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English: St Mary's Church, Feltwell, Norfolk, mural monument to Osbert Moundeford, Esquire (1507-1580). Inscribed in Latin:
Hic jacet Osbertus Moundeford Armiger qui primo duxit Margaretam filiam Johannia filii et haeredis Domini Rogeri Townesende Militis postea Brigettam unam filiarum domini Johannis Spilman de Narburgh, Militis, et ex prima uxore exitu(s) habuit unicam filiam ex secunda filios novem & filias quinque. Qui Osbertus obiit 28 die mensis Julii A(n)no Domini 1580 aetatis suae LXXIII

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"Here lies Osbert Moundeford, Esquire, who in the first place married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Lord Roger Townshend, Knight, afterwards to Briget, one of the daughters of Lord John Spilman of Narborough (i.e. in Norfolk), Knight, and from the first wife he had issue a sole daughter, from the second nine sons and five daughters. Which Osbert died on the 28th day of the month of July in the year of our Lord 1580, of his age 73"

Heraldry

3 shields:

  • Centre: Quarterly of 4:
    • 1&4: Argent, three fleurs-de-lis gules (Moundeford) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.712, but with field or)
    • 2&3: Gules, a cross engrailed argent (Inglethorpe / Ingoldesthorpe) (Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, vol.2, 1889, p.153[1])
  • Dexter/left: Quarterly of 4 as centre shield, impaling quarterly of 4 (for his first wife):
    • 1: Azure, a chevron ermine between three escallops argent (Townshend of Raynham, Norfolk)
    • 2: Gules, a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis or (Hauvile/de Hautville/de Havile/de Haville of Raynham, Norfolk) (Pedigree of Townshend, in Dashwood, G. H., ed. (1878). The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms: Volume 1. Norwich , p.306[2]). Text from Duchess of Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll [3]: "Raynham continued in the possession of the de Havile family until 1345, when James de Havile, the husband of Anne Wace, was living there. "Soon after, this lordship of Raynham-Havile's came to the Townshends, by the marriage of Elizabeth de Havile, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de Havile with Lewis de Townshend, as Collins, in his Peerage, observes".
    • 3: Argent semée of crosses-crosslet gules, a lion rampant of the second crowned or (Brewes of Little Wenham, Suffolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.121 "Brewes of Buckinghamshire")(as quartered by Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend) Sir Roger Townshend (1477-1552) of Raynham, Norfolk, married Anne (or Amy) Brewes, daughter and co-heiress of William de Brewse (anciently de Braose), of Wenham Hall, Suffolk, and Stinton Hall in Norfolk, by whom he had six sons and two daughters
    • 4: sable, a cross engrailed or (Ufford) (Pedigree of Townshend, in Dashwood, G. H., ed. (1878). The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms: Volume 1. Norwich , p.306[4]) (apparently a Brewes heiress, as seen impaled on monument to John Brewse (d.1585) in Little Wenham Church, Suffolk File:All Saints church Little Wenham Suffolk (4181720361).jpg.
  • Sinister/right: Quarterly of 4 as centre shield, impaling quarterly of 4 (for his second wife):
    • 1: Sable, eleven plates between two flaunches argent (Spilman of Narborough, Norfolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.955 "Spelman/Spilman or Spelman, Coreghani, Narborough, Stow, and Westacre, Norfolk; and co. Stafford")
    • 2: Gules, a chief ermine (de Narborough) (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 1 (1885), p.79[5])
    • 3: Azure, on a chevron between three leopard's faces/heads or a mullet sable (Frowyk/Froyk/Frowicke) (charges shown here argent) (Pedigree of Spelman, in Dashwood, G. H., ed. (1878). The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms: Volume 1. Norwich , p.249[6])
    • 4: Sable, three bars or (?) Azure fretty gules, three sturgeons naiant in pale or (Sturgeon) (Visitation of Norfolk, p.249)
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