Monday, August 5, 2024

Fourteen Armorial Windows of a Single Pattern, Part 6 of 7


In the inimitable words of Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Movie,

        Movin' right along
        Footloose and fancy-free
        Getting there is half the fun, come share it with me
        Moving right along (doog-a-doon doog-a-doon)

We are now "moving right along" to our next pair of windows in the Nave Clerestory of York Minster, we come to:


The arms here, from left to right, are:


Warrenne, Checky azure and or; Wake, Or a fess gules and in chief three torteaux; England, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or; Wake, Or two bars gules and in chief three torteaux; and Teye, Or on a fess between two chevrons gules three mullets of eight points argent. (It is possible, though, that this is a cadet of FitzWalter.)

And in the next window:


These arms are, from left to right:


Trehouse, Vair a maunch gules

Vert six lions rampant three two and one or a label of four points gules. Browne, in A Description of the Representations and Arms on the Glass in the Windows of York Minster, identifies this coat as the son of Ulphus of Deira. For more information about the base coat of arms, see Ulphus of Deira, below; 

England, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or

Browne identifies this coat, Vert six lions rampant three two and one or, as Ulphus of Deira (the name is more commonly given as Ulf) whose attributed arms we have seen before in the great stone shields in the nave). Ulf, Prince of Deira, is said to have donated a large ivory horn to York Minster around the year 1030 (and thus he lived in pre-heraldic times), along with granting the whole of his lands and revenues to God and St. Peter. But I note that the Dictionary of British Arms, Vol. 1, identifies Vert six lions rampant three two and one or as the arms of Nicholas de Langeford, found in the Boroughbgridge Roll, 1322, so there's that to consider, too; and

Redman, Gules three cushions or. The Dictionary of British Arms cites Redman/Redmayne. Burke’s General Armory gives Redman (cos. Chester and York). Unless, of course, this is an error for William de Greystoke, Gules three lozenges argent, whose arms we have seen elsewhere in the Minster. And if these arms are actually meant to be Gules three lozenges or, then they may be Freeman or St. Andrew (a family name, not the Saint), of Leicestershire.

And thus you see the difficulties that can sometimes be an obstacle to the accurate identification of a coat of arms, when the artists depicting the arms are not clear or make mistakes, as sometimes happens.

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