Bridget Walgrave

  General Notes:

From this website:
http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/essex/churches/little-horkesley.htm

Set in a recess on the north side of the chancel is a memorial brass and grave slab of Bridget, Lady Marney, a member of the Waldegrave family of nearby Wormingford. Her first husband was Thomas Fynderne (other sources suggest the correct name is William) who died in 1523. When Fynderne died Bridget married John, 2nd Lord Marney of Layer Marney Tower. Lady Bridget did not have much better luck with her second husband, who died in 1525. She left Layer Marney and returned to Little Horkesley, where she died in 1549. Lady Marney left very specific instructions for her tomb; she dids not want her own family coat of arms, only those of her two husbands. Her instructions were ignored, and the tomb displayed all three family arms. With a certain poetic justice the bomb damage in 1940 destroyed the Waldegrave arms that Lady Marney had not wanted on her tomb. Bridget is shown flanked by her two husbands, with Lord John, being of higher social rank, shown on her right. The inscription somehow survived the bomb without damage. It reads 'Here lyeth Dame Brygete Marney, late the wyffe of John Lorde Marney and sometime wyffe to Mr Thomas Fynderne Esquyer, and decessyd the XXXth day of September in the yere of our lorde God MCCCCCXLIX'.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Marriage: to Lord John Marney, 19 October 1518.

• Marriage: to William Findern.