22nd June is in June.
1483 King Edward IV described as Illegitimate
1528 Sweating Sickness Outbreak
1535 Execution of Bishop Fisher and Thomas More
1660 June Creation of Baronets
The Feast Day of Saint Amphibalus is the 22nd of June.
On 22nd June 209 (or 251 or 304) St Alban was beheaded.
On 22nd June 1000 Robert "Magnificent" I Duke Normandy was born to Richard "Good" II Duke Normandy [aged 36] and Judith Penthièvre Duchess Normandy [aged 18].
On 22nd June 1239 King Edward I of England was christened at Westminster Abbey [Map]. Humphrey Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford 1st Earl Essex [aged 35] was godfather. He was named after King Edward "The Confessor" of England. Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 30] and his uncle by marriage Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Chester [aged 31] were his godfathers. He was confirmed the same day.
Annals of Six Kings of England by Nicholas Trivet. When he became pope, he held office for five months and two days, and died [on 22nd June 1276] at Rome, and was buried in the Lateran church. In the same year he was succeeded by Adrian the Fifth, a native of Genoa, formerly called Ottobono, who, as cardinal deacon of the title of Saint Adrian, had been sent to England as legate by Pope Clement the Fourth. Having become pope, he immediately suspended the constitution which Pope Gregory the Tenth had made concerning the enclosure of cardinals for the election of the supreme pontiff, intending to regulate it differently, but, prevented by death [on 18th August 1276], he left the constitution thus suspended. He died before receiving priestly orders and episcopal consecration, and therefore in his bull he called himself not bishop but bishop-elect.
Factus autem papa, sedit mensibus quinque, diebus duobus; moriturque Romæ, et in Lateranensi ecclesia sepelitur. Cui eodem anno successit Adrianus quintus, natione Januensis, dictus antea Ottobonus; qui, tituli sancti Adriani diaconus cardinalis, a papa Clemente quarto legatus in Angliam missus fuit. Hic papa factus, statim constitutionem, quam papa Gregorius decimus fecerat, de inclusione cardinalium pro electione summi pontificis, suspendit, proponens eam aliter ordinare; sed, morte præventus, constitutionem sic suspensam reliquit. Mortuus vero ante tempus ordinum, sacerdotium et consecrationem pontificalem est minime assecutus; unde in bulla sua non episcopum, sed electum episcopum, se vocavit.
On 22nd June 1279 Archbishop William de Wickwane was elected Archbishop of York.
On 22nd June 1283 Dafydd ap Gruffudd Aberffraw Prince of Wales [aged 44] and Owain ap Dafydd Aberffraw [aged 8] were captured at Bera Mawr, Bangor. Dafydd, seriously wounded in the struggle, was brought to King Edward's [aged 44] camp at Rhuddlan [Map] that same night. Dafydd was taken from there to Chester, Cheshire [Map] and then on to Shrewsbury, Shropshire [Map]. Dafydd and Dafydd's wife Elizabeth de Ferrers [aged 43], their daughter Gwladys, infant niece Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn [aged 1], and Dafydd's six illegitimate daughters were also taken prisoner at the same time.
Calendar Scottish Documents Volume 3. 22nd June 1308. 48. The K. having ordered that Elizabeth de Brus [aged 24] wife of Robert de Brus, late earl of Carrick, shall change her residence, commands the bailiff of Brustwyk [Map] to deliver her with her retinue and baggage to his vallet John de Bentelee to be conducted where the K. has instructed him. Marlborough [Close, 1 Edw. II. m.1]
Deeds of King Edward III by Robert of Avesbury. "These are the stages of the chevauchée of my lord the Duke of Lancaster in Normandy, who had in his company Sir John de Montfort, who claimed to be Duke of Brittany, and who from childhood had been raised by the King of England. He had with him 200 men-at-arms and 800 archers. Sir Philip, brother of the King of Navarre, and Sir Geoffrey de Harcourt also came to him with 100 men-at-arms from the region; and Robert Knolles brought 300 men-at-arms and 500 archers from the garrison of Brittany. So in total, my lord the Duke had 900 men-at-arms and 1,400 archers. On Wednesday [22nd June 1356] before the feast of Saint John the Baptist, he departed from the abbey of Montebourg in the Isle of Cotentin and moved to Carentan, which lies five leagues inland, each of those leagues being longer than two English leagues, and he stayed there on the eve of the feast. On Friday, the feast itself [24th June], he moved again, passing before the strong town of Saint-Lô, and travelled to Torigny, which was eight leagues from there, and there he stayed on Saturday. On Sunday, he moved to Evrecy, traveling seven leagues. On Monday, he moved, passing before Caen, to the town of Argences, a distance of seven leagues. On Tuesday, he moved again, crossing the bridge of Corbon, which is an extremely strong fortress and the most fortified crossing in the realm, built across a marsh, and travelled seven leagues until he came to the city of Lisieux. On Wednesday, he moved six leagues to the town and castle of Pont-Audemer, which belonged to the King of Navarre. This castle had been under siege by a great number of men-at-arms and crossbowmen. But when they heard that my lord the Duke had crossed the bridge of Corbon, they fled by night in great haste, leaving behind all their siege engines and artillery, crossbows, pavises, and other various equipment. There, the Duke stayed on Thursday and Friday, to repair the mines that had been dug, so well and so close to the walls that only four feet remained before breaching the castle. He provisioned the castle for a year, and installed as castellan Sir John de Luc, a knight from Brabant, with 50 men-at-arms and 50 archers of his own household. On Saturday, he moved five leagues to the abbey of Bec-Hellouin. On Sunday, he moved to the town of Conches by eight leagues, where he assaulted the castle and took the outer bailey by force, and set it on fire. On Monday, he went to Breteuil, which belonged to the King of Navarre, where there was a very strong castle, also under siege by the king's enemies. But before the Duke's arrival, they had already departed. My lord provisioned that castle well, and the same day went two leagues off the road to a large walled town called Verneuil, which belonged to the Countess of Alençon. That town my lord took by assault, capturing many prisoners and much booty. That same Monday, he attacked a tower within the town, which was very strong, and endured the assault all that day, and on Tuesday and Wednesday until the hour of prime, at which time the tower was surrendered, with all the goods inside, under the condition that the occupants would be spared and not made prisoners. During the assault, many English were wounded by crossbow bolts and stones. The Duke ordered the tower destroyed, for it held many valuable goods. The town of Verneuil is only eighteen leagues from Paris, and is considered the capital of Normandy. On Thursday, my lord rested there to refresh his men. On Friday, while returning toward the Cotentin, my lord the Duke came to a town called L'Aigle, where Sir Charles of Spain had been put to death by King John of France."
"Ces sount lez journees de la chivache monseignur le duk de Lancastre en Normandie, qavoit en sa companye monsire Johan de Mounfort, qe chalange destre duyk de Bretaigne et de lenfaunce avoit este nurry od le roy Dengleterre, et avoit D hommes darmes et VIIJc archiers. Et sire Phelipe, frere au roy de Navarre, et sire Godefray de Harecourt vindrent a luy od C hommes darmes de le pays, et Robert Cnolles amesna del Garenstour de Brutayne CCC hommes darmes et D archiers; si qe mounsire le duyk avoit en toutz DCCCC hommes darmes et mil CCCC archiers. Et le Mescredy proschein devaunt la feste de seint Johan le baptistre se remus del abbeye de Mounteburghe en isle de Constantin a Carant, hors del isle, V lienes de la terre, dount chescun liene est plus long qe IJ lieues Dengleterre, et demurroit illesques la veille de la dite feste. Et le Vendredy, en la dite feste, il se remus, en passaunt devaunt la forte ville de Seintlou, tantqe a Troioye, gest dilleosqes VIIIJ lienes de la terre; et la demurroit il le Samady. Et le Demynge il se remus a Frosscye, par VIJ liemes de la terre. Et le Lundy il se remus, en passaunt par devant Caame, a la ville Dargentyn, par VIJ lieues de la terre. Et le Mardy il se remua, en passaunt le pount Corboun, gest un tres graunt forteresse et le plus forte passage qe soit de realme, en une mareys, par VIJ lienes de la terre, tantqe al cite de Lyseus. Et le Mekerdy il se remua par VJ lieues de la terre tantqe a la ville et le chastiel de Pountodomer, qe sount au roy de Navarre. Quel chastiel fust assiege ou tres graunt nombre dez geantz darmes et arblasters. Et gaunt ils oyeront ge mounseignur le duyk estoit passe le dit pount Corboun, ils se fuerent de nuyt ou trop graunt haste, issint qils lesserount toutz lours engynnes et artillers, arblastes, pavys, et aunltres herneys diverges. Ou il demurroit le Jeofdy et le Vendredy, pur refaire les mynes, qils avoient faitz tres biens et tres fortz a chastiel si pres qils ne faillerent forsqe de IIIJ pees de lez mures del chastiel; et fist vitailler le chastel pur un an, et myst leinz une chastelyn, monsire Johan de Luk, chivaler de Braban, od L hommes darmes et L archiers de ses gentz demene. Et le Samady il se remua dillesqes V lieues de la terre, al abbeye de Bekharlewyn. Et le Dymenge il se remus dillesqes tantqe al ville de Counse, par VIIJ lienes de la terre, od il fist assaut al chastiel et gayna la primere garde du chastiel par force et le fist mettre en fen. Et le Lundy il sen ala a Brycoyl, gest au roy de Navarre, la ou estoit une tres forte chastiel, assege par lez enemys le dist roy. Mes, devaunt la venue mounseignur le duyk, ils se departerount dillesqes. Le quele chastiel mounseignur fist bien vitailler; et sen ala mesme le jour IJ liecues dun ocoste au ume graunt ville murre, appelle Vernoyl, qest a la countesse de Alassoun. Quele ville monseignur gayna par assaut, ls ou estoient pris plasours prisoners et plusours biens. Et tauntost mesme la Lundy il fist assailler une tour en la dite ville de Vernoyl, qestoit tres fort et endurra Iasxaut tout cele jour et le Marsdy et le Meskerdy tanqe al houre de prime, quele houre la tour luy feust rendus od touts les biens dedeinz la tour, en cel condicion qils deveroient aver lour vie et nient estre prisoners. En quele assant fasrent plusours Engleys naufrez de quarels et de peeres. Quele tour mounseignur fist destruire; et avoit illecsqes mults des biens. Et Ia dite ville de Vernoyl nest qe XVIIJ lieues de Parys, et est appelle le chief de Normandy. Et le Jeofdy mounseignur demurra illecsqes pur refressher ses gents. Et le Vendredy, en retournaunt devers la isle de Constantyn, mounseignur le duyk se remua a une ville gest appelle la Egle, ou mounsire Charles Despayne estoit mys a ls mort de le roy Johan de Fraunce."
On 22nd June 1370 John Duke of Görlitz was born to Charles IV King Bohemia Holy Roman Emperor Luxembourg [aged 54] and Elizabeth Pomerania Holy Roman Empress Luxembourg [aged 23].
