South Acre Norfolk

Holding hands- brass figures of Sir John Harsyck c1342-1384 and wife Katherine Cathorpe

"Hic iacet Dns. Johes. Harsick Miles eiusoem Nominis tertius, qui obiit Serto die Septembris Ano Dni. Mccclxxxiv. cuius anime propicictur Deus Amen, et Domina Katherina Uxor."

(Here lies John Harsick, knight, the third of that name here, who died the .... day of September 1384 on whom God be merciful Amen, and Dame Katherine his wife)

John was the son of John Harsick and Margery daughter of Hugh de Driby

He the grandson of John De Harsyck of Dunham Magna and wife Christian; Great great grandson of Alexander Harsyke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/C6Ch2e

He m Catherine heiress daughter of Sir Bartholomew Calthorp c1372 of Calthorpe Norfolk & Elizabeth heiress of John de Gestingthorpe

Children

1. Sir John Harsick c1370-1402 m Agnes co-heiress of Sir William Caley of Oby Norfolk (parents of Edmund, Margaret & Sir Roger Harsick 1453 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/D4X1kv who m Alice daughter of Nicholas Witchingham 1434 of Fishley & Alice Flete, leaving co-heiress daughters Margaret wife of William Dorward of Bocking, Essex having Elizabeth who brought South Acre & Dorewood Hall by marriage to Thomas Fotheringay of Brockley Suffolk heir of Sybil & Gerard Fotheringay

2. Eudo

3 Brian

1. Margery

 

This Sir John assumed the arms of Gestingthorpe, ermine, a maunch gules;

 

(Source Par Francis Blomefield,Charles Parkin:

" in the 17th of Edward ll (1324) Hugh Driby son of Sir Ralph de Driby, released to (his father) John son of Sir John Harfyke, and to Margery his Wife, all his right in the Manor of Driby in Lincolnshire, and Licence was granted to this John to found in the Church of St.George in his Manor of South-acre, a chantry, with lands and tenements thereto, to the value of 10 marks per annum;

in the 13th or Edward III. (1340) he was high-sheriff of Norfolk; and in the 30th of the said King, (1357) being then a knight, Sir John De Camoys, by deed, granted to him and his heirs, license to bear his crest, a plume of turkey-feathers, so that the said Sir John Harsyk, &c. bears it in a hoop, or; to which deed, the Lords Scoles and Bardolph were witnesses: by his will dated in his manor of Southacre, 14th November, 139!, he orders his burial to be in the Chapel of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, in the church of Southacre..."..."

 

Sir John de Harsyck in his will, dated Wednesday after the decollation of St. John Baptist in 1384, styled himself Sir John Harsyke, senior, Knt. bequeathed several legacies to the Lady Catharine his wife. his eldest son John, and to his son Eudo, the manor of Stanhow in Norfolk for life, remainder to his son Brian.

 

Sir John & Katherine were once pictured in a window at Calthorpe church Norfolk - Source Francis Blomefield:

". In the opposite south window, or, a chief indented fable; Harsyke impaling, ermin, ort a chief sable, 3 crosses pattee or, Wychingham. Harsyke and Calthorp, with the effigies of Sir John Harsyke and Catherine his wife, daughter of Sir Bartholomew Calthorp. Calthorp, with his supporters, 2 lions rampant, guardanjt argent.\emdash Harsyke impaling Caley, quarterly; argent and sable, on a bend cottised gules, 3 mullets or.\emdash Vert, an escotcheon and an orle of martlets argent, Erpingham impaling Calthorp, \emdash and, or, a lion rampant gules, Felbrigg, impaling Erpingham, the effigies of the Virgin Mary, and that of a pilgrim, to St. James of Compostella, with his ensign, an escallop

www.knight-france.com/geneal/names/1285.htm

("Three Eudo's first, then Alexander brave,

Sir Roger next, the line of Harsyke save;

Four Johns succeed, and knighted every one,

Sir Roger dropped the line, for want of son." ) - Church of St George, South Acre, Norfolk

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