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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Around 1795 [her father] Charles Gregory Pigot aka Fairfax [aged 27] and [her mother] Mary Goodricke were married.
On 12th December 1804 Harriet Fairfax was born to Charles Gregory Pigot aka Fairfax [aged 36] and Mary Goodricke.
Around February 1838 Francis Cholmeley [aged 27] and Harriet Fairfax [aged 33] were married.
On 28th January 1845 [her mother] Mary Goodricke died.
On 29th December 1845 [her father] Charles Gregory Pigot aka Fairfax [aged 77] died. Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map] appears to have been inherited by his two daughters [her sister] Lavinia Fairfax [aged 43] and Harriet Fairfax [aged 41] and their husbands Reverend James Alexander Barnes [aged 47], Rector of Gilling, and Francis Cholmeley [aged 35] respectively.
On 3rd August 1855 Francis Cholmeley [aged 44] died.
After 1860. Church of the Holy Cross, Gilling East [Map]. Memorial to Harriet Fairfax [aged 55] and Francis Cholmeley.
On 17th August 1860 Harriet Fairfax [aged 55] died at Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map].
In 1885 Lavinia Fairfax [aged 83] died without issue. Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map] was inherited by the descendants of her sister Harriet Fairfax who had married Francis Cholmeley.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 1 Grandfather: Ralph Pigott
Grandfather: Nathaniel Pigot 11 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Fairfax 1st Viscount Fairfax 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Fairfax of Lythe 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Constable
12 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Fairfax 8th Viscount Fairfax 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Alathea Fairfax 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Father: Charles Gregory Pigot aka Fairfax 12 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Harriet Fairfax 13 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Grandfather: Henry Goodricke 6th Baronet
Mother: Mary Goodricke