Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke

Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.

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John Harsick II -1381

Paternal Family Tree: Harsick

In 1309 [his father] John Harsick I died.

In 1324, Hugh Driby, son of Sir Ralph de Driby, released to John, son of Sir John Harsyke, and to Margery his wife, all his right in the manor of Driby in Lincolnshire, and license was granted to this John, to found in the church of St. George [Map] in his manor of South-acre, a chantery, with lands and tenements thereto, to the value of 10 marks per annum.

In 1338 and 1339 John Harsick II was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk.

In 1357, the 30th year of the reign of Edward III Sir John de Camoys [aged 37], by deed, granted to him and his heirs, license to bear his crest, a plume of turkey feathers, so that the said Sir John Harsyk, &c. bears it in a hoop, or; to which deed, the Lords Scales and Bardolph [aged 42] were witnesses.

In 1381 John Harsick II died.

On 14th November 1381 John Harsick II wrote his will in which he specified he be buried in the chapel of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, in the church of Southacre [Map].

John Harsick III was born to John Harsick II. He married in or before 1384 Catherine Calthorpe and had issue.

Ancestors of John Harsick II -1381

Great x 3 Grandfather: Eudo Harsick

Great x 2 Grandfather: Eudo Harsick

Great x 1 Grandfather: Alexander Harsick

Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Watshall

Grandfather: Roger Harsick

Great x 1 Grandmother: Cecily Jernigan

Father: John Harsick I

John Harsick II