However, I bought Muller's Stephen Gardiner and the Tudor Reaction, which I believe exploded this idea. There's no source cited, however, and a rummage through the collective bibliography at the back sheds no light, although Turton appears to have utilized some local history societies' pamphlets and prints. Edmunds, John Gardiner, and their son stephen. she grew up and married in due course, about 1490, a cloth merchant of Bury St. This always interested me, too! I first read about the relationship in Geoffrey Turton's 1969 The Dragon's Breed, complete with genealogical chart: This is the period to which tradition ascribes the birth of daughter Ellen, his only known child. If anyone can come up with more concrete info, I for one would be very grateful since I still harbor a slim hope of writing a book on Jasper one of these days! Thomas (who as far as I know is *the* expert on Jasper - he wrote his PhD on him) doesn't think that Jasper fathered any children. Likewise, Jasper's ODNB entry, written by Roger S.
Either way, he seems to have been a prosperous merchant. I've also seen "William" as a possibility. There actually seems to be some confusion over the name of Gardiner's father too, but the ODNB suggests his name was John based on a will.
The ODNB entry on Gardiner suggests his mother's name was Agnes and makes no mention of the Jasper connection. I've seen it mentioned in books from time to time, but I don't know the original source of the idea. I don't know where the initial claim came from, but I'm beginning to doubt it myself (which I know is in contradiction to what I have on my website, but that's due for some updates eventually). This is something I've been trying to track down for a while.
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