Family of Thomas of CLOPONE and Katherine * MILDE

Husband:	Thomas of CLOPONE (c. 1340- )
Wife:	Katherine * MILDE (1343-1404)
Children:	Thomas CLOPONE (c. 1353- )
	William CLOPONE (c. 1355- )

Husband: Thomas of CLOPONE

Name:	Thomas of CLOPONE
Sex:	Male
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1340 (est)

Wife: Katherine * MILDE

Child 1: Thomas CLOPONE

Name:	Thomas CLOPONE
Sex:	Male
Birth	1353 (est)

Child 2: William CLOPONE

Name:	William CLOPONE
Sex:	Male
Birth	1355 (est)

Note on Wife: Katherine * MILDE

Dame Katherine Mylde, daughter of William Mylde of Suffolk.

 

Wife of Sir Thomas Clopton (de Clopone) of Kentwell Estate, son of Walter Clopton and Alice FitzHugh. They had two sons; Thomas and William.

 

Secondly, the wife of Sir William de Tendring of Stokes-By-Nayland, the son of John Tendring and Maud de Kerdeston. They were married after October 12, 1383 and had one daughter, Alice, who would marry Sir John Howard, the Sheriff of Essex.

 

Katherine died at Tendring Hall.

 

Through her second marriage she became the distant grandmother of three queens of England: two of the unfortunate wives of Henry the VIII, Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and Queen Elizabeth I. Dame Katherine, who died in 1403, is buried at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stoke-by-Nyland, Suffolk. Their memorial brasses are among the finest in England. The Clopton Arms: ermine spot on the bend in base may be seen on the mantle of the depiction of Dame Katherine.

 

Katherine willed the Kentwell estate to her son, William de Cloptone.

 

Sir Thomas Clopton and Katherine Mylde are depicted in stained glass in Holy Trinity Church at Long Melford.

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Spouse:

William de Tendring (1339 - 1421)*

Children:

William Clopton (____ - 1446)*

Alice Tendring Howard (1365 - 1426)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:

Saint Mary

Stoke by Nayland

Babergh District

Suffolk, England

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Maintained by: Anne Shurtleff Stevens

Originally Created by: Jerry Ferren

Record added: Apr 27, 2011

Find A Grave Memorial# 68974018

 

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Information on the brass effigy in St. Mary the Virign church

 

The elegant brass effigy is shown wearing a rather unique form of a Nebule’ pattern headdress. It is unusually short and exposes her ears. An interesting feature is her hair which falls to her shoulders where the ends appear to be encased in a small net. Her gown was originally inlaid with a colored mastic. The toes of her pointed shoes appear peeking from beneath the hem. Her sleeves are fastened with numerous closely spaced buttons. Ornamental clasps on her cloak secures a cord. The inscription has disappeared, but is preserved in church records as Hic jacet Catherina Tendryng quonda’ uxor Thome Clopton que obijt D’ni Vereris ante festu’ Pentecostes a’o D’ni 1402. Her effigy is four feet in length and is in good condition, with the exception of a small piece of the headdress and the lower corners of the plate are missing. Ladies on Suffolk Brasses, T. M. Felgate, East Anglian Magazine Limited, Ipswich, 1989, p. Location: Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England