15th Century Lord Ralph Ogle 3rd Baron Ogle & Wife Margaret Gascoigne Anglo-Saxon

Ralph, 3rd Lord Ogle 1468- 1512, lies beside his wife, Margaret Gascoigne. They died in 1512 and are laid to rest inside St. Andrews’s Church Bothal Northumberland. The Ogle Tomb is one of the outstanding features. It is made from alabaster depicting two figures: Ralph, Lord Ogle, a notable Tudor notable courtier (died 1513) and his wife, Lady Margaret Gascoigne. Lord Ralph accompanied Princess Margaret Tudor to Scotland in 1503 for her wedding to King James IV.

Lord Ralph wears an open-sided tabard over a suit of armour, his head on a helmet and his legs on a lion. The lion is used as his footrest shows that Ralph identified as a Hebrew Israelite of the Tribe of Judah.

Margaret wears a long dress falling in folds, a rosary by her side, head on two cushions held by reclining angels, one with the face removed to destroy its dark features.

In 1503 Ralph was charged with escorting Princess Margaret Tudor on her way to her marriage with the King of Scots. Ralph was the son of Owen 2nd Lord Ogle and Eleanor, daughter of William Hilton of Hilton Castle by Mary Stapleton.

Children 

1. Robert 4th Lord c1490-c1531 m Anne daughter of Thomas Lumley & Margaret (Plantagenet
2. William m Margaret, daughter of John Delaval of Seaton Delaval & Anne, daughter of Thomas Grey and Margaret Greystoke 
3. John m Sybil, daughter of Sir John Heron
4. Anne m1 Humphrey son of William Lisle & ……. Fenwick; m2 Sir John, son of John Delaval of Seaton Delaval and Mary Carey
5. Dorothy m1 Thomas 1525, son of Thomas Forster of Adderstone and Jane Hilton: m2 Thomas Grey of Horton, son of Roger Gray & Isabel Darcy 
6. Marjory m George, son of Guischard Harbottle and Jane Willoughby

Their grandson. Robert Ogle, 5th Lord (d c1545) m Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Widdrington

Their great-grandson Robert 6th Lord (1529-1562) m1 Joan / Jane widow of Henry DSP 1550 second son of Thomas 1st Baron Wharton: daughter of Sir Thomas Mauleverer of Allerton Mauleverer,m2 Jane, daughter of Sir Cuthbert Ratcliffe of Dilston 

Their great great grandson Cuthbert Ogle 7th Lord ( c1540-1597) m Catherine daughter of Sir Reynold Carnaby of Halton 

The Puritans damaged the tomb, and it was then moved into the South Aisle when it was restored after 1660. The restoration was clumsy, and the panels on the sides were put back in the wrong position. 

 (The Ogle baron title passed to the Cavendish family (Dukes of Newcastle) with the marriage of Bess of Hardwick’s son Charles to Katherine Ogle, 8th baroness in her own right) 

The monument was originally painted elaborately and maybe adorned with real gold, but they have removed the paint and disfigured his face to hide his true facial features. The paint colour is normally visible on the corners of the monument where it was hard to remove. I ZOOMED in on the image and picked up the original brown colour. The brown arrow is the paint colour picked up from my graphics software.

Much of the present building is 600 – 800 years old; however, part of an Anglo-Saxon cross and other stone fragments provide evidence of a much earlier church. The site may have been used for worship as early as the seventh century, but dowsing has revealed the foundations of a small stone church which perhaps dates from c.900.

The Anglo-Saxon building was replaced with a Norman one by Richard Bertram, who became the first Norman lord to live at Bothal Castle in 1161. His son, Robert Bertram 1, significantly enlarged this building and added the chancel in about 1200. In 1343, Robert Bertram IV received a licence to fortify the gatehouse keep at Bothal Castle and at the same time, he added the south aisle to the church.

And laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.” 

1 Maccabees 3: 48KJV  

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