Shropshire Tong - .‘Blessed be God for his Gifts.’
Sir William Vernon 1418-1467 and family includes 2 sets of twins. The son of Richard Vernon and Benedicta de Ludlow www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2219771629/ , he was Treasurer of Calais and last person to hold for life the post of Knight Constable of England. Having inherited his fathers lands and debts, he and 3 other Vernons attacked his rival William Blount and took his lands.
He married 1435 Margaret daughter of Sir William Swynfen of Pype Ridware, Staffordshire, who had inherited the Pype Estate from his mother. .
1 Henry 1515 m Ann daughter of John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury
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2. Elizabeth
3. Margaret
4. Benedicta
5. Alice
6. Richard
7. William
8. Ralph
"Here lie Sir William Vernon Kt. sometime Knight Constable of England son and heir of Sir Richard Vernon Kt. who sometime was Treasurer of Calais which Sir William indeed died 30th June in the year of Our Lord 1467 and Margaret wife of the said William daughter and heiress of Robert Pype and Pernoe Kt. which Margaret indeed died in the year of Our Lord 146- on whose souls may God be merciful Amen".
In his will, made on the 29 June 1467 he expressed the wish to be buried in Tong Church where a ‘tombe was to be made after his own devise’ and also that a priest should ‘sing thereat for three years’. Sir William is shown on the tomb in chain and plate armour of the Yorkist period, sword, dagger and spurs. He has the Boar’s Head crest at his head and above his head a scroll with the motto -‘Blessed be God for his Gifts.’
Shropshire Tong - .‘Blessed be God for his Gifts.’
Sir William Vernon 1418-1467 and family includes 2 sets of twins. The son of Richard Vernon and Benedicta de Ludlow www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2219771629/ , he was Treasurer of Calais and last person to hold for life the post of Knight Constable of England. Having inherited his fathers lands and debts, he and 3 other Vernons attacked his rival William Blount and took his lands.
He married 1435 Margaret daughter of Sir William Swynfen of Pype Ridware, Staffordshire, who had inherited the Pype Estate from his mother. .
1 Henry 1515 m Ann daughter of John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury
www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2220631670/
2. Elizabeth
3. Margaret
4. Benedicta
5. Alice
6. Richard
7. William
8. Ralph
"Here lie Sir William Vernon Kt. sometime Knight Constable of England son and heir of Sir Richard Vernon Kt. who sometime was Treasurer of Calais which Sir William indeed died 30th June in the year of Our Lord 1467 and Margaret wife of the said William daughter and heiress of Robert Pype and Pernoe Kt. which Margaret indeed died in the year of Our Lord 146- on whose souls may God be merciful Amen".
In his will, made on the 29 June 1467 he expressed the wish to be buried in Tong Church where a ‘tombe was to be made after his own devise’ and also that a priest should ‘sing thereat for three years’. Sir William is shown on the tomb in chain and plate armour of the Yorkist period, sword, dagger and spurs. He has the Boar’s Head crest at his head and above his head a scroll with the motto -‘Blessed be God for his Gifts.’