More Armorial Windows in York Minster

I will admit it; there are a lot of armorial stained glass windows in York Minster.

But we are now fast approaching the end of our journey in the Minster, and I'll have to find you something else heraldic to look at before very long.

But until then ...

This window, identified in John Toy's A Guide and Index to the Windows of York Minster as s31, and by Browne in A Description of the Representations and Arms on the Glass in the Windows of York Minster as the third window in the south aisle of the Nave, give us a few problems in accurately identifying the heraldry contained herein.

Beginning at the top of the window, in the center light we have:

Toy identifies this shield as that of Edmund of Woodstock, that is to say, England with a bordure argent. Browne says it is Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester.

Moving down to the center of the windows vertically, in the left and right lights we see:

On the left, Browne does not identify this coat of arms. Toy says this is the coat of FitzAlan of Bedale, Barry gules and argent a bordure azure. 

Of the arms on the right, Browne identifies it as Toy says this shield is that of John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, England with a bordure of France. (At this scale, the stained glass of the bordure is simply alternating panes of azure and or, rather than azure with fleurs-de-lis or. I expect that most visitors to the Minster wouldn't even notice the difference.) However, and adding to the confusion, Browne identifies this coat as the Earl of Huntingdon, which would make the family name here Holland. (The second and third Holland Earls of Huntingdon of the fourth creation bore England with a bordure of France.) But Holland, with a different shield, also appears lower in the window. Frankly, one of the Holland Earls seems more likely than an Earl of Cornwall, but who am I to say?

And down at the base of the window, we come to:

On the left, Browne once again does not identify this shield, which I would blazon as Azure three chevronels braced argent a chief checky argent and azure. Toy says this is the arms of FitzHugh, but FitzHugh, which we have seen elsewhere in the Minster, is Azure three chevronels braced a chief or. So I have been unable to confirm Toy's identification of this shield.

On the right, however, we have the arms of Holland, Azure semy-de-lis a lion rampant argent.

So you can see that some of the armorial identifications here are a bit muddled, to say the least.