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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Paternal Family Tree: Cecil
Maternal Family Tree: Joan Lovel Baroness Maynard 1297-1337
In 1589 [his father] Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury [aged 25] and [his mother] Elizabeth Brooke [aged 25] were married.
On 28th March 1591 William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury was born to Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury [aged 27] and Elizabeth Brooke [aged 28].
On 24th January 1597 [his mother] Elizabeth Brooke [aged 34] died.
In 1605 [his father] Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury [aged 41] was created 1st Earl Salisbury.
Memorials of affairs of state in the reigns of Q Elizabeth and K James I Volume 2. The next Day the King plaid in the Presence, and as good or ill Luck seldom comes alone, the Bridegroom [aged 20], that threw for the King, had the good Fortune to win £1000 which he had for his Pains; the greatest part was lost by my Lord of Cranborne [aged 13].
Memorials of affairs of state in the reigns of Q Elizabeth and K James I Volume 2. On Twelfth-Day we had the Creation of Duke Charles [aged 4] now Duke of York; the Interim was entertained with making Knights of the Bath, which was three Days Work. They were eleven in Number, besides the little Duke, all of the King's Choice; namely, the Lords Willoby, Compton, Chandois, and Norres; William Cecyll, Allen Percy, Thomas Somerset [aged 26], Francis Manners [aged 27], Clifford, young Howard, second Son of my Lord Chamberlaine, and Harrington. The Solemnity of the Creation was kept in the Hall, where first the Duke was brought in accompanyed with his Knights, then carried out againe, and brought back by Earles in their Robes of the Garter. My Lord Admiral bare him, two others went as Supporters, and six marched before with the Ornaments. The Patent was read by my Lord of Cranborne [aged 13], and drawn in most eloquent Law Latin by Mr. Attorney; but so, that we have a Duke of York in Title, but not in Substance. There was a publick Dinner in the great Chamber, where there was one Table for the Duke and his Earls Assistants, another for his Fellow Knights of the Bath.
Memorials of affairs of state in the reigns of Q Elizabeth and K James I Volume 2. Sir Richard Spencer was brought to the King the Morning he went from London, and kneeling down had this ill Encounter, to light with his Knee on a Pin, which lamed him for the present and ever since. They say, malum omen in principio lapsus; and methinks it should be no good signe, to be pinn'd to the Ground at his Entry into his Charge. Upon Complaint that our Merchants were molested in Spaine, Wilson, who is newly come from thence was appointed to return thither, and had Allowance assigned of 30s a Day: But there came News of Reformation, and his Journey was stayed. He is to go with my Lord Admirall, and to remaine there as a Consul for our Merchants. Sir Henry Maynard prepares for France. Sir Thomas Bodeley hath been much laid to by my Lord of Cranborne [aged 13] to accept the place of Secretary, and I doubt not but you hear how he refused it. This offer is made an Act so meritorious, that it is brued a son de trompette in all Places, but some malicious Fellows talk as fast of Sir Walter Cope, as if he were designed to that Place, and that the other was only ad faciendum populum. Sir Henry Neville fits by all this while unthought of, but 'tis hoped by many honest Men, the Necesslty of the Time will lay the Place upon him.
On 1st December 1608 William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 17] and Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 18] were married. She the daughter of Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk [aged 47] and Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk [aged 44]. He the son of Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury [aged 45] and Elizabeth Brooke. They were fifth cousins.
