Paternal Family Tree: Coventry
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Bond -1615
On 2nd April 1627 [his father] Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry [aged 21] and [his mother] Mary Craven [aged 25] were married.
In 1629 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry [aged 23] and Mary Craven [aged 27].
In 1634 [his mother] Mary Craven [aged 32] died.
On 14th January 1640 [his grandfather] Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry [aged 62] died. His son [his father] Thomas [aged 34] succeeded 2nd Baron Coventry.
On 18th July 1653 [his brother] George Coventry 3rd Baron Coventry [aged 25] and [his sister-in-law] Margaret Tufton Baroness Coventry [aged 17] were married. She by marriage Baroness Coventry. She the daughter of John Tufton 2nd Earl of Thanet [aged 44] and Margaret Sackville Countess Isle Thanet [aged 39].
Around 1660 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 31] and Winifred Edgecumbe [aged 23] were married.
In April 1660 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 31] was elected MP Droitwich during the Convention Parliament.
On 8th May 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 30] summoned his second Parliament.
John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston [aged 44] was elected MP Wallingford.
James Thynne [aged 56] was elected MP Wiltshire.
Adam Browne 2nd Baronet [aged 35] was elected MP Surrey.
Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne [aged 30] was elected MP Northumberland.
William Compton [aged 36] was elected MP Cambridge.
Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 32] was elected MP Camelford.
Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge [aged 61] was elected MP Bath and Heytesbury.
Edward Hungerford [aged 28] was elected MP Chippenham.
Robert Pierrepont [aged 24] was elected MP Nottingham.
John Melbury Sampford Strangeways [aged 75] was elected MP Weymouth.
Giles Strangeways [aged 45] was elected MP Dorset.
John Strangeways [aged 24] was elected MP Bridport.
William Wyndham 1st Baronet [aged 29] was elected MP Taunton.
James Herbert [aged 38] was elected MP Queenborough.
William Alington 1st and 3rd Baron Alington [aged 21] was elected MP Cambridge.
William Bowes of Streatlam [aged 4] was elected MP Durham.
Robert Brooke [aged 24] was elected MP Aldeburgh.
Josiah Child [aged 30] was elected MP Dartmouth.
Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet [aged 73] was elected MP Nottinghamshire.
Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew [aged 37] was elected MP Brackley.
Richard Jennings [aged 42] was elected MP St Albans.
Robert Kemp 2nd Baronet [aged 33] was elected MP Norfolk.
Edward Phelips [aged 48] was elected MP Somerset.
Robert Robartes [aged 27] was elected MP Bossiney.
Hender Robartes [aged 25] was elected MP Bodmin.
Clement Fisher 2nd Baronet [aged 48] was elected MP Coventry.
William Portman 6th Baronet [aged 17] was elected MP Taunton.
John Robinson 1st Baronet [aged 46] was elected MP Rye.
On 27th October 1661 [his father] Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry [aged 55] died at Lincoln's Inn Fields. He was buried at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Croome D'Abitot [Map]. His son [his brother] George [aged 33] succeeded 3rd Baron Coventry.
Around 1662 [his son] Thomas Coventry 2nd Earl Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 33] and [his wife] Winifred Edgecumbe [aged 25]. He married 1691 his sixth cousin Anne Somerset Countess Coventry, daughter of Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort and Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort, and had issue.
Around 1668 [his son] Gilbert Coventry 4th Earl Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 39] and [his wife] Winifred Edgecumbe [aged 31]. He married (1) 30th November 1694 Dorothy Keyt, daughter of William Keyt 2nd Baronet, and had issue (2) 25th June 1715 Anne Master Countess Coventry.
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 1669 Henry Savile [aged 27] was sent to the Tower of London [Map] for a few days for having carried Thomas Coventry's [aged 40] challenge to the Duke of Buckingham [aged 40].
Around 1675 Mary Beale aka Cradock [aged 41]. Portrait of Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 46].
On 15th December 1680 [his brother] George Coventry 3rd Baron Coventry [aged 52] died. His son [his nephew] John [aged 26] succeeded 4th Baron Coventry.
In 1681 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 52] was elected MP Warwick.
In 1685 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 56] was elected MP Warwick.
