Ambrose Jermyn

Sir Ambrose Jermyn (1511 – 5 April 1577) of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, was an English courtier, magistrate and landowner.

[1] He was the son of Sir Thomas Jermyn (died 1552) of Rushbrooke by his wife Anne Spring, the eldest daughter of Thomas Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk.

A fervent Roman Catholic, he was knighted by Queen Mary I and served as a Justice of the Peace in Suffolk.

In this role he was a notable prosecutor and persecutor of Protestants across East Anglia until the accession of Queen Elizabeth I.

In 1538 he married Anne Heveningham, daughter of George Heveningham of Rushbrooke, and his wife Margaret, daughter of John Burgoyne,[4] by whom he had thirteen children, including:

Arms of Jermyn: Sable, a crescent between two mullets in pale argent