English: St Mary's Church, Burford - monument to Edmund Cornwall (1488-1508), elder son and heir apparent of Sir Thomas Cornwall (1468–1537) of Burford, by his wife Anne Corbet, a daughter of Sir Richard Corbet of Moreton Corbet. The Latin inscription reads "Edmund Cornewaylle, son and heir of Thomas Cornewaylle of Burford. Knight died the ... day of January in the year of our lord 1508th and his age the 20th. May he rest in peace". The Cornwalls of Burford were the younger branch of an ancient family which traced its descent from an illegitimate son of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother of Henry III.

Wikipedia: Sir Thomas Cornwall (1468–1537) was the 8th feudal baron of Burford. He was knighted in 1497. He was born the son of Sir Edmund Cornwall of Burford, Shropshire. He succeeded his father in 1489, was knighted at the Battle of Blackheath in 1497, and made a knight banneret in 1513. He was appointed High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1502–03 and 1514–15 and High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1505–06, 1515–16, 1519–20 and 1531–32. He represented Shropshire at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Shropshire in 1529. He married Anne Corbet, the daughter of Sir Richard Corbet of Moreton Corbet; they had two sons and three daughters. The other son was Richard Cornwall (1493-1569), MP, who succeeded his father as ninth Baron of Burford in 1537. He married Jane Wogan, the daughter of Sir Henry Wogan of Wiston, Pembrokeshire and died in 1569 and was buried at Burford.

Wikipedia: Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother of Henry III, had several documented out-of-wedlock children. One of Richard's mistresses was Joan de Vautort, widow of Ralph de Vautort (d.1267), feudal baron of Harberton, Devon and Trematon, Cornwall. Joan later married Sir Alexander Okeston, lord of the manor of Modbury in Devon, a part of the Vautorts' feudal barony of Harberton that had been granted him by Roger de Vautort. Joan bore Alexander a son and heir, Sir James Okeston. By Joan de Vautort or other mistresses, the Earl of Cornwall had at least three sons and a daughter as follows:

• Philip of Cornwall, a priest.
• Sir Richard of Cornwall, who received a grant from his half-brother Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (d. 1300), in which he was called "brother". He married Joan, allegedly daughter of John Fitzalan III, and by her had three sons and a daughter. He was slain by an arrow at the Siege of Berwick in 1296. His daughter Joan of Cornwall married Sir John Howard, from whom the Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk, are descended.[21]
• Sir Walter of Cornwall, who received a grant of the royal manor of Brannel, Cornwall,[22] from his half-brother Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall, in which he was called "brother". He was ancestor of the Cornwalls of Branell.
• Joan of Cornwall, daughter of Joan de Vautort, in 1283 received a grant from her half-brother Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall, in which she was called "sister".[23][24] The younger Joan married (1st) Richard de Champernoun and (2nd) Sir Peter de Fishacre of Combe Fishacre and Coleton Fishacre, Devon,[25] having no issue by the second. Her childless half-brother Sir James Okeston made her son (or grandson) Richard de Champernoun his heir

A very fine and rare Tudor carved wood monument to Edmund Cornwall who died in 1508 aged only 20, one of about a hundred of these wooden medieval sculptures left in England. He is believed to have been killed in a tourney. Within St Mary's Church, Burford, are many fine effigies of the Cornwall family, who succeeded the Mortimers. Listed building text[1]:

• Remarkable series of medieval, C16 and C17 monuments to Cornewall family, restored by Prof. EW Tristam 1938, all with the shields of the family: Heart of Edmund Cornewall d.1436; arched recess over stone tomb with trefoil arcading below, possibly a re-sited altar. Life-size painted wooden recumbent effigy of Edmund Cornewall 1508. Life-size painted stone recumbent effigy of Elizabeth, daughter of John of Gaunt, under enriched ogival canopy, d.1426. Immense wooden tryptych, 3.45 metres high by 3.05 metres wide, to Richard Cornewall d.1568 and Janet his wife d.1547, and son Edmund d.1585. Frame with fluted Ionic pilasters, inscribed fascia and pedimented head with painted tympanum; interior has 3 painted full-figure portraits in upper section and a 2.21 metre tall cadaver of Edmund Cornewall is depicted in lower section; the wings are painted inside and outside with figures and armorial shields. Paintings are signed by Melchior Salabossh, 1588. Early C17 wall monument with 2 kneeling figures of Sir Thomas and Anne Cornewall 1630 (`now living, he aged 58 and she 55'). Similar monument to Thomas and Katherine Cornewall also 1630. Baroque wall tablet to Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Cornewall d.1675.

Heraldry

4 shields left to right:

• ? Beaumont of Shirwell, Devon: Barry vair and gules (shown here as Gules, three bars vair ( Mercœur of France ?)) quartering Poynings ? (Barry of six or and vert a bend gules) Grey of Rotherfield ? (Barry of six argent and azure overall a bend gules). Further possibilities see:
• Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.38 Gules, three bars vair
• de Cornwall
• Corbet
• de Cornwall