On 22nd June 1402 Owain Glyndŵr Prince Wales [aged 43] defeated the army of Edmund Mortimer [aged 25] at Knighton, Radnorshire [Map], who was captured, at the Battle of Bryn Glas.
King Henry IV of England [aged 35] made no attempt to ransom Mortimer and, consequently, Mortimer changed his allegiance, and subsequently married Owain's daughter.
Walter Devereux [aged 41] died from wounds.
On 22nd June 1402 George Dunbar 10th Earl March [aged 64] commanded a force of around 200 men from the Berwick garrison who defeated a Scottish army of around 400 men at Nisbet. Patrick "Younger" of Hailes Hepburn [aged 50] was killed. John Cockburn, Thomas Haliburton, John Haliburton and Robert Lawedre were captured.
Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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On 22nd June 1450 Eleanor Trastámara was born to Ferdinand I King Naples [aged 27] and Isabella Clermont Queen Consort Naples [aged 26].
On 22nd June 1476 John Luxembourg Count Soissons was killed at the Battle of Morat. His brother Peter [aged 36] succeeded Count Soissons.
Memoirs of Philip de Commines [1447-1511]. Our master was a cunning politician, and understood well enough that Flanders was of little importance to him, unless he could have Artois with it, which lies betwixt France and them, and is as it were a bridle to the Flemings, affording good soldiers upon occasion, to correct their wantonness and folly; and therefore in taking from the Earl of Flanders the county of Artois, he would leave him the most inconsiderable prince in Europe, without either subjects or authority, except by the permission of the Gantois; whose commissioners, William Ryn and Coppenole, whom I mentioned before (governors of Ghent), were at that time principal in the embassy. Upon the return of the ambassadors, the Lady Margaret [aged 2] was conducted to Hesdin, and delivered into the hands of the Lord des Cordes, in the year 1483, and with her came Madame de Eavestain, Duke Philip of Burgundy's natural daughter, and they were received by the present Monsieur and Madame de Bourbon1, the Lord d'Albret2, and others from the king; and they brought her to Amboise, where the dauphin met her3. If the Duke of Austria could have taken her from her convoy, he would willingly have done it before she left his dominions; but the Gantois had placed too strong a guard about her, for they had begun to abate much of their obedience to him, and many considerable persons joined with them, as having the custody of the young heir, and power of placing and displacing whom they pleased. Among the nobility who were resident in Ghent, there was the Lord of Ravestain, brother to the Duke of Cleves, and chief governor to the young prince, whose name is Philip, still living, and like to possess vast territories, if it please God to spare his life.
Note 1. Anne of France [aged 21], daughter of Louis XI [aged 59] and Charlotte of Savoy [aged 41], married Pierre de Bourbon, Lord of Beaujeu, in 1474, and assumed the title of Duchess of Bourbon in 1488. She died on the 14th of November, 1522, after having governed the kingdom with great prudence and energy during the minority of Charles V1IL
Note 2. Alain le Grand [aged 43], son of Jean d'Albret, Viscount de Tartas, succeeded his grandfather Charles II in 1471. He married Frances, daughter of Jean de Blois, Count of Penthievre; and in virtue of this marriage, set up a claim to the duchy of Brittany, and became a competitor for the hand of Anne of Brittany. He died in October, 1522. [Note. This note appears incorrect? Alain married Francois Chatillon, daughter of William Viscount of Limoges.]
Note 3. Margaret was then three years and a half old, and the Dauphin rather more than twelve. Their meeting took place on Sunday, the 22nd of June, 1483, at a place called Metairie le Rayne, near Amboise. "The Dauphin," says a contemporary letter, "left the Castle of Amboise, dressed in a robe of crimson satin, lined with black velvet, and mounted on a hackney, and attended by thirty archers. At the bridge he dismounted, after having saluted the ladies, and changed his dress and put on a long robe of cloth of gold... Presently the Dauphiness arrived, and descended from her litter; and immediately they were betrothed by the prothonotary, nephew of the Grand Seneschal of Normandy, who demanded of the Dauphin in a loud voice, so that all could hear him, If he would have Margaret of Austria in marriage? and he answered, Yes; and a similar question was put to the Dauphiness, who gave the same answer. Upon which, they joined hands, and the Dauphin kissed the Dauphiness twice; and then they returned to their lodgings. And the streets of Amboise were hung with cloth, and in the market place was a figure of a Siren, who spouted forth white wine and red from her breasts." The next day, the young couple went through the ceremony of marriage in the chapel of the castle. Dupont, iii. 345. 352.
On 22nd June 1483 Ralph Shaa preached the bastardy of Edward IV at St Paul's Cross [Map] and that, consequently, Richard [aged 30], Duke of Gloucester, was the legitimate heir to the throne of England.
The History of King Richard the Third by Thomas More. [22nd June 1483] Of these two, the one had a sermon in praise of the Protector [aged 30] before the coronation, the other after; both so full of tedious flattery that no man's ears could abide them. Penker in his sermon so lost his voice that he was glad to leave off and come down in the midst. Doctor Shaa by his sermon lost his honesty and soon after his life, for very shame of the world, into which he dared never after come abroad. But the friar cared not for shame, and so it harmed him the less. However, some doubt and many think that Penker was not of counsel of the matter before the coronation, but after the common manner fell to flattery afterwards; namely, because his sermon was not immediately after it, but at Saint Mary's Hospital on the Easter after. But certain is it that Doctor Shaa was of counsel in the beginning so far forth that they determined he should first break the matter in a sermon at Paul's Cross, in which he should, by the authority of his preaching, incline the people to the Protector's ghostly purpose.
The History of King Richard the Third by Thomas More. "For as that worshipful man thoroughly made clear to you1, the children of King Edward the Fourth were never lawfully begotten, forasmuch as the King (while his true wife, Dame Elizabeth Lucy, was still living) was never lawfully married unto the Queen [aged 46], their mother, whose blood, except that he set voluptuous pleasure before his honor, was fully unsuitable to be matched with his; and the mingling of their bloods together has been the effusion of the greater part of the noble blood of this realm. Whereby it may well seem that the marriage was not well made, out of which there is so much mischief grown. For lack of such lawful coupling, and also of other things which the said worshipful Doctor rather signified than fully explained, and which things shall not be spoken by me as the things wherein every man forbears to say because he knows to avoid the displeasure of my noble Lord Protector [aged 30], who bears, as nature requires, a filial reverence to the Duchess his mother [aged 68], for these causes before mentioned, I say, that is, for lack of other issue lawfully coming of the late noble Prince Richard, Duke of York, to whose royal blood the crown of England and of France is by the high authority of Parliament entailed, the right and title of the same is by the just course of inheritance, according to the common law of this land, handed down and come unto the most excellent Prince, the Lord Protector, as the very lawfully begotten son of the remembered noble Duke of York.
Note 1. A reference to Ralph Shaa preaching on the 22nd June 1483 that the children of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville were illegitimate.
Chronicle of Robert Fabyan [-1512]. Thanue began the longe couert dissymulacion, whiche of the lorde protectour had been so craftly shadowyd, to breke out at large, insomoche that vpon the Sonday [22nd June 1483] folowyng at Paulyscrosse, hymself, with the duke of Bukkyngham, and other lordes beynge present, by the mouth of doctour Rafe Shaa, in the tyme of his sermon, was there shewyd openly that the childerhe of kynge Edwarde the iiij were nat legitimat, nor ryghtfull enherytours of the crowne, with many dislaunderous wordes, in preferrynge of the tytle of the sayd lorde protectour, and in disanullyng of the other, to the great abusion of all the audyence, except such as fauoured the matyer, which were fewe in nornbre, if the trouthe or playnesse myght haue ben shewyd. Of the whiche declaracion, as the fame went after, the sayd doctour Shaa toke such repentaunce, that he lyued in lytell prosperite after. And the more he was wonderyd of that he wold take vpon hym suche a besynesse, consydeiynge that he was so famous a man, both of his lernynge and also of naturall wytte.
Chronicles of London Vitellius A XVI. [22nd June 1483] And vpon the sonday after was declared at powles Crosse, that kyng Edwardes childern wer not Ryghtfull Enheritours vnto the Crowne, but that the Duke of Glowcetir's title was bettir than thers.
The Usurpation of Richard III by Mancini Chapter 6. When he exhibited himself through the streets of the city he was scarcely watched by anybody, rather did they curse him with a fate worthy of his crimes, since no one now doubted at what he was aiming. After that he took a special opportunity of publicly showing his hand; since he so corrupted preachers of the divine word,90 that in their sermons to the people they did not blush to say, in the face of decency and all religion, that the progeny of King Edward should be instantly eradicated, for neither had he been a legitimate king, nor could his issue be so. Edward, said they, was conceived in adultery and in every way was unlike the late duke of York, whose son he was falsely said to be, but Richard, duke of Gloucester, who altogether resembled his father, was to come to the throne as the legitimate successor.
Note 90. Mancini speaks of preachers and sermons as though more than one preacher was induced to advocate Richard's claim. On Sunday, 22 June [1483], Doctor Ralph Shaw preached at Paul's Cross, declaring Richard's right to the crown and the bastardy of Edward IV and his children (Great Chronicle, f. 207; Fabyan, Chronicles, 669; Chronicles of London, 190; More, Richard III, 433-9; Polydor Vergil, Anglica Historia, 691-2. These sources give the vite date, i.e. the Sunday after Hastings's death; the true date is fixed by counting the days backward from Richard's accession on 26 June 1483). More also records a sermon preached in favour of Richard by Penket (called Penker by More), an Augustinian Hermit, but this was not until Easter 1484 (More, Richard III, 433).
