Robert Rugge
The first time to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Wood of Norwich,[2] gentleman of the horse to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.
[2] Of the chapel of St. Mary, the south isle, in St. John the Baptist's Church in Madder-Market, Norwich, Frances Blomefield, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, writes: There is a stone in this isle, having the portraitures of a man and a woman; from his mouth, Pater de Celis deus miserere nobis.
The daughters are pulled off, a label as that before, remains:[6][7] Of your Charytie pray for the Soules of Robarte Rugge Esquier, somtime Alderman, and twyse Mayer of this worshipfull Citie of Norwich, and Elizabeth his Wyffe, which had Issue betwyrt them five Sonnes & three Daughters, and the said Rob.
Rugge departed this trancitory life the xviii Daye of Februarie in the yeare of our Lord God 1558, of whose Soules say you, JESU have mercye Amen.
[6][7]The Reverend Edmund Farrer in his travels through the church heraldry of Norfolk identifies the arms above, a chevron engrailed, between three pierced mullets, as those of Rugge,[8] and adds the following poetic description of the Mercer's Company's coat of arms: A demi-virgin couped below the shoulders nebulée, vested and crowned with an Eastern coronet, and wreathed around the temples with roses (The Mercers Company, Gules, a demi-virgin couped below the shoulders, issuing from clouds all proper, vested, or crowned with an Eastern coronet of the last, her hair dishevelled, and wreathed around the temples with roses of the second, all within an orle of clouds proper.
[8]A loveknot is found on the stone in the isle, with the initials R & E.[8] His second wife Alice lies in Plumstead Parva.
and after to Robert Rugge, and mother to the lady Etheldred Warner, who dyed here in much vertue and quiet, 72 years, and departed hence to live for ever, the first day of July, A°.
[5] She is the Audrey (common nickname for Etheldred) named in a tablet hanging in the church where her mother is buried.
"The family of Rugg, took their name from a lordship, or hamlet in the town of Pattingham in Staffordshire, and were of good degree and eminency; (fn.
William Rugge, abbot of St. Bennet's conveyed the manor of Greengate to Robert Rugge, his brother, alderman of Norwich, which the said Robert held in 1558, with that of Spicer's alias Berd's, in Hoveton St. John, and St. Peter, Tunstead, Belaugh, and Ashmanhaugh; the last sold to him also by the late abbot, his brother.»[13] Robert m. 1) Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Wood of Norwich,[12] gentleman of the horse to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk,[10] they had 5 sons and 3 daughters; 2) Alice (d.1566), daughter of William Wayte of Tittleshall, widow of William Hare of Beeston.
was lord of North Repps in 1572, and married Thomasine, daughter of Sir Robert Townshend of Guiest, Justice of Chester & of the Marches of Wales, a younger brother,[31] and the widow of William Curson of Beckhall and Bilingford.
The Reverend William Rugge was the grandson of the nephew of the diarist, John Rugge (d.1720) of the Inner Temple, London and Stirtloe, Buckden in the county of Huntingdonshire, gentleman, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Wright, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench.
of Felmingham, is said to have changed his arms, per fess, sable and argent, and unicorn saliant, counterchanged, armed, mained and unguled or, to that of gules, a chevron engrailed, between three mullets pierced, argent; but Richard de Rugge, who lived in the 2d of Richard III.
[59]These two men shared one coat of arms: Gules, a chevron engrailed, between three mullets pierced, argent Of this family was probably also the ship surgeon John Rugge (d.1761), surgeon of His Majesty's ship the Falmouth, who was buried in India on 2 June 1761.
He leaves his entire estate to William Rugge of Conduit Street, Esquire, and appoints him sole executor.
[64] According to The Visitations of Norfolk the arms of Rugge were quartered with Argent, a chevron engrailed between three pairs of keys addorsed sable as early as in 1552.
