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Sir Eustace Fitz Eustace
1271
All Saints Church, Hawstead, Suffolk, England
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1271
Sir Eustace Fitz-Eustace, died 1271
Hawstead
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Suffolk, Hawstead
Stone effigy, possibly of Eustace FitzEustace `1242 - 1272 lies on a carved table tomb under a stone arch . in his armour, his legs crossed, a lion at his feet
He m Joan Colville
Children
1 Thomas Fitzeustace 1262-1318 m Amice de Gray b1262 daughter of Sir Thomas de Grey 1321 of Cavendish
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Eustace Fitz-Eustace
All Saints, Hawstead, Suffolk
This is believed to be the effigy of Eustace Fitz-Eustace, who died in 1271. The grave bears a sun and moon finial, probably brought home from the Crusades, and originally a crest on the grave of a Muslim warrior.
All Saints has more of them than just about any other church in Suffolk. Most of them are for the Drury and Cullum families.
The original tomb-chest can be seen through grille in floor.
Sir Eustace Fitz-Eustace (d 1271), lord of the manor of Hawstead. Fitz would mean son of so Eustace would have been the son of Eustace and possibly a relation of Eustace Fitz Thomas of Hawstead (d 1272) married Joan Colville
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Set in the north wall is the effigy believed to be of Thomas Fitz Eustace and dated to the early 14th century2, within an elaborate recess
(ibidem - "I disagree with the date given in Bettley and Pevsner’s assignment of the effigy to Sir Eustace Fitz Eustace (d.1271). Details of the armour as well as the use of two angledhead cushions point to the early 14th century")
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The recumbent figure of a knight in coat of mail and surcoat, in the act of Sheathing his sword, with legs crossed (the left over the right), rests upon it. This is attributed by Gage, in his History of Thingoe, to Eustace Fitz-Eustace, who died 1271. But Sir James Burrough, in the appendix to Magna Britannia, in Suffolk, says : "I know not upon what ground, it is for one of the family of Fitz-Eustace, who were lords here in the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I."
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The manors of Suffolk; notes on their history and devolution, with some illustrations of the old manor houses"