Polydore Vergil [1470-1555]. [22nd June 1483] He [Richard] had a private conversation with Ralph Shaa, a priest of the time who enjoyed great popular esteem, and explained to him that his father's heritage was his by right, being the eldest of all the children whom his father Duke Richard of Gloucester had sired by his mother Cecily. For it was a well known fact that Edward, who had reigned previously, was a bastard, that is, that he was not born of a legal and legitimate wife, and that this was shown by well-known evidence. And he asked Shaa to consent to deliver a sermon from St. Paul's pulpit instructing the people in this thing, so that at length they would acknowledge their true sovereign. And he said he was asking this so urgently because he thought it better to slight his mother's dignity and honor than to allow the realm to be dishonoured by such a royal line any longer. Either stricken by fear or seized by folly, Ralph undertook to humor him. And when the day was at hand, Richard, who had made himself more powerful under the pretext of attending to some other item of business, came to St. Paul's cathedral with an armed escort, in royal style, and there attended the sermon with ears pricked up. With him in the audience, Ralph (who was a learned man) took this occasion to speak, not of some divine matter, but of a tragic one, and produced many arguments to show that Edward was not fathered by Richard Duke of York, but rather by someone else, who had seduced his mother by stealth. And was shown by certain proofs: that Edward resembled his father Richard neither in face nor in form, since he was tall while Richard was a small man, and had a large face, whereas Richard's was small and compact. But no man could doubt, if he considered such things, that Richard was the duke's genuine son, who should possess his father's throne, which was rightfully his. And he particularly urged the lords, seeing that they lacked a king at present, to choose Richard, the true royal offspring, as their sovereign, repudiating others, who were base-born. When the people heard these words, they were wonderfully distraught, for, angry at the indignity of the thing, with all their hearts they cursed the preacher's temerity, boldness, uncouthness, and the error of Richard's criminal mind. For he failed to see how much shame, how much disgrace, how much of a blot he was casting on both his family and the entire realm by publicly condemning his mother, a most chaste woman, as an adulteress, by branding his brother, who had deserved well of him, with a lasting mark of infamy, and by covering his most innocent nephews with an enduring reproach. So at one and the time you could see some men standing as amazed as madmen by the novelty and strangeness of the thing, others frightened for themselves because they were friends of the royal boys, and yet others grieving for the boys themselves, for they believed that by now they were ruined. There is a popular story that in that sermon it was Edward's sons who were called bastards, not Edward himself, which is far from the truth, since Edward's mother Cecily, as I have said, was falsely accused of adultery and afterwards complained to a number of lords, some of whom are still living, of this insult she received at the hands of her son. But after his mother had thus been slandered in public and his brother Edward covered with shame, Richard was affected by happiness that this thing had been made public, which he had arranged so as to make plain to all men that the throne belonged him as a matter of right, rather than by the shame he should have felt. And he returned to the Tower with his royal escort, as if he had already been proclaimed king by parliament. But Ralph Shaa, the preacher of such a disgraceful thing, was soon thereafter chastised by his friends, embarrassed by his infamy, and returned to his sanity, and he so greatly repented what he had done that he soon died of a broken heart and paid the deserved penalty for his silliness.
On 22nd June 1528 William Carey [aged 28] died of sweating sickness. He was buried at Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire [Map].
The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Letter 10. Henry VIII [aged 36] to Anne Boleyn [aged 27].
The cause of my writing at this time, good sweetheart, is only to understand of your good health and prosperity; whereof to know I would be as glad as in manner mine own, praying God that (an it be His pleasure) to send us shortly together, for I promise you I long for it. How be it, I trust it shall not be long to; and seeing my darling is absent, I can do no less than to send her some flesh, representing my name, which is hart flesh for Henry, prognosticating that hereafter, God willing, you may enjoy some of mine, which He pleased, I would were now.
As touching your sister's [aged 29] matter, I have caused Walter Welze to write to my lord my mind therein, whereby I trust that Eve shall not have power to deceive Adam; for surely, whatsoever is said, it cannot so stand with his honour but that he must needs take her, his natural daughter, now in her extreme necessity.
No more to you at this time, mine own darling, but that with a wish I would we were together an evening.
With the hand of yours,
H.R.
Note. The date of this letter is presumed to be after 22nd June 1528 when William Carey [deceased], husband of Mary Boleyn, Anne's sister, died of sweating sickness.
Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic Henry VIII 1530. 22nd June 1530. S. B. 6469. PARLIAMENT.
Authority to Sir Tho. More [aged 52], chancellor, Thomas duke of Norfolk [aged 57], treasurer, Robert earl of Sussex [aged 47], and John bishop of Carlisle to prorogue the Parliament from this present day, Wednesday, to the 1st of October next, on account of the pestilence in London and its suburbs. Del. Westm., 22 June 22 Hen. VIII.
Before 22nd June 1535 Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley Walden [aged 47] presided over the trial of Bishop John Fisher [aged 65] and Thomas More [aged 57] both of whom refused to take the Oath Of Supremacy. The judges including Anne Boleyn's father Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde [aged 58]. Thomas Cromwell 1st Earl Essex [aged 50] brought Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich [aged 38] as a witness who testified that Thomas More had denied that the King was the legitimate head of the Church. However, Richard Southwell [aged 32] to the contrary.
The jury took, somewhat unsurprisingly, only fifteen minutes to conclude Thomas More was guilty. He was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered; the King [aged 43] commuted this to beheading.
On 22nd June 1535 Bishop John Fisher [aged 65] was beheaded on Tower Hill [Map].
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Chronicle of Edward Hall [1496-1548]. 22nd June 1535 Also the twenty-second day of the same month John Fisher Bishop of Rochester [aged 65] was beheaded, and his head set upon London bridge [Map]. This bishop was of very many men lamented, for he was reported to be a man of great learning, and a man of very good life, but therein wonderfully deceived, for he maintained the Pope to be Supreme Head of the Church, and very maliciously refused the King's title of Supreme Head. It was said that the Pope, for that he held so manfully with him and stood so stiffly in his cause, did elect him a Cardinal, and sent the Cardinals hat as far as Calais, but the head it should have stood on, was as high as London Bridge or ever the hat could come to Bishop Fisher, and then it was too late and therefore he neither ware it nor enjoyed his office. This man as I said was accomplished learned, yea, and that very notably learned, and yet have you heard how he was deceived with Elizabeth Barton that called herself the Holy Maid of Kent, and no doubt so was he in the defence of that usurped authority, the more pity. Wonderful it is that a man being learned should be so blind in the scriptures of God that prove the supreme authority of Princes so manifestly.
Wriothesley's Chronicle [1508-1562]. 22nd June 1535. Allso, the 22th of June, beinge Tewsday, John Fisher [aged 65], Bishopp of Rochester, was beheaded at the Tower Hill, and the residue of his execution pardoned; his bodie was buried within Barkinge churche [Map] yearb next the Towre of London, and his head was sett on London Bridge.
Note b. Bishop Fisher's body was taken up out of Barking churchyard [Map], and re-buried with Sir Thomas More, both in the Tower. — Stow, p. 672.
Spanish Chronicle Chapter 18. How Thomas More and the Bishop of Rochester died.
Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic Henry VIII 1535. 22nd June 1535. Add. MS. 8,715, f. 76 b. B. M. 909. Bishop of Faenza to M. Ambrogio.
The Admiral [aged 43], who was 22 days at Calais, returned on the 17th, though it was said everywhere that he would go on to England. Mons. de Ricciafort [aged 32] (Rochford), the brother of the new Queen [aged 34], came here for eight days, but, as far as could be seen, did nothing. It is only from his relation to the Queen that he is employed, for the King has very few to trust in. All business passes through the hands of people who depend on the new Queen, and must therefore be settled according to her purpose. This was the case in the negociations with the Admiral, which were broken off on account of his refusal to allow the duke of Angoulême to go to England until the girl was old enough to be married, and because he would not declare in any way against the Church, or in favour of the King's second wife (ne voler difendere in alcun modo contro la chiesa o declaratione del concilio la causa della seconda moglie1). Every one knows that the alliance (parentado) has not been concluded, as both sides confidently affirmed it would be, but that the ambassadors separated very ill satisfied, and the English are guarding Calais more carefully than they have done, even when the French were there in greater numbers. However, both sides affirm the friendship to be firmer than ever. The French king and Council say that their respect to the Holy See and the Pope has been the principal cause of their not coming to some other understanding (ad altro ristretto) with the king of England, who is a most bitter enemy of the Church, and so firm in his opinion that he intends to die in it, and tries to have this kingdom for company. The Duke of Norfolk [aged 62], according to the Admiral, affirms that he would sooner die than see any change as regards the King or the new Queen; which is not unlike what the writer has heard in other ways of Norfolk, viz., that this breaking off might reasonably have been expected, matters depending very much on his dexterity, and the affairs of England being commonly managed more than barbarously. For he, being one of the greatest men in the kingdom, and having sons, and the Duke of Richmond [aged 16] for his son-in-law, might hope one day to have that daughter for one of his sons, or, if disorders ensued, to get the rule into his own hands. The French lords are not too well contented with the English, who, since Norfolk's return, have despatched a courier, and show themselves displeased that nothing was concluded at Calais. The Admiral, though he takes Fisher's [aged 65] case much to heart, has great fears for his life, especially as the Pope says in the brief that the created him a cardinal to make use of him in the Council. He says also that the English pretended that he could not live much more than a month, being a valetudinarian of 90; which shows what they mean to do with him, reckoning him 25 years older than he is, although they declare there is no hope in any case of his coming out of prison. These are truly the most monstrous things seen in our time. The French make great account with the Pope of not listening to anything proposed to them by the English which might turn to the damage of the Holy See.
Ital., pp. 9, modern copy. Headed: In Amoien, al Sig. M. Ambrogio, alli 12 (sic) ut supra.
2. An extract copy from the original is in the Vatican transcripts, dated Amiens, 22 June 1535. Pp. 3.
Note 1. nor want to defend the cause of the second wife in any way against the church or declaration of the council
Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic Henry VIII 1535. 22nd June 1535. Add. MS. 8,715, f. 80 b. B. M. 910. Bishop of Faenza to M. di Fossumbrone, Papal Nuncio with the Emperor.
The Admiral [aged 43], who was at Calais with the Duke of Norfolk [aged 62], returned six days ago without having concluded the marriage of the duke of Angoulême with the last daughter [aged 1] of the King, which was spoken of as certain on both sides, or anything else that one can hear of; but the capitulation and the old friendship remain. The cause was the exorbitant demand of the English that the French king should bind himself to maintain Henry's marriage against the Pope and any determination of the Council; and finally they wished him to act in Church matters as had been done in England. They are very anxious about Fisher [aged 65]. The English who were at Calais say that he will not come out of prison; that he is 90 years of age, and very ill, giving him 25 years more than he has; and that he cannot live more than a month; so that it is easily seen that in this their actions correspond with the others. The cardinal of Paris set out four days ago for Rome. * * *
Ital., pp. 2, modern copy. Headed: A Mons. di Fossumbrone, Nuntio di Sua Santita all a Maesta Casarea. D'Amien, alli 22 di Giugno 1535.
On 22nd June 1557 Richard Woodman, George Stevens, Alexander Hosman, William Mainard, Thomasina Wood, Margery Morris, James Morris, Denis Burges, Ann Ashdon and Mary Groves were burned to death in front of the Star Inn, now Lewes Town Hall for being Protestants; the largest number of people burned at one time in England. The event is commemorated by the Sussex Bonfire Societies.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 22nd June 1562. The xxij day of June was the masters the Salters' fest, and ther dynyd my lord keper of the selle [aged 51] and my lord of Bedfoord [aged 35] and my lord cheyff justes.
On 22nd June 1607 Princess Sophia Stewart was born to King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 41] and Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland [aged 32]. She died aged less than one years old.
On 22nd June 1610 William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset [aged 22] and Arabella Stewart [aged 35] were married in secret at Palace of Placentia, Greenwich [Map]. For having married without permission King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 44] had Arabella Stewart imprisoned in Sir Thomas Perry's House, Lambeth and he in the Tower of London [Map]. She the daughter of Charles Stewart 5th Earl Lennox and Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Lennox. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
Diary of Anne Clifford. 22nd June 1617. The 22nd my Lord [aged 28] sent Adam to trim the Child's hair, and sent me the dewsetts of two deer and wrote me a letter between kindness and unkindness.
