Bredwardine Church
Francis Kilvert was rector of the church at the time of his marriage but he was to die within a month or so of peritonitis in late 1879.
In St. Andrew's church in Bredwardine is Sir Roger Vaughan's alabaster tomb effigy. He fell at the Battle of Agincourt where his father-in-law, Dafydd Gam also fell, both being knighted as they lay mortally wounded on the field of victory by King Henry V. Sir Roger Vaughan's effigy shows him wearing a fine suit of plate armour, his head resting on his helmet and his arms crossed on his chest, showing he died in battle. His widow, Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam, known as the "Star of Abergavenny" for her radiant beauty later married again, to Sir William Herbert. She lies buried alongside her second husband in the Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny.
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