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English: Church of St. John the Baptist, Aldbury, Hertfordshire. Monument (in the Pendley Chapel) of Sir Robert Whittingham (d.1471), of Pendley, Hertfordshire, (killed at the battle of Tewkesbury) and his wife Katherine Gatewyne. He was the eldest son and heir son of Robert Whittingham (d.1452), of London and Pendley, MP for City of London (1416) and for Hertfordshire (1432) by his wife Agnes Buckland (d.1456), daughter of Richard Buckland (d.1436), MP, of London and Edgecote, Northamptonshire (History of Parliament biography[1]). The monument was originally at Ashridge, but after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the College of the Bonhommes at Ashridge was dissolved and in 1575 the monument was moved to nearby Aldbury. For bird's eye view see[2] Plate armour, short surcoat with his coat of arms (Whittingham arms: Per fess argent and or, a fess vert over all a lion rampant gules), merchant & financier; wears Lancastrian SS collar; head on helm. The Pendley Chapel, Church of St. John the Baptist, Aldbury, Hertfordshire.

The origins of The Church of St. John the Baptist, Aldbury, date from the 13th Century, until the Dissolution its patrons being the Abbot and Canons of Missenden Abbey in Buckinghamshire. Following the Dissolution, the College of the Bonhommes at nearby Ashridge was suppressed, which led in 1575 to the transfer to Aldbury of the tomb of Sir Robert Whittingham (slain in 1471 at the battle of Tewkesbury) and his Lady, which now rests in the Pendley Chapel, shown here. Others buried here are Sir John Verney (d.1546), husband of Margaret Whittingham and heir of Sir Robert Whittingham, his wife and his son Sir Ralph Verney and Elizabeth Bray his wife.

The Chapel is screened by a fine parclose - 1579244

See also . . . . 1579232; 1579235; 1579237; 1579239; 1579240; 1579241