page_title: Edward Echyngham
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Echyngham / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Barsham church, Suffolk, from the NE, showing the east gable and window with fretty tracery and flushwork, possibly representing the heraldic bearing of the Echyngham family.
context_page_description: Sir Edward Echyngham, of Barsham and Ipswich in Suffolk, was a commander on land and at sea, briefly Constable of Limerick Castle, and Collector of Customs at Ipswich. He is remembered as the author of a letter to Cardinal Wolsey describing the death of Lord Admiral Howard at Brest in 1513. From 1485 the presence of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk was felt directly along the Barsham reach of the River Waveney from their possession of Bungay Castle.
context_section_description: The Echyngham family, hereditary stewards of the Rape of Hastings during the 12th and 13th centuries, were seated at Etchingham in Sussex. Their lordship descended in direct male line to Sir Thomas Echyngham (died 1444), son of Sir William de Echyngham (died 1412) and his wife Joan Maltravers (died 1404), daughter of John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel and Eleanor Maltravers. Sir William, Dame Joan and Sir Thomas were commemorated in a tripartite canopied brass with military figures in Etchingham church, which had been rebuilt by Sir William's father, an elder Sir William (died 1388). Sir Thomas Echyngham had two sisters, Elizabeth (who married first Sir Thomas Hoo of Mulbarton, Norfolk (died 1420), and second Sir Thomas Lewknor of Horsted Keynes (died 1452)), and Joan, who married John Rykhill. The Echyngham family bore the arms azure fretty argent.
caption: The East wall of Barsham church, with reticulated or "fretty" flushwork and tracery.
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