English: A memorial plaque to John Kemp set into the east wall of the chancel inside Saint Mary's parish church which is located in the village of Antingham, Norfolk, England. The inscription reads Here resteth in the lord the body of John Kempe Esq., second son to Robert Kempe of Gissing, Esq., who had issue by Anne the daughter of Robert Cudden, Esq., Robert sonne and heire, who made this monument remembering immortality in the hope of resurrection the XVIII of Novemember, Anno Domini 1610 aetatis 76.

Robert, who lived in Cromer, acquired property in and around Antingham vie his first wife Ann Calthorpe. John bequeathed in his will, sums to the poor and reparation of the churches at North Walsham, Worsted, Fritton, and Antingham. He is buried in the churchyard of Saint Mary's.

Genealogy

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kempe-92

John Kempe (c.1534-1610) was the 2nd son of Robert Kempe of Gissing, Norfolk, by his wife Elizabeth Smythwyn, a daughter of Edmund Smythwyn of Berkshire (Heraldic Visit, p.176[1]). He married twice:

• 1: Anne Cuddon, daughter of Robert Cudden, Esq., by whom he had issue including:
  • Robert Kempe (c.1587-c.1626), son and heir;
• 2: Ann Calthorpe, daughter of Richard Calthorpe (d.1554) of Cockthorpe (in Antingham ?) (see his brass in Antingham ChurchFile:-2018-11-15 Floor brass, Richard Calthorp, Saint Mary's, Antingham.JPG) (by his wife Anne Hastings, a daughter of Edmund Hastings) and widow of Robert Jermy of Norwich (Rye, W., ed. (1891). The Visitacion of Norffolk, made and taken by William Harvey, Clarencieux King of Arms, Anno 1563, enlarged with another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cooke, with many other descents; as also the Visitation made by John Raven, Richmond, Anno 1613. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 32. London., p.67, pedigree of Calthorpe (arms: Chequy or and azure, a fess ermine (Calthorpe of Calthorpe/Cockthorpe, Norfolk)[2]). "In the windows (of Antingham Church) are the arms of Calthorp and Hastings, impaled; also Jermy and Calthorp, and Kemp and Calthorp" (Francis Blomefield, 'North Erpingham Hundred: Antingham', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 74-80 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol8/pp74-80)

Heraldry

5 shields:

• Top: Quarterly of 8 (Source: Rye, W., ed. (1891). The Visitacion of Norffolk, made and taken by William Harvey, Clarencieux King of Arms, Anno 1563, enlarged with another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cooke, with many other descents; as also the Visitation made by John Raven, Richmond, Anno 1613. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 32. London.,, p.175[3] - stating 8 quarters recorded in Visitation made by John Raven):
  • 1: Gules, three garbs and a bordure engrailed or (Kempe) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.557 "Kempe of Olantigh, Kent"; "Kemp of Gissing, Norfolk, baronets")
  • 2: Azure, a lion rampant argent
  • 3: Sable three bars ..... on a canton gules a saltire argent (but visible here: Argent, three bars azure on a canton gules a saltire of the field)
  • 4: Or, a maunch gules (Hastings)
  • 5: Azure, a chevron between three birds argent beaked and legged gules (Duke, of Brompton, Suffolk) (Burke, 1884, p.304)
  • 6: Argent, three crescents gules (Butvilleyne of w:Cottesbrooke Hall, Northamptonshire, an heiress of Duke) (Burke, 1884, p.156: "Butvillain/Butwillam/Bontvillain") Part of the manor of Cottesbrooke, an estate called Kalender or 'Kayland', was given to Sulby Abbey by "William de Buttivillar", soon after the foundation of that abbey in 1155. It became the site of a monastic grange or cell, situated in the N.W. corner of the parish of Cottesbrooke, of Premonstratensian Canons, founded soon after 1155 and probably abandoned by 1291. (Source: 'Cottesbrooke', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 3, Archaeological Sites in North-West Northamptonshire (London, 1981), pp. 54-58. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol3/pp54-58)
  • 7: Azure, three cinquefoils or
  • 8: Azure, two chevrons sable (but visible here: Sable, two chevrons argent)
• Dexter/left:
  • Top: Kempe impaling: Gules, a maunch or
  • Bottom: Kempe impaling: Chequy or and azure, a fess ermine (Calthorpe) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.161 "Calthrop of Calthorp Hall, Norfolk")
• Sinister/right:
  • Top: Kempe impaling: Argent, a chevron and a crescent in base gules on a chief azure three bezants (Cuddon) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.250 "Cuddon of Norfolk")
  • Bottom: Kempe impaling: Argent, a chevron ermines