de Vere 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Neville Countess Northumberland 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester 
4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: William Herbert 1st Marquess Powis 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Craven Craven Arms
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Craven Craven Arms
GrandMother: Elizabeth Craven Baroness Herbert Craven Arms
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Whitmore of Balmes Manor in Hackney
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Whitmore
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Bond
Mary Herbert Viscountess Montague 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Somerset 3rd Earl of Worcester 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Somerset 4th Earl of Worcester 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward North 1st Baron North
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christina North Countess of Worcester
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Squier Baroness North
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 1st Marquess Worcester 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Hastings 1st Earl Huntingdon 
4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Hastings 2nd Earl Huntingdon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Stafford Countess Huntingdon 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hastings Countess of Worcester 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Pole 1st Baron Montagu 
4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Pole Countess Huntingdon 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Neville Baroness Montagu 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Edward Somerset 2nd Marquess Worcester 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Russell 1st Earl Bedford 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Russell 2nd Earl Bedford
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Sapcote Countess Bedford
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Russell 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John St John 
9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret St John Countess Bedford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Waldegrave 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Russell Countess Worcester 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cooke of Gidea Hall
Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Cooke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Saunders
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cooke 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fitzwilliam 
8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Fitzwilliam 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Mother: Elizabeth Somerset Marchioness Powis 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Dormer of Wing 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Dormer
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Dormer 1st Baron Dormer
Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Catesby of Whiston 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Catesby
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Pigot
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Dormer 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Gage
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Browne Baroness Dormer 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Dacre 3rd Baron Dacre Gilsland 7th Baron Greystoke 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Magdalen Dacre Viscountess Montague 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Talbot Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Elizabeth Dormer 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Molyneux 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Molyneux 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Radclyffe 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Molyneux 1st Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Molyneux 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Gerard of Astley
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gilbert Gerard
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Holcroft
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Gerard Lady Molyneux
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Ratclyffe
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Ratclyffe