Paternal Family Tree: Osborne
Maternal Family Tree: Mary Morris Countess Dover 1565-1648
In 1651 [his father] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 18] and [his mother] Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds [aged 22] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Montagu Bertie 2nd Earl Lindsey [aged 43] and [his grandmother] Martha Cockayne Countess Holderness.
In 1659 Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds was born to Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 26] and Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds [aged 30].
On 27th June 1674 [his father] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 42] was created 1st Earl of Danby when he surrendered his Scottish Viscount Osborne to his third son Peregrine Osborne [aged 15]. He, Thomas, was on his [his grandmother] mother's side a great-nephew of the previous Earl of Danby who was brother to Anne's mother Eleanor Danvers.
On 19th September 1678 [his brother-in-law] Charles "Don Carlo" Fitzcharles 1st Earl Plymouth [aged 21] and [his sister] Bridget Osborne Countess Plymouth were married in Wimbledon, Surrey. She by marriage Countess Plymouth. She the daughter of [his father] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 46] and [his mother] Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds [aged 49]. He the illegitmate son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 48] and Catherine Pegge [aged 43].
On 25th April 1682 Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds [aged 23] and Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds [aged 20] were married. He the son of Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 50] and Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds [aged 53].
John Evelyn's Diary. 7th December 1683. I went to the Tower, and visited the [his father] Earl of Danby [aged 51], the late Lord High Treasurer, who had ben imprison'd four years: he receiv'd me with greate kindnesse. I dined with him, and staied till night. We had discourse of many things, his [his mother] Lady [aged 54] railing sufficiently at the keeping her husband so long in prison. Here I saluted the Lord Dunblaine's [aged 24] [his wife] wife [aged 21], who before had ben married to Emerton, and about whom there was that scandalous businesse before ye delegates.
On 14th August 1688 [his daughter] Mary Osborne Duchess Beaufort was born to Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds [aged 29] and [his wife] Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds [aged 26]. She married 14th September 1711 her fourth cousin once removed Henry Somerset 2nd Duke Beaufort.
In 1690 [his son] William Henry Osborne was born to Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds [aged 31] and [his wife] Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds [aged 28].
On 11th November 1691 [his son] Peregrine Osborne 3rd Duke Leeds was born to Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds [aged 32] and [his wife] Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds [aged 29]. He married (1) 16th December 1712 Elizabeth Harley, daughter of Robert Harley 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer and Elizabeth Foley Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, and had issue (2) 17th September 1719 his fifth cousin Anne Seymour, daughter of Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset.
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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Calendar of the State Papers of William and Mary 1693 April. 15th April 1693. Whitehall. Commission for James Brough, gent., to be lieutenant to Capt. Percy Kirke in the first marine regiment of foot, commanded by Peregrine, Earl of Danby [aged 34]. [Ibid., p. 363.]
Calendar of the State Papers of William and Mary 1693 April. 15th April 1693. Whitehall. Commission for Thomas Wilson, gent., to be Leutenant to Capt. Hillis Cooper, in the first marine regiment of foot, commanded by Peregrine, Earl of Danby [aged 34]. [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 358.]
Calendar of the State Papers of William and Mary 1693 April. 28th April 1693. London. The Marquis of Carmarthen [aged 34] to the King. Lord Galloway [Galway] will inform you of the conferences which have been had with him about what is thought probable to be attempted at Brest, St. Malo, or Rochefort which are all the places that can be thought of with probability of doing anything upon them; the two latter are to be attempted by land. He will also let you know what his thoughts are about both, and will receive your own orders concerning them, when he has laid down the same observations before you, which he has done to the Queen, and in which I agree with him. As to Brest, which | think the only place where there can be hopes of effecting anything this summer, it is reduced, in my opinion, within a very narrow compass as to what is advisable to be tried there, according to the opinions of the three admirals who are to command the fleet; it is this: that—if a fleet, not under 65 sail of men-of-war, can be got to sea in time, so as to be at Brest before the Brest ships have gone, and before the Toulon squadron joins them—your fleet should attempt to destroy them in Brest Water, notwithstanding the batteries in their passage up to Brest Water, or any preparations of fire ships or other defences which the enemy can have made to oppose them.
