File:BeaupréImpalingMeeres BeaupréHall Norfolk.xcf

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English: Stained glass originally at Beaupré Hall, Norfolk, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Inscribed in Latin: Thomas de Beauspre Armiger cepit in uxorem Margareta(m) filia(m) Joh(ann)is Meris Armigeri) ("Thomas de Beaupre, Esquire, took as his wife Margaret daughter of John Meeres, Esquire"[1])

Center Left Frame: The Arms of Thomas Beaupré, Quarterly - 1 & 4: Argent, on a bend azure three cross crosslets or (Beaupré); 2 & 3: Azure, a fess between six cross crosslets or (St. Omer), impaling the arms of his wife Margaret Meeres/de Meris, daughter of John Meeres (d.1471), Gules, a fess between three water bougets ermine (Meeres).[2]

This is the family descended from Roger de Meres (d.1385) (alias de Kirton/Kirketon), of Kirton Meres in Lincolnshire, a King's Sergeant 1367, and a Justice of the Common Pleas in 1371.[3][4]
Date circa 1570
date QS:P,+1570-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O7831/panel-unknown/ V&A Museum, London
Author Unknown glass painter

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  1. ↑ See detailed image[1]
  2. ↑ As carved on a bench-end in Kirton Church in Lincolnshire (Edward Deacon)
  3. ↑ Foss, Judges of England: "Roger de Meres was of a Lincolnshire family, established at Kirketon in the district of Holland"
  4. ↑ Edward Deacon, The descent of the family of Deacon of Elstowe and London, with some genealogical, biographical and topographical notes, and sketches of allied families including Reynes of Clifton, and Meres of Kirton, p.18[2]

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