Paternal Family Tree: Taylour
On 4th July 1754 [his father] Thomas Taylour 1st Earl of Bective [aged 29] and [his mother] Jane Rowley [aged 20] were married.
On 31st October 1763 Clotworthy Taylour aka Rowley 1st Baron Langford was born to Thomas Taylour 1st Earl of Bective [aged 39] and Jane Rowley [aged 29].
On 5th December 1778 [his brother] Thomas Taylour 1st Marquess of Headfort [aged 21] and [his sister-in-law] Mary Quin Marchioness of Headfort were married.
In 1791 Clotworthy Taylour aka Rowley 1st Baron Langford [aged 27] was elected MP Trim which seat he held until 1795 when he was raised to the Peerage.
In January 1794 Clotworthy Taylour aka Rowley 1st Baron Langford [aged 30] and Frances Rowley Baroness Langford [aged 19] were married. They were first cousins.
In 1795 Clotworthy Taylour aka Rowley 1st Baron Langford [aged 31] was created 1st Baron Langford of Summerhill in Meath. [his wife] Frances Rowley Baroness Langford [aged 20] by marriage Baroness Langford of Summerhill in Meath.
In 1795 [his son] Hercules Rowley 2nd Baron Langford was born to Clotworthy Taylour aka Rowley 1st Baron Langford [aged 31] and [his wife] Frances Rowley Baroness Langford [aged 20]. Coefficient of inbreeding 6.25%.
On 14th February 1795 [his father] Thomas Taylour 1st Earl of Bective [aged 70] died.
On 24th March 1796 [his uncle] Hercules Rowley 2nd Viscount Langford [aged 58] died unmarried. Viscount Langford of Longford Lodge extinct. Clotworthy Taylour aka Rowley 1st Baron Langford [aged 32] succeeded to the Rowley estates at which time he changed his surname from Taylour to Rowley.
On 29th December 1800 [his brother] Thomas Taylour 1st Marquess of Headfort [aged 43] was created 1st Marquess of Headfort. [his sister-in-law] Mary Quin Marchioness of Headfort by marriage Marchioness of Headfort.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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In 1818 [his mother] Jane Rowley [aged 84] died.
On 13th September 1825 Clotworthy Taylour aka Rowley 1st Baron Langford [aged 61] died. His son Hercules [aged 30] succeeded 2nd Baron Langford of Summerhill in Meath.
On 30th April 1860 [his former wife] Frances Rowley Baroness Langford [aged 85] died.
Clotworthy Taylour aka Rowley 1st Baron Langford
Grandfather: Hercules Langford Rowley Viscount Langford
mother: Jane Rowley
Grandmother: Elizabeth Rowley 1st Viscountess Langford