Paternal Family Tree: Granville
On 25th November 1710 [her father] Richard Granville [aged 32] and [her step-mother] Hester Temple 1st Countess Temple [aged 20] were married.
On 8th November 1720 Hester Granville Countess Chatham was born to Richard Granville [aged 42].
On 17th February 1727 [her father] Richard Granville [aged 48] died.
On 9th May 1737 [her half-brother] Richard Grenville-Temple 2nd Earl Temple [aged 25] and [her sister-in-law] Anne Chamber Countess Temple were married. He the son of [her father] Richard Granville and [her step-mother] Hester Temple 1st Countess Temple [aged 47].
On 18th October 1749 [her step-mother] Hester Temple 1st Countess Temple [aged 59] was created 1st Countess Temple. [her father] Richard Granville by marriage Earl Temple.
In 1752 [her step-mother] Hester Temple 1st Countess Temple [aged 62] died. Her son [her half-brother] Richard [aged 40] succeeded 2nd Earl Temple, 3rd Viscount Cobham. [her sister-in-law] Anne Chamber Countess Temple by marriage Countess Temple.
On 16th November 1754 William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham [aged 46] and Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 34] were married. She the daughter of Richard Granville.
On 19th October 1755 [her daughter] Hester Pitt was born to [her husband] William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham [aged 46] and Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 34]. She married 19th December 1774 her half second cousin Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl Stanhope, son of Philip Stanhope 2nd Earl Stanhope and Grizel Hamilton Countess Stanhope, and had issue.
On 9th October 1756 [her son] John Pitt 2nd Earl Chatham was born to [her husband] William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham [aged 47] and Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 35]. He married 10th July 1783 his half fifth cousin once removed Mary Elizabeth Townshend Countess Chatham, daughter of Thomas Townshend 1st Viscount Sydney and Elizabeth Powys Viscountess Sydney.
In 1758 [her daughter] Harriet Pitt was born to [her husband] William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham [aged 49] and Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 37]. She married 1785 Edward James Eliot, son of Edward Craggs Eliot 1st Baron Eliot and Catherine Elliston Baroness Eliott, and had issue.
On 28th May 1759 [her son] William "The Younger" Pitt was born to [her husband] William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham [aged 50] and Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 38].
In 1761 [her son] James Charles Pitt was born to [her husband] William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham [aged 52] and Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 40].
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel Volume 1 Chapters 1-60 1307-1342
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel offer one of the most vivid and immediate accounts of 14th-century Europe, written by a knight who lived through the events he describes, and experienced some of them first hand. Covering the early decades of the Hundred Years’ War, this remarkable chronicle follows the campaigns of Edward III of England, the politics of France and the Low Countries, and the shifting alliances that shaped medieval warfare. Unlike later historians, Jean le Bel writes with a strong sense of eyewitness authenticity, drawing on personal experience and the testimony of fellow soldiers. His narrative captures not only battles and sieges, but also the realities of military life, diplomacy, and the ideals of chivalry that governed noble society. A key source for Jean Froissart, Le Bel’s chronicle stands on its own as a compelling and insightful work, at once historical record and literary achievement. This translation builds on the 1905 edition published in French by Jules Viard, adding extensive translations from other sources Rymer's Fœdera, the Chronicles of Adam Murimuth, William Nangis, Walter of Guisborough, a Bourgeois of Valenciennes, Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke and Richard Lescot to enrich the original text and Viard's notes.
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On 4th December 1761 Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 41] was created 1st Baroness Chatham of Chatham in Kent.
On 8th January 1765 William Pynsent 2nd Baronet [aged 86] died having outlived his three daughters and his son, none of whom had issue. Baronet Pynsent of Erthfont extinct. He left his estate to [her husband] William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham [aged 56] who was no relation and who he had never met. Pitt erected the Burton Pynsent Monument nearby at a cost of £2,000.
On 4th August 1766 [her husband] William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham [aged 57] was created 1st Earl Chatham. Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 45] by marriage Countess Chatham.
On 19th December 1774 [her son-in-law] Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl Stanhope [aged 21] and Hester Pitt [aged 19] were married. She the daughter of William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham [aged 66] and Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 54]. He the son of Philip Stanhope 2nd Earl Stanhope [aged 60] and Grizel Hamilton Countess Stanhope. They were half second cousins.
On 11th May 1778 [her husband] William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham [aged 69] died. His son John [aged 21] succeeded 2nd Earl Chatham. He was initally bured at Hayes. After an address by the Commons to the king praying that the deceased statesman might be buried with the honours of a public funeral a sum was voted for a public monument which was erected over a new grave in Westminster Abbey. The monument, by the sculptor John Bacon, has a figure of Pitt above statues of Britannia and Neptune with figures representing Prudence, Fortitude, the Earth and also a sea creature. See Photograph by John Benjamin Stone
On 12th September 1779 [her half-brother] Richard Grenville-Temple 2nd Earl Temple [aged 67] died in a carriage accident without surviving issue. His nephew George [aged 26] succeeded 3rd Earl Temple, 4th Viscount Cobham.
On 20th July 1780 [her daughter] Hester Pitt [aged 24] died.
On 13th November 1780 [her son] James Charles Pitt [aged 19] died at Antigua.
On 10th July 1783 John Pitt 2nd Earl Chatham [aged 26] and Mary Elizabeth Townshend Countess Chatham were married. She by marriage Countess Chatham. He the son of William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham and Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 62]. They were half fifth cousin once removed.
In 1785 [her son-in-law] Edward James Eliot [aged 26] and Harriet Pitt [aged 27] were married. She the daughter of William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham and Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 64].
In 1786 [her daughter] Harriet Pitt [aged 28] died from childbirth five days after giving birth to her only child.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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In 1800 [her granddaughter] Hester Lucy Stanhope [aged 23] was sent to live with her maternal grandmother Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 79] at Burton Pynsent, Somerset.
On 9th April 1803 Hester Granville Countess Chatham [aged 82] died. Her son John [aged 46] succeeded 2nd Baron Chatham of Chatham in Kent.
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Granville 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Grenville
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Greville of Wotton Underwood
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Granville
Grandfather: Richard Granville
father: Richard Granville