Hugh Hamersley^[1]

1565 - 1636  (71 years)    Has 10 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Hugh Hamersley
  Birth	6 Jul 1565
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	1627	London, Middlesex, England
  Mayor
  Death	19 Oct 1636
  Person ID	I116477	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also Hugh Hamersley at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Hugh Hammersley   d. 1567
  Mother	Anne Gerrard   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F46959	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Derham   d. 1646-1647
  Children	+ 1. Francis Hammersley,   b. 1613   d. 1665 (Age 52 years) + 2. Mary Hamersley   d. 29 Jun 1660
  Family ID	F46948	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

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  Sir Hugh Hamersley Kt. (i.e. knight), Lord Mayor of London, eldest alderman and first colonel of this city, President of Christ's Hospital, President of the Artillery Garden [now the Honourable Artillery Company], Governor of the Company of Russia Merchants and those of the Levant, Spain, E. India, France and Virginia. Master of the Worshipful Comapny of Haberdasher's. There is a large monument to Sir Hugh Hamersley in the church of St. Andrew's Undershaft in London (opposite the new Lloyds building). This monument consists of life-size statues of Sir Hugh and his wife, Mary Dereham, and also includes a coat of arms. These are described as:- Gules, three rams heads couped or (Hamersley) Impaling quarterly:- 1.Sable [actually azure], a stag's head emboshed or (Dereham) 2.Argent, on a cross engrailed gules an annulet or (Green - the Audleys and the Greens inter-married) 3.Gules, an eagle displayed or 4.Per cross, azure and gules, a cross argent, between in the first and fourth cantons, a fleur-de-lys and, in the second and third cantons, a lion passant gardant all or (See my comments below). Crest: A demi-griffin segreant or, in the dexter claw a cross-crosslet fitchee, gules (Hamersley) An intruiging mystery The 4th quartering (above) is essentially the royal arms of England (i.e. three gold fleur-de-lys on a blue background - for France, quartered with three gold lions passant gardant on a red background - for England), except that Sir Hugh's arms show one fleur-de-lys and one lion instead of three. My guess is that there was not enough space to show all three, so this is a form of heraldic shorthand. The other difference is that the vertical and horizontal divisions of the shield (the quarterings) are overlaid with a white cross (a cross argent), which, I guess, is a form of differencing. I am reasonably certain that this is intended to refer to Mary Dereham's royal ancestry, though which royal ancestor I can only guess. Her nearest royal ancestor was Constance, Countess of Gloucester (d. 1416), daughter of Edmund, Duke of York, son of Edward III, Mary Dereham's great-great-great-great-grandmother. Constance's natural daughter (by Edmund Holland, Earl of Kent - himself of close royal descent), Eleanor, married James Tuchet, Lord Audley (1398?-1459). See Harleian Visitation of Norfolk, page 10. Eleanor Holland claimed that her parents were married and actually took the matter to court. The Harleian Visitation of Norfolk records the Dereham arms as above (items 1 to 4) but the eagle (item 3) is recorded as argent not or and the fourth quartering is described as ' Gules, three dexter gloves pendant argent, a canton checky or and azure', so the substitution was quite deliberate. Lord Mayor of London

  
  

• Sources

  [S190] Peter Barns-Graham, British Pedigrees, (Stirnet), Hammersley of Cadeby Hall, Hamersley of Langford, Hamersley (Hammersley) of London, Hammersley of Pall Mall, Hamersley of Pyrton Manor (Reliability: 2).