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On 2nd February 1695 [his father] James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos [aged 22] and [his mother] Mary Lake [aged 26] were married.
On 1st February 1708 Henry Brydges 2nd Duke Chandos was born to James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos [aged 35] and Mary Lake [aged 39].
On 15th September 1712 [his mother] Mary Lake [aged 44] died. She was buried at Chandos Mausoleum Church of St Lawrence Whitchurch Lane Little Stanmore.
On 4th August 1713 [his father] James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos [aged 40] and [his step-mother] Cassandra Willoughby Duchess Chandos [aged 43] were married. They were half first cousins.
On 16th October 1714 [his grandfather] James Brydges 8th Baron Chandos [aged 72] died at Aconbury, Herefordshire. His son [his father] James [aged 41] succeeded 9th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, 4th Baronet Brydges of Wilton in Herefordshire. [his step-mother] Cassandra Willoughby Duchess Chandos [aged 44] by marriage Baroness Chandos of Sudeley.
On 19th October 1714 [his father] James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos [aged 41] was created 1st Earl Carnarvon, 1st Viscount Wilton. [his step-mother] Cassandra Willoughby Duchess Chandos [aged 44] by marriage Countess Carnarvon.
In 1719 [his father] James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos [aged 45] was created 1st Duke Chandos, 1st Marquess Carnarvon. [his step-mother] Cassandra Willoughby Duchess Chandos [aged 48] by marriage Duchess Chandos.
On 21st December 1728 Henry Brydges 2nd Duke Chandos [aged 20] and Mary Bruce [aged 18] were married. She the daughter of Charles Bruce 4th Earl Elgin 3rd Earl Ailesbury [aged 46] and Anne Savile. He the son of James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos [aged 55] and Mary Lake. They were fifth cousins.
In 1729 [his daughter] Caroline Brydges was born to Henry Brydges 2nd Duke Chandos [aged 20] and [his wife] Mary Bruce [aged 19]. She married 10th March 1755 her second cousin James Leigh and had issue.
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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On 27th December 1731 [his son] James Brydges 3rd Duke Chandos was born to Henry Brydges 2nd Duke Chandos [aged 23] and [his wife] Mary Bruce [aged 21]. He married (1) 22nd March 1753 Margaret Nicol (2) 1777 Anne Eliza Gamon Duchess Chandos and had issue.
On 18th April 1736 [his father] James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos [aged 63] and Lydia Catherine Van Hatten Duchess Chandos were married. She by marriage Duchess Chandos.
On 14th August 1738 [his wife] Mary Bruce [aged 28] died.
On 9th August 1744 [his father] James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos [aged 71] died at Cannons House Little Stanmore. He was buried at Chandos Mausoleum Church of St Lawrence Whitchurch Lane Little Stanmore. His son Henry [aged 36] succeeded 2nd Duke Chandos, 2nd Marquess Carnarvon, 2nd Earl Carnarvon, 2nd Viscount Wilton, 10th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, 5th Baronet Brydges of Wilton in Herefordshire.
On 25th December 1744 Henry Brydges 2nd Duke Chandos [aged 36] and Anne Wells Duchess Chandos were married at Keith's Chapel, Mayfair. She by marriage Duchess Chandos. Two versions of their meeting are related... He the son of James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos and Mary Lake.
Notes & Queries 1870 4th Series, Vol. 6, p.179: Lord Omery remarked, on 15th January 1745, "Of her person & character people speak variously, but all agree that both are very bad." He was speaking of Anne, Duchess of Chandos. She was the daughter of one John Wells of Newbury (& St. Marylebone) whose arms appear as azure, three fountains proper, on her hatchment at Keynsham Church. She was chambermaid at the Pelican Inn Newbury, and married to Jeffries the Ostler there. There is a story about the Duchess told by an old lady of Newbury, who was ten years old at the time. Henry Bridges, 2nd Duke of Chandos, while on his way to London, dined at the Pelican Inn in Newbury, with a companion (it has been claimed that the Inn was the Marlborough Castle, but this is incorrect). After dinner there was a stir and a bustle in the Inn Yard. The explanation came that "A man is going to sell his wife and they are leading her up the yard with a halter round her neck". "We will go and see the sale, " said the Duke. On entering the yard, however, he was so smitten with the woman's beauty and the patient way she waited to be set free from her ill‑conditioned husband, the Inn's ostler, that he bought her himself. She was his mistress for some years. In August 1738 his wife died, and by 1744 the ostler was dead also, and the two were finally married at Mr. Keith's Chapel, Mayfair on 25th December 1744.
The Gentleman's Magazine 1832. The Duke of Chandos, while staying at a small country inn, saw the ostler beating his wife in a most cruel manner; he interfered and literally bought her for half a crown. She was a young and pretty woman; the Duke had her educated; and on the husband's death he married her. On her death-bed, she had her whole household assembled, told them her history, and drew from it a touching moral of reliance on Providence; as from the most wretched situation, she had been suddenly raised to one of the greatest prosperity; she entreated their forgiveness if at any time she had given needless offence, and then dismissed them with gifts; dying almost in the very act.
On 22nd March 1753 James Brydges 3rd Duke Chandos [aged 21] and Margaret Nicol were married. He the son of Henry Brydges 2nd Duke Chandos [aged 45] and Mary Bruce.
On 10th March 1755 [his son-in-law] James Leigh [aged 31] and Caroline Brydges [aged 26] were married. She the daughter of Henry Brydges 2nd Duke Chandos [aged 47] and Mary Bruce. They were second cousins.
In 1767 Henry Brydges 2nd Duke Chandos [aged 58] and Elizabeth Major Duchess of Chandos [aged 36] were married. She by marriage Duchess Chandos. The difference in their ages was 22 years. He the son of James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos and Mary Lake.
On 28th November 1771 Henry Brydges 2nd Duke Chandos [aged 63] died. His son James [aged 39] succeeded 3rd Duke Chandos, 3rd Marquess Carnarvon, 3rd Earl Carnarvon, 3rd Viscount Wilton, 11th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, 6th Baronet Brydges of Wilton in Herefordshire.
In 1813 [his former wife] Elizabeth Major Duchess of Chandos [aged 82] died.
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Great x 4 Grandfather: John Brydges 1st Baron Chandos
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Brydges 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Grey Baroness Chandos 
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Great x 2 Grandfather: Giles Brydges 1st Baronet 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Carne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Carne 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Brydges 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Brydges 2nd Baronet 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Scudamore 12 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Scudamore 13 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elynor Croft
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Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Throckmorton of Tortworth 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Throckmorton 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Berkeley 
8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Grandfather: James Brydges 8th Baron Chandos 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
father: James Brydges 1st Duke Chandos 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Barnard
Grandmother: Elizabeth Barnard Baroness Chandos
Henry Brydges 2nd Duke Chandos 11 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Almeric Lake 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Lake
Great x 1 Grandfather: Lancelot Lake
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Rider
Grandfather: Thomas Lake 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cheke
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Cheeke
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Cheeke 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Radclyffe 
5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Radclyffe 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Harvey
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Cheeke 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Rich 2nd Baron Rich of Leez 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Rich 1st Earl Warwick
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Baldry Baroness Rich Leez
Great x 2 Grandmother: Essex Rich 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Devereux 1st Earl Essex 
6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Penelope Devereux Countess Devonshire 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lettice Knollys Countess Essex and Leicester 
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mother: Mary Lake 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Langham 1st Baronet
Grandmother: Rebecca Langham