But as it will be to no purpose to go into Brest Water if the French fleet has gone out, so also it must by no means be ventured to attack the enemy's whole fleet there, if the Toulon squadron should have come to them, it being the unamimous opinion of the Admiralty that whenever the fleet shall make that attempt in Brest Water, they must either be entire conquerors over all the enemies' ships they find there, or that all the ships which make the attempt must be destroyed, insomuch that they say the undertaking is of no less concern than the whole fleet of England. This is what the said three admirals have only said to me privately, and do not seem willing to speak so freely to the Council, and they did not tell me at the same time that they had reason to believe unless some very positive and particular order is given to the Dutch about this undertaking they would not hazard to make the attempt with them, notwithstanding their general orders to obey the English admirals. I must also inform you, although no doubt Lord Portland has already done so, that when the three admirals had gone from me, Sir Cloudesley Shovell [aged 42] returned back and told me that, as he believed the Dutch would not make that attempt with them unless they had positive orders for it, so he was also confident excuses would be made by the English themselves, if it should be left to the discretion of a council of war to attempt it or not as they should think fit. He therefore wished that if they should proceed with the design, the orders to the fleet should be positive to attempt it unless they can give very good reasons why they ought not to putit in execution. If you resolve to attempt anything of this kind at Brest, there will be no use for horse there, nor of more than 5,000 or 6,000 foot, a good number of which the admirals would desire to have on board the men-of-war. They also desire good store of small shot on board when they go into Brest Water, so as to endeavour to take some of the batteries in their passage, if they find it practicable.
In order to this the Queen has already commanded five regiments to be quartered as near Portsmouth as they can conveniently be done, and I wish you would appoint three or four regiments more to be laid so as to be ready for the same use, if it shall be thought convenient, for secrecy is so necessary, and we are in such "reserves" to one another, that we do not speak out enough to be understood amongst ourselves, insomuch that you will be forced to send us your own orders for whatever you think fit to have done of this kind. In short, if anything can be done that is considerable it depends upon expedition and secrecy; and it is so difficult to find either, that I fear our success.
One cause why I find there is not that dispatch made which ought to be, is because some amongst us declare it to be so much in vain to think of attempting anything that they find fault with going about it.
Another thing desired by the Admiralty is that Mons. Meisters may go with them with his machines in case they go to Brest. All his materials are in such readiness that the addition of charge will not be much more than is laid out already.
Whatever your commands shall be, the execution of them will wholly depend upon dispatch, so I hope you will write something to be communicated to the Council to quicken them in making that dispatch, and I hope you will let us know who shall command the land forces to be put on board the ships for the purposes aforesaid, in case you shall give order for no more than will be necessary for the expedition to Brest. [S.P. Dom. King Wiiliam's Chest 14, No. 10.]
In 1694 [his father] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 61] was created 1st Duke Leeds by King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland [aged 43] in recognition of Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds 1632-1712's support of the Glorious Revolution he having been one of the signatories of the Invitation to William of Orange from the Immortal Seven. [his mother] Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds [aged 65] by marriage Duchess Leeds.
Before 1698 [his brother-in-law] William Fermor 1st Baron Leominster [aged 49] and [his sister] Sophia Osborne Baroness Leominster [aged 36] were married. She by marriage Baroness Leominster. She the daughter of [his father] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 65] and [his mother] Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds [aged 68]. They were second cousins.
John Evelyn's Diary. 18th March 1701. I let Sayes Court, Deptford [Map] to Lord Carmarthen [aged 42], son to the [his father] Duke of Leeds [aged 69]. 28th. I went to the funeral of my sister Draper, who was buried at Edmonton in great state. Dr. Davenant displeased the clergy now met in Convocation by a passage in his book, p. 40.
