English: Chest tomb monument in St Mary the Virgin Church, Battle, Sussex, to Sir Anthony Browne, KG (c.1500-1548) of Battle Abbey and Cowdray Park, both in Sussex, a Member of Parliament and a courtier who served as Master of the Horse to King Henry VIII. He married firstly Alice Gage (died pre-1540), a daughter of Sir John Gage by his wife Philippa Guildford, by whom he had seven sons and three daughters including: Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, eldest son and heir.

Heraldry

3 shields, left to right:

Left

Grand-quarterly of 4 (as centre shield), impaling quarterly of 4 (as right shield);

Centre

Grand-quarterly of 4:

• 1: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1&4: Sable, three lions passant in bend between four bendlets argent (Browne)
  • 2&3: Gules, a lion rampant or (FitzAlan) quartering Sable, a fret or (Maltravers); Sir Thomas Browne (1402-1460), MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer, married Eleanor FitzAlan, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas FitzAlan of Betchworth Castle in Surrey, the third son of John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel (d.1390) the son and heir of John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel by his wife Eleanor Maltravers, the grand-daughter and eventual heiress of John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers.

• 2: Quarterly of 4:

• • 1&4: Gules, a saltire argent (Neville), differenced by a label of three points componée argent and azure (Beaufort). Neville arms with label compony of Beaufort, borne as a difference to the paternal Neville arms (Gules, a saltire argent) by the descendants of the second marriage of w:Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (d.1425) to Joan Beaufort, a legitimated daughter of John of Gaunt, 4th son of King Edward III. Sir Anthony Browne (died 1548) was the son and heir of Sir Anthony Browne (died 1506) "the Elder", Standard Bearer of England and Governor of Queenborough Castle in Kent, by his wife Lucy Neville, the widow of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam of Aldwark and a daughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu;
  • 2: Argent, three fusils conjoined in fess gules (Montagu)
  • 3: Or, an eagle displayed vert beaked and membered gules (Monthermer, a Montagu heiress)

• 3: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1: Plantagenet differenced by a bordure argent Arms of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, being the arms of his maternal grandfather Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, a son of King Edward I.
  • 2&3: Argent, a saltire engrailed gules (Tiptoft) (shown here incorrectly with tinctures inverted Gules, a saltire engrailed argent)
  • 4: Or, a lion rampant gules (Charlton, a Tiptoft heiress) John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft married Joyce Charlton, one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Edward Charlton, 5th Baron Charlton, by his wife Alianore Holland, one of the two daughters and eventual heiresses of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent

• 4: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1: Gules, a cross engrailed argent in the first quarter a mullet of the second (Inglethorp) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.528 "Inglethorp of Norfolk")
  • 2: Argent, on a canton gules a rose or (Bradeston) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.113 "Lord Bradeston, summoned to Parliament 1322")
  • 3: Azure, a fess between three leopard's faces or (de la Pole), differenced by an annulet sable
  • 4: Argent, on a fess dancetée sable three bezants (Burgh ?) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.146 "Burgh") In the Roll of Edward III "Sir John de Burgh" bore these arms; also in Ashmole Roll (Foster, Joseph, Some feudal coats of arms from heraldic rolls 1298-1418, illustrated with 830 zinco etchings from effigies, brasses and coats of arms, 1902, p.41[1])
    

Right

Quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Per saltire argent and azure, a saltire gules (Gage) for his wife Alice Gage (died pre-1540), a daughter of Sir John Gage;
• 2&3: Azure, a sun in splendour proper (St Clere)