William Jermy (1350 - 1385)

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Died 1385 at about age 35 in Metfield, Suffolk, England

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Biography

Blomefield:

In 1385, Sir Will. Jermy, Knt. was buried here; Elizabeth his wife survived him.

Martin:

Sir William Jermy of Metfield is stated to have married ‘Elizabeth, da. of John Hunhall’.114 Sir William was a knight by 1338, made his will in 1385 and requested burial in Metfield church.115 The Isabella/Elizabeth whom he had married by 1353–54 can be identified as a member of the knightly de Hemenhale family, who took their name from Hempnall in Norfolk. Her father was probably Sir John de Hemenhale of Burnham etc. who died in 1347, most likely as a casualty of the siege of Calais.116 She is probably the Elizabeth Jermyn who is mentioned in the 1375 will of her great-nephew Thomas de Hemenhale; she was still living in 1385.117 The Katherine de Hemenhal who is named as a co-executrix of Sir William’s will would be the widow of his brother-in-law Sir Ralph de Hemenhale (d. 1370). Sir William and Elizabeth were the parents of John (see no. 33) and the grandparents of another John (see no. 18).

His notes:

• 114 Rye 1891, 173. The Visitation pedigree gives a confused version of her family’s arms: ‘Argent, on a fesse cottised sable a chevronel of the field’.
• 115 CPR, Edw. III, 4, 91; will of William Germy, knight, dated and proved 1385 NCC: Harsyk 46.
• 116 CIPM, Edw. III, IX, 7, no. 18; Wrottesley 1897, 280.
• 117 Will of Thomas de Hemenhall, dated at Norwich in 1375, proved 1378 NCC: Heydon 151. Members of the Jermy family are often referred to as Jermyn at this period.

Norfolk visitation. https://books.google.ca/books?id=u04EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA107

Sources

• 'Hundred of Earsham: Mendham', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 5, (London, 1806) pp. 372-387. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol5/pp372-387 [accessed 25 March 2024]
• Edward Martin "The Heraldic Glass in Alston Court, Nayland: Windows on Gentry Life in Tudor East Anglia" 2017, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, vol. 44, part 1. https://www.academia.edu/42769413/The_Heraldic_Glass_in_Alston_Court_Nayland_Windows_on_Gentry_Life_in_Tudor_East_Anglia

Other websites:

• http://jermy.org/gedhtree/oldjermy/gtp585.html
• http://jermy.org/gedhtree/oldjermy/np1.html#iin1140