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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Wibtoft, Warwickshire Leicester, Leicestershire Mountsorrel Castle Normanton on Soar, Nottinghamshire Holy Trinity Church Ratcliffe on Soar River Wreake aka Eye

River Soar

River Soar is in River Trent.

River Wreake aka Eye

The River Wreake aka Eye rises near Stapleford, Leicestershire [Map] although the land is so low lying there are many tributaries that may form the River Eye and it may rise at Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire [Map]. It flows through Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire [Map] after which its name changes from the River Eye to the River Wreake. Thereafter it flows past Asfordby, Leicestershire [Map], Hoby, Leicestershire [Map], Rotherby, Leicestershire [Map], Thrussington, Leicestershire [Map], Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire [Map] to Cossington, Leicestershire [Map] where it joins the River Soar.