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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Edward Baynton 1520-1593

Paternal Family Tree: Bayntun

Before 1505 Edward Bayntun [aged 12] and [his mother] Elizabeth Sulyard were married.

Around 1520 Edward Baynton was born to Edward Bayntun [aged 28] and Elizabeth Sulyard.

On 18th January 1531 Edward Bayntun [aged 39] and Isabel Leigh were married. She the half-sister of Catherine Howard [aged 8] their mother was Joyce Culpepper.

On 27th November 1544 Edward Bayntun [aged 52] died.

In 1548 William Stourton 7th Baron Stourton [aged 43] died. His son Charles [aged 28] succeeded 8th Baron Stourton. Anne Stanley Baroness Stourton [aged 6] by marriage Baroness Stourton. He left most of his estates to [his future wife] Agnes Rhys Lady Baynton leading to years of litigation between her and his son Charles Stourton 8th Baron Stourton.

Around 1553 Edward Baynton [aged 33] and Agnes Rhys Lady Baynton were married. She the daughter of Rhys ap Gruffydd Deheubarth and Catherine Howard Countess Bridgewater [aged 54].

In 1563 Edward Baynton [aged 43] was elected MP Wiltshire.

In 1571 Edward Baynton [aged 51] was elected MP Devizes.

In 1572 Edward Baynton [aged 52] was elected MP Calne.

In 1573 [his son] Henry Bayntun was born to Edward Baynton [aged 53]. He married before 1593 Lucy Danvers and had issue.

In 1574 [his wife] Agnes Rhys Lady Baynton died.

Before 1593 [his son] Henry Bayntun [aged 19] and [his daughter-in-law] Lucy Danvers [aged 20] were married.

In 1593 Edward Baynton [aged 73] died.

Ancestors of Edward Baynton 1520-1593

Grandfather: John Bayntun of Bromham

Father: Edward Bayntun

Edward Baynton

Grandfather: John Sulyard of Wetherden in Suffolk

Mother: Elizabeth Sulyard