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: Williams Wynn
On 14th April 1664 [his father] William Williams 1st Baronet [aged 30] and [his mother] Margaret Kyffin were married. They had four sons and one daughter.
Around 1665 William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet was born to William Williams 1st Baronet [aged 31] and Margaret Kyffin.
On 6th June 1687 William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 22] and Jane Thelwall were married.
Around 1692 [his son] Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet was born to William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 27] and [his wife] Jane Thelwall. He married (1) before July 1748 Ann Vaughan (2) July 1748 Frances Shackerley Lady Williams-Wynn and had issue.
On 11th July 1700 [his father] William Williams 1st Baronet [aged 66] died. He was buried at Llansilin. His son William [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Baronet Williams of Gray's Inn.
In 1704 William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 39] was appointed High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire.
In 1706 [his wife] Jane Thelwall died.
After 1706 William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 41] and Catherine Davies were married.
In 1708 William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 43] was elected MP Denbigh Boroughs.
On 11th January 1719 John Wynn 5th Baronet [aged 91] died without issue. Baronet Wynn of Gwydir extinct. He bequeathed his estates, the second or third largest in Wales, to his second-cousin once-removed [his former wife] Jane Thelwall, who had predeceased him, daughter of his great-aunt Sydney Wynn [aged 79]. By doing so the his estates and the Williams estates of her former husband William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 54], also the second or third largest in Wales, were combined into the largest estate in Wales which far execeeded any other. At this time William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet changed his surname from Williams to Williams-Wynn.
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel Volume 1 Chapters 1-60 1307-1342
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel offer one of the most vivid and immediate accounts of 14th-century Europe, written by a knight who lived through the events he describes, and experienced some of them first hand. Covering the early decades of the Hundred Years’ War, this remarkable chronicle follows the campaigns of Edward III of England, the politics of France and the Low Countries, and the shifting alliances that shaped medieval warfare. Unlike later historians, Jean le Bel writes with a strong sense of eyewitness authenticity, drawing on personal experience and the testimony of fellow soldiers. His narrative captures not only battles and sieges, but also the realities of military life, diplomacy, and the ideals of chivalry that governed noble society. A key source for Jean Froissart, Le Bel’s chronicle stands on its own as a compelling and insightful work, at once historical record and literary achievement. This translation builds on the 1905 edition published in French by Jules Viard, adding extensive translations from other sources Rymer's Fœdera, the Chronicles of Adam Murimuth, William Nangis, Walter of Guisborough, a Bourgeois of Valenciennes, Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke and Richard Lescot to enrich the original text and Viard's notes.
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On 20th October 1740 William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet [aged 75] died. His son Watkin [aged 48] succeeded 3rd Baronet Williams of Gray's Inn.
William Williams-Wynn 2nd Baronet
Mother: Margaret Kyffin