Identifier: transactionsofbr38bris (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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d Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel (53). Gules alion rampant or. A beautiful example of streaky ruby, andof a lion drawn with a lead outline. Note the treatmentof the head and legs, and see how the yellow pot-metal isas good as ever, while the brown enamel stain is much worn.We have here a good example of yellow pot-metal and yellowstain. The Earl of Arundel married in 1344-5 Eleanor,daughter of Henry of Lancaster, and attended Edward III.in his wars with France, being one of the chief commandersunder Edward the Black Prince at the Battle of Crecy(August 26th, 1346). He died January 24th, 1375-6.1 2. Thomas, Baron Berkeley (54). Gules a chevronbetween ten crosses for my argent. The greenish chevron is 1 Mr. Grimke-Drayton took his facts about the owners of the shieldsmainly from Dugdales Baronage of England. I have corrected andsupplemented them from The Complete Peerage by G. E. Cokayne(London, 8 vols., 1887-98 ; 2nd ed. of vols, i.-iii., 1910-13), and the Dictionary of National Biography.
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The East Window or Gloucester Cathedral. 79 much later glass and should be white. The same glass hasbeen used to repair the Northampton shield (56). Thomas was son of Maurice de Berkeley who died aprisoner in Wallingford Castle (1326), and brother of Sir-Maurice de Berkeley. He was acquitted of the murder ofEdward II., proving that he lay sick at his Manor of Bradleyat the time. In 1336 he was Chief Warden of the countiesof Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford, and in 1344 he wasjoined in commission with Thomas de Bradeston to arm200 men and afterwards 400 more out of the counties ofGloucester and Bristol. He took part in the French wars,and died in 1361, leaving as heir his son Maurice. 3. Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (55). Gulesa fesse between six cross crosslets or. Perhaps the mostbeautiful shield of the series. Look at the exquisite diaperingof the ruby field and the yellow fesse, and note how thecross crosslets are leaded in and blacked out, also one pieceof undiapered ru

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