Markéta Těšínská

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Markéta Těšínská. Detail from monumental brass in St Margaret's Church, Felbrigg, Norfolk, of Sir Simon de Felbrigge (d.1442/3), Knight of the Garter, lord of the manor of Felbrigg, and his first wife Margaret von Teschen (d.1416), a daughter of Przemysław I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn/Teschen (1332/6-1410) (German: Przemislaus I von Teschen), a statesman and courtier of of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

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St Margaret's Church, Felbrigg, Norfolk, monumental brass of Sir Simon de Felbrigge (d.1442/3), Knight of the Garter, lord of the manor of Felbrigg, and his first wife Margaret von Teschen (d.1416), a daughter of Przemysław I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn/Teschen (1332/6-1410) (German: Przemislaus I von Teschen), a statesman and courtier of of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor. He was buried in the Dominican church of Cieszyn (now in Poland), where survives his effigy. Przemysław I Noszak, Duke of Teschen was the third son of Casimir I, Duke of Teschen, by his wife Euphemia, daughter of Duke Trojden I of Czersk-Warsaw. The Duchy of Cieszyn/Teschen was one of the Duchies of Silesia, incorporated into the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in 1348. Margaret was a cousin and maid of honour of Princess Anne of Bohemia, the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, and wife of King Richard II of England. Margaret's father negotiated the marriage of Princess Anne and Richard II and Margaret traveled to England with Princess Anne as her lady-in-waiting. Arms of Duke of Cieszyn/Teschen: Azure, an eagle displayed or.

Sir Simon de Felbrigge served as standard bearer to King Richard II, and his brass effigy holds the royal standard displaying the royal arms of King Richard II (Attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor impaling the royal arms of England). He was appointed a Knight of the Garter, and his brass displays the Garter affixed on his lower leg. Below the shields on the pendant boss of the canopy is Richard II's person badge of the white hart. He largely rebuilt Felbrigg Church, in which survive his coat of arms Or, a lion rampant gules (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.344), sculpted on the butresses of the nave and the spandrels of the west door into the tower. Also surviving in the church is the fetterlock badge, used by the House of York and its supporters, and later used as a crest of the Wyndham family of Felbrigg. (Source: Ketton-Cremer, R.W., Felbrigg, the Story of a House, 1986, p.19 (first published 1962)). The decade of death of Sir Simon de Felbrigge is left blank on the brass, and was never completed. He married secondly Catherine Mallory (d.1461), a daughter of Anketill Mallory of Winwick in Northamptonshire. Sir Simon de Felbrigge and his second wife were buried in the choir of the church of the Dominican Priory in Norwich (later known as Blackfriars' Hall, now known as St Andrew's Hall), of which they were benefactors. By his first wife Margaret von Teschen he had two daughters and co-heiresses, his only children:

• Anne de Felbrigge, a nun at Bruisyard in Suffolk;
• Alana de Felbrigge (d.1458), who married twice: firstly to William Tyndale (d.1426/7) of Deene and Staniern, Northamptonshire (by whom she had 2 sons and 2 daughters) and secondly to Thomas Waweton, of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire and of Basmey in Bedfordshire, a Member of Parliament. (Source: History of Parliament biography[1])

In 1450 the trustees of Sir Simon de Felbrigge sold the manor of Felbrigg to John Wyndham. (Source: Ketton-Cremer, R.W., Felbrigg, the Story of a House, 1986, p.20 (first published 1962)).

Latin inscription (transcribed in Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol.2, Norwich, 1889, pp.426-7[2]): Hic jacet Symon Felbrygge Miles quond(a)m vexillari(us) illustrissimi D(omi)ni Regis Ricardi S(e)c(un)di qui obiit __ die mensis .... Anno D(omi)ni M^oCCCC^o__ et D(omi)na Margareta quonda(m) consors sua nacione et gen(er)oso sanguine Boana ac olim domicella nobill(i)ssimae D(omi)n(a)e Ann(a)e qu(on)dam Angli(a)e Regin(a)e qu(a)e obiit XXVII die mens(is) Junii A(nn)o D(omi)ni M^oCCCCXVI^o quor(um) a(n)i(m)ab(us) p(ro)p(i)ciet(ur) De(us) Amen ("Here lies Simon de Felbrigg, Knight, sometime standard-bearer of the most illustrious Lord King Richard the Second, who died on the ... day of the month of ... in the year of our Lord 14.. and Dame Margaret, sometime his consort, of the nation and noble blood of Bohemia and once the maid-servant of the most noble Lady Anne sometime Queen of England, who died on the 27^th day of the month of June in the year of our Lord the 1,416^th on the souls of whom may God look upon with favour Amen")

Heraldry

5 heraldic shields:

• Top:
  • Dexter/left: Royal arms of King Richard II (Attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor impaling royal arms of England) as also shown on the royal standard held by Sir Simon de Felbrigg
  • Sinister/right: Royal arms of King Richard II (Attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor impaling royal arms of England) impaling paternal arms of his wife Anne of Bohemia: Arms of Holy Roman Emperor (Or, an eagle with two heads displayed sable) quartering Gules, a lion rampant double-queued argent crowned or (King of Bohemia)
• Middle: Or, a lion rampant gules (de Felbrigg) impaling Azure, an eagle displayed or (Arms of Duke of Cieszyn/Teschen)
• Bottom: Two shields containing heraldic badge of de Felbrigg: A fetterlock (also used as a crest by the Wyndham family which acquired the manor of Felbrigg from the de Felbrigg executors).