In 1766 Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley was born to Pierre Roland. There were rumors her biological father was Christopher Alexander Fagan
On 22nd May 1781 Garrett Wellesley 1st Earl Mornington [aged 45] died at Kensington. He was buried at Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair. His son [her future husband] Richard [aged 20] succeeded 2nd Earl Mornington, 2nd Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle.
In 1787 [her illegitimate son] Richard Wellesley was born illegitimately to [her future husband] Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 26] and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 21].
In 1788 [her illegitimate daughter] Anne Wellesley Lady Abdy was born illegitimately to [her future husband] Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 27] and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 22].
On 25th February 1789 [her illegitimate daughter] Hyacinthe Mary Wellesley Baroness Hatherton was born illegitimately to [her future husband] Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 28] and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 23].
In 1791 Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun [aged 35]. Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 25].
In 1792 [her illegitimate son] Gerald Wellesley was born illegitimately to [her future husband] Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 31] and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 26].
Before 29th November 1794 [her illegitimate son] Henry Wellesley was born illegitimately to [her future husband] Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 34] and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 28].
On 29th November 1794 Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 34] and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 28] were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. She by marriage Countess Mornington. He the son of Garrett Wellesley 1st Earl Mornington and Anne Hill Countess Mornington [aged 52].
Around 1795 Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 29] began to seek evidence for a divorce from her husband Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 34] who had two illegitimate children with another woman following his marriage to Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley. They formayy separated in 1810.
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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1796. Henry Edridge [aged 28]. Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 30].
In 1799 [her husband] Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 38] was created 1st Marquess Wellesley. Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 33] by marriage Marchioness Wellesley.
On 10th April 1806 [her brother-in-law] Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Wellington [aged 36] and Catherine "Kitty" Pakenham Duchess Wellington [aged 33] were married at Dublin [Map]. He the son of Garrett Wellesley 1st Earl Mornington and [her mother-in-law] Anne Hill Countess Mornington [aged 63].
On 3rd July 1806 [her son-in-law] William Abdy 7th Baronet [aged 27] and [her illegitimate daughter] Anne Wellesley Lady Abdy [aged 18] were married at Hyde Park Corner; this is possibly Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner. She by marriage Lady Abdy of Felix Hall in Kelveden in Essex. She the illegitmate daughter of [her husband] Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 46] and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 40].
Between 27th July 1809 and 28th July 1809 the Battle of Talavera, part of the Peninsular War, was fought between an Anglo Spanish army commanded by [her brother-in-law] Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Wellington [aged 40] against the French. The French army withdrew at night after several of its attacks had been repulsed. Following the battle Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Wellington was created 1st Viscount Wellington of Talavera.
Hugh Gough 1st Viscount Gough [aged 29] commanded the 2nd Battalion of the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot.
General Henry Fane [aged 30] commanded the 3rd Prince of Wales Dragoon Guards, 4th Queen's Own Dragoons.
Charles Henry Farrington 2nd Baronet [aged 14] fought.
On 22nd July 1812 the Battle of Salamanca was fought at which an Anglo-Portuguese army under the [her brother-in-law] Earl of Wellington [aged 43] defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces at Arapiles [Map].
Brother General Thomas Bradford [aged 34] and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford [aged 31] fought.
Major-General John Le Marchant [aged 46] was killed in action. Wellington is reported as saying to Le Marchant that he must take the first favourable opportunity to engage the enemy's infantry, "You must then charge at all hazards" was his final instruction. Following up the attack of the 5th Infantry Division Le Marchant led the 3rd and 4th Dragoons and the 5th Dragoon Guards in what was probably the most destructive charge made by a single brigade of cavalry in the whole Napoleonic period. The left wing of the French army were on the point of being defeated by the 3rd and 5th divisions of Anglo-Portuguese infantry when Le Marchant's dragoons charged in and destroyed battalion after battalion. Many of the French infantrymen sought the protection of the British infantry to escape the sabres of the dragoons. Le Marchant, knowing he had achieved a magnificent success, was leading a squadron against the last of the formed French infantry when he was shot and his spine broken. See Fletcher's "Galloping at Everything: The British Cavalry in the Peninsula and at Waterloo 1808-15". Spellmount, Staplehurst. ISBN 1-86227-016-3. 1999, pp. 185–188.
