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MACKWORTH CHURCH ARMORIAL GLASS All these achievements are shown with Mundy impaling the arms of a spouse, although in practice several were heiresses, and their arms should be shewn in pretence (charged on a small shield in the middle of the Mundy arms). The family's pedigree prior to the life of Lord Mayor John Mundy is widely regarded as spurious, and not all of it can be substantiated from contemporary documents. It into be found published for the first time in J. Nichols, History of Leicestershire (London 17981806) IV. 525 (sub Osbaston) adapted from a pedigree drawn up by Piers Mauduit, Windsor Herald and continued by Dr. Pegge, BL Add. MSS 6668. The heraldry is full of other mistakes, from which we may deduce that the Mundys did not contact the College of Arms for advice but used that of some local enthusiast! 1.Mundy/Eyre (argent on a chevron sable four quatrefoils) One version has it that Isabel daughter of Robinet Eyre of Hope married a John Mundy living c. 1272/1307, for which no evidence exists. However, c. 1400 Margaret, -daughter of Robert Eyre of Padley did marry a John Mundy [Visitation of Derbyshire 1569], but exactly who Mundy was is unclear. 2. Mundy/Meynell (vaire sable and argent). A Robert Mundy living c. 1327/1377 and said to have been granted land at Alstonefield by the Duchy of Lancaster, (allegedly grandson of John above) married Jane daughter of Hugh Meynell of Langley. The arms were those of de la Warde, whose heiress was Janes' mother, and whose arms Hugh Meynell (wrongly called Robert in some old Mundy pedigrees) adopted in lieu of the original Meynell arms, which bore the horseshoes of the disgraced de Ferrers, and from which association the Meynells, up until then their sub-tenants, were eager to distance themselves. 3. Mundy/Dun (Paly of eight or and gales). The arms of de Dun should correctly be: or four pallets gales. A daughter and co-heiress of Sir Sampson de Dun, a younger brother of Ralph, of Breadsall, is known to have married a Meynell. The Meynell was probably Sir William, of Langley (d. 1314), whose wife's name is not definitely known and indeed, his son occasionally bore the arms of de Dun in lieu of Meynell (ancient) for the same reason as given in 2 above. The Meynell-Mundy marriage did not Copyright Don Farnsworth 2009
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MACKWORTH CHURCH ARMORIAL GLASSAll these achievements are shown with Mundy impaling the arms of a spouse, although in practice several were heiresses, and their arms should be shewn in pretence (charged on a small shield in the middle of the Mundy arms). The family's pedigree prior to the life of Lord Mayor John Mundy is widely regarded as spurious, and not all of it can be substantiated from contemporary documents. It into be found published for the first time in J. Nichols, History of Leicestershire (London 17981806) IV. 525 (sub Osbaston) adapted from a pedigree drawn up by Piers Mauduit, Windsor Herald and continued by Dr. Pegge, BL Add. MSS 6668. The heraldry is full of other mistakes, from which we may deduce that the Mundys did not contact the College of Arms for advice but used that of some local enthusiast!
1.Mundy/Eyre (argent on a chevron sable four quatrefoils) One version has it that Isabel daughter of Robinet Eyre of Hope married a John Mundy living c. 1272/1307, for which no evidence exists. However, c. 1400 Margaret, -daughter of Robert Eyre of Padley did marry a John Mundy [Visitation of Derbyshire 1569], but exactly who Mundy was is unclear.
2. Mundy/Meynell (vaire sable and argent). A Robert Mundy living c. 1327/1377 and said to have been granted land at Alstonefield by the Duchy of Lancaster, (allegedly grandson of John above) married Jane daughter of Hugh Meynell of Langley. The arms were those of de la Warde, whose heiress was Janes' mother, and whose arms Hugh Meynell (wrongly called Robert in some old Mundy pedigrees) adopted in lieu of the original Meynell arms, which bore the horseshoes of the disgraced de Ferrers, and from which association the Meynells, up until then their sub-tenants, were eager to distance themselves.
3. Mundy/Dun (Paly of eight or and gales). The arms of de Dun should correctly be: or four pallets gales. A daughter and co-heiress of Sir Sampson de Dun, a younger brother of Ralph, of Breadsall, is known to have married a Meynell. The Meynell was probably Sir William, of Langley (d. 1314), whose wife's name is not definitely known and indeed, his son occasionally bore the arms of de Dun in lieu of Meynell (ancient) for the same reason as given in 2 above. The Meynell-Mundy marriage did not
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involve and heiress, so the Dun arms cannot have been transmitted to the Mundys, nor did a Mundy marry a de Dun, so this escutcheon is spurious, although it does represent a blood-line.
4. Mundy/Skelton (azure a fesse between three fleurs-de-lys or) Henry Mundy of Harwksyard, Staffs., a descendant of Robert Mundy of Alstonefield (see 2) married c. 1440 Jane daughter of Bryan Skelton.
5. Mundy/Browne (azure a chevron between three escallops or). The Browne arms are incorrectly shewn within a bordure or. John Mundy, who died 27/5/1536 had been Lord Mayor of London 1507 and 1513 and appears to have come from High Wycombe; his links with Hugh of Hawksyard are quite unproven. John Mundy married Juliana (d. 1537), daughter of Sir William Browne, Lord Mayor of London in 1522 and who bought the estate at Stretton-en-le-Field, then in Derbys. By adding the bordure, the arms are transformed into those of the distantly related family of Browne
6. MundyBurnell (Per Jesse indented or and argent, a lion rampant sable within a bordure gules charged with eight bezants). The arms are authenticated by the Nottinghamshire Visitations of 1569 & 1614, but on the window, the bezants have been exchanged for plates (i.e. white rather than gold roundels)
7. Mundy/Coke (gules three crescents and a canton or) This represents the first Coke marriage; the second was to a daughter of Gilbert Coke of Allestree & Quarndon whose arms were difference with a further crescent.
8. Mundy/Wrightson. (azure a Jesse compony counter-company argent and gules between three griffins' heads erased all within a bordure or) Philippa was the daughter and co-heiress of Michael Wrightson of Osbaston Hall. Leics., so her arms ought really to be in pretence.
9. Mundy/Noel (or fretty gules and a canton ermine). Anne was the daughter of Sir John Noel, 4th Bt. of Kirkby Mallory (now extinct).
10. Mundy/Burdett (Azure on two bars or six martlets gules. ) It may be that the six martlets have bleached off the window; they were added at the Visitation of Warwickshire in 1619. If omitted, a mistake.
11. Mundy/Newton (Sable two shin bones in saltire argent).
12. Mundy/Frampton (Argent a bend gules cotised sable). Arms shewn incorrectly; the black lines either side of the red bend should be separated from it by lines argent (i.e. white)
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