In 1570 Edward Blayney 1st Baron Blayney was born to David Lloyd Blayney at Gregynog Hall, Tregynon.
After 1601 George Blount [aged 47] and [his future wife] Anne Loftus [aged 34] were married.
On 13th June 1605 Edward Blayney 1st Baron Blayney [aged 35] and Anne Loftus [aged 38] were married.
Around 1607 [his daughter] Anne Blayney was born to Edward Blayney 1st Baron Blayney [aged 37] and [his wife] Anne Loftus [aged 40]. She married 1622 James Balfour 1st Baron Balfour.
In 1613 Edward Blayney 1st Baron Blayney [aged 43] was elected MP County Monaghan.
Before 1615 Henry Colley [aged 74] and [his wife] Anne Loftus [aged 47] were married. The difference in their ages was 27 years.
On 29th July 1621 Edward Blayney 1st Baron Blayney [aged 51] was created 1st Baron Blaney of Castle Blayney in County Monaghan.
In 1622 [his son-in-law] James Balfour 1st Baron Balfour [aged 55] and [his daughter] Anne Blayney [aged 15] were married. The difference in their ages was 40 years.
After 1622 Edward Blayney 1st Baron Blayney [aged 52] spent much of the 1620s fighting a bitter lawsuit with his brother-in-law [his son-in-law] James Balfour 1st Baron Balfour [aged 55], husband of his sister [his daughter] Anne Blayney [aged 15], regarding the payment of her jointure. He, apparently, having bullied her into a confession of adultery.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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In or before 1625 [his son] Henry Blayney 2nd Baron Blayney and [his daughter-in-law] Jane Moore were married.
On 11th February 1629 Edward Blayney 1st Baron Blayney [aged 59] died. His son Henry succeeded 2nd Baron Blaney of Castle Blayney in County Monaghan.
On 26th October 1633 [his former wife] Anne Loftus [aged 66] died.
[his son] Henry Blayney 2nd Baron Blayney was born to Edward Blayney 1st Baron Blayney and Anne Loftus. He married in or before 1625 Jane Moore, daughter of Garret Moore 1st Viscount Moore of Drogheda and Mary Colley Viscountess Moore and Wilmot, and had issue.