On 7th January 1704 [his mother] Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds [aged 75] died.
In 1706 [his brother-in-law] Bishop Philip Bisse [aged 39] and [his sister] Bridget Osborne Countess Plymouth were married. She the daughter of [his father] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 73] and [his mother] Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds.
In 1711 [his son] William Henry Osborne [aged 21] died of smallpox in Utrecht.
On 14th September 1711 [his son-in-law] Henry Somerset 2nd Duke Beaufort [aged 27] and Mary Osborne Duchess Beaufort [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Duchess Beaufort. She the daughter of Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds [aged 52] and Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds [aged 49]. They were fourth cousin once removed.
On 26th July 1712 [his father] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 80] died. His son Peregrine [aged 53] succeeded 2nd Duke Leeds, 2nd Earl of Danby, 2nd Viscount Osborne, 2nd Viscount Latimer, 2nd Baron Osborne of Kinderton, 3rd Baronet Osborne of Kiveton. [his wife] Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds [aged 50] by marriage Duchess Leeds.
On 16th December 1712 Peregrine Osborne 3rd Duke Leeds [aged 21] and Elizabeth Harley [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of Robert Harley 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer [aged 51] and Elizabeth Foley Countess of Oxford and Mortimer. He the son of Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds [aged 53] and Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds [aged 50].
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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On 9th May 1718 [his sister] Bridget Osborne Countess Plymouth died.
On 17th September 1719 Peregrine Osborne 3rd Duke Leeds [aged 27] and Anne Seymour [aged 10] were married. She the daughter of Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset [aged 57] and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset [aged 52]. He the son of Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds [aged 60] and Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds [aged 57]. They were fifth cousins.
In 1722 [his daughter] Mary Osborne Duchess Beaufort [aged 33] died.
On 25th June 1729 Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds [aged 70] died. His son Peregrine [aged 37] succeeded 3rd Duke Leeds, 3rd Earl of Danby, 3rd Viscount Osborne, 3rd Viscount Latimer, 3rd Baron Osborne of Kinderton, 4th Baronet Osborne of Kiveton.
On 8th March 1734 [his former wife] Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds [aged 72] died.
[his daughter] Bridget Osborne was born to Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds and Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds.
Kings Wessex: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 17 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 18 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
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Kings France: Great x 12 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 23 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 15 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Osborne 
Great x 1 Grandfather: Hewett Osborne
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Hewett
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Hewett
Grandfather: Edward Osborne 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Fleetwood 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joyce Fleetwood
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Spring 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Spring
Great x 2 Grandmother: Bridget Spring
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Waldegrave 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Waldegrave
father: Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Walmesley 
Grandmother: Anne Walmesley Lady Osborne 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Danvers 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Sylvester Danvers
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Danvers 19 x Great Grandson of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt 
17 x Great Grandson of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Mordaunt 18 x Great Granddaughter of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Eleanor Danvers 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer 
4 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape 5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy de Vere 7 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Neville 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester 
4 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester 
4 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Bertie 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Bertie Baron Willoughby
Great x 2 Grandfather: Peregrine Bertie 13th Baron Willoughby 9 x Great Grandson of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Willoughby 11th Baron Willoughby 
7 x Great Grandson of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maria de Salinas Baroness Willoughby
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Bertie 1st Earl Lindsey 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford 5 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John de Vere 16th Earl of Oxford 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Trussell Countess of Oxford 8 x Great Granddaughter of King William I of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Vere Baroness Willoughby of Eresby 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Golding
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margery Golding Countess of Oxford
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tonge
Grandfather: Montagu Bertie 2nd Earl Lindsey 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 
7 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen Roper 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Harrington 
18 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harrington 19 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Montagu Countess Lindsey 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Jeffrey of Chiddington Sussex
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jeffrey
mother: Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cockayne 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Cockayne
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cockayne
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Cockayne
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Medcalf
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Medcalf
Grandmother: Martha Cockayne Countess Holderness
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Morris
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Morris Countess Dover