Mergery Humfreston Monumental Brass St Alkmund's Church Shrewsbury Shropshire

Mergery Humfreston Monumental Brass St Alkmund's Church Shrewsbury Shropshire.
These brasses (date circa 1500) represent Margery Humphreston with John Humphreston, a vintner and burgess of Shrewsbury and John Hervy, her first husband. They disappeared during the rebuilding of the church in 1794/5 but were found and restored to the church in 1953.
St Alkmund church it is in central Shrewsbury.
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DimensionsHeight: 71.1 cm
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Full-length figure of a woman in a tight-fitting gown with fur cuffs and long girdle, wearing a kennel-shaped headdress; and two men, both in civil dress of fur-trimmed gowns with pouches hanging from the belts, the head of one restored 1860.
Depicts Mergery Humfreston and her two husbands.
Provenance
St Alkmund's Church,Shrewsbury.
Mergery Humfreston...
Mergery is strange name...
c1500 Margery Humphreston and husbands John Hervy d1470 and John Humphreston d1497 one a few wall monuments which survived the demolition of St Alkmunds following the fall of old St Chads. Most of the monuments were sold as rubble and the brasses were sold by weight. Under John Hervy were his 3 daughters and 1 son. Under John Humphreston were 6 sons and 6 daughters. These were lost c1790 . At the two left hand corners, i.e., over and under Humfreston, a shield of his arms : an eagle displayed, debruised by a chevron charged with 3 roses : at the upper right hand corner a tradesman's mark." John Humfreston was a vintner in Shrewsbury, and a son of William Humfreston of Humfreston. He was admitted a burgess of Shrewsbury in 15 Edw. IV." (1476) John Hervy seems to have been one of the men chosen by the bailiffs to elect officials in 1457-59 and 1464-66 Margery survived her second husband and caused the brass to be made c1500, leaving a blank for the date of her own death. This blank had never been filled in.
John Hervy (d. 1470) and John Humfreston (d. 1497), and their wife (successively) Margery Humfreston (formerly Margery Hervy). At St Alkmund's church, Shrewsbury.
Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Humphreston was born in 1402, in Donington, Shropshire, England, her father, John de Humphreston II, was 29 and her mother, Margaret de Humphreston of Shropshire, was 22. She married John Wynnesbury Sheriff of Shropshire in 1422, in Donington, Shropshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died in 1470, in Shropshire, England, at the age of 68.
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The PEDIGREE of
Margaret HUMPHRESTON
Born: Shrops.
Poss. U.S. President [F. ROOSEVELT]'s 14-Great Grandmother. Poss. HRH Charles's 15-Great Grandmother. Poss. PM Churchill's 15-Great Grandmother. Lady Diana's 17-Great Grandmother. Poss. HM Manuel II's 17-Great Grandmother.
Husband/Partner: John WYNNESBURY
Child: Margery WYNNESBURY
________ _______ _______ ______ _____ _____
/ -- William HUMPHRESTON (Shrops. )
/ -- Humphrey HUMPHRESTON (Shrops. 1296? - ?)
/ \ -- Letitia
/ -- William HUMPHRESTON (Shrops.)
/ -- John HUMPHRESTON
/ -- John HUMPHRESTON (Shrops.)
| \ / -- John DEBELMERS
| \ -- (Miss) DEBELMERS (1352? - ?)
/ \ -- Felicia FitzPETER
- Margaret HUMPHRESTON
Her (poss.) 3-Great Grandchildren: Joyce (of Langley) LEE ; Richard LEE ; Rowland LEIGH ; Alice LEIGH ; Winifred LEIGH
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These brasses (date circa 1500) represent Margery Humphreston with John Humphreston, a vintner and burgess of Shrewsbury and John Hervy, her first husband. They disappeared during the rebuilding of the church in 1794/5 but were found and restored to the church in 1953.

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The name Humfreston is from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of the Britain and comes from the personal name Humphrey, which is derived from the Old German names Hunfrid and Humfrid. The surname Humfreston features the patronymic suffix -son, which was most common in the north of England and superseded other patronymic suffixes in popularity during the 14th century.

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