Fettiplace

He also owned Shelde Hall in the parish of St Peter-in-the-East, and in 1253 he heads a list of the names of the “maiorum burgensium Oxonie”.

Sir Philip bore for his arms: on a field (gules) two chevrons (argent), quartering the coat of the Lord St. Amand, as is evident from a seal used by him with his name around it, in the time of Edward I.

[4] An increase in their status occurred with the marriage of Sir Thomas Fettiplace (d. 1442), of East Shefford, Berkshire (the exact nature of whose descent from Adam Fettiplace has not been established) and a Portuguese noblewoman named Beatrix (d. Christmas Day 1447), the young widow of Gilbert, 5th Lord Talbot.

John Fettiplace was a London draper, who became a member of the household of Henry VI and carried the insignia of the Order of the Garter to the King of Portugal.

[3] John Fettiplace (d. August 1464) of East Shefford married Joan Fabian, widow of Robert Horne of London.

[13] The manor-house at East Shefford, known as Hug Ditch Court, probably passed to the Fettiplace family before the middle of the 15th century.

[14] The Phettiplace coat of arms for the Hampshire branch was differenced from the other lines by adding two gold scallop shells to the red shield with two silver chevrons.

The compilation gives an intimate view of Elizabethan era cookery and domestic life in an aristocratic country household.

[19][20] The two triple family monuments at Swinbrook Church in Oxfordshire, with sets of effigies ranged on shelves above each other, are fine examples of English Renaissance and Baroque funerary art.

One is a mid-15th century altar tomb made of alabaster, featuring recumbent effigies of Sir Thomas Fettiplace and his Portuguese wife Beatrix.