In 1687 [his nephew] John Coventry 4th Baron Coventry [aged 33] died. His uncle Thomas [aged 58] succeeded 5th Baron Coventry.
In 1691 Thomas Coventry 2nd Earl Coventry [aged 29] and Anne Somerset Countess Coventry [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort [aged 62] and Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort [aged 60]. He the son of Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 62] and Winifred Edgecumbe [aged 54]. They were sixth cousins.
On 11th June 1694 [his wife] Winifred Edgecumbe [aged 57] died.
On 30th November 1694 Gilbert Coventry 4th Earl Coventry [aged 26] and Dorothy Keyt [aged 23] were married. He the son of Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 65] and Winifred Edgecumbe.
On 16th July 1695 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 66] and Elizabeth Grimes Countess Coventry [aged 25] were married. The difference in their ages was 41 years.
In 1697 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 68] was created 1st Earl Coventry with a special remainder to issue of Walter Coventry brother to the [his grandfather] 1st Baron Coventry. [his wife] Elizabeth Grimes Countess Coventry [aged 27] by marriage Countess Coventry.
On 15th July 1699 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 70] died. His son Thomas [aged 37] succeeded 2nd Earl Coventry, 6th Baron Coventry. Anne Somerset Countess Coventry [aged 25] by marriage Countess Coventry. He was buried in St Mary Magdalene's Church, Croome D'Abitot [Map].
The Monument in St Mary the Virgin Church, Elmley [Map] was commissioned by his second wife [aged 29] for installation at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Croome D'Abitot [Map] but it rejected by his son. She, apparently, being somewhat imaginative in the inscription describing her provenance to from the Graham family. She was the daughter of Richard Grimes, a mean person, by trade a Turner, and sister of Richard Grimes, a Waterman. She had been niece of the Earl's housekeep, and a servant in his household, and he had married her in his declined old age: "Elizabeth, Countess by her dower right, descended from the noble family of the Grahams, daughter of Richard, son of Richard Graham of the County of Norfolk, Esquire, who valiantly fought as a captain for King Charles I. She placed this, a token of sincere love and utmost respect, as a final pledge of her soul, mourning deeply, in gratitude for the tender affection shown to her by her lord and husband—though blessed with no children. And after her death, she desired that her body be laid here with her most beloved husband."
"Elizabeth comitissa eius dotaria e nobili Grahamorum familia prognatta Richardi filii Ricardi Graham de Com. Norff. Armi. pro rege Carolo Primo strenue dimicantis capitanei, filia; Hoc amoris sinceri, summæ observantiæ gratio demun animi pignus, pro tenerrimo dni et mariti erga se affectu nulla licet beata prole, moestissima posuit; et post obitum corpus suum cum dilectissimo marito hic recondi voluit."
Monument including a white marble figure elbow reclining on a deep chest in front of a lengthy inscription and under an arch crowned with armorial bearings. Large sub-figures flank the chest and the armorial bearings. Earl's coronet. Signed by William Stanton [aged 60]. Powdered Wig. Heeled Shoes. Buckled Shoes.
Thomas Coventry 2nd Earl Coventry: Around 1662 he was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry and Winifred Edgecumbe. In 1691 Thomas Coventry 2nd Earl Coventry and Anne Somerset Countess Coventry were married. She the daughter of Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort and Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort. He the son of Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry and Winifred Edgecumbe. They were sixth cousins. In August 1710 Thomas Coventry 2nd Earl Coventry died. His son Thomas succeeded 3rd Earl Coventry, 7th Baron Coventry.
Anne Somerset Countess Coventry: On 22nd July 1673 she was born to Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort and Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort. On 14th February 1763 Anne Somerset Countess Coventry died at Snitterfield, Warwickshire.
On 6th June 1700 Thomas Savage [aged 27] and [his former wife] Elizabeth Grimes Countess Coventry [aged 30] were married.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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On or before 10th April 1724, the date she was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Elmley [Map], [his former wife] Elizabeth Grimes Countess Coventry [aged 54] died.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Coventry 
Grandfather: Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry
father: Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Sebright
Grandmother: Sarah Sebright
Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Craven Craven Arms
Grandfather: William Craven Craven Arms
mother: Mary Craven Craven Arms
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Whitmore of Balmes Manor in Hackney
Grandmother: Elizabeth Whitmore
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Bond