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- Thomas Mede, of St. Mary Redcliffe, was the sheriff of Bristol in 1446.-brass rubbing in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Parish: St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
Inscription: Thomas Mede, Thrice mayor [ 1475 ]
Coat of Arms: Gules a chevron ermine between three trefoils slipped argent
St. Thomas Mede is probably the father of Thomas Mede of Somerset, who went to Clavering, Essex in about 1470 and died there in 1504. The connection between Sir Thomas Mede of Wraxall, Somerset, and Thomas in Clavering, Essex, is based on three pieces of circumstantial evidence.
First, the names. There were three generations of Thomas Medes in Somerset and five or six generations of Thomas Medes or Meades in Essex.
Second, the Coat of Arms. Several Meades in Essex used the same coat of arms: a chevron ermine between three trefoils slipped argent.
Third, Clavering. The niece of Thomas Mede of Wraxall, Isabel Mede, married Maurice de Bekeley. Maurice was related to Elizabeth de Berkeley [his father's first cousin], who owned the manor of Clavering Essex. The manor passed from her to her husband, Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and from his to his son-in-law, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. Thomas Mede of Clavering moved to Clavering, Essex, in abut 1470, dying there in 1504. Possibly he was rewarded with land for supporting the Berkeley family at the Battle of Nibley Green, or for supporting the Earl of Warwick in 1470, or simply to help out a cousin.- from Vance Mead webpage on Mead HX [NY 160]
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1410 - 1475 (65 years)
