The Great Stone Shields of York Minster, the Final Part

See, I told you we'd come to an end of these shields flanking the many archways inside York Minster! And here we are, down to the last of them. (Or at least, the last of the ones that I photographed while I was there. As I said before, I'm not certain that I saw and photogrraphed all of them.)

In any event, these are the final five sets:

On the left, we have the arms of Henry le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham (1312-1392), Azure a bend or overall a label argent (whose arms we have seen earlier in this series); and on the right, the arms of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, (1421-1461) or his father, Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1393-1455), Quarterly: 1 and 4, Or a lion rampant azure (Percy); 2 and 3, Gules three lucies haurient in fess argent (Lucy).

And in this photo, on the left we have the arms of John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray (1286-1322), Gules a lion rampant argent; and on the right, another coat we have seen earlier, the attributed arms of Ulf, Vert six lions rampant or.

In this picture, on the left we have the well-known arms of Mortimer (there are several Mortimers who could be meant here: Edmund, 2nd Baron Mortimer (1251-1304); Roger, 1st Earl of March (1287-1330); Roger’s son Edmund (1302-1331); or a few others, Barry of six or and azure, on a chief or two pallets between two gyrons azure overall an inescutcheon argent; and on the right, another coat we have seen elsewhere in the cathedral, the attributed arms of Edwin, King of Northumbria, who converted to Christianity in 627, Gules three crowns or.

Over this arch, we have two attributed coats of arms: on the left, those of St. Edward the Confessor, Azure a cross flory between five martlets or (St. Edward was considered their special patron saint by several kings of England, most notably King Richard II); and on the right, the well-known arms of St. George, Argent a cross gules. St. George is, of course, the patron saint of England.

And finally, two coats of arms we have seen earlier in this series: the arms of Hugh FitzHenry (d. 1305) or his son, Henry FitzHugh, Azure three chevronels braced and a chief or (the chevronels may be an error for Azure fretty a chief or, as found in Burke’s General Armory and in Aspilogia III, The Rolls of Arms of Edward I); and and on the right, Henry le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham (1312-1392), Azure a bend or overall a label argent.

Thank you for your patience as we have gone through this set of wonderfully carved and painted shields flanking the arches inside York Minster. I hope that they haven't bored you; they have certainly piqued my interest to wish to know more about them and the individuals they represent here in the cathedral!