Paternal Family Tree: Clavering
In 1685 Mary Clavering Countess Cowper was born to John Clavering and Susanna Thompson.
In November 1705 William Cowper 2nd Baronet [aged 66] died. His son [her future husband] William [aged 40] succeeded 3rd Baronet Cowper of Ratling Court in Kent.
In 1706 William Cowper 1st Earl Cowper [aged 41] and Mary Clavering Countess Cowper [aged 21] were married. The difference in their ages was 20 years.
On 14th December 1706 [her husband] William Cowper 1st Earl Cowper [aged 41] was created 1st Baron Cowper of Wingham in Kent. Mary Clavering Countess Cowper [aged 21] by marriage Baroness Cowper of Wingham in Kent.
On 13th August 1709 [her son] William Clavering-Cowper 2nd Earl Cowper was born to [her husband] William Cowper 1st Earl Cowper [aged 44] and Mary Clavering Countess Cowper [aged 24]. He married 27th September 1732 Henrietta Nassau 2nd Countess Cowper, daughter of Henry Nassau 1st Earl Grantham and Henrietta Butler Countess Grantham, and had issue.
Around 1712 [her son] Reverend Spencer Cowper was born to [her husband] William Cowper 1st Earl Cowper [aged 47] and Mary Clavering Countess Cowper [aged 27].
On 18th March 1718 [her husband] William Cowper 1st Earl Cowper [aged 53] was created 1st Earl Cowper for having suppressed the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. Mary Clavering Countess Cowper [aged 33] by marriage Countess Cowper.
On 10th October 1723 [her husband] William Cowper 1st Earl Cowper [aged 58] died. His son William [aged 14] succeeded 2nd Earl Cowper, 2nd Baron Cowper of Wingham in Kent, 4th Baronet Cowper of Ratling Court in Kent.
On 5th February 1724 Mary Clavering Countess Cowper [aged 39] died.
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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1804. School of Godfrey Kneller. Portrait of Mary Clavering Countess Cowper.
[her father] John Clavering and [her mother] Susanna Thompson were married.
Kings Wessex: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Clavering of Callaley 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Clavering
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fenwick
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Clavering 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Grey of Horton 
5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ann Grey 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Ogle 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John James Clavering 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Grandfather: Robert Clavering 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
father: John Clavering 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Mary Clavering Countess Cowper 11 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Grandfather: Henry Thompson
mother: Susanna Thompson