Note 1. Mr. Adam Bradford, Barber.
Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. 22nd June 1621. About Friday the 22nd of this month was Doctor Williams [aged 39], Dean of Westminster, sworn of the Privy Council, after he bad been first made Bishop of Lincoln; and the Earl of Southampton [aged 47] was committed prisoner to him at his Deanery of Westminster1. For what cause none of his own servants yet knew, from which imprisonment he was again awhile after freed by the mediation of some noble persons with the beloved Marquis of Buckingham [aged 28], whom the issue showed he had only offended, crossing him often during the continuance of Parliament, and answering him shortly since it had been adjourned.
Note 1. "The Earl of Southampton is committed to Dr. Dean of Westminster, his keeper being Sir Richard Weston [aged 44]. The Earl desired three things of the Lords, 1. That in regard his lady [aged 49] was much subject unto sudden grief and passion, his letter might be the first messenger of his detainment, 2. That because his son [aged 16] was ready to go to travel, he might first speak with him and give some directions. 3. That he might be permitted, in his Majesty's presence, to answer all that should be objected against him. The two former were granted conditionally, that Sir Richard Weston might see the one and hear the other; which were accordingly performed. The third was not in them to grant, but in his Majesty, and therefore put it off." - HarL MSS,
On 22nd June 1644 Francis Newport 1st Earl Bradford [aged 24] was captured during the Battle of Oswestry fighting for the Royalists.
In June 1660 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 30] rewarded those who supported his Restoration...
6th William Wray 1st Baronet [aged 35] and John Talbot of Lacock [aged 29] were knighted.
7th Geoffrey Palmer 1st Baronet [aged 62] was created 1st Baronet Palmer of Carlton in Northampton
7th Orlando Bridgeman 1st Baronet [aged 54] was created 1st Baronet Bridgeman of Great Lever in Lancashire.
7th John Langham 1st Baronet [aged 76] was created 1st Baronet Langham of Cottesbrooke in Northamptonshire.
11th Henry Wright 1st Baronet [aged 23] was created 1st Baronet Wright of Dagenham. Ann Crew Lady Wright by marriage Lady Wright of Dagenham.
13th Nicholas Gould 1st Baronet was created 1st Baronet Gould of the City of London.
14th Thomas Allen 1st Baronet [aged 27] was created 1st Baronet Allen of Totteridge in Middlesex.
18th Thomas Cullum 1st Baronet [aged 73] was created 1st Baronet Cullum of Hastede in Suffolk.
19th Thomas Darcy 1st Baronet [aged 28] was created 1st Baronet Darcy of St Osith's.
22nd Robert Cordell 1st Baronet was created 1st Baronet Cordell of Long Melford.
22nd John Robinson 1st Baronet [aged 45] was created 1st Baronet Robinson of London. Anne Whitmore Lady Robinson [aged 48] by marriage Lady Robinson of London.
25th William Bowyer 1st Baronet [aged 47] was created 1st Baronet Bowyer of Denham Court. Margaret Weld Lady Bowyer [aged 43] by marriage Lady Bowyer of Denham Court.
25th Thomas Stanley 1st Baronet [aged 63] was created 1st Baronet Stanley of Alderley in Cheshire.
26th Jacob Astley 1st Baronet [aged 21] was created 1st Baronet Astley of Hill Morton.
27th William Wray 1st Baronet was created 1st Baronet Wray of Ashby in Lincolnshire. Olympia Tufton Lady Ashby [aged 36] by marriage Lady Wray of Ashby in Lincolnshire.
28th Oliver St John 1st Baronet [aged 36] was created 1st Baronet St John of Woodford in Northamptonshire.
29th Ralph Delaval 1st Baronet [aged 37] was created 1st Baronet Delaval of Seaton in Northumberland. Anne Leslie Lady Delaval by marriage Lady Delaval of Seaton in Northumberland.
30th Andrew Henley 1st Baronet [aged 38] was created 1st Baronet Henley of Henley in Somerset.
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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Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd June 1660. To my Lord, where much business. With him to White Hall, where the Duke of York not being up, we walked a good while in the Shield Gallery. Mr. Hill (who for these two or three days hath constantly attended my Lord) told me of an offer of £500 for a Baronet's dignity, which I told my Lord of in the balcone in this gallery, and he said he would think of it. I to my Lord's and gave order for horses to be got to draw my Lord's great coach to Mr. Crew's [aged 62]. Mr. Morrice the upholsterer came himself to-day to take notice what furniture we lack for our lodgings at Whitehall. My dear friend Mr. Fuller [aged 52] of Twickenham and I dined alone at the Sun Tavern, where he told me how he had the grant of being Dean of St. Patrick's, in Ireland; and I told him my condition, and both rejoiced one for another. Thence to my Lord's, and had the great coach to Brigham's, who went with me to the Half Moon [Map], and gave me a can of good julep, and told me how my Lady Monk [aged 51] deals with him and others for their places, asking him £500, though he was formerly the King's [aged 30] coach-maker, and sworn to it. My Lord abroad, and I to my house and set things in a little order there. So with Mr. Moore to my father's [aged 59], I staying with Mrs. Turner [aged 37] who stood at her door as I passed. Among other things she told me for certain how my old Lady Middlesex--herself the other day in the presence of the King, and people took notice of it. Thence called at my father's, and so to Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hetley had sent a letter for me, and two pair of silk stockings, one for W. Howe, and the other for me. To Sir H. Wright's [aged 23] to my Lord, where he, was, and took direction about business, and so by link home about 11 o'clock. To bed, the first time since my coming from sea, in my own house, for which God be praised.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd June 1662. Coming home to-night, I met with Will. Swan, who do talk as high for the Fanatiques as ever he did in his life; and do pity my Lord Sandwich [aged 36] and me that we should be given up to the wickedness of the world; and that a fall is coming upon us all; for he finds that he and his company are the true spirit of the nation, and the greater part of the nation too, who will have liberty of conscience in spite of this "Act of Uniformity", or they will die; and if they may not preach abroad, they will preach in their own houses. He told me that certainly Sir H. Vane [deceased] must be gone to Heaven, for he died as much a martyr and saint as ever man did; and that the King [aged 32] hath lost more by that man's death, than he will get again a good while. At all which I know not what to think; but, I confess, I do think that the Bishops will never be able to carry it so high as they do.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd June 1664. At noon to the 'Change [Map] and Coffee-house, where great talke of the Dutch preparing of sixty sayle of ships. The plague grows mightily among them, both at sea and land. From the 'Change [Map] to dinner to Trinity House, Deptford [Map] with Sir W. Rider and Cutler, where a very good dinner. Here Sir G. Ascue [aged 48] dined also, who I perceive desires to make himself known among the seamen.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd June 1665. Up pretty betimes, and in great pain whether to send my another into the country to-day or no, I hearing, by my people, that she, poor wretch, hath a mind to stay a little longer, and I cannot blame her, considering what a life she will through her own folly lead when she comes home again, unlike the pleasure and liberty she hath had here. At last I resolved to put it to her, and she agreed to go, so I would not oppose it, because of the sicknesse in the towne, and my intentions of removing my wife. So I did give her money and took a kind leave of her, she, poor wretch, desiring that I would forgive my brother John [aged 24], but I refused it to her, which troubled her, poor soul, but I did it in kind words and so let the discourse go off, she leaving me though in a great deal of sorrow.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd June 1664. Thence home, there coming to me my Lord Peterborough's [aged 42] Sollicitor with a letter from him to desire present dispatch in his business of freight, and promises me £50, which is good newes, and I hope to do his business readily for him. This much rejoiced me. All the afternoon at his business, and late at night comes the Sollicitor again, and I with him at 9 o'clock to Mr. Povy's [aged 50], and there acquainted him with the business. The money he won't pay without warrant, but that will be got done in a few days.
John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd June 1665. We waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer [aged 43], and got an Order of Council for our money to be paid to the Treasurer of the Navy for our Receivers.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd June 1667. They being gone, by and by comes Sir W. Pen [aged 46] home, and he and I together talking. He hath been at Court; and in the first place, I hear the Duke of Cambridge [deceased] is dead; a which is a great loss to the nation, having, I think, never an heyre male now of the King's or Duke's to succeed to the Crown. He tells me that they do begin already to damn the Dutch, and call them cowards at White Hall, and think of them and their business no better than they used to do; which is very sad.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd June 1668. Thence to the Harp and Ball I to drink, and so to the Coffee-house in Covent Garden [Map]; but met with nobody but Sir Philip Howard [aged 37], who shamed me before the whole house there, in commendation of my speech in Parliament, and thence I away home to dinner alone, my wife being at her tailor's, and after dinner comes Creed, whom I hate, to speak with me, and before him comes Mrs. Daniel about business....[Note. Missing text "and yo did tocar su cosa with mi mano"1] She gone, Creed and I to the King's playhouse, and saw an act or two of the new play ["Evening's Love"] again, but like it not. Calling this day at Herringman's, he tells me Dryden [aged 36] do himself call it but a fifth-rate play.
Note 1. "And I did touch her thing with my hand."
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd June 1668. Thence with him to my Lord Brouncker's [aged 48], where a Council of the Royall Society; and there heard Mr. Harry Howard's [aged 39] noble offers about ground for our College, and his intentions of building his own house there most nobly. My business was to meet Mr. Boyle [aged 41], which I did, and discoursed about my eyes; and he did give me the best advice he could, but refers me to one Turberville [aged 56], of Salsbury, lately come to town, which I will go to1. Thence home, where the streets full, at our end of the town, removing their wine against the Act begins, which will be two days hence, to raise the price. I did get my store in of Batelier this night. So home to supper and to bed.
Note 1. Daubigny Turberville, of Oriel College; created M.D. at Oxford,1660. He was a physician of some eminence, and, dying at Salisbury on the 21st April, 1696, aged eighty-five, he was buried in the cathedral, where his monument remains. Cassan, in his "Lives of the Bishops of Sarum", part iii., p. 103, has reprinted an interesting account of Turberville, from the "Memoir of Bishop Seth Ward", published in 1697, by Dr. Walter Pope. Turberville was born at Wayford, co. Somerset, in 1612, and became an expert oculist; and probably Pepys received great benefit from his advice, as his vision does not appear to have failed during the many years that he lived after discontinuing the Diary. The doctor died rich, and subsequently to his decease his sister Mary, inheriting all his prescriptions, and knowing how to use them, practised as an oculist in London with good reputation. B.
John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd June 1679. There were now divers Jesuits executed about the plot, and a rebellion in Scotland of the fanatics, so that there was a sad prospect of public affairs.
On 22nd June 1680 Elisabeth Saxe Coburg Altenburg [aged 1] died of smallpox at Gotha.
John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd June 1684. Last Friday Sir Tho. Armstrong [deceased] was executed at Tyburn [Map] for treason, without tryal, having ben outlaw'd and apprehended in Holland, on the conspiracy of the Duke of Monmouth [aged 35], Lord Russell, &c. which gave occasion of discourse to people and lawyers, in reguard it was on an outlawry that judgment was given and execution.
