P0260

Personal Data

Surname	Birmingham (Bermingham)
First name	John
Nickname
Dating	1393
Location	Birmingham
Life dates	born about 1340 in Birmingham - d. before 1393
Title	1379, was sheriff of this county and Leicestershire one of the Knights of the Shire in the parliament held at Westminster, in 1382
Close relatives	father - Fulk of Bermingham (b: ABT 1314 in Birmingham - d. aft 1373) mother - Joan (?) (b: ABT 1318) brother - Thomas DE BERMINGHAM (born about 1345 in Birmingham - d. bef. 1423) wife - (before 3 July 1356) Elizabeth de la Plaunche (b: ABT 1347 in Haversham - d. 1423), daughter of William de la Plaunche and Elizabeth Hillary without issue
Type of the object	alabaster effigy
Place of manufacturing (place of burial)	St Martin's, Bull Ring, Birmingham, West Midlands
Place of exposition	St Martin's, Bull Ring, Birmingham, West Midlands
Date of manufacturing
Artist

Comments

In the south aisle is a high altar tomb, of alabaster, divided into compartments, on which is the effigy of a knight in plate armour. The slab on which the effigy reclines, is of the form termed en dos dome.

It is presumed to represent John de Birmingham, who, in the year 1379, was sheriff of this county and Leicestershire; he was one of the Knights of the Shire in the parliament held at Westminster, in 1382

Sir John was a knight who fought in the wars of France from 1373 to his death in 1393

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