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rose en soleil

Edward & Richard in Oxford

May 20, 2018

anniversaries, battles, buildings, heraldry

“Tudor” rose, Cloisters, colleges, Duke Humphrey’s Library, Edward IV, Henry VI, Humphrey of Gloucester, Magdalene College, Oxford, Oxford University, Richard I, rose en soleil, School of Divinity, sunne in splendour, Wars of the Roses, William Orchard, William Waynflete

Oxford is well-known for its stunning medieval college buildings. It would take days, if not weeks, to carefully visit them all. Several, however, have items of particular interest to those who study the House of York and Wars of the Roses time period. The old Divinity School is an interesting stop. It was built between…
Henry Tudor, Merevale Abbey, St Armel…and dear old Thomas Stanley….

Oct 12, 2017

battles, buildings, heraldry

Battle of Bosworth, Elizabeth of York, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Merevale, Richard III, rose en soleil, St. Armel, symbols, Thomas Lord Stanley, treason, windows

After a comment by David, about suns in splendour and white roses in the window glass above (see his comment here ) I decided to investigate more about the window at Merevale Abbey. There is, of course, a boar in the window glass at Merevale. Well, more a pig than a boar, and it’s…