Arms granted during the reign of King Henry VIII (1509-1547) to "Thomas Spring of Lavenham": Argent, on a chevron between three mascles gules as many cinquefoils or[1]
Born
c. 1474
Died
1523 (aged 48–49)
Burial place
Lavenham, Suffolk
Occupation
Cloth merchant
Spouses
Anne King
(m. 1493)
Alice Appleton
Children
Sir John Spring
Robert Spring
Anne Spring
Rose Spring
Bridget Spring
Parents
Thomas Spring
Margaret Appleton
Thomas Spring (c. 1474 – 1523) (aliasThomas Spring III or The Rich Clothier) of Lavenham in Suffolk, was an English cloth merchant.[2] He consolidated his father's business to become one of the most successful in the booming wool trade of the period and was one of the richest men in England.[3] He has been described as the most important figure of the early Tudor cloth industry.[4]
^Howard, Joseph Jackson, ed. (1868). The Visitation of Suffolke, made by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1561, with additions from family documents, original wills, Jermyn, Davy, and other MSS, &c.: Vol 2. Lowestoft & London, p.166 [1]
^Phil W Kaufman, American Traces in Anglian Places (Lulu.com), 19.
^The Cloth Industry of Lavenham Retrieved 25 April 2013.
^Schofield, Phillipp R. (2001). "Extranei and the Market for Customary Land on a Westminster Abbey Manor in the Fifteenth Century". The Agricultural History Review. 49 (1): 6. JSTOR 40275686. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
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