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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Earl Cleveland

Earl Cleveland is in Earldoms of England Alphabetically, Earldoms of England Chronologically, Extinct Earldoms of England.

Summary

1626. 1st. Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Cleveland [aged 35] created.

25th March 1667. 1st. Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Cleveland extinct.

After 16th January 1637 Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Cleveland [aged 46] and Lucy Wentworth Countess Cleveland [aged 26] were married. She by marriage Countess Cleveland. The difference in their ages was 20 years. They were half second cousin once removed.

On 25th March 1667 Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Cleveland [aged 76] died. Earl Cleveland extinct. His granddaughter Henrietta [aged 6] de jure 10th Baroness Despencer.