Partner Elizabeth Etchingham
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The Assumption of Blessed Mary and St Nicholas, Sheepstreet Ln, Etchingham TN19 7AR, Regno Unito
Agnes Oxenbridge (died 4 August 1480) and
Elizabeth Etchingham (died 3
December 1452) have a joint memorial brass on the floor of the side aisle of
The Assumption of Blessed Mary and St Nicholas church at Etchingham, England.
The brass is in front of the monument to Etchingham's ancestors. The Latin
inscription under Elizabeth Etchingham identifies her as the first daughter of
Thomas and Margaret Etchingham. The text under Agnes Oxenbridge identifies her
as the daughter of Robert Oxenbridge.[1]
Both Judith M. Bennett in The Lesbian Premodern than
Alan Bray in Homosexuality
in Renaissance England recognized the memorial brass like those made for a
married couple and therefore think that the one between Oxenbridge and
Etchingham was a particular friendship, probably a medieval example of Lesbian
relationship.[2]
Elizabeth Etchingham was the daughter of Thomas Etchingham II (1424/25 -
1486) and Margaret West, daughter of Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr. The
monument to Thomas Etchingham I and his parents is in front of the memorial
brass of his granddaughter.[3][4]
Agnes Oxenbridge was the daughter of Robert Oxenbridge (died 1487), of
Brede, and his wife Ann Livelode (or Anne Lyvelode) (died 1494).[5]
The Etchingham and Oxenbridge families were deeply connected: Thomas
Oxenbridge (died 1540) inherited both Etchingham and Mountfield manors from
his mother Elizabeth, sister of Elizabeth Etchingham, born in 1460, 8 years
after the death of her sister; she married in 1500 Goddard Oxenbridge (died
1531), son of Robert Oxenbridge and Anne Lyvelode, and therefore brother of
Agnes Oxenbridge.[4]
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