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The church of St Martin at Palace, Norwich - C16 monument
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Arms in stained glass window: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Argent; 2nd & 3rd: Gules fretty or, over all a ribbon sable (Despencer).

Altar tomb by the East Wall of the North Aisle, Church of St Martin at Palace, Norwich, Norfolk, of Elizabeth Calthorpe (died 1578). (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 3 (1893), pp.78-9[1])

Inscription

Elizabethae Caltrop, ex illustri et antiqua Caltropporum familia oriundae, unicae parentis filiae, Primum Nobilissimo Viro Henrico Parkero, Equito Aurato, Nuptae, diende post ejus mortem, Gulielmo Woodhouse, Equiti, per illustri in Matrimonio, locatae mulieri Castissimis moribus faelici ingenio insignitae caeterisque praeclarissimis virtutibus egregie decoratae faeminei sexus ornamento praecellenti Drugo Drury Armiger qui postremus in uxorem duxerat, hoc monumentum observantiae et benevolentiae animo maerenti desiderium tam charae conjugis consecrabat

((Sacred to the Memory of) Elizabeth Calthorpe, arisen from the illustrious and ancient family of the Calthorpes, the only daughter of her parents, married firstly the most noble man Henry Parker, Knight Bachelor, then after the death of him, to William Woodhouse, Knight, very illustrious in marriage, .... a woman with the most chaste morals ... with very well-known virtues ... Drugo Drury, Esquire, who later married her, consecrated this monument with a spirit of observance and benevolence mourning the loss of so dear a wife").

Heraldry

Information board regarding monument to Elizabeth Calthorpe

Seven shields:

  • 1: Top, dexter (viewer's left): Drury quarterly of 14:
    • 1: Argent, on a chief vert two mullets or (Drury)
    • 2: Sable, six cinquefoils argent, three, two, and one (Fressell; Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.379, "Fresell/Fresill", with quatrefoils/roses)
    • 3: Argent, six crosses-crosslet fitchée gules a chief indented azure (Saxham, crosses should be azure; Burke, p.901: "Saxam/Saxham", with crosses azure)
    • 4: Argent, a chevron gules between three chapeaux points to the dexter azure (Brudenell)
    • 5: Ermine, on a chevron engrailed gules three escallops the centre one or the other two argent (Grove, per Burke, p.432; Farrer "Grove / Atgrove")
    • 6: Gyrony of eight or and sable (Rand; Burke, p.838 "Gyrony of twelve or and sable)
    • 7: Azure, a bend cotised or between six crosses-crosslet fitchée of the second (Blaket/Blackett)
    • 8: Sable, a buck's head cabossed argent between the attires a cross pattée fitchée or in his mouth an arrow of the last feathered and headed point to the sinister argent (Bulstrode or Bolstrode; Blomfield, Norf. iv. 373, attributes this to Lerham)
    • 9: Paly of six argent and azure, on a chief sable two swords in saltire of the first hilts and pomels points uppermost or (Knyffe/Knife)
    • 10: Per fesse azure and gules, a horse-barnacle closed in pale argent (Wyatt)
    • 11: Argent, a horse-barnacle gules (Wyatt of Kent)
    • 12: Argent, six cinquefoils, two, two, and two, gules on a canton sable a crescent surmounted of a mullet argent (?)
    • 13: Argent, a fesse dancettée gules in chief three leopard's faces sable (Pulteney/Pountney)
    • 14: Argent, a chevron gules between three squirrels sejant sable cracking nuts or (Shobington/Scobington/Chobington; Burke, p.904: "Scobington")
  • 2: Top, centre: Drury quarterly of 14 impaling Calthorpe quarterly of 6:
    • 1: Drury
    • 2: Fresell
    • 3: Saxam
    • 4: Brudenell
    • 5: Grove
    • 6: Rand
    • 7: Blaket
    • 8: Bulstrode
    • 9: Knyffe
    • 10: Wyatt
    • 11: Wyatt of Kent
    • 12: Argent, six cinquefoils gules on a canton sable a crescent surmounted of a mullet argent
    • 13: Pulteney
    • 14: Scobington
Impaling Calthorpe quarterly of 6:
    • 1: Chequy or and azure, a fesse ermine (Calthorpe)
    • 2: Gules, on a chief argent two mullets sable (Bacon)
    • 3: Argent, three escutcheons gules (Davillers, heiress of Bacon). Isabel Bacon (1348-1410) (daughter of Sir Robert Bacon (born c.1325) of Erwarton in Suffolk, by his wife Isabel Davillers) married Sir Oliver Calthorpe (c.1346-1397)[2] (Arms per Burke, p.267)
    • 4: Argent, a fesse and in chief two crescents gules (Wachesham/Wachesam/Waxham) (Burke, p.1060 "Wachesham of Norfolk")
    • 5: Azure, three griffins in pale or (Wythe); Azure, three griffins passant in pale or (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1146, "Wythe of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk")
    • 6: Azure, a fesse between six crosses-crosslet or (St Omer)
  • 3: Top, sinister (viewer's right): Calthorpe quarterly of six:
    • 1: Calthorpe
    • 2: Bacon
    • 3: Davillers
    • 4: Wachesam
    • 5: Wythe
    • 6: St Omer
  • 4: bottom row, left: Calthorpe impaling: Argent, a chevron gules between three bull's heads couped sable (Boleyn).
  • 5: bottom row, second from left: Argent, a lion rampant sable crowned or with a label of three of the last (Morley). It is the coat of Morley borne by the Parkers, soon after the marriage of Sir William Parker with Alice, the daughter of Lord Morley, impaling Calthorpe;
  • 6: bottom row, second from right: Quarterly ermine and azure, in the second and third quarters a leopard's face or (Woodhouse/Wodehouse of Waxham, Norfolk; Burke, p.1126) impaling Calthorpe.
  • 7: Drury impaling Brudenell

Two further shields given in Farrar, not visible in this image:

  • Calthorpe impaling Per pale azure and gules, three chevrons counter-changed of the field and fimbriated argent (Say)
  • Drury impaling Calthorpe
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