Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 9th November 1810 John Fleming Leicester 1st Baron Tabley [aged 48] and Georgiana Cottin Baroness Tabley [aged 16] were married. The difference in their ages was 31 years.
On 28th October 1811 George Leicester aka Warren 2nd Baron Tabley was born to John Fleming Leicester 1st Baron Tabley [aged 49] and Georgiana Cottin Baroness Tabley [aged 17]. King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland [aged 49] was his godfather. He was educated at Eton College [Map] and Christ Church College, Oxford University.
On 18th April 1827 John Fleming Leicester 1st Baron Tabley [aged 65] died at Tabley House, Cheshire. His son George [aged 15] succeeded 2nd Baron Tabley of Tabley House in Cheshire, 6th Baronet Leicester of Timogue in Queen's County.
On 10th July 1828 [his step-father] Reverend Frederick Leicester [aged 25] and Georgiana Cottin Baroness Tabley [aged 34] were married. She the former wife of his uncle John Fleming Leicester 1st Baron Tabley who had died fifteen months before. As the Church of England prohibited aunt-nephew marriages, Frederick resigned from his post to avoid expulsion. The union forfeited £500 of Georgina's annual £1,500 widow's jointure.
Creevey Papers. [1st September 1828]. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Smythe Owen and I have lived in the most perfect harmony since 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, but other human being have I seen none, except the parson at church yesterday, whom I was in hopes to have seen more of. He is Mr. Leicester, nephew to the late Lord de Tabley. ... Having known his father in the days of my youth at Cambridge as by far the most ultra and impertinent dandy of his day, I was curious to see the son. It was precisely the same thing over again. This beautiful youth [[his step-father] Reverend Frederick Leicester [aged 26]] (for such he is), aged 27, has been appointed by the Court of Chancery guardian to his nephew [Note. cousin] Lord de Tabley [aged 16], aged 16. About 6 weeks ago, he was married to his aunt Lady de Tabley [aged 34], who expects to be confined next month. I am sorry she is not [illegible] for this second marriage. On her part she forfeits £500 a year out of her jointure of £1500; and his diocesan, the Bishop of Lichfield, has given him notice he shall eject him from his living for marrying his aunt, which reduces his income to nothing. ..."
Around 1830. Margaret Sarah Carpenter nee Geddes [aged 37]. Portrait of George Leicester aka Warren 2nd Baron Tabley [aged 18].
In 1832 George Leicester aka Warren 2nd Baron Tabley [aged 20] changed his surname from Leicester to Warren in compliance with the will of Elizabeth Warren Viscountess Bulkeley [aged 72] whose estate he inherited. The second time the famiy had changed surnames being originally Byrne.
On 26th April 1835 [his son] John Warren 3rd Baron Tabley was born to George Leicester aka Warren 2nd Baron Tabley [aged 23].
In 1859 Georgiana Cottin Baroness Tabley [aged 65] died.
On 19th October 1887 George Leicester aka Warren 2nd Baron Tabley [aged 75] died. His son John [aged 52] succeeded 3rd Baron Tabley of Tabley House in Cheshire, 7th Baronet Leicester of Timogue in Queen's County.
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gregory Byrne 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandfather: Daniel Byrne 2nd Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Byrne aka Leicester 3rd Baronet
Grandfather: Peter Leicester 4th Baronet
Father: John Fleming Leicester 1st Baron Tabley
Great x 2 Grandfather: Daniel Fleming of Rydal Hall
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Fleming 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Fletcher
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Fletcher 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandmother: Barbara Fletcher
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Dalston
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Dalston
Grandmother: Catherine Fleming
George Leicester aka Warren 2nd Baron Tabley
Great x 1 Grandfather: Alexander Cottin of Hertfordshire
Grandfather: Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Cottin
Mother: Georgiana Cottin Baroness Tabley
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Chambers
Grandmother: Lavinia Chambers