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Cretingham, St Peter: memorial (3)
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St Peter's Church, Cretingham, Suffolk, mural monument to John Cornwallis (d.1615). See better image jmc4 - Church Explorer [1]. He was the son of Richard Cornwallis (d.1584) (3rd son of Sir John Cornwallis of Brome, Suffolk, by Ann Sulyard) by his wife Margaret Louth, daughter and heiress of Lional Louth (d.1532) by his wife Elizabeth Blennerhassett, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett of Frenze. John Cornwallis (d.1615) married twice: Firstly to Catherine Blennerhasset (d.1584), a daughter of John Blennerhasset (d.1573) of Barsham by his wife Mary Echingham, a daughter of Sir Edward Echingham of Barsham; He married secondly Elizabeth Wolsey widow of William Tuthill. (Source: jmc4 - Church Explorer)

Heraldry

4 shields:

  • Top; Quarterly of 4:
    • 1&4: Sable guttée d'eau, on a fess argent three Cornish choughs proper (Cornwallis)
    • 2&3: Sable, a wolf salient argent (Louth of Cretingham)
  • Dexter/left: (usually position of greatest honour for arms of first wife, here for second wife) Sable, on a cross engrailed argent a lion passant gules between four leopard's faces azure on a chief or a rose gules barbed vert seeded or between two Cornish choughs proper (Wolsey, arms of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York)
  • Sinister/right: (for first wife) Quarterly of 4: (see pedigree & heraldry of Blennerhassett in Heraldic Visitation of Norfolk[2] and Heraldic Visitation of Suffolk, 1561 [3])
    • 1: Gules, a chevron ermine between three dolphins embowed argent (Blennerhassett of Frenze Hall, Norfolk)
    • 2: Argent, three escutcheons sable (Lowdham of Suffolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.625)
    • 3: Gules, a pall reversed ermine (Kelvedon of Kelvedon Hall, Great Braxted, Essex)
    • 4: Azure, a lion rampant guardant argent ducally/murally crowned or (Covert of Sussex (Heraldic Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, p.7); this blazon not listed in Burke's General Armory p.236 for "Covert")
  • Bottom: Cornwallis quartering Louth (as top), impaling Blennerhassett quarterly of 4 (as sinister)
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English: Cretingham, St Peter: memorial (3) Edit this at Structured Data on Commons
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Source Geograph Britain and Ireland Edit this at Structured Data on Commons
Author Basher Eyre Edit this at Structured Data on Commons
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Cretingham Edit this at Structured Data on Commons (CretinghamEast SuffolkSuffolkEast of EnglandEnglandUnited Kingdom)
Camera location52° 11′ 52″ N, 1° 15′ 30″ E Edit this at Structured Data on Commons  Heading=+315° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location52° 11′ 53″ N, 1° 15′ 28″ E Edit this at Structured Data on Commons Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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