Everard Everdyes

Everard or Everart Everdyes was a London-based goldsmith and precious stone cutter or lapidary who worked for Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I of England.

[1] In 1549, as a foreigner working in London, he was recorded as "Everyd Everdyse" or "Everdesse" with four servants in the Returns of Aliens for the parish of St Margaret's, Westminster.

These premises, and the workshop of the armourer, Hans Hunter, were mentioned when Mary I made George Brediman Keeper of the Palace.

[7] Everdyes used scrap gold from the Secret Jewel House including two girdles and a set of nine letters "I" or "J", perhaps originally made for Edward VI's mother Jane Seymour.

The new crown was set with pearls from Henry VIII's collars and caps, and may have included the large balas ruby of the Black Prince, a stone sourced in Myanmar.