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A Tale of Two Archbishops
Well, not a "tale", exactly, but certainly the arms of two archbishops.On the raised pulpit in the nave in York Minster we find the personal arms of two different Archbishops of York, each impaled as...
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So, This Happened
If you've been a regular reader here, then you know that I've been researching and writing and teaching about heraldry for a long time. I don't do it for any potential accolades; even the title of this...
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The Arms of an Earl
Underneath one of the towers in York Minster is placed an armorial plaque commemorating the gifts and skills of those who saved the tower from collapse.At the very top of this plaque are the arms of...
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I Had That, and Now I Have This, Too!
Over the years I've had the opportunity to attend a number of conferences and heraldry society meetings which have included a formal banquet. And one of the features of these formal dinners is the...
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A Coat of Arms We Have (Partly) Seen Before
In today's post, we come to the arms of one of the Deans of York Minster, whose pronomial arms we have seen before on our way to visit the Cathedral. I am speaking, of course, of the arms of Arthur...
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An Heraldic Memorial to a Rear-Admiral
This next memorial dates to the early days of World War I.Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock (1862-1914) lost his life on November 1, 1914, in the Battle of Coronel, off the coast of Chile, a naval...
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The Arms of an Archbishop?
Walter de Gray was the Archbishop of York 1215-1255, and Lord Chancellor 1205-1214. He has his own page on Wikipedia which outlines his life and work at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_de_GrayHe...
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The Tomb of a Young Prince
This tomb is also the only Royal tomb in York Minster. It is that of William of Hatfield, the second son of King Edward III and Queen Philippa of Hainault (and thus the younger brother of "Edward,...
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The Marital Arms of a Viscountess and Heraldic Heiress
The next memorial we came to in our perambulations inside York Minster was that of Lora (Burton) Dawnay, Viscountess Downe.The (very long) inscription reads:April XXIV_V. MDCCCXIIDiedAt her hour in...
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A Memorial to an Archdeacon
The next memorial we're going to look at in York Minster is to an Archdeacon with what should be a very familiar family name (though I doubt very much that this John Eyre is any kin to the fictitious...
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A Memorial to an Archbishop
In a notable contrast (in two different ways, better and worse) to the memorial to Archdeacon John Eyre we saw in our last post, today we are going to see the more impressive but also inferior...
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An Early 17th Century Armorial Monument
One of the things that can be a bit (or sometimes more than a bit!) frustrating when trying to learn more about the shield or shields on an heraldic monument is the lack of information given by the...
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Another Early 17th Century Armorial Monument
I have the same general complaint about the lack of information in the various guides to and books about the heraldry of York Minster as I had in my last post, only even more this time, since there's a...
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A Mother, a Father, and a Daughter Memorialized
In a contrast to the last two armorial memorials we looked at in York Minster, this next memorial has a lot more text and a lot less heraldry on its face.It is the memorial to husband and wife Rev....
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Armorial Memorials: Go Big or Go Home
No, really!Sometimes I feel like some people feel they need to prove their status amongst the local peerage by having a larger, more ornate, more artistically carved, etc., etc., etc., memorial than...
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Or, You Could Go For Something a Little Less Overstated
After looking at the very ornate, freestanding memorial to Thomas Watson-Wentworth last time, today we're going to see an armorial memorial nearby that is somewhat less overstated.This is the memorial...
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Another Comparatively Simple Armorial Memorial
In keeping with our theme from the previous post, today we visit another fairly straightforward and uncomplex armorial memorial.This pyramidal monument is that of Thomas Lamplugh, son of Thomas...
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The Gibson Girls
But in this case, it's not the well-known personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson the turn of the...
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Is There Something About Marys and Martlets That I Don't Know?
Our next two memorials are to two wives, both named Mary, and whose memorials display heraldry which contains martlets.*The first is that of Lady Mary Fenwick.Lady Mary was the daughter of Charles...
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It's Always Interesting to Run Across Some 17th Century Given Names
And some of those interesting forenames were not always necessarily borne by Separatists or Puritans, although they did seem to favor such given names (e.g., Increase, Praise God, Humiliation, or my...
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