In October 1812 [her son-in-law] Edward John Walhouse aka Littleton 1st Baron Hatherton [aged 21] and [her illegitimate daughter] Hyacinthe Mary Wellesley Baroness Hatherton [aged 23] were married. She the illegitmate daughter of [her husband] Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 52] and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 46].
On 11th May 1814 [her brother-in-law] Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Wellington [aged 45] was created 1st Duke Wellington. Catherine "Kitty" Pakenham Duchess Wellington [aged 41] by marriage Duchess Wellington.
On 16th July 1816 [her son-in-law] Charles Cavendish-Bentinck [aged 36] and [her illegitimate daughter] Anne Wellesley Lady Abdy [aged 28] were married. She the illegitmate daughter of [her husband] Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 56] and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 50]. He the son of William Cavendish-Bentinck 3rd Duke Portland and Dorothy Cavendish 3rd Duchess Portland.
On 5th November 1816 Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [aged 50] died at Teddesley Hall, Penkridge; home of her son-in-law Edward John Walhouse aka Littleton 1st Baron Hatherton [aged 25], husband of her daughter Hyacinthe Mary Wellesley Baroness Hatherton [aged 27].
On 14th November 1816 Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland Marchioness Wellesley [deceased] was buried at St Michael's Church, Penkridge [Map].
On 29th October 1825 Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 65] and Marianne Caton Marchioness Wellesley [aged 37] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Wellesley. The difference in their ages was 27 years. He the son of Garrett Wellesley 1st Earl Mornington and Anne Hill Countess Mornington [aged 83].
She one of the four Caton sisters, daughters of Richard Caton [aged 62], a merchant from Baltimore, the three eldest, known as the "The Three American Graces", married European husbands. Only the fourth daughter Emily Caton [aged 30] had children.
Marianne Caton Marchioness Wellesley married Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley,
Elizabeth Caton Baroness Stafford [aged 35] married George William Stafford-Jerningham 8th Baron Stafford [aged 54],
Louisa Catharine Caton Duchess Leeds [aged 32] married firstly Felton Elwell Hervey-Bathurst 1st Baronet and secondly Francis Godolphin Osborne 7th Duke Leeds [aged 27].
Emily Caton married Consul John MacTavish [aged 38].
Adam Murimuth's Continuation and Robert of Avesbury’s 'The Wonderful Deeds of King Edward III'
This volume brings together two of the most important contemporary chronicles for the reign of Edward III and the opening phases of the Hundred Years’ War. Written in Latin by English clerical observers, these texts provide a vivid and authoritative window into the political, diplomatic, and military history of fourteenth-century England and its continental ambitions. Adam Murimuth Continuatio's Chronicarum continues an earlier chronicle into the mid-fourteenth century, offering concise but valuable notices on royal policy, foreign relations, and ecclesiastical affairs. Its annalistic structure makes it especially useful for establishing chronology and tracing the development of events year by year. Complementing it, Robert of Avesbury’s De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi tertii is a rich documentary chronicle preserving letters, treaties, and official records alongside narrative passages. It is an indispensable source for understanding Edward III’s claim to the French crown, the conduct of war, and the mechanisms of medieval diplomacy. Together, these works offer scholars, students, and enthusiasts a reliable and unembellished account of a transformative period in English and European history. Essential for anyone interested in medieval chronicles, the Hundred Years’ War, or the reign of Edward III.
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On 26th September 1842 [her former husband] Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley [aged 82] died at Kingston House Knightsbridge, Kensington. His brother [her former brother-in-law] William [aged 79] succeeded 3rd Earl Mornington, 3rd Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle. Katherine Forbes Countess Mornington [aged 81] by marriage Countess Mornington.