John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd June 1685. Argyle [aged 56] taken in Scotland and executed, and his party dispers'd..
John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd June 1702. I dined at the Archbishop's [aged 65] with the newly made Bishop of Carlisle, Dr. Nicolson, my worthy and learned correspondent.
On 22nd June 1713 John Sackville was born to Lionel Cranfield Sackville 1st Duke Dorset [aged 25] and Elizabeth Colyear Duchess Dorset [aged 24]. He married 1744 his half third cousin Frances Leveson-Gower, daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1725 Susan Murray [aged 26] died from childbirth having given birth to a child a week or before, and which had died the the day after she was christened.
Annals of the six Kings of England by Nicholas Trivet
Translation of the Annals of the Six Kings of England by that traces the rise and rule of the Angevin aka Plantagenet dynasty from the mid-12th to early 14th century. Written by the Dominican scholar Nicholas Trivet, the work offers a vivid account of English history from the reign of King Stephen through to the death of King Edward I, blending political narrative with moral reflection. Covering the reigns of six monarchs—from Stephen to Edward I—the chronicle explores royal authority, rebellion, war, and the shifting balance between crown, church, and nobility. Trivet provides detailed insight into defining moments such as baronial conflicts, Anglo-French rivalry, and the consolidation of royal power under Edward I, whose reign he describes with particular immediacy. The Annals combines careful year-by-year reporting with thoughtful interpretation, presenting history not merely as a sequence of events but as a moral and political lesson. Ideal for readers interested in medieval history, kingship, and the origins of the English state, this chronicle remains a valuable and accessible window into the turbulent world of the Plantagenet kings.
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On 22nd June 1772 Henry George Herbert 2nd Earl Carnarvon was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square.
On or before 22nd June 1777, the date he was baptised, John Thirtle was born.
On 22nd June 1778 George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland was born to Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley [aged 28] and Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley [aged 27]. He married 22nd June 1801 his fifth cousin once removed Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie and had issue.
On 22nd June 1801 George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland [aged 23] and Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie [aged 19] were married. He the son of Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley [aged 51] and Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley [aged 50]. They were fifth cousin once removed.
On 22nd June 1801 John Francis [aged 20] and Mary Evetts [aged 21] were married at Thornham, Norfolk.
On 22nd June 1819 Mary Anastasia Grace Mordaunt 11th Baroness Mordaunt [aged 80] died. Her second cousin Alexander [aged 76] succeeded 12th Baron Mordaunt.
On 22nd June 1820 George John Manners was born to John Henry Manners 5th Duke Rutland [aged 42] and Elizabeth Howard Duchess Rutland [aged 39]. He married 4th October 1855 his second cousin Adeliza Matilda Fitzalan, daughter of Henry Charles Howard 13th Duke of Norfolk and Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower Duchess Norfolk, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1821 Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy 7th Duke Grafton was born to Henry Fitzroy 5th Duke Grafton [aged 31] and Mary Caroline Berkeley Duchess Grafton [aged 26]. He a great x 4 grandson of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland. He married 9th June 1847 Anne Balfour and had issue.
Saint Michael and All Angels Church, Church Broughton [Map] was restored by J. R. Naylor of Derby. It was re-opened by the Bishop of Southwell [aged 58] on 22 June 1886.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1900 Basingwerk Abbey. Basingwerk Abbey [Map]. The effort (says a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian) which is to be made with the view of preserving the remains of Basingwerk Abbey, Flintshire, from further dilapidation, is rousing keen interest among archaeologists in Flintshire, Cheshire, and even more distant places. The Flintshirc County Council have also the matter in hand, and the probability is that a strong committee will be formed to deal with the matter, and to preserve this beautiful ruin, with its rich historical associations, from being yet more rudely dealt with by the hand of time. The Abbey stands on rising ground not far distant from the Holyhead railway station. The origin of the name Basingwerk" is absolutely unknown. Learned writers in the Archceologia Cambrensis, and kindred publications, have made ingenious guesses and deductions on the subject, but none of them agree. With regard to the date of the foundation of the Abbey, it is stated by Bishop Tanner that Ranulph, Earl of Chester, began to build it about 1131, and that it was afterwards added to by Henry II, and bestowed upon the Cistercian Order in 1159. The accuracy of Tanner's conjecture is borne out by the confirmation of grants made to God, St. Mary, and the monks of Basingwerk" by Henry II, wherein the King says:—" And I moreover do grant and confirm to them all their tenements which Ranulph Earl of Chester and other barons have given to them, that is to say, Halliwelle and Falibroch, and the chapel of Basingwerk, in which they at first dwelt, with the mills and all their apourtenances." From the words "in which they at first dwelt," it is evident the monks had been some time settled at Basingwerk at the date of the granting of this charter. The charters of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth and his son, David, both speak of gifts which their predecessors had bestowed upon the monks of Basingwerk, and the probability, therefore, is that the original foundation was by one of the earlier princes of Wales. The Cistercians had no religious house in this country before 1128, so that the first monks at Basingwerk must have belonged to some other Order, perhaps the Fratres Gresei, as conjectured by the l% laborious" Leland. Giraldus de Barri (Cambrensis) was here in the train of Archbishop Baldwin, and he describes it as "cellula de Basingwerk" (the little cell of Basingwerk"). In the time of the first Edward we find that the Abbas de Basingwerk" was called to Parliament, and Edward gave one of them a tract of land at Gelli, in Whitford, where there used to be a chapel belonging to the monks of Basingwerk (it is now a farmhouse). There is no doubt that at one time the Abbey was a rich and flourishing one, with property in various parts of the country. Henry II confirmed to them, among other possessions, "a hundred shillings out of the revenues of Chester," and they also had the church of Holywell and the chapel of Colsul (Coleshill), the village of Wenhewm," tithes of fish from Rhuddlan and other places, and property in the English dioceses of Coventry and Lichneld. Tanner states they also had a silver mine at Basingwerk. About the end of the fifteenth century, the Abbot of Basingwerk was Thomas ap Davydd Pennant. The herald bard, Guttyn Owain (who in those days resided alternately at Basingwerk and Strata Florida), wrote a poem (still extant) in which he compliments this abbot upon his illustrious pedigree, and then proceeds to describe the Abbey in most interesting fashion:
It is a part of heaven he is the Sovereign of our language Excellent are the buildings the houses of the district Of faultless freestone abundant are the materials. And native oaks in an extensive park. Houses of delicious wine the temple of the saints Houses of the choir a house for the convent A good house for the corn on the other side. There is a malt house and it has a brick house. There is a stone wall by Cilgwri, And upon it a gate house. Upon a rampart, where a load of gold might be obtained, Has a narrow fortress shutting in the monks. With mills has he tilled with every available glen and hill. Generous God, wherever his lot falls There the work of water and wind is not in vain. Gold has been bestowed upon the fabric On the land of God, like the leaves in number. Should the gold of a king have been there contributed, He has given twice as much in wine. Goods and victuals without number He daily gives to all the world."
In 1543 (32 Henry VIII) letters patent were passed under the Great Seal, being a grant of the reversion of the Abbey to Harrye ap Harrye and Peter Mutton, in consideration of the sum of £280 8s. 8d. The daughter of the first named married one of the Mostyns of Talacre, and the Abbey and grounds now belong to Sir Pyers Mostyn, of Talacre, the head of one of the chief Roman Catholic families in North Wales. — Wrexham Advertiser, June 22nd, 1901.
Annals of Kings Richard II and Henry IV 1393-1406
The Annals of Kings Richard II and Henry IV offers a vivid contemporary account of one of the most turbulent periods in late medieval England. Covering the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, the chronicle records royal ceremonies, political conflict, rebellion, war, taxation, religious controversy, executions, popular unrest and remarkable portents. Its pages include a detailed description of Richard II’s coronation, the fall and deposition of the king, Henry IV’s seizure of the throne, the Percy rebellion, the execution of Archbishop Richard Scrope, the campaigns of Owain Glyndŵr, and England’s relations with Scotland, France, Portugal and Scandinavia. Alongside affairs of state, the annalist preserves reports of miracles, eclipses, prophecies, supernatural events and the experiences of ordinary townspeople, clergy, soldiers and travellers. Written from a monastic perspective, the work combines political observation with moral judgement, presenting victories and disasters as evidence of divine favour or punishment. At once a historical record and a reflection of medieval belief, the Annals provides an invaluable window into the challenges, ceremonies and conflicts of England at the turn of the fifteenth century.
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22nd June 1908 Northumberland Regiments Boer War Memorial, Newcastle upon Tyne [Map] was unveiled by Lieutenant Genral Sir Laurence Oliphant
Sculpted by Thomas Eyre Macklin. The Mason was Mr J C Ferguson and the founders were Messrs Montacutelli Freres. It cost £4,707 to build.
The winged figure of victory stands with her right arm holding out a laurel garland and a sword in her left hand and the figure of Northumbria at the base stands looking upwards with a palm branch in memory of her fallen sons in her out-stretched right hand and a standard in the other. The relief panel shows a battle scene; each panel is linked by a garland.
On 22nd June 1909 Beatriz Bourbon was born to Alfonso XIII King Spain [aged 23] and Victoria Eugénie Mountbatten Queen Consort Spain [aged 21]. She a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
The Times. 22nd June 1910. LORD ACHESON [aged 33] AND MISS CARTER [aged 22].
The marriage of Viscount Acheson, elder son of the Earl [aged 68] and Countess of Gosford [aged 54], and Miss Mildred Carter, only daughter of Mr. J. Ridgely Carter [aged 46], American Minister to Rumania, and Mrs. Ridgely Carter [aged 45], took place yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square. The Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal (the Rev. Edgar Sheppard, D.D.) performed the ceremony, assisted by the Rev. David Anderson and other clergy, and Mr. Ridgely Carter gave his daughter away. She wore a very simple wedding gown of soft white satin with a long train draped with old point de Venise, and a Venetian lace cap over a spray of myrtle and orange blossom, covered by a plain tulle veil. Master David Stanley, Master Julian Ward, and Miss Diana Roberts, dressed all in white, followed the bride, and there were seven bridesmaids, Lady Theo Acheson [aged 28] (sister of the bridegroom), Lady Victoria Stanley, Mlle. Irene deo La Grange, Miss Canilla Morgan, the Hon. Rhoda Astley, Miss Elsie Nicholl, and Miss Marian Scranton, who wore white chiffon dresses with draped bodices and wreaths of myrtle beneath tulle veils. They also wore diamond neckislides and carried loose bunches of red roses. The Hon. Patrick Acheson [aged 26] was best man to his brother.
