Chest tomb c. 1530 presumed to be that of Robert Willougby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, north transept, St.Andrew's Church, Bere Ferrers, Devon. Viewed from SWDrawing of Willoughby tomb at Bere Ferrers, viewed from north-west, by Roscoe Gibbs, 19th century. The tomb is of purbeck marble, the cover stone is plain but is indented in a channel around the top edge where formerly existed a brass inscribed ledger line. The flat escutcheons on the chest, encircled by classical wreaths and separated by renaissancegrotto-esque candelabra-like standards, are now devoid of their original heraldic charges, thought to have been engraved on brass affixed thereon.[1]
First marriage of Sir Robert Willoughby, '1st Baron Willoughby de Broke', 28 February 1494/95 to Elizabeth Beauchamp, of Grafton, produced two sons.
Edward, Esq. (died 1517)
Sir Anthony, Kt.
His second marriage to Dorothy Grey, who would become Baroness Mountjoy during her lifetime through her second marriage to William Blount, '4th Baron Mounjoy they had the following children:
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. pp. 336–7. ISBN978-1449966379.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Rogers, W.H. Hamilton, The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, Exeter, 1877, pp. 346–7 & Appendix 3, pedigree of Willoughby de Broke.
Rogers, W.H. Hamilton, The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West, Exeter, 1890, pp. 1–36, Willoughby de Broke
