Holy Trinity Priory of Augustinian canons in Ipswich, built Christchurch Mansion as a private house there in 1548–50. Edmund Withypoll of Ipswich and his wife Elizabeth Hynde had 18 children (several of whom did not survive infancy) to whom Elizabeth was aunt. In 1532 Elizabeth received a bequest of £50 from her extremely wealthy uncle Robert Thurne or Thorne, merchant of London and Bristol (who had married her aunt Ellen Withypoll). The Thorne and Withypoll families (between whom there were older ties of kinship) were engaged in an international trading syndicate and were conspicuous collectors of precious objects. Elizabeth married Emanuel Lucar (born Bridgwater, Somerset, 1494, died London 1574), the great-grandson of Richard Lucar, Steward to the Duke of Exeter in the time of Henry VI of England (brother of William Lucar, Forester of the Forest of Exmoor to Henry VI), from John Lucar of Bridgwater, son of John Lucar of Wythecomb. Elizabeth's children – Emanuel, Henry, Mary, Jane, and another daughter – and those of her husband's second wife Joan Turnbull or Trumball are shown in the 1568 Herald's Visitation of London. A painted portrait of Elizabeth Lucar is referred to in the will of Emanuel Lucar. Heraldry The following arms are recited for Elizabeth in the 1568 Visitation: Quarterly. 1 & 4, Per pale or and gules, three lions passant in pale within a bordure counterchanged. 2. Azure, three bars or, over all or a bend engrailed gules three pheons argent. 3. Azure, a cross moline between four crosses patté or. Legacy Lucar's name is one of 999 on the "Heritage Floor" of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, an epic feminist art installation that narrates the history of women in western civilization from prehistory to the twentieth century. References External links Project Continua: Biography of Elizabeth Lucar Project Continua is a web-based multimedia resource dedicated to the creation and preservation of women’s intellectual history from the earliest surviving evidence into the 21st Century. 1510 births 1537 deaths English calligraphers 16th-century women artists 16th-century English writers 16th-century English women writers Artists from London Women calligraphers