Mrs. Ridgely Carter afterwards held a large reception at Dorchester House (lent by the American Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid), and among the many who came on from the church were the French, Russian, German, Spanish, and Italian Ambassadors, the Danish Minister, tho Rumanian Minister, the Swedish Minister and Countess Wrangel, Mme. Dominguez, the Servian Charge d'Affaires and Mme. Grouitel, the Chilian Minister and Mme. Gana, the Belgian Minister and Countess de Lalaing, the Duke [aged 63] and Duchess of Somerset [aged 57], Katharine Duchess of Westminster [aged 53] and Lady Helen Grosvenor [aged 22], Prince and Princess Alexis Dolgorouki, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hamilton, the Marchioness of Tweeddale, the Marquis [aged 48] and Marchioness of Salisbury [aged 42], the Marchioness of Anglesey [aged 26], the Countess of Powis [aged 45], the Earl [aged 56] and Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Kintore and Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer, the Earl and Countess of Gosford, Prince and Princess Frederick Liechtenstein, the Countess of Kimberley, Countess Grey, the Marquis d'Hautpoul, the Countess of Leicester [aged 54] and Lady Bridget Coke [aged 19], the Earl [aged 41] and Countess of Craven [aged 38], the Earl of Desart, Countess Fritz Hochberg, the Earl and Countess of Meath, the Countess of Bilmorey, the Countess of Londesborough [aged 49] and Lady Irene Denison [aged 19], the Earl and Countess of Derby [aged 70], the Earl [aged 51] and Countess of Yarborough, Ellen Lady Inchiquin and the Hon Lilah O'Brien, Lord and Lady Charles Beresford, Lord and Lady Leith of Fyvie, Lady Saltoun, Baroness Nunburnholme [aged 30], Baroness Newborough, Sir John and Lady Lister-Raye, Lord and Lady Monson, Lord and Baroness Savile, Lady Rothschild, Viscount and Viscountess AIdleton, Lady Alexander Paget, Lady Harcourt, Lady Desborough, Lord Suffield, Sir Herbert and Lady Jekyll and Miss Jekyll, the Hon. Sir Francis and Baroness Ufford and Miss Viliers, Lady Heien Vincent, Lord Knaresborough and the Hon. Helen Meysey-Thompson, Lady Pauncefote, Lord and Lady Weardale, Lady Grace Baring, Lord Strathcona, Lady Margaret Graham and Miss Graham, Sir Francis and Lady Channing, Mary Baroness Gerard, Baroness Manners and the Hon. Misses Manners, Lady Edward Cavendish, Mme. Langenbach, Lord Revelstoke, the Countess of Bessborough [aged 84] and Ladv Gweneth Ponsonby [aged 22], Lord Aberdare and the Hon. Eva Bruce, the Hon. Harry and Mrs. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, Mrs. F. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur James, Mrs. Walter Burns, Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, Mrs. Lowther and Miss Lokther, Mine. Vagliano, Captain and Mrs. Clonman, Miss Ralli, Mr. William Giuett, Mrs: Hwfa Williams, the Hon. Mrs. Derek Keppel, Mr. William Phillips, Mrs. Frank D'Arcy, the Hon. Lady Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Sassoon, Sir Bartle Frere, Mme. de Bille, Mrs. Featherstonhaugh, Mrs. Cotton Jodrell, Mrs. Frank Mackay, the Hon. Urs. Charles Lawrence, the Hon. Mrs. Rochfort Maguire, Lady Barrymore, Mrs. Chauncey, and Mrs. Ronalds.
Lord and Lady Acheson left later in the afternoon for the Continent, the bride travelling in a dress of grey chiffon and a large hat swathed in tulle to match the dress.
A list of the principal wedding presents was published in The Times yesterday.
On 22nd June 1911 King George V of the United Kingdom [aged 46] was crowned V King of the United Kingdom. Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England [aged 44] was crowned Queen Consort England Scotland and Ireland.
Dorothy Margaret Browne [aged 23] bore Queen Mary's train.
Edward Knollys 2nd Viscount Knollys [aged 16] carried the King's train
On 22nd June 1911 Cecilie Glücksburg Grand Duchess was born to Andrew Glücksburg [aged 29] and Princess Alice of Battenburg [aged 26]. She a great x 2 granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. She married 1931 her first cousin once removed Georg Donatus Hesse Darmstadt Grand Duke, son of Ernest Louis Hesse Darmstadt Grand Duke and Eleonore Solms Hohensolms Lich Grand Duchess, and had issue.
St James' Church, Antony [Map]. 22nd June 1918. Grave of Gordon Marshall Davey. Stoker Petty Officer, Royal Navy, K/2554, HMS P.15.
Note. P.15 probably denotes a Patrol Boat twenty-four ships to this design were ordered in May 1915; numbered P.11 to P.34.
Petty Officer Stoker K/2554, H.M.S. P.15, Royal Navy. Died from Lobar Pneumonia in Royal Naval Hospital Haslar 22nd June 1918. Aged 27. Born 4 February 1890 in Antony, Cornwall. In the 1901 census he was aged 8, son of George and Elizabeth Ann Davey, born Cornwall, resident 1 Pato Point, Antony, St Germans, Cornwall. Prior to enlistment he was a Market Gardener. Enlisted 13 April 1909 for 12 years.
Wessex from the Air Plate 36. Avebury. Reference No. 117. Height above Sea-level. Between 500 and 530 ft. (152 and 161 metres). County. Wilts. 28 NW. and SW. (112: D. 5). Parish. Avebury. Geological Formation, Middle Chalk, Latitude. 51° 25' 40" N Longitude. 1° 51' 12" W. (cross-roads near centre of the Great Circle) Time and Date of Photograph. 9.7 a.m., 22nd June [1928]. Height of Aeroplane. 5,400 ft. (1,645 metres). Speed of Shutter. 1/180th of a second.
On 22nd June 1945 Iona Colquhoun Duchess of Argyll was born to Ivar Iain Colquhoun 8th Baronet [aged 29]. She married 1964 Ian Campbell 12th Duke of Argyll, son of Ian Campbell 11th Duke of Argyll and Louise Clews Duchess of Argyll, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1948 the 1027 West Indian passengers carried by HMT Empire Windrush began disembarking a the Port of Tilbury near London, who embarked at Trinidad, Jamaica, Mexico and Bermuda. The passengers included people from many parts of the world but the great majority were West Indian. It was not the first ship to bring a large group of West Indians to the United Kingdom — two had arrived the previous year — but for some reason it became synonymous with post-war migration to the UK.
After 22nd June 1958. Church of the Holy Trinity Embleton [Map]. Memorial to Constance Grey [deceased].
Constance Grey: On 31st January 1872 she was born to Lieutenant Colonel George Henry Grey and Harriet Jane Pearson. Before 22nd June 1958 E B C Curtis and she were married. On 22nd June 1958 Constance Grey died.
On 22nd June 2004 Adeline Mary Constance Hone Baroness Ampthill [aged 94] died. She was buried at St Michael's Church, Chenies [Map].
Adeline Mary Constance Hone Baroness Ampthill: On 24th July 1909 she was born at Queensland, Australia. On 24th July 1948 John Russell 3rd Baron Ampthill and she were married. She by marriage Baroness Ampthill of Ampthill in Bedfordshire.
On 22nd June 2015 James George Alexander Bannerman Carnegie 3rd Duke of Fife [aged 85] died.
Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall
The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall (Chronicon Anglicanum) is an indispensable medieval history that brings to life centuries of English and European affairs through the eyes of a learned Cistercian monk. Ralph of Coggeshall, abbot of the Abbey of Coggeshall in Essex in the early 13th century, continued and expanded his community’s chronicle, documenting events from the Norman Conquest of 1066 into the tumultuous reign of King Henry III. Blending eyewitness testimony, careful compilation, and the monastic commitment to record-keeping, this chronicle offers a rare narrative of political intrigue, royal power struggles, and social upheaval in England and beyond. Ralph’s work captures the reigns of pivotal figures such as Richard I and King John, providing invaluable insights into their characters, decisions, and the forces that shaped medieval rule. More than a simple annal, Chronicon Anglicanum conveys the texture of medieval life and governance, making it a rich source for scholars and readers fascinated by English history, monastic authorship, and the shaping of the medieval world.
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On 22nd June 2018 Caroline Anne Pole-Carew [aged 85] died. She was buried at St James' Church, Antony [Map].
Caroline Anne Pole-Carew: On 11th January 1933 she was born to John Pole-Carew 12th Baronet and Cynthia Mary Burns Lady Pole. On 16th July 1963 Paul Asquith and she were married.
On 22nd June 1000 Robert "Magnificent" I Duke Normandy was born to Richard "Good" II Duke Normandy [aged 36] and Judith Penthièvre Duchess Normandy [aged 18].
On 22nd June 1370 John Duke of Görlitz was born to Charles IV King Bohemia Holy Roman Emperor Luxembourg [aged 54] and Elizabeth Pomerania Holy Roman Empress Luxembourg [aged 23].
On 22nd June 1450 Eleanor Trastámara was born to Ferdinand I King Naples [aged 27] and Isabella Clermont Queen Consort Naples [aged 26].
On 22nd June 1477 Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset was born to Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset [aged 22] and Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset [aged 16]. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. He married 1. after 1483 his half third cousin Eleanor St John Marchioness Dorset 2. 1509 Margaret Wotton Marchioness Dorset and had issue.
On 22nd June 1593 John Gell 1st Baronet was born to Thomas Gell [aged 61] and Millicent Sacheverell in Hopton Hall, Derbyshire [Map]. He married 1. January 1609 Elizabeth Willoughby Lady Gell and had issue 2. December 1647 Mary Radclyffe Lady Gell.
On 22nd June 1607 Princess Sophia Stewart was born to King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 41] and Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland [aged 32]. She died aged less than one years old.
On 22nd June 1677 Washington Shirley 2nd Earl Ferrers was born to Robert Shirley 1st Earl Ferrers [aged 26] and Elizabeth Washington Baroness Ferrers Chartley. He married 1704 Mary Levinge Countess Ferrers and had issue.
On 22nd June 1713 John Sackville was born to Lionel Cranfield Sackville 1st Duke Dorset [aged 25] and Elizabeth Colyear Duchess Dorset [aged 24]. He married 1744 his half third cousin Frances Leveson-Gower, daughter of John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower and Evelyn Pierrepont Baroness Gower, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1767 Brook William Bridges 4th Baronet was born to Brook Bridges 3rd Baronet [aged 33] and Fanny Fowler [aged 20]. He married 14th August 1800 Eleanor Foote and had issue.
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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On 22nd June 1778 George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland was born to Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley [aged 28] and Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley [aged 27]. He married 22nd June 1801 his fifth cousin once removed Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie and had issue.
On 22nd June 1784 Henrietta Cole Countess de Grey was born to William Willoughby Cole 1st Earl Enniskillen [aged 48] and Anne Lowry-Corry Countess Enniskillen [aged 42]. She married 20th July 1805 Thomas de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey, son of Thomas Robinson 2nd Baron Grantham and Mary Jemima Yorke Baroness Grantham, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1787 George Gough-Calthorpe 3rd Baron Calthorpe was born to Henry Gough-Calthorpe 1st Baron Calthorpe [aged 38] and Frances Carpenter Baroness Calthorpe [aged 26].