Letters of John Chamberlain Volume 1.199. [2nd May 1610] The [his father] Lord Treasurer [aged 46] hath sent over his secretarie Kirkham to take order to furnish the Lord Cranbourne [aged 19] with all necessaries to follow the French king in this journy, and more of our court gallants talke of taking the same course yf the viage hold. Indeed yt were fitter they had some place abrode to vent theyre superfluous valour then to brabble so much as they do here at home: for in one weeke we had three or fowre great quarrells, the first twixt the earles of Southampton [aged 36] and Mongomerie [aged 25] that fell out at tennis, where the racketts flew about theyre cares, but the matter was taken up and compounded by the King without further bloudshed, but the matter was not so easilie ended twixt younge Egerton eldest1 sonne to Sir John [aged 59], and one Morgan [aged 34] a lawiers sonne of goode state: the first beeing left dead in the feild, and the other sort hurt, and yet cannot be bailed nor dispensed withall but that he lies still by yt in Newgate. The Lord Norris [aged 30] likewise went into the feild with Peregrin Willoughby [aged 26] upon an old reckening, and hurt him daungerously in the shoulder.
Note 1. McClure has this as 'James' rather than 'John'. He was a younger son.
On 25th July 1610 [his brother-in-law] Henry Clifford 5th Earl of Cumberland [aged 19] and [his sister] Frances Cecil Countess Cumberland [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of [his father] Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury [aged 47] and [his mother] Elizabeth Brooke. He the son of Francis Clifford 4th Earl of Cumberland [aged 51] and Grisold Hughes Countess Cumberland. They were half sixth cousins.
In 1612 [his brother-in-law] Theophilus Howard 2nd Earl Suffolk [aged 29] and Elizabeth Home Countess Suffolk [aged 13] were married. She the daughter of George Home 1st Earl Dunbar and Elizabeth Gordon Countess Dunbar [aged 37]. He the son of [his father-in-law] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk [aged 50] and [his mother-in-law] Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk [aged 48].
On 24th May 1612 [his father] Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury [aged 48] died at Marlborough, Wiltshire [Map]. His son William [aged 21] succeeded 2nd Earl Salisbury. [his wife] Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 22] by marriage Countess Salisbury.
On 25th September 1613 Robert Devereux 3rd Earl Essex [aged 22] and [his sister-in-law] Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset [aged 23] marriage annulled by King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 47]. She married Robert Carr 1st Earl Somerset [aged 26] three months later.
On 26th December 1613 Robert Carr 1st Earl Somerset [aged 26] and [his sister-in-law] Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Countess Somerset. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk [aged 52] and [his mother-in-law] Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk [aged 49].
Her marriage with her first husband Robert Devereux 3rd Earl Essex [aged 22] had been annulled on the grounds of his impotence three months before causing something of a scandal.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1614 [his brother-in-law] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire [aged 26] and Elizabeth Cecil Countess Berkshire [aged 18] were married. She the daughter of William Cecil 2nd Earl Exeter [aged 48] and Elizabeth Drury Countess Exeter [aged 35]. He the son of [his father-in-law] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk [aged 52] and [his mother-in-law] Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk [aged 50]. They were fourth cousins.
In 1616 [his son] James Cecil was born to William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 24] and [his wife] Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 26]. He died aged less than one years old.
In 1616 [his son] James Cecil died.
In 1616 William Knollys 1st Earl Banbury [aged 72] was created 1st Viscount Wallingford. [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Howard Countess Banbury [aged 33] by marriage Viscountess Wallingford.
In 1619 [his son] Charles Cecil was born to William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 27] and [his wife] Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 29]. He married before 1648 Diana Maxwell, daughter of James Maxwell 1st Earl Dirletoun, and had issue.
In 1619 [his daughter] Elizabeth Cecil Countess Devonshire was born to William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 27] and [his wife] Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 29]. She married 4th March 1639 William Cavendish 3rd Earl Devonshire, son of William Cavendish 2nd Earl Devonshire and Christian Bruce Countess Devonshire, and had issue.
In 1621 [his brother-in-law] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire [aged 33] was created 1st Viscount Andover in Hampshire, 1st Baron Howard of Charlton in Wiltshire. Elizabeth Cecil Countess Berkshire [aged 25] by marriage Baroness Howard of Charlton in Wiltshire.
In 1622 [his daughter] Diana Cecil was born to William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 30] and [his wife] Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 32]. She died aged eleven in 1633.
In 1624 William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 32] was appointed 418th Knight of the Garter by King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 57].
