English: Tomb of Sir Robert Herling (d.1435), Church of St Peter and St Paul, East Harling, Norfolk. Sculpted at the apex of the ogee arch is a shield displaying the arms of Herling: Argent, a unicorn salient sable armed and unguled or (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.457, "Harling of Suffolk", variants), with supporters two unicorns. The monument is decorated profusely with unicorns salient and with baskets, the heraldic badge of Sir Robert Herling. The basket badge is also seen in the stained glass effigy of his son-in-law Sir William Chamberlayne (died 1462) in the East Window of East Harling Church, commissioned by his wife Anne Herling, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Herling.

Sir Robert Herling (d.1435) was the son and heir of Sir John Herling by his wife Cecily Mortimer (d.1419) daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Mortimer of Allleborough in Norfolk. Text from: Barrett, Jonathan Tyers, Memorials of the parochial church, the collegiate chantry, and the chapel of St. Mary : commonly called Mortimer's Chapel, in the Parish of Attleborough, in the county of Norfolk, together with some account of the services used at the consecration of churches from the Anglo-Saxon to the present time, 1848,, pp.58-9[1]:

Sir Robert Herling was a great warrior in the time of the valorous Prince Henry V., whom he attended in 1412, at the siege of Meaux, which they took by assault ; and during the rest of his life he was continually exercising arms in the kingdom of France, where he died like a brave soldier in his calling; being killed by the French at Paris, as he endeavoured valiantly to defend that city, in the year 1435 ; whence his remains were brought, and buried in St. Mary’s Chapel, otherwise called Herling’s Chapel; it being the burial-place of their family. Sir Robert Herling had rebuilt this Chapel, and founded therein a Chantry for a priest, who was specially bound to pray for his and his wife’s souls, and other members of his family. This Chapel occupies the south-east corner of the Parish Church of East Herling ; wherein is a monument erected to his memory, and that of Lady Cicely his wife ; whose effigies, beautifully carved in marble, lie upon an altar tomb. 1 On his breast are his own arms and those of Mortimer, his mother. He looks with a grim visage, his feet resting upon a lion, the usual emblem of those who died in war. His lady has a water-bouget upon her breast, and the whole tomb is adorned with unicorns and pelicans, the one the crest of Herling, the other of Gonvile : his arms are on the top supported by two unicorns. In 1411, Cicely Mortimer married her second husband John, the son of James Radcliff, Esq. This John advanced his family to the dignity and honour which it afterwards possessed, by the manifestation of the same manly and courageous spirit, as had shown itself in his son-in-law, Sir Robert Herling.

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