General Notes

'Dr Lee from Cottonian MS. Cleoptra C iii, folio 3b ' as follows:
'Hic jacent Thomas Quatremayn de Notrh Westene (et) Kath'r'na uxor eius quee fuit filia Roberti d'ni de Grey Rotherfeld' qui obierunt vi die Junii Anno d'ni millesimo cccxlij. Similiterque hic jacent Thomas filius precicti Thome Quatremayn et Johanna uxor eius qui quidem Thomas obiit vi die Maii Millesimo ccclxxxxvi quorum animabus p'picietur Deus. Amen.'

Brass of Katherine Quartermain C. 1420 Thame Church, Oxfordshire, England
Height in inches: 14.5 Width in inches: 7.5
Katherine was the wife of Thomas and daughter of Guy and Joan Breton, grand-daughter of Sir Robert Grey Lord of Rotherfield. One of four bracket brasses which include her husband, her son Thomas and his wife Joan, the original brass was engraved around 1420, some eighty years after Katherine and her husband died in 1342. This would account for Katherine wearing the Crespine headdress in the brass which did not come into fashion until the early 15th Century. The brass was probably commissioned by Katherine's daughter-in-law Joan after the death of her own husband Thomas in 1396.