On 22nd June 1788 William Pole Tylney Long Wellesley 4th Earl Mornington was born to William Wellesley aka Wellesley-Pole 3rd Earl Mornington [aged 25] and Katherine Forbes Countess Mornington [aged 27]. He married 1. 14th March 1812 his half sixth cousin Catherine "The Wiltshire Heiress" Tylney Long, daughter of James Long aka Tylney-Long 7th Baronet and Catherine Sydney Windsor, and had issue 2. 1828 Helena Paterson Bligh Countess Mornington.
On 22nd June 1803 George Venables-Vernon aka Warren 5th Baron Vernon was born to George Charles Venables-Vernon 4th Baron Vernon [aged 23] and Frances Maria Warren Baroness Vernon [aged 19]. He married 1. 30th October 1824 Isabella Caroline Ellison and had issue 2. 14th December 1859 his first cousin Frances Maria Emma Boothby.
On 22nd June 1808 Henry Delves Broughton 9th Baronet was born to Henry Delves Broughton 8th Baronet [aged 31] and Mary Pigott Lady Broughton [aged 20].
On 22nd June 1820 George John Manners was born to John Henry Manners 5th Duke Rutland [aged 42] and Elizabeth Howard Duchess Rutland [aged 39]. He married 4th October 1855 his second cousin Adeliza Matilda Fitzalan, daughter of Henry Charles Howard 13th Duke of Norfolk and Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower Duchess Norfolk, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1821 Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy 7th Duke Grafton was born to Henry Fitzroy 5th Duke Grafton [aged 31] and Mary Caroline Berkeley Duchess Grafton [aged 26]. He a great x 4 grandson of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland. He married 9th June 1847 Anne Balfour and had issue.
On 22nd June 1826 Charles Russell 3rd Baronet was born to Henry Russell 2nd Baronet [aged 43].
On 22nd June 1857 Ida Louise Bennet Countess Dalhousie was born to Charles Bennet 6th Earl Tankerville [aged 47] and Olivia Montagu Countess Tankerville [aged 26]. She married 1877 John William Maule Ramsay 13th Earl Dalhousie and had issue.
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 22nd June 1858 Charles Francis Boothby 11th Baronet was born to Reverend Brooke William Boothby 9th Baronet [aged 49] and Martha Serena Boothby. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.12%.
On 22nd June 1870 Mary Constable Baroness Stourton, Segrave and Mowbray was born to Thomas Angus Constable [aged 65]. She married 26th July 1893 Charles Botolph Joseph Stourton 21st Baron Stourton 23rd Baron Segrave 22nd Baron Mowbray, son of Alfred Stourton 20th Baron Stourton 22nd Baron Segrave 21st Baron Mowbray, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1872 Cyril Arthur Liddell was born to Arthur Thomas Liddell 5th Baron Ravensworth [aged 34] and Sophia Harriett Waller Baroness Ravensworth.
On 22nd June 1881 Henry Page Croft 1st Baron Croft was born to Richard Benyon Croft [aged 38] and Anne Elizabeth Page [aged 38] at Fanhams Hall. He married 1916 Nancy Beatrice Borwick Baroness Croft and had issue.
On 22nd June 1883 Beatrice Eleanor Paget Countess Pembroke and Montgomery was born to Alexander Victor Paget [aged 44]. She married 21st January 1904 her third cousin once removed Reginald Herbert 15th Earl Pembroke 12th Earl Montgomery, son of Sidney Herbert 14th Earl Pembroke 11th Earl Montgomery and Beatrix Louisa Lambton Countess Pembroke and Montgomery, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1886 John Holford Parker was born to Albert Parker 3rd Earl Morley [aged 43] and Margaret Holford Countess Morley [aged 31]. He married 1919 Marjory Katharine, daughter of John Townshend St Aubyn 2nd Baron St Levan and Edith Hilaria Edgecumbe, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1891 Leverne Elton Reade was born to George Compton Reade 9th Baronet [aged 45] and Melissa Ray Lady Reade.
On 22nd June 1896 Elizabeth Mary Theodora Hughes Lady Shaw was born to Robert Heywood Hughes 12th Baronet [aged 30]. She married 28th March 1921 John James Kenward Shaw aka Best-Shaw 9th Baronet, son of Charles John Monson Shaw 8th Baronet, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1907 Helen Diana Bridgeman was born to Orlando Bridgeman 5th Earl Bradford [aged 33] and Margaret Cecilia Bruce Countess Bradford [aged 24]. She married 10th February 1930 Robert Abdy 5th Baronet, son of Henry Abdy 4th Baronet and Anna Adele Coronn, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1909 Beatriz Bourbon was born to Alfonso XIII King Spain [aged 23] and Victoria Eugénie Mountbatten Queen Consort Spain [aged 21]. She a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
On 22nd June 1911 Cecilie Glücksburg Grand Duchess was born to Andrew Glücksburg [aged 29] and Princess Alice of Battenburg [aged 26]. She a great x 2 granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. She married 1931 her first cousin once removed Georg Donatus Hesse Darmstadt Grand Duke, son of Ernest Louis Hesse Darmstadt Grand Duke and Eleonore Solms Hohensolms Lich Grand Duchess, and had issue.
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel Volume 2 Chapters 61-109 1342-1361
The Chronicle of Jean le Bel, Volume 2 continues one of the most important fourteenth-century accounts of the early Hundred Years’ War. Written by the Liège chronicler Jean le Bel, this vivid narrative follows the fortunes of Edward III, Jean II of France, the Black Prince, the great nobles of France and England, and the soldiers, captains and companies who shaped the conflict. This volume covers some of the most dramatic events of the period, including the battles of Crécy and Poitiers, the siege and capture of Calais, the captivity of King John, the rise of the Jacquerie, the turmoil in Paris under Étienne Marcel and Charles of Navarre, the devastation caused by the free companies, Edward III’s great campaign of 1359–1360, and the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Brétigny. Jean le Bel’s chronicle is especially valuable for its lively detail, its interest in chivalry, warfare, politics and reputation, and its influence on later chroniclers, most famously Froissart. This English translation presents the text in clear, readable British English while preserving the force and character of the original narrative. The translation includes extensive notes to help the reader better understand Jean le Bel's text. Volume 2 also includes translated appendices drawn from royal and administrative records, many from the English Record Office, which illuminate Edward III’s campaigns in Brittany, the siege and occupation of Calais, naval preparations, military finance, appointments, safe conducts and related affairs.
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On 22nd June 1924 Ronald Arthur Somerset Gough-Calthorpe 9th Baron Calthorpe was born to Frederick Somerset Gough-Calthorpe [aged 32] and Rose Mary Dorothy Vernon-Harcourt [aged 24].
On 22nd June 1945 Iona Colquhoun Duchess of Argyll was born to Ivar Iain Colquhoun 8th Baronet [aged 29]. She married 1964 Ian Campbell 12th Duke of Argyll, son of Ian Campbell 11th Duke of Argyll and Louise Clews Duchess of Argyll, and had issue.
On 22nd June 1948 James Charteris 13th Earl of Wemyss was born to David Charteris 12th Earl of Wemyss [aged 36]. He married 1. 16th July 1983 his third cousin Catherine Ingrid Guinness, daughter of Jonathan Bryan Guinness 3rd Baron Moyne and Ingrid Wyndham 2. 29th January 1995 his sixth cousin Amanda Feilding Coountess Wemyss.
On 22nd June 1382 John Ros 5th Baron Ros Helmsley [aged 13] and Mary Percy Baroness Ros of Helmsley [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Baroness Ros Helmsley. He the son of Thomas Ros 4th Baron Ros Helmsley [aged 47] and Beatrice Stafford Countess Desmond [aged 41]. They were third cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward I of England.
On 22nd June 1558 Thomas Percy 7th Earl of Northumberland [aged 30] and Anne Somerset Countess Northumberland [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Countess of Northumberland. She the daughter of Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 56]. They were third cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
On 22nd June 1596 William Cockayne [aged 35] and Mary Morris Countess Dover [aged 31] were married.
On 22nd June 1610 William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset [aged 22] and Arabella Stewart [aged 35] were married in secret at Palace of Placentia, Greenwich [Map]. For having married without permission King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 44] had Arabella Stewart imprisoned in Sir Thomas Perry's House, Lambeth and he in the Tower of London [Map]. She the daughter of Charles Stewart 5th Earl Lennox and Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Lennox. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 22nd June 1612 Alexander Seton aka Montgomerie 6th Earl Eglinton [aged 24] and Anne Livingstone Countess Eglinton were married. She the daughter of Alexander Livingston 1st Earl Linlithgow and Helen Hay. He the son of Robert Seton 1st Earl Winton and Margaret Montgomerie Countess Winton. They were half third cousins.
On 22nd June 1695 Basil Feilding 3rd Earl Desmond 4th Earl Denbigh [aged 27] and Hester Firebrace Countess Desmond and Denbigh [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Countess Desmond and Countess Denbigh. He the son of William Feilding 2nd Earl Desmond 3rd Earl Denbigh and Mary Carey Countess Desmond and Denbigh.
On 22nd June 1744 William Fitzwilliam 1st and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam [aged 24] and Anne Watson Wentworth Countess Fitzwilliam were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. She by marriage Countess Fitzwilliam, Baroness Fitzwilliam of Liffer in Donegal. She the daughter of Thomas Watson 1st Marquess Rockingham [aged 50]. He the son of John Fitzwilliam 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam and Anne Stringer.
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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On 22nd June 1749 Gilbert Heathcote 3rd Baronet [aged 29] and Margaret Yorke Lady Heathcote [aged 16] were married. She the daughter of Philip Yorke 1st Earl of Hardwicke [aged 58] and Margaret Cocks Countess Hardwicke.
On 22nd June 1754 Brinsley Butler 2nd Earl Lanesborough [aged 26] and Jane Rochfort Countess Lanesborough [aged 16] were married. She by marriage Countess Lanesborough. She the daughter of Robert Rochfort 1st Earl of Belvedere [aged 46] and Mary Molesworth. He the son of Humphrey Butler 1st Earl Lanesborough.
On 22nd June 1782 Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl Liverpool [aged 53] and Catherine Bishopp Countess Liverpool [aged 37] were married at her house in Hertford Street.
On 22nd June 1786 Henry Paulet St John-Mildmay 3rd Baronet [aged 21] and Jane Mildmay Lady St-John Mildmay [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Lady St John-Mildmay of Farley in Southampton.
On 22nd June 1801 George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland [aged 23] and Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie [aged 19] were married. He the son of Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley [aged 51] and Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley [aged 50]. They were fifth cousin once removed.
On 22nd June 1801 John Francis [aged 20] and Mary Evetts [aged 21] were married at Thornham, Norfolk.
On 22nd June 1809 Admiral John Beresford 1st Baronet [aged 43] and Mary Molloy were married. He the illegitmate son of George de la Poer Beresford 1st Marquess Waterford.
On 22nd June 1814 Stapleton Cotton 1st Viscount Combermere [aged 40] and Caroline Greville Viscountess Comberemere [aged 25] were married. She by marriage Baroness Combermere.
