Image: Gorges quartered escutcheon on the tomb of Edmund Gorges and Anne Howard, All Saints Church, Wraxall, Somerset, UK - 20100505

Description: Heraldic shield on chest-tomb below recumbent effigies of of Sir Edmund Gorges (died 1512) and his wife Lady Anne Howard in All Saints Church, Wraxall, Somerset, England. Quarterly of 4: 1: "Gorges Modern" coat of arms; The "Gorges Modern", the blazon of which is Lozengy or and azure, a chevron gules, was adopted (in lieu of his paternal arms of Russell) by Theobald Russell "de Gorges" following the 1347 judgment Warbelton v. Gorges which determined that he did not have the right to use the Gorges arms blazoned as Lozengy or and azure". That right belonged to John de Warbelton. 2: Russell of Kingston Russell in Dorset: Argent, on a chief gules three bezants; 3: Oldhall of Fransham, Norfolk: Gules, a lion rampant ermine (here the ermine spots on the lion have been omitted)Englowes arms, as shown in the MacWilliam stained glass window, c.1530, chancel east window, Church of St Peter and St Thomas Becket, Stambourne, Essex4: Englowes: Argent, a chevron between three gads sable (As shown on the monument to Sir Edmund Gorges at Wraxall, the charges are wrongly shown as crosses patée sable). Englowes arms shown very clearly in the MacWilliam stained glass window, c.1530, chancel east window, Church of St Peter and St Thomas Becket, Stambourne, Essex. Argent, a chevron between three gads sable, shown on tabard on Edward MacWilliam and on upper lancet windows 4 and 5 (from left). Per Glossary of Heraldry[1]: "Gad: A plate of steel for hammering iron upon, borne by the London Company of IRONMONGERS .... The representations of this charge are sometimes very doubtful, and they have been blazoned cubes, gads (as in the insignia of the IRONMONGERS' COMPANY), blocks, &c.: but in the following examples the cubes are no doubt intended for dice, and should be drawn as such. ENGLOWES, Somerset: Azure, a chevron between three dice sable each charged with four spots. However in the stained glass at Stambourne (also sculpted on a column) the gad is clearly visible as A billet sable charged with four gouttes argent, not dice. Explanatory genealogy: George Streynsham Master, Collections for a Parochial History of Wraxall, 1900, p.16[2]: Walter Gorges (d.1466) married Mary Oldhall, daughter and heiress (by Mary Willoughby, a daughter of Lord Willoughby d'Eresby) of Sir William Oldhall, of Fransham, Norfolk, and Hunsdon, Herts, Knight of the Shire for that county and Speaker of the House of Commons, whose mother was the daughter and heir of Sir Henry Englowes, and left issue an only child Sir Edmund Gorges. The Arms of Oldhall and Englowes acquired by this marriage were cherished by its descendants, and subsequently employed in all their monumental and other achievements: Gules, a lion rampant ermine (Oldhall); Argent, a chevron between three gads sable (Englowes). Per Glossary of Heraldry[3]: "Gad: A plate of steel for hammering iron upon, borne by the London Company of IRONMONGERS .... The representations of this charge are sometimes very doubtful, and they have been blazoned cubes, gads (as in the insignia of the IRONMONGERS' COMPANY), blocks, &c.: but in the following examples the cubes are no doubt intended for dice, and should be drawn as such. ENGLOWES, Somerset: Azure, a chevron between three dice sable each charged with four spots. As shown on the monument to Sir Edmund Gorges at Wraxall, the charges shown are crosses patée sable. Sir Edmund Gorges, in ward, as a minor, to John Lord Howard, was made Knight of the Bath, at the creation of Arthur Prince of Wales, son of Henry Vll., 1489. He had three wives, of whom the first was the Lady Anne Howard, daughter of his guardian, John Howard [created Duke of Norfolk, 1483, and killed at the Battle of Bosworth, 1486, sister of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who gained the battle of Flodden Field 1513, and great-aunt of Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn, Queens of Henry Vlll. His second wife was Joan Hampton, youngest daughter and co-heiress, with her two sisters, of John Hampton of East Harptree. She had previously married, first Thomas Chokke, fourth son of Sir Bichard Chokke of Long Ashton, Judge of the Common Pleas.
Title: Gorges quartered escutcheon on the tomb of Edmund Gorges and Anne Howard, All Saints Church, Wraxall, Somerset, UK - 20100505
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