1626. George Geldorp [aged 46]. Portrait of William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 34].
In 1626 William Knollys 1st Earl Banbury [aged 82] was created 1st Earl Banbury. [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Howard Countess Banbury [aged 43] by marriage Countess Banbury.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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On 7th February 1626 [his brother-in-law] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire [aged 38] was created 1st Earl Berkshire. Elizabeth Cecil Countess Berkshire [aged 30] by marriage Countess Berkshire.
On 28th May 1626 [his father-in-law] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk [aged 64] died at Charing Cross [Map]. He was buried at Waldon Priory and Abbey [Map]. His son [his brother-in-law] Theophilus [aged 43] succeeded 2nd Earl Suffolk. Elizabeth Home Countess Suffolk [aged 27] by marriage Countess Suffolk.
In 1629 [his son-in-law] Algernon Percy 10th Earl of Northumberland [aged 26] and Anne Cecil were married. She the daughter of William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 37] and Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 39]. He the son of Henry "Wizard Earl" Percy 9th Earl of Northumberland [aged 64] and Dorothy Devereux Countess Northumberland. They were fourth cousin once removed.
On 25th May 1632 William Knollys 1st Earl Banbury [aged 88] died. His son Edward [aged 5] de jure 2nd Earl Banbury, 2nd Viscount Wallingford, 2nd Baron Knollys. Parliament disallowed the succession on the basis that Edward had been born when William was some eighty-two years old and Edward was, in fact, the son of Edward Vaux 4th Baron Vaux Harrowden [aged 43] whom Edward's [his sister-in-law] mother [aged 49] subsequently married around a month after William's death.
Around 30th June 1632 Edward Vaux 4th Baron Vaux Harrowden [aged 43] and [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Howard Countess Banbury [aged 49] were married some five weeks after the death of her first husband William Knollys 1st Earl Banbury [deceased] on 25th May 1632. They, Edward and Elizabeth, when teenagers, had been subject to marriage negotiations which broke down as a consequence of the Gunpowder Plot and she had married William Knollys 1st Earl Banbury some thirty-nine years her senior. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk and [his mother-in-law] Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk [aged 68]. They were fifth cousin once removed.
On 23rd August 1632 [his sister-in-law] Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset [aged 42] died.
In 1633 [his daughter] Diana Cecil [aged 11] died.
In 1637 [his daughter] Anne Cecil died.
On 4th March 1639 [his son-in-law] William Cavendish 3rd Earl Devonshire [aged 21] and Elizabeth Cecil Countess Devonshire [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Countess Devonshire. She the daughter of William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 47] and Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 49]. He the son of William Cavendish 2nd Earl Devonshire and Christian Bruce Countess Devonshire.
On 3rd June 1640 [his brother-in-law] Theophilus Howard 2nd Earl Suffolk [aged 57] died at Suffolk House, Suffolk Street. He was buried at Waldon Priory and Abbey [Map]. His son James [aged 21] succeeded 3rd Earl Suffolk, 3rd Baron Howard de Walden.
On 4th January 1641 Francis Clifford 4th Earl of Cumberland [aged 82] died. His son [his brother-in-law] Henry [aged 49] succeeded 5th Earl of Cumberland. [his sister] Frances Cecil Countess Cumberland [aged 48] by marriage Countess of Cumberland.
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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John Evelyn's Diary. 11th March 1643. I went to see my Lord of Salisbury's [aged 51] Palace [Map] at Hatfield, where the most considerable rarity, besides the house (inferior to few then in England for its architecture), were the garden and vineyard, rarely well watered and planted. They also showed us the picture of Secretary Cecil, in Mosaic work, very well done by some Italian hand.
In 1644 [his sister] Frances Cecil Countess Cumberland [aged 51] died.
In 1645 [his son-in-law] Philip Sidney 3rd Earl of Leicester [aged 25] and Catherine Cecil were married. She the daughter of William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 53] and Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 55]. He the son of Robert Sidney 2nd Earl of Leicester [aged 49] and Dorothy Percy Countess Leicester [aged 47]. They were fifth cousins.
