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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Harriet Fairfax 1804-1860

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.

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.

Royal Ancestors of Harriet Fairfax 1804-1860

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

Ancestors of Harriet Fairfax 1804-1860

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