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Sir Henry Belassis, Baronet, was born 1555 and died in 1624, and was Sheriff of Yorkshire and MP for Thirsk. He was son of Sir William Belassis and Margaret Fairfax. He married Ursula Fairfax (d. 1633) and they had 3 children, Thomas, Dorothy and Mary, seen as weepers below. Monument by Nicholas Stone and includes a putto blowing bubbles - referring to the transience of human life. Arms include:

  • Le Spring. Argent, an escutcheon in an orle of martlets sable (Foster, Joseph, ed. (1887). Pedigrees recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham made by William Flower, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1575, by Richard St George, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1615, and by William Dugdale, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1666. London, p.12, "Bellasis of Morton"[1]) ('Armorial Index', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge (London, 1959), pp. 397-414. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/pp397-414 [accessed 10 December 2020])  ? Sir Rowland Belassis of Belasis, Beauly and Wolveston, knighted at the Battle of Lewes, 1264, acquired the estate of Houghton-le-Spring in right of his wife by charter dated 1239, namely Mary Le Spring, daughter of Sir Henry Le Spring.
  • Billingham Argent, two bars gules on a canton of the second a lion passant of the first. (Foster, Joseph, ed. (1887). Pedigrees recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham made by William Flower, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1575, by Richard St George, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1615, and by William Dugdale, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1666. London, p.12[2]) Billinghamshire was the estate of the Priors of Durham Cathedral and it was given to them or confirmed as their possession by King William I. The shire included Billingham, Belasis Hall (in parish of Billingham (gatehouse-gazetteer[3]) , Cowpen Bewley, Newton Bewley and Wolviston.
  • Errington of Morton in Northumberland [4](Argent, two bars in chief three escallops azure) (Foster, Joseph, ed. (1887). Pedigrees recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham made by William Flower, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1575, by Richard St George, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1615, and by William Dugdale, Norroy King-of-Arms, in 1666. London, p.12[5])
  • Cholmondeley

Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 6 By Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges[6]:

"Sir Henry Belasyse had a monument erected in his lifetime, in the cathedral of York, with the effigies of him and his lady, his son, and two daughters, with the following inscription:

Henricus Belassis, Miles et Baronettus, filius Gulielmi Belassis, Militis, ex Margaretta Filia primogenita Nicholai Fairfax de Gilling Mililis mortalitatis memor hunc tumulum sibi et Ursulae conjugi charissimae filliae primogenitae Thomae Fairfax de Denton Milit(is) posuit. Sub quo simul requiescunt et gloriosum Christi Adventum expectant. Mors certa est, incerta dies, nec certa sequentum; Cura sibi tumulum qui parat, ille sapit. Freqens mortis et novissimi judicii recordatio a peccato revocat.

That the time of his death is not mentioned, may be from the confusion of the nation that then happened".
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