Before 1648 Charles Cecil [aged 28] and Diana Maxwell were married. She the daughter of James Maxwell 1st Earl Dirletoun. He the son of William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 56] and Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 57].
Between 15th September 1648 and 27th November 1648 the Treaty of Newport attempted to reconcile King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland [aged 47] (who was imprisoned at nearby Carisbrooke Castle [Map]) with Parliament. Denzil Holles 1st Baron Holles [aged 48] and Henry Vane "The Younger" [aged 35] represented Parliament. James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde [aged 37] represented King Charles. The Treaty eventually came to nothing.
Parliament was also represented by John Crew 1st Baron Crew [aged 50], John Glynne [aged 46], Nathaniel Fiennes [aged 40], William Pierrepont of Thoresby [aged 40], [his former son-in-law] Algernon Percy 10th Earl of Northumberland [aged 45], William Fiennes 1st Viscount Saye and Sele [aged 66], Philip Herbert 4th Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Montgomery [aged 63], William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 57], James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex [aged 27] and Thomas Wenman 2nd Viscount Wenman [aged 52].
In 1652 [his daughter] Catherine Cecil died.
On 17th April 1658 [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Howard Countess Banbury [aged 75] died.
In 1660 [his son] Charles Cecil [aged 41] died.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 18th February 1660. Saturday. A great while at my vial and voice, learning to sing "Fly boy, fly boy", without book. So to my office, where little to do. In the Hall I met with Mr. Eglin and one Looker, a famous gardener, servant to my Lord Salsbury [aged 68], and among other things the gardener told a strange passage in good earnest.... Home to dinner, and then went to my Lord's lodgings to my turret there and took away most of my books, and sent them home by my maid. Thither came Capt. Holland to me who took me to the Half Moon tavern [Map] and Mr. Southorne, Blackburne's clerk. Thence he took me to the Mitre in Fleet Street, where we heard (in a room over the music room) very plainly through the ceiling. Here we parted and I to Mr. Wotton's, and with him to an alehouse and drank while he told me a great many stories of comedies that he had formerly seen acted, and the names of the principal actors, and gave me a very good account of it. Thence to Whitehall, where I met with Luellin and in the clerk's chamber wrote a letter to my Lord. So home and to bed. This day two soldiers were hanged in the Strand [Map] for their late mutiny at Somerset-house [Map].
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 16th October 1664. Lord's Day. It raining, we set out, and about nine o'clock got to Hatfield, Hertfordshire in church-time; and I 'light and saw my simple Lord Salsbury [aged 73] sit there in his gallery.
On 3rd December 1666 James Stewart 1st Duke Cambridge [aged 3] was created 1st Duke Cambridge by James, Duke of York [aged 33]. See Samuel Pepys' Diary 1666 December 06.
Those present included King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 36], James, Duke of York, Prince Rupert Palatinate Simmern 1st Duke Cumberland [aged 46], William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 75], George Monck 1st Duke Albemarle [aged 57], [his brother-in-law] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire [aged 79], Charles Stewart 6th Duke Lennox 3rd Duke Richmond [aged 27], Edward Montagu 2nd Earl Manchester [aged 64], James Scott 1st Duke Monmouth 1st Duke Buccleuch [aged 17].
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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In or before 1668 [his son-in-law] William Sandys 6th Baron Sandes and Mary Cecil were married. There was no issue from the marriage. She the daughter of William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 76] and Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 77]. They were fourth cousins.
