Image: Brass ElizabethBray Died1573 WifeOf SirRalphVerney Aldbury Church Hertfordshire

Description: Monumental brass in Church of St. John the Baptist, Aldbury, Hertfordshire, of Elizabeth Bray (d.1573), a daughter of Edmund Bray, 1st Baron Bray, of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire and wife of Sir Ralph Verney (1509-1546), of Pendley in Tring, Hertfordshire, and of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire.(Source: History of Parliament biog of son[1]) She was the mother of: Edmund Verney (1528-58), of Pendley, eldest son and heir, twice MP for Buckinghamshire; Francis Verney (1531/4-1559), of Salden in Mursley, Buckinghamshire, 4th son, also twice MP for Buckinghamshire; On her mantle she displays the arms of Verney quarterly of 4 (as on her husband's tabard, matching brass) impaling Bray quarterly of 4 with inescutcheon of Halliwell: Baron/Dexter (not all visible due to artist's use of perspective) 1&4: Azure, on a cross argent five mullets pierced gules (Verney); 2: Azure, two chevrons or on a canton argent a Paschal lamb gules (Agnell) 3: Per fess argent and or, a fess vert over all a lion rampant gules (Whittingham)Femme/Sinister 1&4: Argent, a chevron between three eagle's legs erased sable (Bray (modern)) 2&3: Vair, three bends gules (Bray (ancient)) Inescutcheon (femme) With inescutcheon of pretence for Halliwell (for her mother the heraldic heiress Jane Halliwell), quarterly of 4: 1: Or, on a bend gules three goats argent (Hallighwell, a Bray heiress (Halwell of Halwell in the parish of Harberton, Devon (Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.166)) 2: Sable, a chevron between three bull's heads cabossed argent (Norbury, a Bray heiress (Norbury of Stoke in Surrey (Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.166)) 3: Gules, a fess chequy argent and sable between six crosslets formée fitchée argent (Boteler of Watton Woodhall, Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire) 4: Or, two bends gules (Sudeley) As later quartered by William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham (1527-1597), whose mother was Ann Bray, another daughter of Edmund Bray, 1st Baron Bray. (Source: D'Elboux, R.H., The Brooke Tomb, Cobham, published in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol.62, 1949, pp.48-56, esp. pp.50-1[2])File:Arms WilliamBrooke 10thBaronCobham (1527-1597) CobhamChurch Kent.xcf
Title: Brass ElizabethBray Died1573 WifeOf SirRalphVerney Aldbury Church Hertfordshire
Credit: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101078047-church-of-st-john-the-baptist-church-of-england-aldbury/photos/223261
Author: Unknown 16th c. engraver
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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