On 22nd June 1826 James Henry Legge Dutton 3rd Baron Sherborne [aged 22] and Elizabeth Howard [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of Thomas Howard 16th Earl Suffolk 9th Earl Berkshire [aged 49] and Elizabeth Jane Dutton Countess Suffolk and Berkshire [aged 51]. They were first cousins.
On 22nd June 1830 Robert Dillon 3rd Baron Clonbrook [aged 23] and Caroline Elizabeth Spencer [aged 24] were married.
On 22nd June 1832 Archibald Acheson 3rd Earl Gosford [aged 25] and Theodosia Brabazon Countess Gosford [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of John Brabazon 10th Earl Meath [aged 60]. He the son of Archibald Acheson 2nd Earl Gosford [aged 55] and Mary Sparrow Countess Gosford.
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 22nd June 1848 George Glyn 2nd Baron Wolverton [aged 24] and Georgiana "Giana" Maria Tufnell Baroness Wolverton [aged 23] were married. No issue.
On 22nd June 1870 Major Charles Norton [aged 35] and Katharine Buckner McVickar Baroness Grantley were married.
On 22nd June 1872 Henry Coster Lea Edwards 2nd Baronet [aged 32] and Agnes Harcourt Clark were married.
On 22nd June 1875 John Wodehouse 2nd Earl Kimberley [aged 27] and Isabel Geraldine Stracey Countess Kimberley were married. He the son of John Wodehouse 1st Earl Kimberley [aged 49] and Florence Fitzgibbon Countess Kimberley [aged 50].
On 22nd June 1880 Robert Wellington Stapleton-Cotton 3rd Viscount Combermere [aged 35] and Isabel Marion Chetwynd Viscountess Combermere were married.
On 22nd June 1893 Arthur Hill 6th Marquess of Downshire [aged 21] and Katherine Mary "Kitty" Hare Marchioness Downshire [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Downshire. He the son of Arthur Hill 5th Marquess Downshire and Georgiana Elizabeth Balfour.
On 22nd June 1927 Charles Fitzroy 5th Baron Southampton [aged 23] and Margaret Drake Baroness Southampton were married. She by marriage Baroness Southampton.
On 22nd June 1343 Aymon "Peaceful" Savoy Count Savoy [aged 51] died. His son Amadeus [aged 9] succeeded VI Count Savoy.
On 22nd June 1379 Millicent Zouche Baroness Deincourt died at Blankney, Lincolnshire.
On 22nd June 1402 Owain Glyndŵr Prince Wales [aged 43] defeated the army of Edmund Mortimer [aged 25] at Knighton, Radnorshire [Map], who was captured, at the Battle of Bryn Glas.
King Henry IV of England [aged 35] made no attempt to ransom Mortimer and, consequently, Mortimer changed his allegiance, and subsequently married Owain's daughter.
Walter Devereux [aged 41] died from wounds.
On 22nd June 1402 George Dunbar 10th Earl March [aged 64] commanded a force of around 200 men from the Berwick garrison who defeated a Scottish army of around 400 men at Nisbet. Patrick "Younger" of Hailes Hepburn [aged 50] was killed. John Cockburn, Thomas Haliburton, John Haliburton and Robert Lawedre were captured.
On 22nd June 1476 John Luxembourg Count Soissons was killed at the Battle of Morat. His brother Peter [aged 36] succeeded Count Soissons.
On 22nd June 1498 Elizabeth Hopton Countess of Worcester [aged 71] died at Hopton Castle, Shropshire [Map].
On 22nd June 1535 Bishop John Fisher [aged 65] was beheaded on Tower Hill [Map].
The Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy
The Gesta Normannorum Ducum [The Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy] is a landmark medieval chronicle tracing the rise and fall of the Norman dynasty from its early roots through the pivotal events surrounding the Norman Conquest of England. Originally penned in Latin by the monk William of Jumièges shortly before 1060 and later expanded at the behest of William the Conqueror, the work chronicles the deeds, politics, battles, and leadership of the Norman dukes, especially William’s own claim to the English throne. The narrative combines earlier historical sources with firsthand information and oral testimony to present an authoritative account of Normandy’s transformation from a Viking settlement into one of medieval Europe’s most powerful realms. William’s history emphasizes the legitimacy, military prowess, and governance of the Norman line, framing their expansion, including the conquest of England, as both divinely sanctioned and noble in purpose. Later chroniclers such as Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni continued the history, extending the coverage into the 12th century, providing broader context on ducal rule and its impact. Today this classic work remains a foundational source for understanding Norman identity, medieval statesmanship, and the historical forces that reshaped England and Western Europe between 800AD and 1100AD.
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On 22nd June 1549 John Scrope 8th Baron Scrope of Bolton [aged 39] died. His son Henry [aged 15] succeeded 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton.
On 22nd June 1634 Elizabeth Carey Baroness Savile [aged 64] died.
On 22nd June 1689 Edward Watson 2nd Baron Rockingham [aged 58] died. His son Lewis [aged 33] succeeded 3rd Baron Rockingham of Northampton, 3rd Baronet Watson of Rockingham Castle in Northamptonshire
On 22nd June 1714 Penelope Evelyn Lady Alston [aged 41] died. She was buried on 28th June 1714 at Long Ditton, Surrey.
On 22nd June 1731 Edward Howard 8th Earl Suffolk [aged 59] died. His brother Charles [aged 56] succeeded 9th Earl Suffolk. Henrietta Hobart Countess Suffolk [aged 42] by marriage Countess Suffolk.
On 22nd June 1759 Zachary Hamlyn [aged 82] died. He was buried at All Hallows' Church Woolfardisworthy [Map]. He has a monument at All Saints Church Clovelly, Devon with the inscription: "To the memory of Zachary Hamlyn Esq. late of Lincoln's Inn and of Court in this parish who departed this life June 22d MDCCLIX in the LXXXII year of his age. Whose body lies interred in the parish church of Woolfardisworthy [Map]. He was a sincere Christian, a tender and beneficent relation, a faithfull and kind friend an inoffensive and chearfull companion. Exemplarily modest, diligent, capable, communicative, he acquired a handsome fortune not only unenvied but with the esteem and love of all who had the pleasure of knowing him". His great-nephew James Hammett aka Hamlyn 1st Baronet [aged 24] inherited his estates including the manor of Clovelly, Devon, and adopted his surname and arms.
On 22nd June 1764 John Philipps 6th Baronet [aged 63] died. His son Richard [aged 20] succeeded 7th Baronet Philips of Picton Castle.
On 22nd June 1767 Charles Bond 4th Baronet [aged 32] died unmarried. Baronet Bond of Peckham extinct.
On 22nd June 1819 Mary Anastasia Grace Mordaunt 11th Baroness Mordaunt [aged 80] died. Her second cousin Alexander [aged 76] succeeded 12th Baron Mordaunt.
On 22nd June 1840 Thomas Reynolds-Moreton 1st Earl Ducie [aged 63] died. His son Henry [aged 38] succeeded 2nd Earl Ducie, 5th Baron Ducie. Elizabeth Dutton Countess Ducie [aged 33] by marriage Countess Ducie.
Adam Murimuth's Continuation and Robert of Avesbury’s 'The Wonderful Deeds of King Edward III'
This volume brings together two of the most important contemporary chronicles for the reign of Edward III and the opening phases of the Hundred Years’ War. Written in Latin by English clerical observers, these texts provide a vivid and authoritative window into the political, diplomatic, and military history of fourteenth-century England and its continental ambitions. Adam Murimuth Continuatio's Chronicarum continues an earlier chronicle into the mid-fourteenth century, offering concise but valuable notices on royal policy, foreign relations, and ecclesiastical affairs. Its annalistic structure makes it especially useful for establishing chronology and tracing the development of events year by year. Complementing it, Robert of Avesbury’s De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii is a rich documentary chronicle preserving letters, treaties, and official records alongside narrative passages. It is an indispensable source for understanding Edward III’s claim to the French crown, the conduct of war, and the mechanisms of medieval diplomacy. Together, these works offer scholars, students, and enthusiasts a reliable and unembellished account of a transformative period in English and European history. Essential for anyone interested in medieval chronicles, the Hundred Years’ War, or the reign of Edward III.
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On 22nd June 1865 William Wright aka Lawson 1st Baronet [aged 69] died. His son John [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Baronet Lawson of Brough Hall in Yorkshire.
On 22nd June 1878 Bertram Ashburnham 4th Earl Ashburnham [aged 80] died. His son Bertram [aged 37] succeeded 5th Earl Ashburham, 7th Baron Ashburnham of Ashburnham in Sussex.
On 22nd June 1879 William Twysden 8th Baronet [aged 90] died. His nephew Louis [aged 49] succeeded 9th Baronet Twysden of Roydon in Kent. Helen Bazalgette Lady Twysden [aged 50] by marriage Lady Twysden of Roydon in Kent.
On 22nd June 1894 Orlando Weld-Forester 4th Baron Forester [aged 81] died. He was buried at Willey Church, Shropshire. His son Cecil [aged 51] succeeded 5th Baron Forester of Willey Park in Shropshire.
On 22nd June 1904 Richard Boyle 9th Earl Cork [aged 75] died at Berkeley Square, Mayfair. His son Charles [aged 42] succeeded 10th Earl Cork.
On 22nd June 1919 Algitha Frederica Lumley Baroness Bolton [aged 71] died.
On 22nd June 1935 Rowland Allanson-Winn 5th Baron Headley [aged 80] died. His son Rowland [aged 34] succeeded 6th Baron Allanson and Winn of Aghadoe in County Kerry, 6th Baronet Winn of Little Warley in Essex, 12th Baronet Winn of Nostel in Yorkshire.
On 22nd June 1940 Ethel Jemima Ponsonby Baroness Raglan [aged 83] died.
On 22nd June 1976 William Feilden 5th Baronet [aged 83] died. His first cousin Henry [aged 59] succeeded 6th Baronet Feilden of Febiscowles in Lancashire.
On 22nd June 1989 William Fletcher-Vane 1st Baron Inglewood [aged 80] died. His son William [aged 37] succeeded 2nd Baron Inglewood of Hutton in the Forest of Cumberland.
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 22nd June 2004 Adeline Mary Constance Hone Baroness Ampthill [aged 94] died. She was buried at St Michael's Church, Chenies [Map].
Adeline Mary Constance Hone Baroness Ampthill: On 24th July 1909 she was born at Queensland, Australia. On 24th July 1948 John Russell 3rd Baron Ampthill and she were married. She by marriage Baroness Ampthill of Ampthill in Bedfordshire.
On 22nd June 2008 Edward Woodford Wheler 14th Baronet [aged 88] died. His son Trevor [aged 62] succeeded 15th Baronet Wheler of the City of Westminster.
On 22nd June 2015 James George Alexander Bannerman Carnegie 3rd Duke of Fife [aged 85] died.
On 22nd June 2021 Hugh Lowther 8th Earl Lonsdale [aged 72] died. His half brother William [aged 63] succeeded 9th Earl Lonsdale, 10th Viscount Lowther, 10th Baron Lowther.