Arms of Watsam / Watsand / de Wachesham / de Wechchesham  of Wachesham (w:Wattisham), Norfolk; of Wortham, Suffolk and of Marlingford, Norfolk: Argent, a fess gules two crescents in chief of the last (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1082). Quartered by Paston. National Archives: "Reference: C 132/35/10, Description:	Giles de Wechchesham alias de Wachesham, de Wachisham (Wattisham): [Norfolk]: Marlingford manor; [Suffolk]: Wortham manor, Wattisham manor, Stanstead manor, Wortham manor (assignment of dower, 1268)"[1]. Biography of: GERBERGE, Sir Thomas (c.1342-c.1413), of Marlingford, Norf., Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993: born circa 1342. married (1) ?Mary, da. of Jordan Maxfield, 1 daughter; (2) bef. Apr. 1383, Elizabeth Wachesham (d.1402), da. and coh. of Sir Robert Wachesham, MP, of Wortham, Suff. and Marlingford by Joan Hethersett, da. of Simon Hethersett of Hethersett, Norf., wid. of John Berry of ‘Orwellbury’, Herts.; (Berry of East Tudenham, Norfolk and of Horwellbury in the parish of Kelshall (near Therfield), Hertfordshire)..... Gerberge’s only daughter, Alice, the child of his first marriage, had been wedded to (Sir) Edmund Berry (d.1433), the son of his second wife by a previous husband. Their daughter, Agnes Berry, was to become well known to posterity as the wife of William Paston (1378-1444) Justice of the Common Pleas. Paston quartered the arms of Wachesham, Berry, Hethersett and Gerbridge/Gerberge
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