P0576

Personal Data

Surname	Woodville (Wydeville)
First Name	John
Nickname
Dating	1403
Location	Grafton Regis
Life dates	1341 - 1403
Title	Sheriff of Northampton
Close relatives	father - Richard Wydeville† (c.1310-aft. 1378) mother - -Elizabeth LYONS wife (1) - Catherine FERMBAND (dau. of John Fermband of Biddenham) son - Thomas WOODVILLE (Sheriff of Northants) (d. 1435 dsp) wife (2) - Isabel GODDARD (w. of Robert Passelaw of Drayton Parslow) son - Richard WOODVILLE (Esq.)
Type of the object	Brass
Place of manufacturing (place of burial)
Place of exposition	Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England
Date of manufacturing
Artist

Comments

Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Grafton Regis. It depicts John Woodville, who died in the early 1400?s. Through his son Richard, he was Elizabeth Woodville's great-grandfather. An inscription credits him with building the church's bell tower (shown below the marker).

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Sir John Woodville (d. c. 1397)
The marginal inscription to the slab is in Latin and, translated, reads:
Under the mercy of God, this stone covers under itself John Wydeville, who made the belltower; have mercy. O God, and as you have mercy grant help, O my God, and your Mother as well. Amen

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John De WYDEVILLE (Sir)
Born: 1341, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England
Died: AFT 8 Sep 1403

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