page_title: Merryfield, Ilton
section_title: Sir Nicholas I Wadham (died 1542)
hierarchical_section_title: Merryfield, Ilton / Descent / Wadham / Sir Nicholas I Wadham (died 1542)
caption_attribution_description: English: Monumental brass of Nicholas Wadham (1508-1508) infant son of Sir Nicholas I Wadham (d.1542) of Merryfield, Ilton, by his 2nd wife Margaret Seymour (aunt of Queen Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of King Henry VIII), Ilton Church, Somerset. The lowest brass inscription relates to his 4th wife Jane Lyte. Above the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes (thus called a "chrysom brass") is an escutcheon showing the arms of Wadham (Gules, a chevron between three roses argent) impaling Seymour (Gules, a pair of wings conjoined in lure or). Inscriptions: Top: "Pray for the soule of Nycholas Wadh(a)m son to Sir Nycholas Wadh(a)m knygtt &amp; capten of the Ile of Wyght whyche dep(ar)ted owte of this worlde the VIII day of December in the yere of our Lorde M VC VIII on whos soule J(es)HU(s) have marci amen". Bottom: "Here lyethe dame Joane Wadame late the wife of Sr Nycholas Wadame knight which dame Jane was doughter to Richard Lyte esquire who dyed the XX day Augustii 1557". (Augustii, Latin: "of August")
context_page_description: Merryfield is a historic estate in the parish of Ilton, near Ilminster in Somerset, England. It was the principal seat of the Wadham family, and was called by Prince their "noble moated seat of Meryfeild". The mansion house was demolished in 1618 by Sir John Wyndham, of Orchard Wyndham, a nephew and co-heir of Nicholas II Wadham, co-founder of Wadham College, Oxford, the last in the senior male line of the Wadham family. It bears no relation to the present large 19th-century grade II listed mansion known as Merryfield House, formerly the vicarage, immediately south of St Peter's Church, Ilton.
context_section_description: Sir Nicholas I Wadham (d. 1542), son and heir, who married four times. By his first wife Joan Hill, daughter of Robert Hill of Halfway and Houndstone, he had issue Lawrence Wadham, who died without progeny, and John Wadham (d. 1578), his eventual heir.
caption: Monumental brasses to Nicholas Wadham (1508–1508) infant son of Sir Nicholas I Wadham (d. 1542) of Merryfield, by his 2nd wife Margaret Seymour, aunt (not as often stated "sister")[20] of Queen Jane Seymour. The lowest inscription is in memory of his fourth wife Jane Lyte. Ilton Church
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