On 3rd December 1668 William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 77] died. His grandson James [aged 20] succeeded 3rd Earl Salisbury. Margaret Manners Countess of Salisbury by marriage Countess Salisbury.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd March 1669. Thence with W. Hewer [aged 27] at noon to Unthanke's, where my wife stays for me and so to the Cocke [aged 52], where there was no room, and thence to King Street, to several cook's shops, where nothing to be had; and at last to the corner shop, going down Ivy Lane, by my Lord of Salisbury's, and there got a good dinner, my wife, and W. Newer, and I: and after dinner she, with her coach, home; and he and I to look over my papers for the East India Company, against the afternoon: which done, I with them to White Hall, and there to the Treasury-Chamber, where the East India Company and three Councillors pleaded against me alone, for three or four hours, till seven at night, before the Lords; and the Lords did give me the conquest on behalf of the King [aged 38], but could not come to any conclusion, the Company being stiff: and so I think we shall go to law with them. This done, and my eyes mighty bad with this day's work, I to Mr. Wren's, and then up to the Duke of York [aged 35], and there with Mr. Wren [aged 40] did propound to him my going to Chatham, Kent [Map] to-morrow with Commissioner Middleton, and so this week to make the pay there, and examine the business of "The Defyance" being lost, and other businesses, which I did the rather, that I might be out of the way at the wedding, and be at a little liberty myself for a day, or two, to find a little pleasure, and give my eyes a little ease. The Duke of York mightily satisfied with it; and so away home, where my wife troubled at my being so late abroad, poor woman! though never more busy, but I satisfied her; and so begun to put things in order for my journey to-morrow, and so, after supper, to bed.
In January 1673 [his former wife] Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury [aged 83] died.
[his daughter] Anne Cecil was born to William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury and Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury. She married 1629 her fourth cousin once removed Algernon Percy 10th Earl of Northumberland, son of Henry "Wizard Earl" Percy 9th Earl of Northumberland and Dorothy Devereux Countess Northumberland, and had issue.
[his daughter] Catherine Cecil was born to William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury and Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury. She married 1645 her fifth cousin Philip Sidney 3rd Earl of Leicester, son of Robert Sidney 2nd Earl of Leicester and Dorothy Percy Countess Leicester, and had issue.
[his son] Algernon Cecil was born to William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury and Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury.
[his daughter] Mary Cecil was born to William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury and Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury. She married in or before 1668 her fourth cousin William Sandys 6th Baron Sandes, son of Henry Sandys 5th Baron Sandys of the Vyne.
Kings Wessex: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 20 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 7 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 13 Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 21 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 13 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Cecil 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Cecil
Great x 2 Grandfather: David Cecil
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Cecil
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Dicons
GrandFather: William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Heckington
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Heckington
Father: Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury 11 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cooke
Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip Cooke
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Cooke of Gidea Hall
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Belnap
Great x 1 Grandfather: Anthony Cooke
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Saunders of Banbury in Oxfordshire
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Saunders
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Spencer of Hodnell in Warwickshire 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Spencer
GrandMother: Mildred Cooke Baroness Burghley 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fitzwilliam 
6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fitzwilliam 7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Fitzwilliam 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Fitzwilliam 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Brooke 6th Baron Cobham 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Brooke 7th Baron Cobham 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tuchet Baroness Cobham 
5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Neville 1st Baron Abergavenny 
Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Neville Baroness Cobham 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Howard Baroness Bergavenny 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Heydon
Great x 2 Grandmother: Dorothy Heydon Baroness Cobham 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Boleyn 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Boleyn 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ann Hoo 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
GrandFather: William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Bray of Eaton Bray 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Braye Baroness Cobham 11 x Great Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Halwell of Halwell in Devon
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Halwell Baroness Bray 10 x Great Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Great x 4 Grandfather: John IV Norbury 
8 x Great Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Norbury 9 x Great Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Mother: Elizabeth Brooke 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Newton 
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Newton of Hawtrey 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Gorges 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Gorges
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Gorges 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Howard 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Moleyns 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
GrandMother: Frances Newton Baroness Cobham 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Poyntz 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Poyntz
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Cox
Great x 2 Grandfather: Anthony Poyntz 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers 
6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Woodville 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gwenllian Stradling
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Poyntz 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Huddersfield
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Huddersfield 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Courtenay 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Courtenay 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hungerford 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England