In or before 1433 [her father] Thomas de Semarc [aged 19] and [her mother] Alice Laxham [aged 19] were married.
Around 1433 Anne de Semarc was born to Thomas de Semarc [aged 20] and Alice Laxham [aged 20].
In or before 1449 William Sapcote [aged 19] and Anne de Semarc [aged 15] were married.
Around 1449 [her son] Guy Sapcote of Thornhaugh, Bedfordshire was born to [her husband] William Sapcote [aged 20] and Anne de Semarc [aged 16].
A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3: Parishes: Chenies. On Sir John Cheyne's [aged 78] death without issue in 146833 his widow [her aunt] Agnes married Edmund Molyneux, who was sheriff of the county in 147534 and presented to the church in 147935. He died in 148436, and Agnes survived him ten years. By her will 20 November 1494 her first husband's great-great-nephew John Cheyne of Chesham Bois (q.v.) obtained Drayton Beauchamp, Grove and Cogenhoe Manors, but Chenies [Map] passed to Agnes Cheyne's niece Anne [aged 35] wife of David Philip37. Anne and David Philip, who was sheriff in 149838, had some difficulty in inducing the trustees to hand over the manor39, but were in possession in 1500, when Chenies was settled on Anne and her issue40. She died seised of it in 1510, when it passed to her granddaughter Anne wife of John Broughton and daughter and heir of Guy Sapcote [aged 19], son of Anne Philip by a former husband [aged 39]41.
Note 33. Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. IV, no. 51.
Note 34. P.R.O. List of Sheriffs, 2.
Note 35. Lipscomb, Bucks. iii, 252.
Note 36. Brass in church.
Note 37. Add. MS. 5840, fol. 39.
Note 38. P.R.O. List of Sheriffs, 2.
Note 39. Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 218, no. 30.
Note 40. De Banco R. Hil. 15 Hen. VII, m. 297; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxv, 162.
Note 41. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxv, 162.
In 1479 [her son] Guy Sapcote of Thornhaugh, Bedfordshire [aged 30] died. His daughter [her granddaughter] Anne Sapcote Countess Bedford and her husband [her grandson-in-law] John Russell 1st Earl Bedford inherited Chenies Manor House, Buckinghamshire [Map]
In 1483 [her father] Thomas de Semarc [aged 70] died.
On 31st August 1485 [her husband] William Sapcote [aged 56] died.
In 1486 [her mother] Alice Laxham [aged 73] died.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Before 1494 David Phelip of Chenies and Anne de Semarc [aged 60] were married.
1st August 1510. St Michael's Church, Chenies [Map]. Brass of Anne de Semarc [aged 77], holding her heart, inscribed "Here lies Dame Anne Phelip, Widow, once wife of David Phelip, knight, lady of Thoro in the County of Northampton and Isenhampstead Cheyne in the County of Buckingham, who died the first day of August in the year of our Lord 1510 on whose soul may God have mercy Amen".
On 1st August 1510 Anne de Semarc [aged 77] died. Her grand-daughter [her granddaughter] Anne Sapcote Countess Bedford [aged 31] inherited Chenies Manor House, Buckinghamshire [Map].