Image: MarieRolleBrass StStephensBySaltash 1613

Description: Monumental brass of Marie Stradling (d. 1613), a daughter of Edmond Stradling of St George's, Somerset (a member of the Stradling family of St Donat's Castle, Glamorgan) and wife of Sir Samuel I Rolle (c. 1588-1647) of Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe, Devon, Member of Parliament for Callington, Cornwall in 1640 and for Devon 1641-1647. Church of St Stephen-by-Saltash, Cornwall, affixed to wall at east end of north aisle, formerly on floor by altar. Inscription: "Here lyeth the bodie of Marie one of ye daughters & heyres of Edmond Stradlinge of St Georges in Somersett Esq. who maried Samuell ye eldest sonne of Robert Rolle of Heaunton in Devon Esq. She dyed yr 23th of Janua. 1613". Armorials: Or, on a fesse dancetté between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants a mullet for difference (Rolle) impaling quarterly 1: Paly of six (shown here incorrectly as five) argent and azure on a bend gules three cinquefoils or (Stradling); 2: Azure, a chevron between three crescents or (Berkerolles of Coity Castle, Glamorgan; 3: Chequy...and...a fess ermine (Turberville of Coity Castle); 4: ...three fishes niant in pale...on a chief a hedgehog (?) (Dunkin, p.90)
Title: MarieRolleBrass StStephensBySaltash 1613
Credit: Dunkin, Edwin Hadlow Wise, The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall with Descriptive, Geneaological and Heraldic Notes, 1882, plate LXI
Author: Drawn by Dunkin, Edwin Hadlow Wise
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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