Maternal Family Tree: Katherine de la Pole 1416-1488
Before 7th May 1567 [her father] [her grandfather] Thomas Kitson [aged 26] and [her mother] Elizabeth Cornwallis [aged 26] were married. He the son of Thomas Kitson and [her grandmother] Margaret Donnington Countess Bath.
On 7th May 1567 Mary Kitson Countess Rivers was born to Thomas Kitson [aged 26] and Elizabeth Cornwallis [aged 26].
In or before 1581 Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 15] and Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 13] were married.
In 1581 [her daughter] Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers was born to [her husband] Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 16] and Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 13]. She married 14th May 1602 Thomas Savage 1st Viscount Savage, son of John Savage 1st Baronet, and had issue.
In March 1581 [her father-in-law] John Darcy 2nd Baron Darcy [aged 49] died. He was buried at St Osyth's Priory [Map]. His son [her husband] Thomas [aged 16] succeeded 3rd Baron Darcy of Chiche. Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 13] by marriage Baroness Darcy of Chiche.
In 1586 [her son] Thomas Darcy was born to [her husband] Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 21] and Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 18] at St Osyth's Priory [Map]. He married 1613 Mary Fitz.
Around 1588 [her daughter] Mary Darcy was born to [her husband] Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 23] and Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 20].
Around 1590 [her daughter] Susan Darcy was born to [her husband] Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 25] and Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 22].
In 1593 [her daughter] Penelope Darcy Lady Gage was born to [her husband] Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 28] and Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 25] at St Osyth's, Essex. She married (1) George Trenchard (2) 28th June 1611 John Gage 1st Baronet and had issue (3) 1642 William Hervey.
On 28th January 1601 [her father] Thomas Kitson [aged 60] died.
On 14th May 1602 [her son-in-law] Thomas Savage 1st Viscount Savage [aged 16] and Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 37] and Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 35].
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 28th June 1611 [her son-in-law] John Gage 1st Baronet [aged 41] and Penelope Darcy Lady Gage [aged 18] were married. The difference in their ages was 23 years. She the daughter of Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 46] and Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 44].
In 1612 [her daughter] Susan Darcy [aged 22] died.
In 1613 Thomas Savage 1st Viscount Savage [aged 27] was created 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche. He the son-in-law of the last Baron of the 1513 creation Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 48].
Around 1613 Thomas Darcy [aged 27] and Mary Fitz [aged 16] were married. He the son of Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 48] and Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 45].
Around 1613 [her son] Thomas Darcy [aged 27] died.
On 5th July 1621 [her husband] Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 56] was created 1st Viscount Colchester with a special remainder to his grandson John Savage 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 18]. Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 54] by marriage Viscountess Colchester
On 4th November 1626 [her husband] Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 61] was created 1st Earl Rivers with a special remainder to his grandson John Savage 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 23]. Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 59] by marriage Countess Rivers.
In 1627 [her daughter] Mary Darcy [aged 39] died.
In 1628 [her mother] Elizabeth Cornwallis [aged 87] died.
On 25th February 1640 [her husband] Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 75] died at Winchester House Broad Street. His grandson John [aged 37] succeeded 2nd Earl Rivers, 2nd Viscount Colchester. Baron Darcy of Chiche extinct.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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In 1642 [her son-in-law] William Hervey [aged 55] and Penelope Darcy Lady Gage [aged 49] were married. She the daughter of Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers and Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 74].
Before 1644 Unknown Painter. Portrait of Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 76].
Before 1644 Unknown Painter. Portrait of Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 76].
On 28th June 1644 Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 77] died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Grandfather: Thomas Kitson 
father: Thomas Kitson
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Donnington of Stoke Newington
Grandmother: Margaret Donnington Countess Bath
Mary Kitson Countess Rivers 11 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Cornwallis
Grandfather: Thomas Cornwallis
mother: Elizabeth Cornwallis 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Jerningham 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Jerningham
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gervase Clifton 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Clifton
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Finch 
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Jerningham
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Bedingfield
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Bedingfield
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Bedingfield
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Shelton
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Shelton
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Clere 
Grandmother: Anne Jerningham 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Drury
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Drury of Hawstead in Suffolk
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Drury
Great x 1 Grandmother: Bridget Drury 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Calthorpe 
7 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Calthorpe 8 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Calthorpe 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Miles Stapleton of Ightham in Norfolk 
19 x Great Grandson of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stapleton 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine de la Pole 
5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England