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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Philip Lovel -1258

Philip Lovel was born to William Lovel.

In 1213 [his father] William Lovel died.

In 1232 Philip Lovel entered the church and in 1231/32 was ordained subdeacon and given the living in Lutterworth (Leicestershire) by Nicholas de Verdun.

Before 1240 Philip Lovel was witnessing charters of Roger de Quincy 2nd Earl Winchester [aged 44] and eventually became the earl’s steward for his English estates.

On 27th August 1252 Philip Lovel was appointed Lord High Treasurer which office he held until 1258.

In 1256 Philip Lovel received 1,600 marks from Margaret de Lascy, Countess of Lincoln, a part payment of the arrears of the money she owned as her share of the dower payments to Eleanor of England.

Annals Londonienses. On the feast of Saint Edward [13th October 1258], Philip Lovel, treasurer of the lord king, was removed by the will of the barons, and several others were likewise removed from the Exchequer. Before Christmas, the monks of Winchester were ordered by the barons to elect a shepherd for themselves. In the same summer, many thousands of people died from famine in London and elsewhere throughout England because of the excessive abundance of rain, so that in many regions the harvests had scarcely been gathered in by the feast of All Saints [1st November].

In festo Sancti Edwardi, amoto Philippo Luvel thesaurario domini regis, per voluntatem baronum, alii etiam plures de scaccario remoti sunt. Præcipitur, ante Natale, monachis Wyntoniensibus, ex baronibus, quod eligant sibi pastorem. In eadem æstate obierunt multa millia hominum Londoniis et alibi per Angliam fame propter nimiam habundantiam plaviarum, quod in plaribus partibus ad festam Omnium Sanctorum vix messes reconderentur.

On 29th December 1258 Philip Lovel died. His estates, which included lands in Little Brickhill (Buckinghamshire), Littlebury (Essex), and Snotescombe (Northamptonshire), were at first confiscated but later divided between his three children and his nephew John Lovell II.