Thomas Beresford - St Edmund - Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire
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Stained glass window in St Edmund's church, Fenny Bentley with the arms of Thomas Beresford (d.1473).
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Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/29/2019
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Stained glass window in St Edmund's church, Fenny Bentley with the arms of Thomas Beresford (d.1473).
"Thomas Beresford died some ten years after his wife, Agnes. They were buried in St Edmund’s Church, Fenny Bentley opposite their home in Fenny Bentley Old Hall. Their tomb tells us quite a bit about the couple – they had sixteen sons and five daughters – all of them in their shrouds, as indeed are Thomas and Agnes.
The Beresfords provided a troop of horsemen for Henry V and Thomas’s sons took part in the Wars of the Roses fighting on the side of Lancaster. This is perhaps not unexpected as the Beresfords are listed as part of the Lancaster Affinity. Having said that John Beresford managed to get on the wrong side of Henry IV when he refused to go to France. The screen in the church was given by the Beresfords in the aftermath of the Wars of the Roses – presumably in grateful thanks for surviving."
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